Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke Heats Heats

| Heat | Lane | Name_ | Nationality | Time_ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4 | Raiko Pachel | Estonia | 2:19.71 |
| 2 | 3 | Jarno Pihlava | Finland | 2:19.76 |
| 3 | 8 | Francisco Suriano | El Salvador | 2:20.10 |
| 2 | 5 | Jeremy Knowles | Bahamas | 2:20.31 |
| 1 | 4 | Andrés Bicocca | Argentina | 2:20.98 |
| 5 | 2 | Zhu Yi | China | 2:21.60 |
| 3 | 6 | Alvaro Fortuny | Guatemala | 2:21.78 |
| 3 | 1 | Muhammad Akbar Nasution | Indonesia | 2:23.81 |
| 4 | 2 | Ratapong Sirisanont | Thailand | 2:23.95 |
| 3 | 7 | Tam Chi Kin | Hong Kong | 2:24.04 |
| 3 | 3 | Juan José Madrigal | Costa Rica | 2:24.49 |
| 7 | 1 | Elvin Chia | Malaysia | 2:26.84 |
| 1 | 3 | Nguyen Ngoc Anh | Vietnam | 2:29.54 |
| 2 | 7 | Sergey Voytsekhovich | Uzbekistan | 2:30.23 |
| 1 | 5 | Leonard Ngoma | Zambia | 2:32.90 |
| 2 | 4 | Vadim Tatarov | Moldova | DNS |
| 6 | 8 | Jens Kruppa | Germany | DNS |