# Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2017.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Ippei Watanabe (JPN) | 2:06.67 | Tokyo, Japan | 29 January 2017 |
| Competition record | Dániel Gyurta (HUN) | 2:07.23 | Barcelona, Spain | 2 August 2013 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 27 July | Semifinal | Anton Chupkov | Russia | 2:07.14 | CR |
| 28 July | Final | Anton Chupkov | Russia | 2:06.96 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 27 July at 10:28.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 5 | Anton Chupkov | Russia | 2:08.23 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:08.98 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | Ippei Watanabe | Japan | 2:09.30 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 6 | Qin Haiyang | China | 2:09.39 | Q, WJ |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:09.47 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 6 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:09.86 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 6 | Nic Fink | United States | 2:09.90 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Matthew Wilson | Australia | 2:09.98 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Mao Feilian | China | 2:10.01 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:10.18 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 5 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:10.21 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 4 | Yasuhiro Koseki | Japan | 2:10.38 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 3 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:10.40 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 3 | Ilya Khomenko | Russia | 2:10.43 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 7 | Arno Kamminga | Netherlands | 2:11.00 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 8 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:11.00 | Q, NR |
| 17 | 3 | 2 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:11.28 | |
| 18 | 5 | 7 | James Wilby | Great Britain | 2:11.51 | |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | Carlos Claverie | Venezuela | 2:11.71 | |
| 20 | 3 | 1 | Nicholas Quinn | Ireland | 2:12.15 | |
| 21 | 5 | 8 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:12.37 | |
| 22 | 4 | 7 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:12.66 | |
| 23 | 5 | 0 | Miguel de Lara | Mexico | 2:13.35 | |
| 24 | 4 | 9 | Ilya Shymanovich | Belarus | 2:13.46 | |
| 25 | 4 | 0 | Christopher Rothbauer | Austria | 2:13.61 | |
| 26 | 4 | 1 | Thiago Simon | Brazil | 2:14.23 | |
| 27 | 3 | 8 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:14.87 | |
| 28 | 2 | 7 | Chao Man Hou | Macau | 2:15.41 | |
| 29 | 2 | 4 | Lee Hsuan-yen | Chinese Taipei | 2:15.94 | |
| 30 | 3 | 9 | Daniils Bobrovs | Latvia | 2:16.86 | |
| 31 | 2 | 6 | Youssef El-Kamash | Egypt | 2:17.43 | |
| 32 | 2 | 2 | Denis Petrashov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:18.43 | |
| 33 | 5 | 9 | Kim Jae-youn | South Korea | 2:18.65 | |
| 34 | 3 | 0 | Jorge Murillo | Colombia | 2:19.05 | |
| 35 | 2 | 1 | Adriel Sanes | U.S. Virgin Islands | 2:20.92 | |
| 36 | 2 | 0 | Amro Al-Wir | Jordan | 2:23.09 | |
| 37 | 2 | 8 | Arnoldo Herrera | Costa Rica | 2:24.57 | |
| 38 | 1 | 3 | Santiago Saint-Upery | Uruguay | 2:26.35 | |
| 39 | 1 | 4 | Felipe Gomes | Malawi | 2:28.94 | |
| 40 | 1 | 5 | Otto Borgards | El Salvador | 2:30.73 | |
| | 2 | 3 | Wassim Elloumi | Tunisia | DNS | DNS |
| | 2 | 5 | Ayrton Sweeney | South Africa | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 27 July at 18:14.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:07.72 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Yasuhiro Koseki | Japan | 2:07.80 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Ilya Khomenko | Russia | 2:08.58 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Matthew Wilson | Australia | 2:08.64 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:08.95 | |
| 6 | 2 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:09.69 | |
| 7 | 5 | Qin Haiyang | China | 2:10.14 | |
| 8 | 8 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:12.19 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Anton Chupkov | Russia | 2:07.14 | Q, CR, ER |
| 2 | 5 | Ippei Watanabe | Japan | 2:07.44 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:08.40 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Nic Fink | United States | 2:08.80 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:09.58 | |
| 6 | 1 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:09.61 | |
| 7 | 2 | Mao Feilian | China | 2:09.63 | |
| 8 | 8 | Arno Kamminga | Netherlands | 2:09.94 | NR |

### Final

The final was held on 28 July at 18:55.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Anton Chupkov | Russia | 2:06.96 | CR, ER |
| | 6 | Yasuhiro Koseki | Japan | 2:07.29 | |
| | 5 | Ippei Watanabe | Japan | 2:07.47 | |
| 4 | 3 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 2:08.12 | |
| 5 | 8 | Nic Fink | United States | 2:08.56 | |
| 6 | 2 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:08.68 | |
| 7 | 7 | Ilya Khomenko | Russia | 2:09.18 | |
| 8 | 1 | Matthew Wilson | Australia | 2:10.37 | |