2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2022.^[1]

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Dates	16 December (heats and final)
Competitors	32 from 29 nations
Winning time	2:00.35
Medalists
Daiya Seto    Japan   Nic Fink    United States   Qin Haiyang    China
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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 11:39.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	2:02.43	Q
2	5	5	Nic Fink	United States	2:02.75	Q
3	4	4	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:03.64	Q
4	4	5	Qin Haiyang	China	2:03.81	Q
5	3	6	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:03.93	Q, NR
6	3	4	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:04.01	Q
7	5	6	Marco Koch	Germany	2:04.08	Q
8	3	5	Caio Pumputis	Brazil	2:04.37	Q
9	4	6	Matěj Zábojník	Czech Republic	2:04.57	NR
10	5	3	Anton McKee	Iceland	2:04.99
11	4	3	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:05.14
12	3	3	Charlie Swanson	United States	2:05.51
13	2	3	James Dergousoff	Canada	2:06.17
14	4	1	Adam Chillingworth	Hong Kong	2:06.46	NR
15	4	2	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:06.62
16	5	8	David Schlicht	Australia	2:06.72
17	5	1	Berkay Ogretir	Turkey	2:07.12
18	1	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	2:07.31
19	3	8	Maximillian Ang	Singapore	2:08.12	NR
20	4	8	Josh Gilbert	New Zealand	2:08.27
21	5	2	Andrius Sidlauskas	Lithuania	2:08.69
22	3	1	Christoffer Haarsaker	Norway	2:08.80
23	2	1	Jorge Murillo	Colombia	2:08.91
24	2	2	Kian Keylock	South Africa	2:11.20
25	2	5	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:11.37
26	2	8	Cai Bing-rong	Chinese Taipei	2:11.66
27	2	7	Adriel Sanes	United States Virgin Islands	2:12.69
28	2	4	Jonathan Cook	Philippines	2:12.91
29	1	5	Liam Davis	Zimbabwe	2:13.99
	1	3	Mohammed Al-Maher	Saudi Arabia	Disqualified
	3	2	Carl Aitkaci	France
	3	7	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia
	2	6	Constantin Malachi	Moldova	Did not start
	4	7	Carles Coll	Spain
	5	7	Sun Jiajun	China

Final

The final was held at 19:51.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	2:00.35	AS
	5	Nic Fink	United States	2:01.60	AM
	6	Qin Haiyang	China	2:02.22
4	3	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:02.53
5	7	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:03.19
6	2	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:03.33	NR
7	1	Marco Koch	Germany	2:05.01
	8	Caio Pumputis	Brazil	Disqualified