# 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 18 December 2021.

## 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 11:02.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Arno Kamminga | Netherlands | 2:03.17 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 5 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:03.24 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | Mikhail Dorinov | Russian Swimming Federation | 2:03.87 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 3 | Will Licon | United States | 2:04.06 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:04.47 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 3 | Caio Pumputis | Brazil | 2:04.61 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 5 | Nic Fink | United States | 2:04.72 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Qin Haiyang | China | 2:04.83 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Matěj Zábojník | Czech Republic | 2:04.88 | |
| 10 | 3 | 4 | Ilya Shymanovich | Belarus | 2:04.99 | |
| 11 | 3 | 3 | Alexander Zhigalov | Russian Swimming Federation | 2:05.11 | |
| 12 | 2 | 6 | Christopher Rothbauer | Austria | 2:05.31 | |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Fabian Schwingenschlögl | Germany | 2:05.31 | |
| 14 | 4 | 7 | Antoine Viquerat | France | 2:06.33 | |
| 15 | 3 | 8 | Lyubomir Epitropov | Bulgaria | 2:06.44 | NR |
| 16 | 3 | 2 | Andrius Šidlauskas | Lithuania | 2:07.01 | |
| 17 | 2 | 2 | Denis Petrashov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:07.18 | |
| 18 | 3 | 1 | Cho Sung-jae | South Korea | 2:07.19 | NR |
| 19 | 4 | 9 | Maksym Tkachuk | Ukraine | 2:07.62 | |
| 20 | 3 | 7 | Tomáš Klobučník | Slovakia | 2:08.40 | |
| 21 | 2 | 9 | Jonathan Cook | Philippines | 2:09.40 | NR |
| 22 | 2 | 0 | Phạm Thanh Bảo | Vietnam | 2:09.53 | |
| 23 | 2 | 1 | André Grindheim | Norway | 2:11.13 | |
| 24 | 3 | 9 | Youssef El-Kamash | Egypt | 2:11.15 | NR |
| 25 | 2 | 8 | Miguel de Lara | Mexico | 2:12.18 | |
| 26 | 3 | 0 | Adriel Sanes | United States Virgin Islands | 2:12.71 | NR |
| 27 | 4 | 8 | Michael Ng | Hong Kong | 2:13.19 | |
| 28 | 1 | 4 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 2:13.75 | NR |
| 29 | 1 | 2 | Liam Davis | Zimbabwe | 2:15.28 | |
| 30 | 1 | 6 | Arnoldo Herrera | Costa Rica | 2:15.82 | |
| 31 | 1 | 5 | Giacomo Casadei | San Marino | 2:17.39 | NR |
| 32 | 1 | 3 | Jonathan Chung Yee | Mauritius | 2:17.65 | |
| 33 | 1 | 7 | Alexandre Grand'Pierre | Haiti | 2:18.78 | NR |
| 34 | 1 | 1 | Saud Ghali | Bahrain | 2:20.01 | |
| 35 | 1 | 8 | Mohamed Hammad | United Arab Emirates | 2:33.59 | |
| | 3 | 6 | Berkay Ömer Öğretir | Turkey | DSQ | |
| | 4 | 0 | Jorge Murillo | Colombia | DNS | |
| | 4 | 1 | Maximillian Ang | Singapore | DNS | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:00.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 1 | Nic Fink | United States | 2:02.28 |
| | 4 | Arno Kamminga | Netherlands | 2:02.42 |
| | 6 | Will Licon | United States | 2:02.84 |
| 4 | 5 | Erik Persson | Sweden | 2:02.91 |
| 5 | 8 | Qin Haiyang | China | 2:03.48 |
| 6 | 3 | Mikhail Dorinov | Russian Swimming Federation | 2:03.61 |
| 7 | 2 | Marco Koch | Germany | 2:05.42 |
| 8 | 7 | Caio Pumputis | Brazil | 2:06.29 |