The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 6 August with the heats and the semifinals and 7 August with the final.Start list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were held at 10:33.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 4 Marco Koch 2:09.12 Q 2 6 3 Andrew Willis 2:09.35 Q 3 6 7 Mao Feilian 2:09.56 Q, NR 4 5 4 Dmitriy Balandin 2:09.75 Q 5 4 5 Dániel Gyurta 2:09.81 Q 6 5 0 Matti Mattsson 2:09.89 Q 7 6 5 Kevin Cordes 2:09.94 Q 8 4 7 Anton Chupkov 2:09.97 Q 9 6 6 Ilya Khomenko 2:10.13 Q 10 4 2 Anton Sveinn McKee 2:10.21 Q, NR 11 5 1 Erik Persson 2:10.41 Q, NR 12 4 3 Nic Fink 2:10.43 Q 13 4 4 Yasuhiro Koseki 2:10.47 Q 14 4 6 Christian vom Lehn 2:10.71 Q 15 5 7 Luca Pizzini 2:11.00 Q 16 5 3 Giedrius Titenis 2:11.11 Q 17 5 2 Li Xiang 2:11.30 18 4 0 Laurent Carnol 2:11.65 18 5 9 Yannick Käser 2:11.65 NR 20 6 0 Carlos Claverie 2:12.33 21 4 1 2:12.37 22 6 8 Thomas Dahlia 2:12.64 23 3 4 Glenn Snyders 2:12.71 24 6 9 Tomáš Klobučník 2:12.74 25 5 6 Ryo Tateishi 2:13.23 26 5 5 Adam Peaty 2:13.24 27 4 9 Richard Funk 2:13.33 28 6 1 Panagiotis Samilidis 2:14.24 29 6 2 Thiago Simon 2:14.28 30 3 3 Vladislav Mustafin 2:14.31 31 2 3 Daniils Bobrovs 2:14.85 32 3 1 Jorge Murillo 2:14.92 33 4 8 Ayrton Sweeney 2:14.98 34 2 4 Martin Allikvee 2:15.09 NR 35 3 6 Marcin Stolarski 2:15.47 36 3 9 Diogo Carvalho 2:15.58 37 3 7 Ilya Shymanovich 2:16.02 38 5 8 Felipe França Silva 2:16.13 39 2 5 Lee Hsuan-yen 2:16.28 40 2 2 Ahmad Al-Bader 2:16.50 41 3 8 Christoph Meier 2:17.07 42 2 7 Irakli Bolkvadze 2:17.30 43 3 0 Azad Al-Barazi 2:18.19 44 3 5 Sandeep Sejwal 2:18.68 45 2 6 Mauro Castillo 2:19.07 46 2 8 Arya Nasimi Shad 2:20.22 47 1 4 Anton Zheltyakov 2:20.83 48 3 2 Radomyos Matjiur 2:21.30 49 2 1 Julian Fletcher 2:21.39 50 2 0 Denis Petrashov 2:22.84 51 1 5 Adriel Sanes 2:24.91 52 1 3 Simanga Dlamini 2:45.73

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 18:29.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Andrew Willis 2:08.72 Q 2 5 Dmitriy Balandin 2:09.22 Q 3 6 Anton Chupkov 2:09.64 Q, WJR 4 7 Nic Fink 2:10.04 5 8 Giedrius Titenis 2:10.45 6 3 Matti Mattsson 2:10.51 7 2 Anton Sveinn McKee 2:10.79 8 1 Christian vom Lehn 2:11.26

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Yasuhiro Koseki 2:08.03 Q 2 4 Marco Koch 2:08.34 Q 3 3 Dániel Gyurta 2:08.53 Q 4 6 Kevin Cordes 2:08.69 Q 5 5 Mao Feilian 2:09.54 Q, NR 6 2 Ilya Khomenko 2:09.86 7 7 Erik Persson 2:10.87 8 8 Luca Pizzini 2:11.05

Final The final was held at 18:55.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Marco Koch 2:07.76 6 Kevin Cordes 2:08.05 3 Dániel Gyurta 2:08.10 4 2 Andrew Willis 2:08.52 5 4 Yasuhiro Koseki 2:09.12 6 7 Dmitriy Balandin 2:09.58 7 8 Anton Chupkov 2:09.96 8 1 Mao Feilian 2:10.02

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