The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 15 and 16 February 2024.

Qualification

Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time at approved qualifying events. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 2:10.32. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 2:14.88. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women into the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events.

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

Results Heats The heats were started on 15 February at 10:28.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 3 Matti Mattsson 2:09.15 Q 2 4 2 Lyubomir Epitropov 2:10.57 Q 3 3 3 Ikuru Hiroshima 2:10.73 Q 4 4 4 Caspar Corbeau 2:10.85 Q 5 2 5 Erik Persson 2:10.94 Q 6 3 5 Nic Fink 2:11.00 Q 7 3 4 Dong Zhihao 2:11.13 Q 8 4 5 Arno Kamminga 2:11.22 Q 9 2 4 Jake Foster 2:11.27 Q 10 3 2 Maksym Ovchinnikov 2:11.55 Q 11 2 2 Adam Chillingworth 2:11.98 Q 12 3 6 Denis Petrashov 2:12.23 Q 13 4 6 James Dergousoff 2:12.34 Q 14 2 7 Lee Sang-hoon 2:12.43 Q 15 4 3 Miguel de Lara 2:12.50 Q 16 2 6 Carles Coll 2:12.72 Q 17 4 1 Eoin Corby 2:13.10 18 3 1 Vojtěch Netrh 2:13.83 19 4 7 Andrius Šidlauskas 2:14.28 20 4 8 Xavier Ruiz 2:14.71 21 3 8 Daniils Bobrovs 2:15.25 22 2 8 Matthew Randle 2:16.10 23 3 0 Denis Svet 2:16.98 24 4 0 Vicente Villanueva 2:17.45 25 3 7 Phạm Thanh Bảo 2:18.58 26 2 0 Liam Davis 2:18.89 27 4 9 Giacomo Casadei 2:19.60 28 1 6 Abobakr Abass 2:20.80 29 1 5 Saud Ghali 2:21.94 NR 30 2 9 Jacob Story 2:22.66 31 2 1 Jorge Murillo 2:22.90 32 1 4 Luis Weekes 2:23.02 33 3 9 Jonathan Chung 2:26.00 34 1 3 Caio Lobo 2:29.27 NR

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 15 February at 19:43.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 2 Jake Foster 2:08.78 Q 2 2 6 Dong Zhihao 2:09.16 Q 3 1 5 Caspar Corbeau 2:09.34 Q 4 2 4 Matti Mattsson 2:09.43 Q 4 2 5 Ikuru Hiroshima 2:09.43 Q 6 1 3 Nic Fink 2:09.87 Q 7 2 3 Erik Persson 2:10.04 Q 8 1 6 Arno Kamminga 2:10.30 Q 9 1 8 Carles Coll 2:10.77 10 1 7 Denis Petrashov 2:10.81 11 1 4 Lyubomir Epitropov 2:10.89 12 1 2 Maksym Ovchinnikov 2:11.82 13 1 1 Lee Sang-hoon 2:11.87 14 2 7 Adam Chillingworth 2:12.14 15 2 8 Miguel de Lara 2:12.58 16 2 1 James Dergousoff 2:12.59

Final The final was held on 16 February at 20:08.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Dong Zhihao 2:07.94 3 Caspar Corbeau 2:08.24 7 Nic Fink 2:08.85 4 4 Jake Foster 2:09.31 5 2 Ikuru Hiroshima 2:09.37 6 6 Matti Mattsson 2:09.80 7 8 Arno Kamminga 2:10.06 8 1 Erik Persson 2:10.21

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