Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The heats for the men's 200 metre breaststroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July, with the final in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2009 FINA World Championships
VenueForo Italico
Dates30 July 2009 (heats, semifinals)
31 July 2009 (final)
Competitors84
Winning time2:07.64
Medalists
gold medal    Hungary
silver medal    United States
bronze medal    Lithuania
bronze medal    Australia
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Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record   Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) 2:07.51 Tokyo, Japan 8 June 2008
Championship record   Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) 2:09.42 Barcelona, Spain 24 July 2003

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
30 July Heat 5 Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania 2:09.28 CR
30 July Heat 6 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov   Kazakhstan 2:09.26 CR
30 July Heat 7 Henrique Barbosa   Brazil 2:09.22 CR
30 July Heat 8 Loris Facci   Italy 2:08.85 CR
30 July Heat 9 Eric Shanteau   United States 2:08.55 CR
30 July Semifinal 1 Christian Sprenger   Australia 2:07.31 WR

Results

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Heats

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Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes
1 Eric Shanteau   United States 2:08.55 9 4 CR
2 Dániel Gyurta   Hungary 2:08.71 9 5
3 Loris Facci   Italy 2:08.85 8 3 NR
4 Marco Koch   Germany 2:09.06 8 4
5 Henrique Barbosa   Brazil 2:09.22 7 4
6 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov   Kazakhstan 2:09.26 6 4
7 Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania 2:09.28 5 8
8 Edoardo Giorgetti   Italy 2:09.29 8 7
9 Kristopher Gilchrist   Great Britain 2:09.31 7 2 NR
10 Yuta Suenaga   Japan 2:09.33 8 5
11 Hugues Duboscq   France 2:09.45 9 3
12 Christian Sprenger   Australia 2:09.82 7 8
13 Neil Versfeld   South Africa 2:09.86 9 2 AF
14 Grigory Falko   Russia 2:10.23 7 9
15 Igor Borysik   Ukraine 2:10.39 7 7
16 Brenton Rickard   Australia 2:10.54 7 5
17 Naoya Tomita   Japan 2:10.85 9 6
18 Vladislav Polyakov   Kazakhstan 2:11.09 8 1
19 Maxim Podoprigora   Austria 2:11.17 6 5
20 Chris Christensen   Denmark 2:11.41 6 2 NR
21 Richard Webb   Great Britain 2:11.78 9 1
22 Paul Kornfeld   Canada 2:11.87 8 9
23 Valerii Dymo   Ukraine 2:12.08 6 6
24 Johannes Neumann   Germany 2:12.12 7 6
25 Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson   Iceland 2:12.39 5 4 NR
26 Scott Dickens   Canada 2:12.57 8 8
27 Tales Cerdeira   Brazil 2:12.62 7 3
28 Istvan Mate   Austria 2:12.64 9 9
29 William Diering   South Africa 2:12.84 8 2
30 Andrew Bree   Ireland 2:12.90 5 5
31 Laurent Carnol   Luxembourg 2:13.00 6 7
32 Sandeep Sejwal   India 2:13.22 6 0
33 Alejandro Jacobo   Mexico 2:13.37 6 9 NR
34 Slawomir Wolniak   Poland 2:13.83 7 1
35 Tomáš Klobučník   Slovakia 2:14.33 5 2
36 Tom Be'eri   Israel 2:14.59 9 0
37 Sławomir Kuczko   Poland 2:14.74 8 0
38 Malick Fall   Senegal 2:15.00 5 1
39 Hocine Haciane   Andorra 2:15.37 6 1
40 Gal Nevo   Israel 2:15.49 4 3
41 Carlos Almeida   Portugal 2:15.58 6 3
42 Joshua Arreguin   Mexico 2:16.57 5 7
43 Nguyen Huu Viet   Vietnam 2:16.85 4 5
44 Zhang Guoying   China 2:17.07 6 8
45 Eetu Karvonen   Finland 2:18.61 5 9
46 Wang Wei-Wen   Chinese Taipei 2:19.55 4 4
47 Dmitriy Shvetsov   Uzbekistan 2:20.14 3 1
48 Jorge Murillo   Colombia 2:20.53 5 3
49 Dmitrii Aleksandrov   Kyrgyzstan 2:20.65 4 7
50 Wang Shuai   China 2:20.78 5 6
51 Indra Gunawan   Indonesia 2:20.81 4 9
52 Tan Jinwen Mark   Singapore 2:21.42 4 6
53 Wael Koubrousli   Lebanon 2:21.65 4 8
54 Daniel Velez   Puerto Rico 2:22.19 3 8
55 Matthew Charles Smith   Estonia 2:22.20 2 3
56 Benjamin Guzman Blanco   Chile 2:22.25 4 1
57 Ivan Demyanenko   Uzbekistan 2:23.95 3 3
58 Édgar Crespo   Panama 2:24.08 4 0
59 Agnishwar Jayaprakash   India 2:24.49 3 2
60 Maximilian Siedentopf   Namibia 2:24.70 2 4
61 Ng Jia Hao   Singapore 2:25.77 3 6
62 Abdulrahman Albader   Kuwait 2:26.18 4 2
63 Juan Guerra   El Salvador 2:26.19 3 4
64 Eli Ebenezer Wong   Northern Mariana Islands 2:26.83 3 9
65 Mubarak Al-Besher   United Arab Emirates 2:28.36 2 2
66 Renato Prono Fernandez   Paraguay 2:30.13 5 0
67 Rainui Teriipaia   Tahiti 2:30.75 3 7
68 Pedro Luna Llamosas   Peru 2:31.76 3 0
69 Diguan Pigot   Suriname 2:32.15 2 6
70 Rafael Alfaro   El Salvador 2:32.74 2 5
71 Timur Kartabaev   Kyrgyzstan 2:33.69 3 5
72 Andrea Agius   Malta 2:35.06 2 1
73 Hemra Nurmyradov   Turkmenistan 2:36.00 2 0
74 Vincent Perry   Tahiti 2:37.18 2 7
75 Kevin Cheung   Mauritius 2:38.31 1 5
76 Ian Bond Wolongkatop Nakmai   Papua New Guinea 2:39.41 1 4
77 Pablo Navarrete   Nicaragua 2:40.57 2 8
78 Serdar Mopyyev   Turkmenistan 2:48.47 1 3
79 Hussain Mubah   Maldives 3:10.54 1 6
Nazih Mezayek   Jordan DSQ 2 9
Romanos Alyfantis   Greece DSQ 7 0
Melquiades Alvarez   Spain DSQ 8 6
Adam Klein   United States DSQ 9 7
Glenn Snyders   New Zealand DSQ 9 8

