The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 December 2024.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:
Background The event featured Japan’s Daiya Seto, the second-fastest performer in history with a 2:00.35 from 2022, but he entered the meet with uncertainty due to a recent rib injury. Russia’s Kirill Prigoda, competing as a Neutral Athlete and the world record holder (2:00.16), was the favourite, having posted a 2:01.85 in November—his fastest time since 2020. Australia’s Joshua Yong entered with an Oceanian record and had the fastest qualifying time after winning the event at the Shanghai stop of the World Cup. Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands, a bronze medallist at the Paris Olympics and silver medallist at the 2024 Doha Worlds, set a lifetime best of 2:02.33 at the Singapore stop of the World Cup. Other key entrants included China’s Qin Haiyang (2:01.15 ), Russia’s Aleksandr Zhigalov (2:01.91), and Belarus’s Ilya Shymanovich (2:01.73). Japan’s Yamato Fukasawa and Sweden’s Erik Persson also held lifetime bests under 2:03. Canada’s teenager Oliver Dawson, coming off a strong long-course season, was also among the potential finalists.
SwimSwam predicted Prigoda would win, Yong would take second, and Corbeau would take third.
Results Heats The heats were started at 9:40. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 5 Yamato Fukasawa 2:02.24 Q 2 3 4 Aleksandr Zhigalov Neutral Athletes B 2:02.46 Q 3 4 1 AJ Pouch 2:03.06 Q 4 4 4 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 2:03.61 Q 5 5 3 Carles Coll 2:03.63 Q 6 4 5 Caspar Corbeau 2:03.86 Q 7 4 3 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 2:04.11 Q 8 5 4 Joshua Yong 2:04.15 Q 9 5 5 Qin Haiyang 2:04.42 R 10 3 3 Joshua Collett 2:04.48 R 11 4 0 Jan Kałusowski 2:04.63 NR 12 4 6 Cho Sung-jae 2:04.78 NR 13 5 0 Denis Petrashov 2:05.45 14 3 2 Darius Coman 2:06.19 NR 14 5 2 Adam Chillingworth 2:06.19 16 3 6 Yu Zongda 2:06.24 17 3 7 Eoin Corby 2:06.45 NR 18 4 7 Andrius Šidlauskas 2:06.65 18 5 6 Adam Mak 2:06.65 20 5 7 Berkay Ömer Öğretir 2:07.54 21 4 9 Oliver Dawson 2:07.61 22 2 5 Vicente Villanueva 2:07.69 NR 23 5 8 Tsai Ruei-hong 2:07.75 NR 24 4 2 Christopher Rothbauer 2:09.23 25 5 1 Matthew Randle 2:09.63 26 3 0 Juan García 2:09.66 27 5 9 Einar Margeir Ágústsson 2:09.97 28 2 3 Jaouad Syoud 2:10.19 29 2 2 Emmanuel Gadson 2:10.49 NR 30 3 9 Maksim Manolov 2:11.12 31 2 1 Giacomo Casadei 2:11.91 NR 32 2 6 Amro Al-Wir 2:12.03 NR 33 3 8 Louis Droupy 2:12.78 34 2 4 Daniils Bobrovs 2:13.00 35 3 1 Constantin Malachi 2:13.20 36 2 8 Jacob Story 2:14.33 37 2 9 Steven Insixiengmay 2:14.37 38 1 5 Alexandros Grigoriou 2:14.40 NR 39 1 3 Mohammed Al-Otaibi 2:16.10 40 2 0 Saud Ghali 2:17.16 41 2 7 Jonathan Raharvel 2:18.13 42 1 4 Kouki Cerezo Watanabe 2:25.70
Final The final was held at 17:50. Spain's Carles Coll won the event with a new national record of 2:01.55. He became the first Spanish man to win a world short course title in an individual event. Upon winning the event, he said "I wish (Léon) Marchand was here, he’s really really fast. I would have loved to race with him." SwimSwam called Coll's victory a "surprise". Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 2 Carles Coll 2:01.55 NR 6 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 2:01.88 4 Yamato Fukasawa 2:02.01 4 5 Aleksandr Zhigalov Neutral Athletes B 2:02.12 5 7 Caspar Corbeau 2:02.44 6 3 AJ Pouch 2:02.84 7 8 Joshua Yong 2:03.21 8 1 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 2:03.49
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