Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Men's 200 metre breaststroke; at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Dates	27 July 2021 (heats); 28 July 2021 (semifinals); 29 July 2021 (final)
Competitors	40 from 34 nations
Winning time	2:06.38 OR
Medalists

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 27 to 29 July 2021 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.[1] It was the event's twenty-sixth consecutive appearance, having been held at every edition since 1908.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Anton Chupkov (RUS)	2:06.12	Gwangju, South Korea	26 July 2019	[2]
Olympic record	Ippei Watanabe (JPN)	2:07.22	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	9 August 2016	[3][4]

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Event	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Record
July 29	Final	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:06.38	OR

Qualification

The Olympic Qualifying Time for the event is 2:10.35. Up to two swimmers per National Olympic Committee (NOC) can automatically qualify by swimming that time at an approved qualification event. The Olympic Selection Time is 2:14.26. Up to one swimmer per NOC meeting that time is eligible for selection, allocated by world ranking until the maximum quota for all swimming events is reached. NOCs without a male swimmer qualified in any event can also use their universality place.[5]

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best eight times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.[6]

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)[1]

Date	Time	Round
27 July	19:38	Heats
28 July	11:21	Semifinals
29 July	10:44	Final

Results

Heats

The swimmers with the top 16 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the semifinals.[7]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:07.37	Q
1	4	5	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:07.37	Q
3	3	2	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:08.44	Q
4	5	3	Nic Fink	United States	2:08.48	Q
5	5	4	Anton Chupkov	ROC	2:08.54	Q
6	5	6	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:08.76	Q
7	5	2	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:08.99	Q
8	4	3	Ryuya Mura	Japan	2:09.00	Q
9	4	2	Kirill Prigoda	ROC	2:09.21	Q
10	5	5	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:09.29	Q
11	3	4	Shoma Sato	Japan	2:09.43	Q
12	3	8	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:09.54	Q
13	5	1	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:09.56	Q
14	4	8	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:09.68	Q, NR
15	3	5	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:09.70	Q
16	3	6	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:09.95	Q
17	4	6	Andrew Wilson	United States	2:09.97
18	2	3	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:10.07	NR
19	3	7	Cho Sung-jae	South Korea	2:10.17
20	3	3	Marco Koch	Germany	2:10.18
21	4	7	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:10.21
22	4	1	Berkay Öğretir	Turkey	2:10.73
23	5	8	Darragh Greene	Ireland	2:11.09
24	2	4	Anton McKee	Iceland	2:11.64
25	2	5	Martin Allikvee	Estonia	2:12.60
26	2	2	Amro Al-Wir	Jordan	2:12.61
27	2	7	Ron Polonsky	Israel	2:12.71
28	3	1	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria	2:13.19
29	1	2	Tyler Christianson	Panama	2:13.41	NR
30	2	6	Jorge Murillo	Colombia	2:13.46
31	2	8	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:14.25
32	1	6	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea	2:15.33	NR
33	2	1	Adriel Sanes	Virgin Islands	2:16.87
34	1	3	Josué Domínguez	Dominican Republic	2:17.34
35	1	4	Taichi Vakasama	Fiji	2:17.35
36	1	5	Izaak Bastian	Bahamas	2:17.40
37	1	7	Julio Horrego	Honduras	2:17.51
38	1	1	Arnoldo Herrera	Costa Rica	2:20.09
39	1	8	Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly	Qatar	2:23.22
	5	7	Qin Haiyang	China	DSQ

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.[8]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:07.35	Q
2	2	8	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:07.91	Q
3	1	4	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:07.99	Q
4	1	5	Nic Fink	United States	2:08.00	Q
5	2	5	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:08.22	Q, NR
6	1	6	Ryuya Mura	Japan	2:08.27	Q
7	2	3	Anton Chupkov	ROC	2:08.54	Q
8	1	3	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:08.76	Q
9	2	2	Kirill Prigoda	ROC	2:08.88
10	2	7	Shoma Sato	Japan	2:09.04
11	2	6	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan	2:09.22
12	1	7	Antoine Viquerat	France	2:09.97
12	1	8	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain	2:09.97
14	1	2	Matthew Wilson	Australia	2:10.10
15	1	1	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:10.33
16	2	1	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:10.69

Final

[9]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:06.38	OR
	3	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:07.01
	2	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:07.13	NR
4	1	Anton Chupkov	ROC	2:07.24
5	6	Nic Fink	United States	2:07.93
6	5	James Wilby	Great Britain	2:08.19
7	7	Ryuya Mura	Japan	2:08.42
8	8	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:08.88

References

"Tokyo 2020: Swimming Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
Lord, Craig (26 July 2019). "Anton Chupkov Cracks 200 Breast World Record Apart In 2:06.12 After Overhauling Matt Wilson In Last Lap Fightback". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
"Ippei Watanabe Lowers 200 Breast Olympic Record In Semi-Finals". Swimming World Magazine. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
"Japan's Ippei Watanabe sets a new Olympic record". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
"Tokyo 2020 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (pdf). Tokyo 2020. FINA. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
"FINA Swimming Rulebook, 2017–21" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
"Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
"Semifinals results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
"Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.

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[schedule-1] "Tokyo 2020: Swimming Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2020.

[2] Lord, Craig (26 July 2019). "Anton Chupkov Cracks 200 Breast World Record Apart In 2:06.12 After Overhauling Matt Wilson In Last Lap Fightback". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 1 February 2020.

[3] "Ippei Watanabe Lowers 200 Breast Olympic Record In Semi-Finals". Swimming World Magazine. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.

[4] "Japan's Ippei Watanabe sets a new Olympic record". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 9 August 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.

[5] "Tokyo 2020 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (pdf). Tokyo 2020. FINA. Retrieved 29 January 2020.

[FINARules-6] "FINA Swimming Rulebook, 2017–21" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 29 January 2020.

[7] "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

[8] "Semifinals results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

[9] "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.

Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men		women
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
800 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Breaststroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Individual medley
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men		women
4 × 200 m	men		women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	mixed	women
Marathon
10 km	men		women