Semifinals

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Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes
1 Christian Sprenger   Australia 2:07.31 1 7 WR
2 Eric Shanteau   United States 2:07.42 2 4 AM
3 Brenton Rickard   Australia 2:07.89 1 8
4 Dániel Gyurta   Hungary 2:08.08 1 4 ER
5 Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania 2:08.35 2 6
6 Loris Facci   Italy 2:08.50 2 5 NR
7 Henrique Barbosa   Brazil 2:08.56 2 3
8 Edoardo Giorgetti   Italy 2:08.63 1 6
9 Hugues Duboscq   France 2:09.00 2 7
10 Kristopher Gilchrist   Great Britain 2:09.01 2 2 NR
11 Grigory Falko   Russia 2:09.36 1 1 NR
12 Marco Koch   Germany 2:09.44 1 5
13 Neil Versfeld   South Africa 2:09.61 2 1 AF
14 Yuta Suenaga   Japan 2:09.70 1 2
15 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov   Kazakhstan 2:10.15 1 3
16 Igor Borysik   Ukraine 2:10.82 2 8

Final

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Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes
  Dániel Gyurta   Hungary 2:07.64 6 ER
  Eric Shanteau   United States 2:07.65 5
  Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania 2:07.80 2 NR
  Christian Sprenger   Australia 2:07.80 4
5 Brenton Rickard   Australia 2:08.23 3
6 Edoardo Giorgetti   Italy 2:08.86 8
7 Henrique Barbosa   Brazil 2:09.35 1
8 Loris Facci   Italy 2:10.26 7
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