# Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 22 and 23 August 2017.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Universiade records were as follows.
| World record | Ippei Watanabe (JPN) | 2:06.67 | Tokyo, Japan | 29 January 2017 |
| Competition record | Ihor Borysyk (UKR) | 2:08.73 | Belgrade, Serbia | 8 July 2009 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 22 August | Heats | Andrew Wilson | United States | 2:08.37 | UR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 22 August at 9:38.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Andrew Wilson | United States | 2:08.37 | Q, UR |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Mikhail Dorinov | Russia | 2:10.93 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 4 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:11.73 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 3 | Rintaro Okubo | Japan | 2:11.82 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 5 | Rustam Gadirov | Russia | 2:11.86 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 6 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:12.69 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 5 | Will Licon | United States | 2:13.10 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 3 | Mamoru Mori | Japan | 2:13.16 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 6 | Nicholas Quinn | Ireland | 2:13.54 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Flavio Bizzarri | Italy | 2:13.71 | Q |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Elijah Wall | Canada | 2:13.71 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 5 | Maximilian Pilger | Germany | 2:13.81 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 7 | Alex Milligan | Australia | 2:13.94 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Mauro Castillo | Mexico | 2:14.14 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 1 | George Schroder | New Zealand | 2:15.16 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 1 | Lee Hsuan-yen | Chinese Taipei | 2:15.20 | |
| 17 | 5 | 8 | Jolann Bovey | Switzerland | 2:15.23 | |
| 18 | 5 | 7 | Ilya Shymanovich | Belarus | 2:15.30 | |
| 19 | 6 | 2 | Kim Jae-youn | South Korea | 2:15.82 | |
| 20 | 3 | 6 | Alaric Basson | South Africa | 2:16.19 | |
| 21 | 3 | 1 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:16.20 | |
| 22 | 4 | 3 | Darragh Greene | Ireland | 2:16.35 | |
| 22 | 6 | 7 | Cai Bing-rong | Chinese Taipei | 2:16.35 | |
| 24 | 7 | 8 | Johannes Dietrich | Austria | 2:16.74 | |
| 25 | 6 | 6 | Fabian Schwingenschlögl | Germany | 2:16.79 | |
| 26 | 4 | 1 | Raphael Rodrigues | Brazil | 2:16.89 | |
| 26 | 4 | 6 | Jacob Garrod | New Zealand | 2:16.89 | |
| 28 | 6 | 8 | Adam Paulsson | Sweden | 2:17.06 | |
| 29 | 3 | 2 | Miikka Ruohoniemi | Finland | 2:17.22 | |
| 30 | 2 | 5 | Chao Man Hou | Macau | 2:17.48 | |
| 31 | 4 | 8 | Teemu Vuorela | Finland | 2:17.63 | |
| 32 | 7 | 1 | Daniils Bobrovs | Latvia | 2:17.67 | |
| 33 | 4 | 5 | Andrius Šidlauskas | Lithuania | 2:18.67 | |
| 34 | 4 | 2 | Oleksandr Karpenko | Ukraine | 2:18.82 | |
| 35 | 3 | 7 | Felipe Monni | Brazil | 2:19.12 | |
| 36 | 4 | 4 | Jorge Murillo | Colombia | 2:19.52 | |
| 37 | 2 | 4 | Gerdi Zulfitranto | Indonesia | 2:19.66 | |
| 38 | 3 | 4 | Marcin Stolarski | Poland | 2:19.89 | |
| 39 | 3 | 3 | Kwok Ka Fai | Hong Kong | 2:20.04 | |
| 40 | 3 | 5 | Aibek Kamzenov | Kazakhstan | 2:20.09 | |
| 41 | 4 | 7 | Gabriel Morelli | Argentina | 2:20.39 | |
| 42 | 3 | 8 | William Lulek | Sweden | 2:22.84 | |
| 43 | 2 | 3 | Jose Galvez | Chile | 2:24.33 | |
| 44 | 2 | 7 | Ayrton Kasemets | Estonia | 2:27.24 | |
| 45 | 2 | 2 | Felipe Quiroz | Chile | 2:27.37 | |
| 46 | 2 | 6 | Zandanbal Gunsennorov | Mongolia | 2:30.52 | |
| 47 | 1 | 4 | Maksim Akavantsev | Estonia | 2:38.25 | |
| 48 | 2 | 1 | Rodrigo Guerra | Nicaragua | 2:39.30 | |
| 49 | 2 | 8 | Taveesh Edussuriya | Sri Lanka | 2:50.74 | |
| 50 | 1 | 5 | Mohamed Al-Bulushi | Oman | 4:24.88 | |
| | 1 | 3 | Matias Pinto | Chile | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 22 August at 19:22.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Mikhail Dorinov | Russia | 2:10.31 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Rintaro Okubo | Japan | 2:11.04 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:12.30 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Mamoru Mori | Japan | 2:12.38 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Maximilian Pilger | Germany | 2:12.67 | |
| 6 | 2 | Elijah Wall | Canada | 2:13.29 | |
| 7 | 1 | Mauro Castillo | Mexico | 2:14.87 | |
| 8 | 8 | Lee Hsuan-yen | Chinese Taipei | 2:15.36 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Rustam Gadirov | Russia | 2:09.87 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:10.51 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Will Licon | United States | 2:10.51 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Andrew Wilson | United States | 2:10.73 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Nicholas Quinn | Ireland | 2:12.76 | |
| 6 | 1 | Alex Milligan | Australia | 2:13.37 | |
| 7 | 7 | Flavio Bizzarri | Italy | 2:14.17 | |
| 8 | 8 | George Schroder | New Zealand | 2:14.42 | |

### Final

The final was held on 23 August at 20:00.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Andrew Wilson | United States | 2:08.45 | |
| | 6 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 2:09.70 | |
| | 4 | Rustam Gadirov | Russia | 2:09.72 | |
| 4 | 5 | Mikhail Dorinov | Russia | 2:09.92 | |
| 5 | 1 | Yannick Käser | Switzerland | 2:10.37 | NR |
| 6 | 7 | Rintaro Okubo | Japan | 2:10.72 | |
| 7 | 3 | Will Licon | United States | 2:10.75 | |
| 8 | 8 | Mamoru Mori | Japan | 2:12.93 | |