# Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 23–24, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam on 23 July, while the Final swam on 24 July.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:
* WR: 2:09.52 swum by Dmitri Komornikov (Russia) on June 14, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain
* CR: 2:10.69 swum by Brendan Hansen (USA) on July 26, 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:09.42 | WR |
| 2 | Ian Edmond | Great Britain | 2:10.92 | |
| 3 | Brendan Hansen | USA | 2:11.11 | |
| 4 | Jim Piper | Australia | 2:11.55 | |
| 5 | Dmitry Komornikov | Russia | 2:12.30 | |
| 6 | Andrey Ivanov | Russia | 2:13.20 | |
| 7 | Mike Brown | Canada | 2:13.30 | |
| 8 | Maxim Podoprigora | Austria | 2:13.33 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat + Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S2 L4 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:09.73 | q, CR |
| 2 | S1 L4 | Ian Edmond | Great Britain | 2:10.69 | q |
| 3 | S1 L6 | Brendan Hansen | USA | 2:11.33 | q |
| 4 | S2 L6 | Jim Piper | Australia | 2:11.88 | q |
| 5 | S2 L5 | Dmitry Komornikov | Russia | 2:12.74 | q |
| 6 | S2 L3 | Andrey Ivanov | Russia | 2:12.86 | q |
| 7 | S1 L1 | Maxim Podoprigora | Austria | 2:13.17 | q |
| 8 | S1 L5 | Mike Brown | Canada | 2:13.19 | q |
| 9 | S2 L7 | Morgan Knabe | Canada | 2:13.23 | |
| 10 | S2 L8 | Martin Gustavsson | Sweden | 2:13.88 | |
| 11 | S1 L2 | Yohan Bernard | France | 2:14.23 | |
| 12 | S2 L1 | Davide Rummolo | Italy | 2:14.36 | |
| 13 | S1 L7 | Domenico Fioravanti | Italy | 2:14.60 | |
| 14 | S1 L3 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:14.84 | |
| 15 | S2 L2 | Terence Parkin | South Africa | 2:14.96 | |
| 16 | S1 L8 | Jakob Sveinsson | Iceland | 2:15.27 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H8 L4 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:10.66 | q, CR |
| 2 | H9 L5 | Ian Edmond | Great Britain | 2:12.07 | q |
| 3 | H9 L4 | Dmitry Komornikov | Russia | 2:13.35 | q |
| 4 | H9 L6 | Mike Brown | Canada | 2:13.38 | q |
| 5 | H7 L2 | Andrey Ivanov | Russia | 2:13.45 | q |
| 6 | H8 L1 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:13.63 | q |
| 7 | H9 L3 | Jim Piper | Australia | 2:13.65 | q |
| 8 | H7 L5 | Brendan Hansen | United States | 2:13.92 | q |
| 9 | H9 L2 | Terence Parkin | South Africa | 2:14.14 | q |
| 10 | H8 L5 | Yohan Bernard | France | 2:14.53 | q |
| 11 | H7 L3 | Morgan Knabe | Canada | 2:14.72 | q |
| 12 | H8 L8 | Domenico Fioravanti | Italy | 2:14.78 | q |
| 13 | H7 L4 | Davide Rummolo | Italy | 2:14.79 | q |
| 13 | H8 L6 | Maxim Podoprigora | Austria | 2:14.79 | q |
| 15 | H9 L8 | Martin Gustavsson | Sweden | 2:14.96 | q |
| 16 | H6 L4 | Jakob Sveinsson | Iceland | 2:15.20 | q |
