Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 28 with the heats and the semifinals and July 29 with the final.

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 28, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 29, 2011 (final)
Competitors57 from 48 nations
Winning time2:08.41
Medalists
gold medal    Hungary
silver medal    Japan
bronze medal    Germany
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Records edit

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
Championship record
Christian Sprenger   Australia 2:07.31 Rome July 30, 2009

Results edit

Heats edit

55 swimmers participated in 8 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 2 Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania 2:10.33 Q
2 8 5 Christian vom Lehn   Germany 2:10.67 Q
3 8 3 Eric Shanteau   United States 2:10.77 Q
4 6 4 Dániel Gyurta   Hungary 2:10.78 Q
5 7 3 Michael Jamieson   Great Britain 2:11.06 Q
6 7 4 Kosuke Kitajima   Japan 2:11.17 Q
7 6 8 Michael Brown   Canada 2:11.51 Q
8 7 6 Andrew Willis   Great Britain 2:11.59 Q
9 6 3 Melquiades Alvarez   Spain 2:11.86 Q
10 5 7 Glenn Snyders   New Zealand 2:12.38 Q
11 8 2 Neil Versfeld   South Africa 2:12.54 Q
12 6 2 Laurent Carnol   Luxembourg 2:12.56 Q
13 6 6 Lennart Stekelenburg   Netherlands 2:12.69 Q
14 6 7 Choi Kyu-Woong   South Korea 2:12.69 Q
15 8 4 Naoya Tomita   Japan 2:12.73 Q
16 8 7 Ákos Molnár   Hungary 2:12.78 Q
17 8 8 Huang Chaosheng   China 2:13.02
18 7 7 Elliott Keefer   United States 2:13.13
19 5 4 Igor Borysik   Ukraine 2:13.17
20 8 1 Maksym Shemberev   Ukraine 2:13.18
21 7 5 Brenton Rickard   Australia 2:13.51
22 7 1 Xue Ruipeng   China 2:13.54
23 8 6 Hugues Duboscq   France 2:13.56
24 5 6 Sławomir Kuczko   Poland 2:13.75
25 5 1 Jakob Sveinsson   Iceland 2:13.84
26 6 1 Craig Calder   Australia 2:13.90
27 5 5 Andrew Dickens   Canada 2:14.36
28 4 6 Nuttapong Ketin   Thailand 2:14.68
29 4 5 Carlos Almeida   Portugal 2:14.86
30 7 2 Anton Lobanov   Russia 2:14.99
31 4 1 Jorge Murillo   Colombia 2:15.41 NR
32 5 3 Hunor Mate   Austria 2:15.45
33 7 8 Vladislav Polyakov   Kazakhstan 2:15.70
34 3 3 Tomáš Klobučník   Slovakia 2:16.53
35 4 4 Mattia Pesce   Italy 2:16.67
36 3 4 Édgar Crespo   Panama 2:17.38
37 4 7 Sofiane Daid   Algeria 2:18.32
38 3 7 Irakli Bolkvadze   Georgia 2:18.42
39 4 2 Martti Aljand   Estonia 2:18.65
40 4 3 David Oliver Mercado   Mexico 2:18.72
41 4 8 Indra Gunawan   Indonesia 2:18.89
42 3 2 Azad Al-Barazi   Syria 2:19.71
43 3 5 Aleksandrov Dmitrii   Kyrgyzstan 2:21.51
44 3 8 Pedro Pinotes   Angola 2:21.65 NR
45 3 6 Juan Guerra   El Salvador 2:22.82
46 2 3 Eli Ebenezer Wong   Northern Mariana Islands 2:23.35
47 2 4 Genaro Britez   Paraguay 2:23.78
48 3 1 Timothy Ferris   Zimbabwe 2:23.96
49 2 5 Jordy Groters   Aruba 2:24.60
50 2 7 Wael Koubrousli   Lebanon 2:27.08
51 2 6 Diguan Pigot   Suriname 2:27.21
52 1 5 Benjamin Schulte   Guam 2:28.21
53 1 4 Andrew Rutherfurd   Bolivia 2:30.78
54 2 2 Tarco Liobet   Bolivia 2:30.98
55 1 3 Mamitina Ramanantsoa   Madagascar 2:35.35
5 8 Panagiotis Samilidis   Greece DNS
6 5 Alexander Dale Oen   Norway DNS

Semifinals edit

The semifinals were held at 18:56.[2]

Semifinal 1 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Kosuke Kitajima   Japan 2:08.81 Q
2 5 Dániel Gyurta   Hungary 2:08.92 Q
3 4 Christian vom Lehn   Germany 2:09.44 Q
4 6 Andrew Willis   Great Britain 2:10.49 Q
5 1 Choi Kyu-Woong   South Korea 2:11.27 Q
6 2 Glenn Snyders   New Zealand 2:11.68
7 8 Ákos Molnár   Hungary 2:12.07
8 7 Laurent Carnol   Luxembourg 2:12.23

Semifinal 2 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Eric Shanteau   United States 2:10.03 Q
2 3 Michael Jamieson   Great Britain 2:10.54 Q
3 4 Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania 2:11.43 Q
4 6 Michael Brown   Canada 2:11.63
5 1 Lennart Stekelenburg   Netherlands 2:11.72
6 8 Naoya Tomita   Japan 2:11.98
7 2 Melquiades Alvarez   Spain 2:12.15
8 7 Neil Versfeld   South Africa 2:12.32

Final edit

The final was held at 19:33.[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
  5 Dániel Gyurta   Hungary 2:08.41
  4 Kosuke Kitajima   Japan 2:08.63
  3 Christian vom Lehn   Germany 2:09.06
4 6 Eric Shanteau   United States 2:09.28
5 7 Michael Jamieson   Great Britain 2:10.67
6 8 Giedrius Titenis   Lithuania 2:11.07
7 1 Choi Kyu-Woong   South Korea 2:11.17 NR
8 2 Andrew Willis   Great Britain 2:11.29

References edit

  1. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-28.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-28.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-22. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

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