# 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 Breaststroke at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 17 December. 57 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning, with the top-8 finishers advancing to the Final in the evening.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| WR | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:00.67 | Istanbul | 13 December 2009 |
| CR | Brendan Hansen | United States | 2:04.98 | Indianapolis | 9 October 2004 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nation | Time | WR | CR |
| 17 December 2010 | Heats | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:04.46 | | CR |
| 17 December 2010 | Final | Naoya Tomita | Japan | 2:03.12 | | CR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 4 | Dániel Gyurta (HUN) | 2:04.46 | Q, CR |
| 2 | 7 | 4 | Naoya Tomita (JPN) | 2:04.93 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 5 | Marco Koch (GER) | 2:05.00 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 2 | Neil Versfeld (RSA) | 2:05.14 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 4 | Grigory Falko (RUS) | 2:05.80 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | 3 | Eric Shanteau (USA) | 2:05.84 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | Brenton Rickard (AUS) | 2:06.00 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 1 | Hugues Duboscq (FRA) | 2:06.36 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 3 | Tales Cerdeira (BRA) | 2:06.39 | |
| 10 | 6 | 5 | Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ) | 2:06.78 | |
| 11 | 8 | 2 | Laurent Carnol (LUX) | 2:07.10 | |
| 12 | 6 | 7 | Adam Klein (USA) | 2:07.25 | |
| 13 | 8 | 8 | Lennart Stekelenburg (NED) | 2:07.38 | |
| 14 | 8 | 1 | Igor Borysik (UKR) | 2:07.62 | |
| 15 | 5 | 7 | Warren Barnes (CAN) | 2:07.89 | |
| 16 | 8 | 5 | Edoardo Giorgetti (ITA) | 2:08.01 | |
| 17 | 6 | 8 | Giedrius Titenis (LTU) | 2:08.03 | |
| 18 | 5 | 4 | Paul Kornfeld (CAN) | 2:08.35 | |
| 19 | 6 | 2 | Martti Aljand (EST) | 2:08.96 | |
| 20 | 7 | 8 | William Grant Diering (RSA) | 2:09.15 | |
| 20 | 8 | 6 | Viatcheslav Sinkevich (RUS) | 2:09.15 | |
| 22 | 8 | 7 | Sławomir Kuczko (POL) | 2:09.25 | |
| 23 | 7 | 1 | Tomáš Klobučník (SVK) | 2:09.36 | |
| 24 | 7 | 6 | Christian Sprenger (AUS) | 2:09.52 | |
| 25 | 7 | 7 | Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (KAZ) | 2:09.94 | |
| 26 | 6 | 3 | Felipe Silva (BRA) | 2:10.71 | |
| 27 | 5 | 6 | Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson (ISL) | 2:10.92 | |
| 28 | 4 | 5 | Jorge Murillo (COL) | 2:11.49 | |
| 29 | 5 | 1 | Sofiane Daid (ALG) | 2:12.39 | |
| 30 | 4 | 6 | Édgar Crespo (PAN) | 2:12.63 | |
| 31 | 5 | 5 | Wang Shuai (CHN) | 2:13.71 | |
| 32 | 4 | 3 | Juan Alberto Guerra Quiñonez (ESA) | 2:14.26 | |
| 32 | 5 | 3 | David Olivier Mercado (MEX) | 2:14.26 | |
| 34 | 4 | 4 | Dmitrii Aleksandrov (KGZ) | 2:14.39 | |
| 35 | 2 | 5 | Timothy Ferris (ZIM) | 2:14.68 | |
| 36 | 5 | 2 | Malick Fall (SEN) | 2:15.98 | |
| 37 | 4 | 8 | Hocine Haciane (AND) | 2:16.28 | |
| 38 | 5 | 8 | Chen Cho-Yi (TPE) | 2:20.57 | |
| 39 | 3 | 3 | Andrea Agius (MLT) | 2:20.93 | |
| 40 | 4 | 7 | Lim Duan Le Kenneth (SIN) | 2:21.34 | |
| 41 | 3 | 5 | Maximilian Siedentopf (NAM) | 2:21.54 | |
| 41 | 4 | 2 | Wael Koubrousli (LIB) | 2:21.54 | |
| 43 | 3 | 7 | Mubarak Al-Besher (UAE) | 2:22.33 | |
| 44 | 2 | 6 | Jourdy Martis (AHO) | 2:22.45 | |
| 45 | 3 | 6 | Martin Melconian (URU) | 2:22.48 | |
| 46 | 3 | 2 | Arturo Alejandro Montilla (DOM) | 2:23.54 | |
| 47 | 3 | 4 | Damir Davletbaev (KGZ) | 2:23.87 | |
| 48 | 3 | 8 | Jehaad Alhenidi (JOR) | 2:27.29 | |
| 49 | 2 | 4 | Daniel Galea (MLT) | 2:30.69 | |
| 50 | 1 | 5 | Nazih Mezayek (JOR) | 2:30.86 | |
| 51 | 2 | 3 | Hemra Nurmuradov (TKM) | 2:37.76 | |
| 52 | 2 | 2 | Ronaldo Rodrigues (GUY) | 2:40.83 | |
| 53 | 1 | 4 | Mamadou Fofana (MLI) | 2:51.27 | |
| 54 | 2 | 7 | Ron Albert Roucou (SEY) | 2:52.78 | |
| – | 1 | 3 | Xue Ruipeng (CHN) | DNS | |
| – | 3 | 1 | Mohamed Jasim (UAE) | DSQ | |
| – | 4 | 1 | Leopoldo Andara (VEN) | DSQ | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Naoya Tomita (JPN) | 2:03.12 | CR |
| | 4 | Dániel Gyurta (HUN) | 2:03.47 | |
| | 1 | Brenton Rickard (AUS) | 2:04.33 | |
| 4 | 3 | Marco Koch (GER) | 2:05.15 | |
| 4 | 6 | Neil Versfeld (RSA) | 2:05.15 | |
| 6 | 2 | Grigory Falko (RUS) | 2:05.28 | |
| 7 | 8 | Hugues Duboscq (FRA) | 2:05.68 | |
| 8 | 7 | Eric Shanteau (USA) | 2:05.86 | |