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

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.

## 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 |
| Competition record | Dániel Gyurta (HUN) | 2:07.23 | Barcelona, Spain | 2 August 2013 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:33.
| 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 | Eswatini | 2:45.73 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:29.

#### 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.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:07.76 |
| | 6 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:08.05 |
| | 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 |