# Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 22 and 23 June 2022.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS) | 2:05.95 | Adelaide, Australia | 19 May 2022 |
| Competition record | Anton Chupkov (RUS) | 2:06.12 | Gwangju, South Korea | 26 July 2019 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 22 June at 09:50.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Zac Stubblety-Cook | Australia | 2:09.09 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | Caspar Corbeau | Netherlands | 2:09.15 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 6 | Charlie Swanson | United States | 2:09.36 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 5 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:09.58 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 7 | Anton McKee | Iceland | 2:09.69 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Yu Hanaguruma | Japan | 2:09.86 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:10.05 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 5 | Ryuya Mura | Japan | 2:10.20 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | Nic Fink | United States | 2:10.27 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 4 | Arno Kamminga | Netherlands | 2:10.33 | Q, WD |
| 11 | 4 | 6 | Cho Sung-jae | South Korea | 2:10.69 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | 7 | Dawid Wiekiera | Poland | 2:10.86 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 3 | James Wilby | Great Britain | 2:11.29 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 7 | Lyubomir Epitropov | Bulgaria | 2:11.52 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Denis Petrashov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:11.88 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 3 | Matthew Wilson | Australia | 2:11.89 | Q |
| 17 | 3 | 0 | Amro Al-Wir | Jordan | 2:11.99 | Q, NR |
| 18 | 3 | 2 | Antoine Viquerat | France | 2:12.27 | |
| 19 | 3 | 1 | Caio Pumputis | Brazil | 2:12.72 | |
| 20 | 4 | 2 | Andrius Šidlauskas | Lithuania | 2:13.13 | |
| 21 | 2 | 7 | Maksym Ovchinnikov | Ukraine | 2:13.33 | |
| 22 | 5 | 2 | Qin Haiyang | China | 2:13.35 | |
| 23 | 2 | 3 | James Dergousoff | Canada | 2:13.89 | |
| 24 | 2 | 6 | Daniils Bobrovs | Latvia | 2:13.96 | |
| 25 | 3 | 8 | Maximillian Wei Ang | Singapore | 2:14.14 | |
| 26 | 5 | 8 | Savvas Thomoglou | Greece | 2:14.20 | |
| 27 | 2 | 5 | Cai Bing-rong | Chinese Taipei | 2:15.46 | |
| 28 | 2 | 8 | Constantin Malachi | Moldova | 2:16.25 | |
| 29 | 5 | 0 | Phạm Thanh Bảo | Vietnam | 2:17.34 | |
| 30 | 4 | 9 | Taichi Vakasama | Fiji | 2:17.49 | |
| 31 | 2 | 4 | Bernhard Tyler Christianson | Panama | 2:18.77 | |
| 32 | 2 | 9 | Liam Davis | Zimbabwe | 2:19.62 | |
| 33 | 2 | 1 | Jonathan Cook | Philippines | 2:19.95 | |
| 34 | 3 | 9 | Adriel Sanes | U.S. Virgin Islands | 2:20.41 | |
| 35 | 1 | 5 | Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly | Qatar | 2:21.82 | |
| 36 | 1 | 2 | Saud Ghali | Bahrain | 2:23.68 | |
| 37 | 1 | 4 | Jonathan Chung Yee | Mauritius | 2:24.36 | |
| 38 | 2 | 0 | Arnoldo Herrera | Costa Rica | 2:24.46 | |
| 39 | 1 | 6 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 2:25.04 | |
| 40 | 1 | 3 | Andrej Stojanovski | North Macedonia | 2:26.11 | |
| | 4 | 0 | Adam Chillingworth | Hong Kong | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| | 4 | 1 | Christopher Rothbauer | Austria | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| | 4 | 8 | Carles Coll | Spain | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| | 5 | 9 | Ron Polonsky | Israel | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| | 1 | 7 | Luis Sebastian Weekes | Barbados | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 2 | André Klippenberg Grindheim | Norway | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 22 June at 18:45.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Zac Stubblety-Cook | Australia | 2:06.72 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | Anton McKee | Iceland | 2:08.74 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | Yu Hanaguruma | Japan | 2:08.75 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:08.84 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:09.04 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 4 | Caspar Corbeau | Netherlands | 2:09.17 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Nic Fink | United States | 2:09.23 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | Ryuya Mura | Japan | 2:09.69 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 2 | Cho Sung-jae | South Korea | 2:09.81 | |
| 10 | 1 | 7 | James Wilby | Great Britain | 2:09.85 | |
| 11 | 2 | 5 | Charlie Swanson | United States | 2:09.89 | |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | Denis Petrashov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:11.00 | |
| 13 | 1 | 8 | Amro Al-Wir | Jordan | 2:11.05 | NR |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | Lyubomir Epitropov | Bulgaria | 2:11.01 | |
| 15 | 2 | 8 | Matthew Wilson | Australia | 2:11.44 | |
| – | 2 | 7 | Dawid Wiekiera | Poland | Disqualified | Disqualified |

### Final

The final was held on 23 June at 19:28.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Zac Stubblety-Cook | Australia | 2:07.07 |
| | 3 | Yu Hanaguruma | Japan | 2:08.38 |
| | 6 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:08.38 |
| 4 | 8 | Ryuya Mura | Japan | 2:08.86 |
| 5 | 1 | Nic Fink | United States | 2:09.05 |
| 6 | 5 | Anton McKee | Iceland | 2:09.37 |
| 7 | 7 | Caspar Corbeau | Netherlands | 2:09.62 |
| 8 | 2 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:09.65 |