Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200m Breaststroke at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	28 July (preliminaries and semifinals), 29 July (final)
Competitors	65 from 44 nations
Winning time	2 minutes 09.85 seconds
Medalists
Brendan Hansen    United States   Mike Brown    Canada   Genki Imamura    Japan
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The Men's 200 Breaststroke event at the XI FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 28 and 29 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary (morning) and semifinal (evening) heats swam 28 July; the final on 29 July.

Prior to the competition, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 2:09.04 swum by Brendan Hansen (USA) on 11 July 2004 in Long Beach, USA;
• CR: 2:09.42 swum by Kosuke Kitajima (Japan) on 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Brendan Hansen	USA	2:09.85
2	Mike Brown	Canada	2:11.22
3	Genki Imamura	Japan	2:11.54
4	Jim Piper	Australia	2:12.42
5	Sławomir Kuczko	Poland	2:12.44
6	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:12.51
7	Loris Facci	Italy	2:12.62
8	Vlad Polyakov	Kazakhstan	2:12.72

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Brendan Hansen	USA	2:10.23	q
2	S1 L5	Mike Brown	Canada	2:11.26	q
3	S1 L3	Genki Imamura	Japan	2:11.77	q
4	S1 L6	Jim Piper	Australia	2:12.17	q
5	S2 L3	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:12.20	q
6	S2 L5	Sławomir Kuczko	Poland	2:12.34	q
7	S2 L6	Loris Facci	Italy	2:12.43	q
8	S2 L4	Vlad Polyakov	Kazakhstan	2:12.50	q
9	S2 L2	Scott Usher	USA	2:13.03
10	S1 L1	Dmitry Komornikov	Russia	2:13.56
11	S2 L7		Japan	2:14.00
12	S1 L8	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	2:14.02
13	S1 L7	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:14.68
14	S1 L2	Igor Borysik	Ukraine	2:14.94
15	S2 L1	Jakob Sveinsson	Iceland	2:15.61
16	S2 L8	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan	2:15.80

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H7 L5	Vlad Polyakov		2:12.73	q
2	H7 L4	Brendan Hansen		2:12.74	q
3	H7 L3	Sławomir Kuczko		2:12.76	q
4	H5 L3	Mike Brown		2:12.96	q
5	H6 L3	Grigory Falko		2:13.35	q
6	H5 L4	Genki Imamura		2:13.36	q
7	H5 L6	Loris Facci		2:13.46	q
8	H6 L4	Jim Piper		2:13.47	q
9	H5 L5	Scott Usher		2:13.89	q
10	H6 L7	Igor Borysik		2:14.74	q
11	H7 L2			2:15.20	q
12	H7 L6	Brenton Rickard		2:15.26	q
13	H7 L1	Jakob Sveinsson		2:15.28	q
14	H6 L5	Dmitry Komornikov		2:15.35	q
15	H5 L7	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov		2:15.65	q
16	H7 L7	Valeriy Dymo		2:15.94	q
17	H4 L4	Mihail Alexandrov		2:16.08
18	H6 L2	Maxim Podoprigora		2:16.33
19	H3 L7	Alexander Dale Oen		2:16.38
20	H6 L6	Richárd Bodor		2:16.82
21	H4 L5	Aleksander Baldin		2:16.83
22	H6 L8	Tom Be'eri		2:16.89
23	H5 L1	Scott Dickens		2:17.28
24	H6 L1	Jiri Jedlicka		2:17.67
25	H3 L4	You Seung-Hun		2:17.89
26	H4 L1	Miguel Molina		2:18.71
26	H5 L2	Martin Gustavsson		2:18.71
28	H3 L1	Alwin de Prins		2:19.11
29	H4 L7	Bradley Ally		2:19.12
30	H5 L8			2:19.13
31	H4 L8	Shin Su-Jong		2:20.02
32	H3 L3			2:20.38
33	H7 L8	Sofiane Daid		2:20.69
34	H3 L2	Glenn Snyders		2:21.33
34	H4 L3	Andrey Morkovin		2:21.33
36	H4 L6	Hocine Haciane		2:21.98
37	H3 L5			2:23.26
38	H2 L5			2:23.85
39	H2 L6			2:24.07
40	H3 L8			2:25.32
41	H2 L4			2:25.67
42	H2 L3			2:28.71
43	H2 L7			2:29.42
44	H3 L6			2:29.57
45	H2 L1	Kevin Hensley		2:30.19
46	H1 L4			2:30.43
47	H1 L6			2:30.61
48	H1 L8			2:30.85
49	H2 L2			2:31.82
50	H2 L8	Graham Smith		2:32.14
51	H1 L3			2:32.47
52	H1 L5			2:32.73
53	H1 L7	Amar Shah		2:37.61
54	H1 L2	Chisela Kanchela		2:38.69
-	H1 L1			DQ
-	H4 L2			DNS

References[]

• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Semifinals^{[permanent dead link]}, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Finals^{[permanent dead link]}, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.