The men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 19 to 20 July 2025. Benjamin Delmar from the United States won the gold medal, Adam Mak from Hong Kong took the silver medal and Dawid Wiekiera from Poland earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round19 July 09:38 Heats 20:03 Semifinals 20 July 19:37 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Qin Haiyang 2:05.48 28 July 2023 Fukuoka, Japan 2023 World Championships Universiade record Qin Haiyang 2:08.09 4 August 2023 Chengdu, China 2021 Summer World University Games
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 16 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 5 4 2:11.05 2 6 5 2:12.21 3 5 3 Lee Sang-hoon 2:12.36 4 4 6 2:13.13 5 6 2 2:13.21 6 5 5 2:13.23 6 6 6 2:13.23 8 4 3 2:13.50 9 4 5 2:13.54 10 5 7 2:14.14 11 4 7 Liu Ching-hung 2:14.40 12 6 3 2:14.46 13 4 2 2:14.82 14 5 6 Kim Seung-hoon 2:14.89 15 4 1 2:15.06 16 6 7 2:15.93 17 6 4 2:16.04 18 5 8 2:16.18 19 5 2 2:16.20 20 5 1 2:16.45 21 3 5 2:16.58 22 6 8 2:16.87 23 4 8 2:17.09 24 3 4 2:17.84 25 3 6 2:18.28 26 3 7 2:18.66 27 2 3 2:18.87 28 3 3 2:19.32 29 2 4 2:20.03 30 6 1 2:20.21 31 3 8 2:20.26 32 2 6 2:20.98 33 3 2 2:21.27 34 1 3 2:21.63 35 2 7 2:21.80 36 3 1 2:21.91 37 2 5 2:23.59 38 1 5 2:32.20 39 2 2 2:36.10 40 2 1 2:38.57 41 1 2 2:39.08 42 1 6 2:44.77 43 1 4 2:44.92 — 2 8 — 4 4
Semifinals The 16 advancing swimmers were split into two semifinal heats of 8 during the evening session. The swimmers recording the top 8 fastest times advanced to the final round.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 1 6 2:09.89 2 2 4 2:10.26 3 2 2 2:10.61 4 1 7 2:11.15 5 1 3 2:11.59 6 1 4 2:11.63 7 2 5 Lee Sang-hoon 2:11.93 7 2 6 2:11.93 9 2 3 2:12.26 10 1 5 2:12.65 11 1 2 2:13.51 12 2 7 Liu Ching-hung 2:13.57 13 1 1 Kim Seung-hoon 2:13.73 14 2 1 2:14.03 15 1 8 2:14.78 16 2 8 2:15.11
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 5 2:09.50 3 2:10.53 6 2:10.54 4 4 2:10.92 5 8 2:11.69 6 1 Lee Sang-hoon 2:12.17 7 2 2:12.28 — 7
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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