# 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 14 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:00.67 | Istanbul | 13 December 2009 |
| Championship record | Naoya Tomita | Japan | 2:03.12 | Dubai | 17 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 14 December | Final | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:01.35 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 5 | Akihiro Yamaguchi (JPN) | 2:03.57 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | Dániel Gyurta (HUN) | 2:03.64 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 2 | Clark Burckle (USA) | 2:03.87 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 3 | Andrew Willis (GBR) | 2:03.94 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | Marco Koch (GER) | 2:03.95 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | Viatcheslav Sinkevich (RUS) | 2:04.07 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 3 | Yukihiro Takahashi (JPN) | 2:04.93 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Michael Jamieson (GBR) | 2:06.05 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 5 | Ihor Borysyk (UKR) | 2:06.37 | |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | Scott Weltz (USA) | 2:07.45 | |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Chris Christensen (DEN) | 2:07.71 | |
| 12 | 5 | 6 | Tomáš Klobučník (SVK) | 2:07.96 | NR |
| 13 | 6 | 8 | Laurent Carnol (LUX) | 2:08.15 | |
| 14 | 2 | 9 | Valeriy Dymo (UKR) | 2:08.37 | |
| 15 | 2 | 0 | Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ) | 2:09.07 | |
| 16 | 6 | 3 | Anton Lobanov (RUS) | 2:09.80 | |
| 17 | 4 | 2 | Giedrius Titenis (LTU) | 2:09.95 | |
| 18 | 5 | 7 | Andrew Poznikoff (CAN) | 2:10.06 | |
| 19 | 4 | 7 | Jorge Murillo (COL) | 2:10.07 | NR |
| 20 | 6 | 8 | Eladio Carrión (PUR) | 2:10.10 | NR |
| 21 | 5 | 1 | Warren Barnes (CAN) | 2:10.63 | |
| 22 | 1 | 1 | Roman Trussov (KAZ) | 2:10.86 | |
| 22 | 3 | 3 | Michael Meyer (RSA) | 2:10.86 | |
| 24 | 6 | 7 | Malick Fall (SEN) | 2:12.15 | |
| 25 | 4 | 1 | Choi Kyu-Woong (KOR) | 2:12.50 | |
| 26 | 5 | 8 | Dmitrii Aleksandrov (KGZ) | 2:12.60 | |
| 27 | 6 | 1 | Christian Schurr Voight (MEX) | 2:13.39 | |
| 28 | 1 | 6 | Huang Yunkun (CHN) | 2:14.32 | |
| 29 | 6 | 0 | Vaidotas Blažys (LTU) | 2:14.76 | |
| 30 | 1 | 3 | Joshua Hall (PHI) | 2:15.07 | |
| 31 | 6 | 9 | Damir Davletbaev (KGZ) | 2:16.11 | |
| 32 | 4 | 0 | Pedro Pinotes (ANG) | 2:16.77 | |
| 33 | 3 | 5 | Jordy Groters (ARU) | 2:16.78 | |
| 34 | 4 | 8 | Lionel Khoo (SIN) | 2:16.86 | |
| 35 | 1 | 5 | Ensar Hajder (BIH) | 2:17.15 | NR |
| 36 | 5 | 9 | Chao Man Hou (MAC) | 2:17.25 | |
| 37 | 2 | 8 | Abdulrahman Albader (KUW) | 2:17.75 | |
| 38 | 3 | 4 | Enrique Duran Garcia-Bedoya (PER) | 2:17.85 | |
| 39 | 4 | 9 | Damjan Petrovski (MKD) | 2:18.08 | NR |
| 40 | 3 | 7 | Andrea Agius (MLT) | 2:21.93 | |
| 41 | 3 | 0 | Josue Dominguez Ramos (DOM) | 2:23.57 | |
| 42 | 3 | 6 | Shafee Mohamed (UAE) | 2:24.19 | |
| 43 | 3 | 9 | Arvind Mani (IND) | 2:26.89 | |
| 44 | 2 | 4 | Darren Chan Chin Wah (MRI) | 2:28.15 | |
| 45 | 3 | 8 | Andrea M. Agius (MLT) | 2:28.34 | |
| 46 | 2 | 5 | Walid Daloul (QAT) | 2:35.40 | |
| 47 | 2 | 6 | Hassan Ashraf (MDV) | 2:40.57 | |
| 48 | 2 | 2 | Brandon Schuster (SAM) | 2:41.47 | |
| 49 | 2 | 3 | Naser Hassan (QAT) | 2:50.56 | |
| 50 | 2 | 1 | Nikolas Sylvester (VIN) | 3:05.74 | |
| 51 | 2 | 7 | Storm Halbich (VIN) | 3:08.37 | |
| | 1 | 2 | Liu Weijia (CHN) | DSQ | |
| | 1 | 7 | Andrew Rutherfurd (BOL) | DSQ | |
| | 3 | 2 | Agnishwar Jayaprakash (IND) | DSQ | |
| | 5 | 0 | Abraham McLeod (TRI) | DSQ | |
| | 1 | 4 | Miguel Ferreira (VEN) | DNS | |
| | 3 | 1 | Mbeh Tanji (CMR) | DNS | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:36.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:01.35 | CR |
| | 8 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:03.00 | NR |
| | 7 | Viatcheslav Sinkevich | Russia | 2:03.08 | |
| 4 | 4 | Akihiro Yamaguchi | Japan | 2:03.23 | |
| 5 | 6 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:03.29 | |
| 6 | 3 | Clark Burckle | United States | 2:03.58 | |
| 7 | 2 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:03.68 | NR |
| 8 | 1 | Yukihiro Takahashi | Japan | 2:04.92 | |