2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 Breaststroke at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 17 December. 57 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning,[1] with the top-8 finishers advancing to the Final in the evening.[2]

Men's 200m Breaststroke at the 2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates	17 December 2010
Competitors	57
Winning time	2:03.12
Medalists
Naoya Tomita    Japan   Dániel Gyurta    Hungary   Brenton Rickard    Australia

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:00.67	Istanbul	13 December 2009
CR	Brendan Hansen	United States	2:04.98	Indianapolis	9 October 2004

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	WR	CR
17 December 2010	Heats	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:04.46		CR
17 December 2010	Final	Naoya Tomita	Japan	2:03.12		CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Dániel Gyurta (HUN)	2:04.46	Q, CR
2	7	4	Naoya Tomita (JPN)	2:04.93	Q
3	7	5	Marco Koch (GER)	2:05.00	Q
4	7	2	Neil Versfeld (RSA)	2:05.14	Q
5	6	4	Grigory Falko (RUS)	2:05.80	Q
6	8	3	Eric Shanteau (USA)	2:05.84	Q
7	6	6	Brenton Rickard (AUS)	2:06.00	Q
8	6	1	Hugues Duboscq (FRA)	2:06.36	Q
9	7	3	Tales Cerdeira (BRA)	2:06.39
10	6	5	Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:06.78
11	8	2	Laurent Carnol (LUX)	2:07.10
12	6	7	Adam Klein (USA)	2:07.25
13	8	8	Lennart Stekelenburg (NED)	2:07.38
14	8	1	Igor Borysik (UKR)	2:07.62
15	5	7	Warren Barnes (CAN)	2:07.89
16	8	5	Edoardo Giorgetti (ITA)	2:08.01
17	6	8	Giedrius Titenis (LTU)	2:08.03
18	5	4	Paul Kornfeld (CAN)	2:08.35
19	6	2	Martti Aljand (EST)	2:08.96
20	7	8	William Grant Diering (RSA)	2:09.15
20	8	6	Viatcheslav Sinkevich (RUS)	2:09.15
22	8	7	Slawomir Kuczko (POL)	2:09.25
23	7	1	Tomas Klobucnik (SVK)	2:09.36
24	7	6	Christian Sprenger (AUS)	2:09.52
25	7	7	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (KAZ)	2:09.94
26	6	3	Felipe Silva (BRA)	2:10.71
27	5	6	Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson (ISL)	2:10.92
28	4	5	Jorge Murillo (COL)	2:11.49
29	5	1	Sofiane Daid (ALG)	2:12.39
30	4	6	Edgar Crespo (PAN)	2:12.63
31	5	5	Wang Shuai (CHN)	2:13.71
32	4	3	Juan Alberto Guerra Quiñonez (ESA)	2:14.26
32	5	3	David Olivier Mercado (MEX)	2:14.26
34	4	4	Dmitrii Aleksandrov (KGZ)	2:14.39
35	2	5	Timothy Ferris (ZIM)	2:14.68
36	5	2	Malick Fall (SEN)	2:15.98
37	4	8	Hocine Haciane (AND)	2:16.28
38	5	8	Chen Cho-Yi (TPE)	2:20.57
39	3	3	Andrea Agius (MLT)	2:20.93
40	4	7	Lim Duan Le Kenneth (SIN)	2:21.34
41	3	5	Maximilian Siedentopf (NAM)	2:21.54
41	4	2	Wael Koubrousli (LIB)	2:21.54
43	3	7	Mubarak Al Besher (UAE)	2:22.33
44	2	6	Jourdy Martis (AHO)	2:22.45
45	3	6	Martin Melconian (URU)	2:22.48
46	3	2	Arturo Alejandro Montilla (DOM)	2:23.54
47	3	4	Damir Davletbaev (KGZ)	2:23.87
48	3	8	Jehaad Alhenidi (JOR)	2:27.29
49	2	4	Daniel Galea (MLT)	2:30.69
50	1	5	Nazih Mezayek (JOR)	2:30.86
51	2	3	Hemra Nurmuradov (TKM)	2:37.76
52	2	2	Ronaldo Rodrigues (GUY)	2:40.83
53	1	4	Mamadou Fofana (MLI)	2:51.27
54	2	7	Ron Albert Roucou (SEY)	2:52.78
-	1	3	Xue Ruipeng (CHN)	DNS
-	3	1	Mohamed Jasim (UAE)	DSQ
-	4	1	Leopoldo Andara (VEN)	DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	5	Naoya Tomita (JPN)	2:03.12	CR
	4	Dániel Gyurta (HUN)	2:03.47
	1	Brenton Rickard (AUS)	2:04.33
4	3	Marco Koch (GER)	2:05.15
4	6	Neil Versfeld (RSA)	2:05.15
6	2	Grigory Falko (RUS)	2:05.28
7	8	Hugues Duboscq (FRA)	2:05.68
8	7	Eric Shanteau (USA)	2:05.86

References

1. "2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) - Men's 200 metre breaststroke (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
2. "2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) - Men's 200 metre breaststroke (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2010.