Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	6 August (heats and semifinals) 7 August (final)
Competitors	52 from 44 nations
Winning time	2:07.76
Medalists
Marco Koch    Germany   Kevin Cordes    United States   Dániel Gyurta    Hungary

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 6 August with the heats and the semifinals and 7 August with the final.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN)	2:07.01	Gifu, Gifu, Japan	15 September 2012
Championship record	Dániel Gyurta (HUN)	2:07.23	Barcelona, Spain	2 August 2013

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:33.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Marco Koch	Germany	2:09.12	Q
2	6	3	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:09.35	Q
3	6	7	Mao Feilian	China	2:09.56	Q, NR
4	5	4	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:09.75	Q
5	4	5	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:09.81	Q
6	5	0	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:09.89	Q
7	6	5	Kevin Cordes	United States	2:09.94	Q
8	4	7	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:09.97	Q
9	6	6	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:10.13	Q
10	4	2	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:10.21	Q, NR
11	5	1	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.41	Q, NR
12	4	3	Nic Fink	United States	2:10.43	Q
13	4	4	Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	2:10.47	Q
14	4	6	Christian vom Lehn	Germany	2:10.71	Q
15	5	7	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:11.00	Q
16	5	3	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:11.11	Q
17	5	2	Li Xiang	China	2:11.30
18	4	0	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:11.65
18	5	9	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2:11.65	NR
20	6	0	Carlos Claverie	Venezuela	2:12.33
21	4	1	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	2:12.37
22	6	8	Thomas Dahlia	France	2:12.64
23	3	4	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:12.71
24	6	9	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	2:12.74
25	5	6	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2:13.23
26	5	5	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	2:13.24
27	4	9	Richard Funk	Canada	2:13.33
28	6	1	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	2:14.24
29	6	2	Thiago Simon	Brazil	2:14.28
30	3	3	Vladislav Mustafin	Uzbekistan	2:14.31
31	2	3	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:14.85
32	3	1	Jorge Murillo	Colombia	2:14.92
33	4	8	Ayrton Sweeney	South Africa	2:14.98
34	2	4	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	2:15.09	NR
35	3	6	Marcin Stolarski	Poland	2:15.47
36	3	9	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:15.58
37	3	7	Ilya Shymanovich	Belarus	2:16.02
38	5	8	Felipe França Silva	Brazil	2:16.13
39	2	5	Lee Hsuan-yen	Chinese Taipei	2:16.28
40	2	2	Ahmad Al-Bader	Kuwait	2:16.50
41	3	8	Christoph Meier	Liechtenstein	2:17.07
42	2	7	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	2:17.30
43	3	0	Azad Al-Barazi	Syria	2:18.19
44	3	5	Sandeep Sejwal	India	2:18.68
45	2	6	Mauro Castillo	Mexico	2:19.07
46	2	8	Arya Nasimi Shad	Iran	2:20.22
47	1	4	Anton Zheltyakov	Azerbaijan	2:20.83
48	3	2	Radomyos Matjiur	Thailand	2:21.30
49	2	1	Julian Fletcher	Bermuda	2:21.39
50	2	0	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:22.84
51	1	5	Adriel Sanes	Virgin Islands	2:24.91
52	1	3	Simanga Dlamini	Swaziland	2:45.73

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:29.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:08.72	Q
2	5	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:09.22	Q
3	6	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:09.64	Q, WJR
4	7	Nic Fink	United States	2:10.04
5	8	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:10.45
6	3	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:10.51
7	2	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:10.79
8	1	Christian vom Lehn	Germany	2:11.26

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	2:08.03	Q
2	4	Marco Koch	Germany	2:08.34	Q
3	3	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.53	Q
4	6	Kevin Cordes	United States	2:08.69	Q
5	5	Mao Feilian	China	2:09.54	Q, NR
6	2	Ilya Khomenko	Russia	2:09.86
7	7	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.87
8	8	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:11.05

Final

The final was held at 18:55.^[4]

Koch wins gold

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	5	Marco Koch	Germany	2:07.76
02 !	6	Kevin Cordes	United States	2:08.05
03 !	3	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.10
4	2	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:08.52
5	4	Yasuhiro Koseki	Japan	2:09.12
6	7	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:09.58
7	8	Anton Chupkov	Russia	2:09.96
8	1	Mao Feilian	China	2:10.02

References