| 17 | H9 L1 | Andrew Bree | Ireland | 2:15.23 | |
| 18 | H8 L7 | Taiki Kawagoe | Japan | 2:15.24 | |
| 19 | H7 L1 | Richárd Bodor | Hungary | 2:15.74 | |
| 20 | H8 L3 | Regan Harrison | Australia | 2:15.77 | |
| 21 | H7 L7 | Hugues Duboscq | France | 2:15.89 | |
| 22 | H6 L5 | Reiner Schneider | Germany | 2:16.01 | |
| 23 | H9 L7 | Jarno Pihlava | Finland | 2:16.05 | |
| 24 | H7 L8 | Kamil Kasprowicz | Germany | 2:16.43 | |
| 25 | H6 L1 | Thiago Pereira | Brazil | 2:16.44 | |
| 26 | H6 L2 | Daniel Málek | Czech Republic | 2:16.86 | |
| 27 | H6 L6 | Marcelo Tomazini | Brazil | 2:16.88 | |
| 28 | H6 L3 | Vlad Polyakov | Kazakhstan | 2:17.18 | |
| 29 | H5 L4 | Dov Malnik | Israel | 2:17.84 | |
| 30 | H4 L4 | Christopher Hansen | Norway | 2:18.42 | |
| 31 | H4 L5 | Mihail Alexandrov | Bulgaria | 2:19.29 | |
| 32 | H5 L2 | Vladimir Kirjanovs | Latvia | 2:21.49 | |
| 33 | H3 L5 | Wickus Nienaber | Swaziland | 2:21.75 | |
| 34 | H5 L6 | Tao Zhao | China | 2:22.26 | |
| 35 | H4 L3 | Lorenz Liechti | Switzerland | 2:22.40 | |
| 36 | H4 L2 | Hocine Haciane | Andorra | 2:22.51 | |
| 37 | H4 L1 | Chi Kin Tam | Hong Kong | 2:22.94 | |
| 38 | H3 L4 | Raphael Matthew Chua | Philippines | 2:24.25 | |
| 39 | H5 L8 | Francisco Suriano | El Salvador | 2:24.51 | |
| 40 | H5 L7 | Maksim Shilov | Uzbekistan | 2:24.67 | |
| 41 | H4 L8 | Sergey Voytsekhovich | Uzbekistan | 2:25.15 | |
| 42 | H4 L7 | Álvaro Fortuny | Guatemala | 2:26.14 | |
| 43 | H3 L3 | Kevin Hensley | Virgin Islands | 2:30.93 | |
| 44 | H2 L2 | Youssef Hafdi | Morocco | 2:31.44 | |
| 44 | H3 L6 | Marcos Burgos | Chile | 2:31.44 | |
| 46 | H2 L6 | Hei Meng Lao | Macau | 2:31.90 | |
| 47 | H3 L7 | Santiago Cavanagh | Bolivia | 2:32.56 | |
| 48 | H2 L4 | Grant Galant | South Africa | 2:34.05 | |
| 49 | H2 L5 | Nam Nguyen Thanh | Vietnam | 2:34.10 | |
| 50 | H3 L8 | Baktash Gheidi | Iran | 2:38.07 | |
| 51 | H2 L8 | Chisela Kanchela | Zambia | 2:38.38 | |
| 52 | H2 L1 | Joao Matias | Angola | 2:39.21 | |
| 53 | H3 L1 | Daniel Kang | Guam | 2:41.51 | |
| 54 | H1 L5 | Amar Shah | Kenya | 2:41.97 | |
| 55 | H2 L3 | Chan Wai Ma | Macau | 2:43.35 | |
| 56 | H2 L7 | Iyad Houseya | Palestine | 2:55.75 | |
| - | H1 L3 | Omar Jasim | Bahrain | DQ | |
| - | H4 L6 | Miguel Molina | Philippines | DQ | |
| - | H5 L5 | Malick Fall | Senegal | DQ | |
| - | H5 L3 | Haibo Wang | China | DQ | |
| - | H5 L1 | Vladimir Labzin | Estonia | DQ | |
| - | H6 L7 | Sofiane Daid | Algeria | DQ | |
| - | H6 L8 | Valeriy Dymo | Ukraine | DQ | |
| - | H7 L6 | Dave Denniston | United States | DQ | |
| - | H8 L2 | Thijs van Valkengoed | Netherlands | DQ | |
| - | - | Jean-Luc Razakarivony | Madagascar | DNS | |
| - | - | Ahmed Ouattara Zie | Ivory Coast | DNS | |