# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 Breaststroke event at the XI FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 28 and 29 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary (morning) and semifinal (evening) heats swam 28 July; the final on 29 July.
Prior to the competition, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:
* WR: 2:09.04 swum by Brendan Hansen (USA) on 11 July 2004 in Long Beach, USA;
* CR: 2:09.42 swum by Kosuke Kitajima (Japan) on 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Brendan Hansen | USA | 2:09.85 |
| 2 | Mike Brown | Canada | 2:11.22 |
| 3 | Genki Imamura | Japan | 2:11.54 |
| 4 | Jim Piper | Australia | 2:12.42 |
| 5 | Sławomir Kuczko | Poland | 2:12.44 |
| 6 | Grigory Falko | Russia | 2:12.51 |
| 7 | Loris Facci | Italy | 2:12.62 |
| 8 | Vlad Polyakov | Kazakhstan | 2:12.72 |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S1 L4 | Brendan Hansen | USA | 2:10.23 | q |
| 2 | S1 L5 | Mike Brown | Canada | 2:11.26 | q |
| 3 | S1 L3 | Genki Imamura | Japan | 2:11.77 | q |
| 4 | S1 L6 | Jim Piper | Australia | 2:12.17 | q |
| 5 | S2 L3 | Grigory Falko | Russia | 2:12.20 | q |
| 6 | S2 L5 | Sławomir Kuczko | Poland | 2:12.34 | q |
| 7 | S2 L6 | Loris Facci | Italy | 2:12.43 | q |
| 8 | S2 L4 | Vlad Polyakov | Kazakhstan | 2:12.50 | q |
| 9 | S2 L2 | Scott Usher | USA | 2:13.03 | |
| 10 | S1 L1 | Dmitry Komornikov | Russia | 2:13.56 | |
| 11 | S2 L7 | Daisuke Kimura | Japan | 2:14.00 | |
| 12 | S1 L8 | Valeriy Dymo | Ukraine | 2:14.02 | |
| 13 | S1 L7 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 2:14.68 | |
| 14 | S1 L2 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | 2:14.94 | |
| 15 | S2 L1 | Jakob Sveinsson | Iceland | 2:15.61 | |
| 16 | S2 L8 | Yevgeniy Ryzhkov | Kazakhstan | 2:15.80 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H7 L5 | Vlad Polyakov | Kazakhstan | 2:12.73 | q |
| 2 | H7 L4 | Brendan Hansen | United States | 2:12.74 | q |
| 3 | H7 L3 | Sławomir Kuczko | Poland | 2:12.76 | q |
| 4 | H5 L3 | Mike Brown | Canada | 2:12.96 | q |
| 5 | H6 L3 | Grigory Falko | Russia | 2:13.35 | q |
| 6 | H5 L4 | Genki Imamura | Japan | 2:13.36 | q |
| 7 | H5 L6 | Loris Facci | Italy | 2:13.46 | q |
| 8 | H6 L4 | Jim Piper | Australia | 2:13.47 | q |
| 9 | H5 L5 | Scott Usher | United States | 2:13.89 | q |
| 10 | H6 L7 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | 2:14.74 | q |
| 11 | H7 L2 | Daisuke Kimura | Japan | 2:15.20 | q |
| 12 | H7 L6 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 2:15.26 | q |
| 13 | H7 L1 | Jakob Sveinsson | Iceland | 2:15.28 | q |
| 14 | H6 L5 | Dmitry Komornikov | Russia | 2:15.35 | q |
| 15 | H5 L7 | Yevgeniy Ryzhkov | Kazakhstan | 2:15.65 | q |
| 16 | H7 L7 | Valeriy Dymo | Ukraine | 2:15.94 | q |
| 17 | H4 L4 | Mihail Alexandrov | Bulgaria | 2:16.08 | |
| 18 | H6 L2 | Maxim Podoprigora | Austria | 2:16.33 | |
| 19 | H3 L7 | Alexander Dale Oen | Norway | 2:16.38 | |
| 20 | H6 L6 | Richárd Bodor | Hungary | 2:16.82 | |
| 21 | H4 L5 | Aleksander Baldin | Estonia | 2:16.83 | |
| 22 | H6 L8 | Tom Be'eri | Israel | 2:16.89 | |
| 23 | H5 L1 | Scott Dickens | Canada | 2:17.28 | |
| 24 | H6 L1 | Jiri Jedlicka | Czech Republic | 2:17.67 | |
| 25 | H3 L4 | You Seung-Hun | South Korea | 2:17.89 | |
| 26 | H4 L1 | Miguel Molina | Philippines | 2:18.71 | |
| 26 | H5 L2 | Martin Gustavsson | Sweden | 2:18.71 | |
| 28 | H3 L1 | Alwin de Prins | Luxembourg | 2:19.11 | |
| 29 | H4 L7 | Bradley Ally | Barbados | 2:19.12 | |
| 30 | H5 L8 | Wei-Wen Wang | Chinese Taipei | 2:19.13 | |
| 31 | H4 L8 | Shin Su-Jong | South Korea | 2:20.02 | |
| 32 | H3 L3 | Thabang Moeketsane | South Africa | 2:20.38 | |
| 33 | H7 L8 | Sofiane Daid | Algeria | 2:20.69 | |
| 34 | H3 L2 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 2:21.33 | |
| 34 | H4 L3 | Andrey Morkovin | Uzbekistan | 2:21.33 | |
| 36 | H4 L6 | Hocine Haciane | Andorra | 2:21.98 | |
| 37 | H3 L5 | Vorrawuti Aumpiwan | Thailand | 2:23.26 | |
| 38 | H2 L5 | Mark Tan | Singapore | 2:23.85 | |
| 39 | H2 L6 | M. Akbar Nasution | Indonesia | 2:24.07 | |
| 40 | H3 L8 | Puneet Rana | India | 2:25.32 | |
| 41 | H2 L4 | Herry Yudhianto | Indonesia | 2:25.67 | |
| 42 | H2 L3 | Leonard Tan | Singapore | 2:28.71 | |
| 43 | H2 L7 | Johnny Castillo | Panama | 2:29.42 | |
| 44 | H3 L6 | Maksim Shilov | Uzbekistan | 2:29.57 | |
| 45 | H2 L1 | Kevin Hensley | Virgin Islands | 2:30.19 | |
| 46 | H1 L4 | Hei Meng Lao | Macau | 2:30.43 | |
| 47 | H1 L6 | Yousuf Alyousuf | Saudi Arabia | 2:30.61 | |
| 48 | H1 L8 | Youssef Hafdi | Morocco | 2:30.85 | |
| 49 | H2 L2 | Alfonso Espinosa | Dominican Republic | 2:31.82 | |
| 50 | H2 L8 | Graham Smith | Bermuda | 2:32.14 | |
| 51 | H1 L3 | Ivane Lekvtadze | Georgia | 2:32.47 | |
| 52 | H1 L5 | Chan Wai Ma | Macau | 2:32.73 | |
| 53 | H1 L7 | Amar Shah | Kenya | 2:37.61 | |
| 54 | H1 L2 | Chisela Kanchela | Zambia | 2:38.69 | |
| - | H1 L1 | Aziz Abdul | Pakistan | DQ | |
| - | H4 L2 | Ayman Khattab | Egypt | DNS | |