Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1–2 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.[1][2]

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	August 1, 2013 (heats & semifinals) August 2, 2013 (final)
Competitors	43 from 36 nations
Winning time	2:07.23 CR
Medalists
Dániel Gyurta    Hungary   Marco Koch    Germany   Matti Mattsson    Finland

Records

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

World record	Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN)	2:07.01	Gifu, Japan	15 September 2012	[3][4]
Competition record	Christian Sprenger (AUS)	2:07.31	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009	[5]

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
2 August	Final	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:07.23	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:54.[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	2	Marco Koch	Germany	2:09.39	Q
2	3	5	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:09.91	Q
3	5	4	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:09.94	Q
4	3	7	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:10.16	Q, NR
5	3	4	Akihiro Yamaguchi	Japan	2:10.17	Q
6	5	5	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2:10.41	Q
7	3	3	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:10.70	Q
8	5	3	Vyacheslav Sinkevich	Russia	2:10.82	Q
9	3	6	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:10.94	Q
10	4	8	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	2:11.00	Q, NR
11	4	5	Kevin Cordes	United States	2:11.40	Q
12	3	2	Marat Amaltdinov	Russia	2:11.41	Q
13	4	3	Christian vom Lehn	Germany	2:11.45	Q
14	4	4	Michael Jamieson	Great Britain	2:11.47	Q
15	5	6	B.J. Johnson	United States	2:11.64	Q
16	5	7	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	2:11.71	Q
17	4	2	Mao Feilian	China	2:11.81
18	4	7	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:11.93
19	5	1	Mikolaj Machnik	Poland	2:11.98
20	3	1	Sławomir Kuczko	Poland	2:12.21
21	5	8	Dimitrios Koulouris	Greece	2:12.87
22	4	6	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:13.10
23	2	3	Carlos Almeida	Portugal	2:13.21	NR
24	3	0	Ashton Baumann	Canada	2:13.46
25	2	8	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:13.53
26	5	0	Jorge Murillo	Colombia	2:14.06
27	3	8	Ju Jang-Hun	South Korea	2:14.79
28	2	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	2:14.94
29	2	1	Anton Sveinn McKee	Iceland	2:15.12
30	2	5	Carlos Claverie	Venezuela	2:15.76	NR
31	4	1	Ihor Borysyk	Ukraine	2:15.84
32	2	4	Sandeep Sejwal	India	2:16.05
33	2	2	Jakub Maly	Austria	2:16.12
34	4	9	Pavel Kapylou	Belarus	2:16.68
35	4	0	Christian Schurr Voight	Mexico	2:17.62
36	2	7	Eladio Carrion	Puerto Rico	2:17.82
37	3	9	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	2:18.23
38	2	0	Joshua Hall	Philippines	2:19.16
39	5	9	Nuttapong Ketin	Thailand	2:19.71
40	2	9	Damir Davletbaev	Kyrgyzstan	2:25.73
41	1	4	Eli Ebenezer Wong	Northern Mariana Islands	2:23.75
42	1	5	Alexandros Axiotis	Zambia	2:34.43
43	1	3	Ashraf Hassan	Maldives	2:55.19

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:54.[7]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:09.11	Q
2	6	Vyacheslav Sinkevich	Russia	2:09.47	Q
3	1	Michael Jamieson	Great Britain	2:09.62	Q
4	5	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:09.96	Q, NR
5	3	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2:10.01	Q
6	8	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	2:11.21
7	2	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	2:11.56
8	7	Marat Amaltdinov	Russia	2:13.06

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.50	Q
2	4	Marco Koch	Germany	2:08.61	Q
3	3	Akihiro Yamaguchi	Japan	2:10.00	Q
4	7	Kevin Cordes	United States	2:10.03
5	1	Christian vom Lehn	Germany	2:10.12
6	6	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:10.17
7	8	B.J. Johnson	United States	2:10.79
8	2	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:11.73

Final

The final was held at 19:32.[8]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:07.23	CR, ER
	5	Marco Koch	Germany	2:08.54
	7	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:08.95	NR
4	3	Andrew Willis	Great Britain	2:09.13
5	2	Michael Jamieson	Great Britain	2:09.14
6	6	Vyacheslav Sinkevich	Russia	2:09.34
7	1	Akihiro Yamaguchi	Japan	2:09.57
8	8	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2:10.28

References

1. "BCN 2013 – Swimming: Schedule". FINA. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original on 23 December 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
2. Start list
3. "Akihiro Yamaguchi Drops World Record in Japan". Swimming World Magazine. 15 September 2012. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
4. "Akihiro Yamaguchi sets world record". ESPN. 15 September 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
5. Cowley, Michael (31 July 2009). "Gold for Schipper as Sprenger breaks world record". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
6. Heats Results
7. Semifinals Results
8. Final Results

External links

• Barcelona 2013 Swimming Coverage