The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2022.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were started at 11:39.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Daiya Seto 2:02.43 Q 2 5 5 Nic Fink 2:02.75 Q 3 4 4 Ippei Watanabe 2:03.64 Q 4 4 5 Qin Haiyang 2:03.81 Q 5 3 6 Antoine Viquerat 2:03.93 Q, NR 6 3 4 Erik Persson 2:04.01 Q 7 5 6 Marco Koch 2:04.08 Q 8 3 5 Caio Pumputis 2:04.37 Q 9 4 6 Matěj Zábojník 2:04.57 NR 10 5 3 Anton McKee 2:04.99 11 4 3 Caspar Corbeau 2:05.14 12 3 3 Charlie Swanson 2:05.51 13 2 3 James Dergousoff 2:06.17 14 4 1 Adam Chillingworth 2:06.46 NR 15 4 2 Denis Petrashov 2:06.62 16 5 8 David Schlicht 2:06.72 17 5 1 Berkay Ogretir 2:07.12 18 1 4 Adam Peaty 2:07.31 19 3 8 Maximillian Ang 2:08.12 NR 20 4 8 Josh Gilbert 2:08.27 21 5 2 Andrius Sidlauskas 2:08.69 22 3 1 Christoffer Haarsaker 2:08.80 23 2 1 Jorge Murillo 2:08.91 24 2 2 Kian Keylock 2:11.20 25 2 5 Daniils Bobrovs 2:11.37 26 2 8 Cai Bing-rong 2:11.66 27 2 7 Adriel Sanes 2:12.69 28 2 4 Jonathan Cook 2:12.91 29 1 5 Liam Davis 2:13.99 1 3 Mohammed Al-Maher 3 2 Carl Aitkaci 3 7 Tomáš Klobučník 2 6 Constantin Malachi 4 7 Carles Coll 5 7 Sun Jiajun
Final The final was held at 19:51.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Daiya Seto 2:00.35 AS 5 Nic Fink 2:01.60 AM 6 Qin Haiyang 2:02.22 4 3 Ippei Watanabe 2:02.53 5 7 Erik Persson 2:03.19 6 2 Antoine Viquerat 2:03.33 NR 7 1 Marco Koch 2:05.01 8 Caio Pumputis
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