# 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 December 2024.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:
| World record | Kirill Prigoda (RUS) | 2:00.16 | Hangzhou, China | 13 December 2018 |
| Competition record | Kirill Prigoda (RUS) | 2:00.16 | Hangzhou, China | 13 December 2018 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started at 9:40.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 5 | Yamato Fukasawa | Japan | 2:02.24 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Aleksandr Zhigalov | Neutral Athletes B | 2:02.46 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 1 | AJ Pouch | United States | 2:03.06 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Kirill Prigoda | Neutral Athletes B | 2:03.61 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 3 | Carles Coll | Spain | 2:03.63 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 5 | Caspar Corbeau | Netherlands | 2:03.86 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Ilya Shymanovich | Neutral Athletes A | 2:04.11 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Joshua Yong | Australia | 2:04.15 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | Qin Haiyang | China | 2:04.42 | R |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | Joshua Collett | Australia | 2:04.48 | R |
| 11 | 4 | 0 | Jan Kałusowski | Poland | 2:04.63 | NR |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Cho Sung-jae | South Korea | 2:04.78 | NR |
| 13 | 5 | 0 | Denis Petrashov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:05.45 | |
| 14 | 3 | 2 | Darius Coman | Romania | 2:06.19 | NR |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Adam Chillingworth | Hong Kong | 2:06.19 | |
| 16 | 3 | 6 | Yu Zongda | China | 2:06.24 | |
| 17 | 3 | 7 | Eoin Corby | Ireland | 2:06.45 | NR |
| 18 | 4 | 7 | Andrius Šidlauskas | Lithuania | 2:06.65 | |
| 18 | 5 | 6 | Adam Mak | Hong Kong | 2:06.65 | |
| 20 | 5 | 7 | Berkay Ömer Öğretir | Turkey | 2:07.54 | |
| 21 | 4 | 9 | Oliver Dawson | Canada | 2:07.61 | |
| 22 | 2 | 5 | Vicente Villanueva | Chile | 2:07.69 | NR |
| 23 | 5 | 8 | Tsai Ruei-hong | Chinese Taipei | 2:07.75 | NR |
| 24 | 4 | 2 | Christopher Rothbauer | Austria | 2:09.23 | |
| 25 | 5 | 1 | Matthew Randle | South Africa | 2:09.63 | |
| 26 | 3 | 0 | Juan García | Colombia | 2:09.66 | |
| 27 | 5 | 9 | Einar Margeir Ágústsson | Iceland | 2:09.97 | |
| 28 | 2 | 3 | Jaouad Syoud | Algeria | 2:10.19 | |
| 29 | 2 | 2 | Emmanuel Gadson | Bahamas | 2:10.49 | NR |
| 30 | 3 | 9 | Maksim Manolov | Bulgaria | 2:11.12 | |
| 31 | 2 | 1 | Giacomo Casadei | San Marino | 2:11.91 | NR |
| 32 | 2 | 6 | Amro Al-Wir | Jordan | 2:12.03 | NR |
| 33 | 3 | 8 | Louis Droupy | Switzerland | 2:12.78 | |
| 34 | 2 | 4 | Daniils Bobrovs | Latvia | 2:13.00 | |
| 35 | 3 | 1 | Constantin Malachi | Moldova | 2:13.20 | |
| 36 | 2 | 8 | Jacob Story | Cook Islands | 2:14.33 | |
| 37 | 2 | 9 | Steven Insixiengmay | Laos | 2:14.37 | |
| 38 | 1 | 5 | Alexandros Grigoriou | Cyprus | 2:14.40 | NR |
| 39 | 1 | 3 | Mohammed Al-Otaibi | Saudi Arabia | 2:16.10 | |
| 40 | 2 | 0 | Saud Ghali | Brunei | 2:17.16 | |
| 41 | 2 | 7 | Jonathan Raharvel | Madagascar | 2:18.13 | |
| 42 | 1 | 4 | Kouki Cerezo Watanabe | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:25.70 | |

### Final

The final was held at 17:50.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Carles Coll | Spain | 2:01.55 | NR |
| | 6 | Kirill Prigoda | Neutral Athletes B | 2:01.88 | |
| | 4 | Yamato Fukasawa | Japan | 2:02.01 | |
| 4 | 5 | Aleksandr Zhigalov | Neutral Athletes B | 2:02.12 | |
| 5 | 7 | Caspar Corbeau | Netherlands | 2:02.44 | |
| 6 | 3 | AJ Pouch | United States | 2:02.84 | |
| 7 | 8 | Joshua Yong | Australia | 2:03.21 | |
| 8 | 1 | Ilya Shymanovich | Neutral Athletes A | 2:03.49 | |