Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Records 
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
World recordQin Haiyang (CHN)2:05.48Fukuoka, Japan28 July 2023Olympic recordZac Stubblety-Cook (AUS)2:06.38Tokyo, Japan29 July 2021
Na dem establish de record wey dey follow during de competition:
DateEventSwimmerNationTimeRecord31 JulyFinalLéon MarchandFrance2:05.85OR

 Qualification 
National Olympic Committee (NOC) fi enter maximum of two qualified athletes insyd each individual event, buh only if both of dem attain de Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event fi potentially enter if dem meet de Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), anaa if de total quota of 852 athletes no be targeted. NOCs sanso fi permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under Universality place since dem get no swimmers wey dey attain either of de standard entry times (OQT/OCT)."Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.Rieder, David (3 April 2022). "Event Changes Likely as Paris 2024 Moves to Nine-Day Schedule of Finals". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

Dey follow de end of de qualification window, World Aquatics go assess de number of swimmers wey achieve de OQT, de number of relay-only swimmers, den de number of Universality places, before dem invite those plus OCT make dem fulfill de total quota of 852. Additionally, dem go distribute OCT places by event according to de position of de World Aquatics Rankings during de qualifying deadline.

 Time standards 
Dem for obtain de qualifying time standards for de 2023 den 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships den selection trials, den various international meets dem approve by World Aquatics insyd de period between 1 March 2023 den 23 June 2024."Paris 2024 - Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 3 October 2022.

De table wey dey follow dey outline de qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for dis event:
Men's eventsEventOQT*OCT^200 m breaststroke2:09.682:10.33
 * OQTs dey correspond to de time dem achieve by fourteenth-place swimmer for ein respective preliminary heat of each event for de previous Games.

^ Dem dey derive OCTs by adding 0.5% of de OQT standard.

 Competition format 
De competition dey consist of three rounds: heats, semifinals, den final. De swimmers plus de best 16 times insyd de heats advance go de semifinals. De swimmers plus de best 8 times insyd de semifinals advance go de final. Dem dey use swim-offs as necessary make dem break ties for advancement to de next round.

 Schedule 
All times be Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
DateTimeRound30 July 202413:00Heats19:37Semifinals31 July 202417:30Final

 Results 

 Heats 
RankHeatLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes147Cho Sung-jaeSouth Korea2:09.45Q234Zac Stubblety-CookAustralia2:09.49Q345Leon MarchandFrance2:09.55Q433Caspar CorbeauNetherlands2:09.78Q535Ippei WatanabeJapan2:09.86Q643Dong ZhihaoChina2:09.91Q725Yu HanagurumaJapan2:10.35Q32Erik PerssonSweden2:10.35Q942Anton McKeeIceland2:10.36Q1036Josh MathenyUnited States2:10.39Q1124Matthew FallonUnited States2:10.49Q1246Arno KammingaNetherlands2:10.53Q, WD1322Lyubomir EpitropovBulgaria2:10.59Q1423Joshua YongAustralia2:10.68Q1544Qin HaiyangChina2:10.98Q1631Denis PetrashovKyrgyzstan2:10.99Q1737Miguel de LaraMexico2:11.16q1826Matti MattssonFinland2:11.181927Aleksas SavickasLithuania2:11.532041Jan KalusowskiPoland2:11.872148Daniils BobrovsLatvia2:13.662215Tyler ChristiansonPanama2:15.622321Amro Al-WirJordan2:15.782414Julio HorregoHonduras2:18.912513Saud GhaliBahrain2:22.51
Pelshaw, Anya (30 July 2024). "Tokyo Silver Medalist Arno Kamminga Scratches 200 Breast Semifinal Due To Injury". SwimSwam. Retrieved 30 July 2024."Men's 200m Breaststroke - Heats results" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024."Men's 200m Breaststroke - Heats results summary" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.

 Semifinals 
De swimmers plus de best 8 times, regardless of heat, advance to de final.
RankHeatLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes125Léon MarchandFrance2:08.11Q214Zac Stubblety-CookAustralia2:08.57Q313Dong ZhihaoChina2:08.99Q415Caspar CorbeauNetherlands2:09.52Q523Ippei WatanabeJapan2:09.62Q612Josh MathenyUnited States2:09.70Q726Yu HanagurumaJapan2:09.72Q811Joshua YongAustralia2:09:89Q921Lyubomir EpitropovBulgaria2:09.931027Matthew FallonUnited States2:09.9628Qin HaiyangChina2:09.961224Cho Sung-jaeSouth Korea2:10.031316Erik PerssonSweden2:10.111418Denis PetrashovKyrgyzstan2:10.191522Anton McKeeIceland2:10.421617Miguel de LaraMexico2:11.28
"Men's 200m Breaststroke - Semifinals results" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024."Men's 200m Breaststroke - Semifinals results summary" (PDF). Olympics. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.

 Final 
RankLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes14Léon MarchandFrance2:05.85OR, ER25Zac Stubblety-CookAustralia2:06.7936Caspar CorbeauNetherlands2:07.9043Dong ZhihaoChina2:08.4651Yu HanagurumaJapan2:08.7962Ippei WatanabeJapan2:08.8377Josh MathenyUnited States2:09.5288Joshua YongAustralia2:11.44
"Men's 200m Breaststroke - Finals results" (PDF). Olympics. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.

 References 

Olympic champions in men's 200 m breaststroke 1908:  Frederick Holman (GBR)
 1912:  Walter Bathe (GER)
 1920:  Håkan Malmrot (SWE)
 1924:  Bob Skelton (USA)
 1928:  Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)
 1932:  Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)
 1936:  Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN)
 1948:  Joe Verdeur (USA)
 1952:  John Davies (AUS)
 1956:  Masaru Furukawa (JPN)
 1960:  Bill Mulliken (USA)
 1964:  Ian O'Brien (AUS)
 1968:  Felipe Muñoz (MEX)
 1972:  John Hencken (USA)
 1976:  David Wilkie (GBR)
 1980:  Robertas Žulpa (URS)
 1984:  Victor Davis (CAN)
 1988:  József Szabó (HUN)
 1992:  Mike Barrowman (USA)
 1996:  Norbert Rózsa (HUN)
 2000:  Domenico Fioravanti (ITA)
 2004:  Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
 2008:  Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
 2012:  Dániel Gyurta (HUN)
 2016:  Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ)
 2020:  Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS)
 2024:  Léon Marchand (FRA)
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