# Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1–2 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:
| World record | Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN) | 2:07.01 | Gifu, Japan | 15 September 2012 |
| Competition record | Christian Sprenger (AUS) | 2:07.31 | Rome, Italy | 30 July 2009 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 2 August | Final | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:07.23 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:54.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 2 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:09.39 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 5 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:09.91 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:09.94 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 7 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:10.16 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | Akihiro Yamaguchi | Japan | 2:10.17 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Ryo Tateishi | Japan | 2:10.41 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:10.70 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 3 | Vyacheslav Sinkevich | Russia | 2:10.82 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 6 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:10.94 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 8 | Tomáš Klobučník | Slovakia | 2:11.00 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 4 | 5 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:11.40 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 2 | Marat Amaltdinov | Russia | 2:11.41 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 3 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 2:11.45 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | 4 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:11.47 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 6 | B.J. Johnson | United States | 2:11.64 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 7 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 2:11.71 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 2 | Mao Feilian | China | 2:11.81 | |
| 18 | 4 | 7 | Luca Pizzini | Italy | 2:11.93 | |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | Mikolaj Machnik | Poland | 2:11.98 | |
| 20 | 3 | 1 | Sławomir Kuczko | Poland | 2:12.21 | |
| 21 | 5 | 8 | Dimitrios Koulouris | Greece | 2:12.87 | |
| 22 | 4 | 6 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 2:13.10 | |
| 23 | 2 | 3 | Carlos Almeida | Portugal | 2:13.21 | NR |
| 24 | 3 | 0 | Ashton Baumann | Canada | 2:13.46 | |
| 25 | 2 | 8 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:13.53 | |
| 26 | 5 | 0 | Jorge Murillo | Colombia | 2:14.06 | |
| 27 | 3 | 8 | Ju Jang-Hun | South Korea | 2:14.79 | |
| 28 | 2 | 6 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 2:14.94 | |
| 29 | 2 | 1 | Anton Sveinn McKee | Iceland | 2:15.12 | |
| 30 | 2 | 5 | Carlos Claverie | Venezuela | 2:15.76 | NR |
| 31 | 4 | 1 | Ihor Borysyk | Ukraine | 2:15.84 | |
| 32 | 2 | 4 | Sandeep Sejwal | India | 2:16.05 | |
| 33 | 2 | 2 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:16.12 | |
| 34 | 4 | 9 | Pavel Kapylou | Belarus | 2:16.68 | |
| 35 | 4 | 0 | Christian Schurr Voight | Mexico | 2:17.62 | |
| 36 | 2 | 7 | Eladio Carrión | Puerto Rico | 2:17.82 | |
| 37 | 3 | 9 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:18.23 | |
| 38 | 2 | 0 | Joshua Hall | Philippines | 2:19.16 | |
| 39 | 5 | 9 | Nuttapong Ketin | Thailand | 2:19.71 | |
| 40 | 2 | 9 | Damir Davletbaev | Kyrgyzstan | 2:25.73 | |
| 41 | 1 | 4 | Eli Ebenezer Wong | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:23.75 | |
| 42 | 1 | 5 | Alexandros Axiotis | Zambia | 2:34.43 | |
| 43 | 1 | 3 | Ashraf Hassan | Maldives | 2:55.19 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:54.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:09.11 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Vyacheslav Sinkevich | Russia | 2:09.47 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:09.62 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:09.96 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 3 | Ryo Tateishi | Japan | 2:10.01 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 2:11.21 | |
| 7 | 2 | Tomáš Klobučník | Slovakia | 2:11.56 | |
| 8 | 7 | Marat Amaltdinov | Russia | 2:13.06 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:08.50 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:08.61 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Akihiro Yamaguchi | Japan | 2:10.00 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 2:10.03 | |
| 5 | 1 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 2:10.12 | |
| 6 | 6 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:10.17 | |
| 7 | 8 | B.J. Johnson | United States | 2:10.79 | |
| 8 | 2 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:11.73 | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:32.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:07.23 | CR, ER |
| | 5 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:08.54 | |
| | 7 | Matti Mattsson | Finland | 2:08.95 | NR |
| 4 | 3 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:09.13 | |
| 5 | 2 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:09.14 | |
| 6 | 6 | Vyacheslav Sinkevich | Russia | 2:09.34 | |
| 7 | 1 | Akihiro Yamaguchi | Japan | 2:09.57 | |
| 8 | 8 | Ryo Tateishi | Japan | 2:10.28 | |