Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	30 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 31 July 2009 (final)
Competitors	84
Winning time	2 minutes 7.64 seconds
Medalists
Dániel Gyurta    Hungary   Eric Shanteau    United States   Giedrius Titenis    Lithuania   Christian Sprenger    Australia
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The heats for the men's 200 metre breaststroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July, with the final in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records[]

World record
2:07.51	Kosuke Kitajima	Tokyo	8 June 2008
Championship record
2:09.42	Kosuke Kitajima	Barcelona	24 July 2003

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:08.55	9	4	CR
2	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.71	9	5
3	Loris Facci	Italy	2:08.85	8	3	NR
4	Marco Koch	Germany	2:09.06	8	4
5	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:09.22	7	4
6	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan	2:09.26	6	4
7	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:09.28	5	8
8	Edoardo Giorgetti	Italy	2:09.29	8	7
9	Kristopher Gilchrist	Great Britain	2:09.31	7	2	NR
10	Yuta Suenaga	Japan	2:09.33	8	5
11	Hugues Duboscq	France	2:09.45	9	3
12	Christian Sprenger	Australia	2:09.82	7	8
13	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	2:09.86	9	2	AF
14	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:10.23	7	9
15	Igor Borysik	Ukraine	2:10.39	7	7
16	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:10.54	7	5
17	Naoya Tomita	Japan	2:10.85	9	6
18	Vladislav Polyakov	Kazakhstan	2:11.09	8	1
19	Maxim Podoprigora	Austria	2:11.17	6	5
20	Chris Christensen	Denmark	2:11.41	6	2	NR
21		Great Britain	2:11.78	9	1
22	Paul Kornfeld	Canada	2:11.87	8	9
23	Valerii Dymo	Ukraine	2:12.08	6	6
24	Johannes Neumann	Germany	2:12.12	7	6
25	Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson	Iceland	2:12.39	5	4	NR
26	Scott Dickens	Canada	2:12.57	8	8
27	Tales Cerdeira	Brazil	2:12.62	7	3
28		Austria	2:12.64	9	9
29	William Diering	South Africa	2:12.84	8	2
30	Andrew Bree	Ireland	2:12.90	5	5
31	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:13.00	6	7
32	Sandeep Sejwal	India	2:13.22	6	0
33		Mexico	2:13.37	6	9	NR
34	Slawomir Wolniak	Poland	2:13.83	7	1
35	Tomas Klobucnik	Slovakia	2:14.33	5	2
36	Tom Be'eri	Israel	2:14.59	9	0
37	Sławomir Kuczko	Poland	2:14.74	8	0
38	Malick Fall	Senegal	2:15.00	5	1
39	Hocine Haciane	Andorra	2:15.37	6	1
40	Gal Nevo	Israel	2:15.49	4	3
41	Carlos Almeida	Portugal	2:15.58	6	3
42		Mexico	2:16.57	5	7
43	Nguyen Huu Viet	Vietnam	2:16.85	4	5
44		China	2:17.07	6	8
45		Finland	2:18.61	5	9
46	Wang Wei-Wen	Chinese Taipei	2:19.55	4	4
47		Uzbekistan	2:20.14	3	1
48	Jorge Mario Murillo Valdez	Colombia	2:20.53	5	3
49	Dmitrii Aleksandrov	Kyrgyzstan	2:20.65	4	7
50		China	2:20.78	5	6
51	Indra Gunawan	Indonesia	2:20.81	4	9
52		Singapore	2:21.42	4	6
53	Wael Koubrousli	Lebanon	2:21.65	4	8
54	Daniel Velez	Puerto Rico	2:22.19	3	8
55		Estonia	2:22.20	2	3
56		Chile	2:22.25	4	1
57	Ivan Demyanenko	Uzbekistan	2:23.95	3	3
58	Edgar Crespo	Panama	2:24.08	4	0
59		India	2:24.49	3	2
60	Maximilian Siedentopf	Namibia	2:24.70	2	4
61		Singapore	2:25.77	3	6
62		Kuwait	2:26.18	4	2
63		El Salvador	2:26.19	3	4
64	Eli Ebenezer Wong	Northern Mariana Islands	2:26.83	3	9
65	Mubarak Al Besher	United Arab Emirates	2:28.36	2	2
66		Paraguay	2:30.13	5	0
67		Tahiti	2:30.75	3	7
68		Peru	2:31.76	3	0
69	Diguan Pigot	Suriname	2:32.15	2	6
70	Rafael Alfaro	El Salvador	2:32.74	2	5
71		Kyrgyzstan	2:33.69	3	5
72		Malta	2:35.06	2	1
73		Turkmenistan	2:36.00	2	0
74	Vincent Perry	Tahiti	2:37.18	2	7
75	Kevin Cheung	Mauritius	2:38.31	1	5
76		Papua New Guinea	2:39.41	1	4
77		Nicaragua	2:40.57	2	8
78		Turkmenistan	2:48.47	1	3
79		Maldives	3:10.54	1	6
–		Jordan	DSQ	2	9
–	Romanos Alyfantis	Greece	DSQ	7	0
–	Melquiades Alvarez	Spain	DSQ	8	6
–	Adam Klein	United States	DSQ	9	7
–	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	DSQ	9	8

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Christian Sprenger	Australia	2:07.31	1	7	WR
2	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:07.42	2	4	AM
3	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:07.89	1	8
4	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.08	1	4	ER
5	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:08.35	2	6
6	Loris Facci	Italy	2:08.50	2	5	NR
7	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:08.56	2	3
8	Edoardo Giorgetti	Italy	2:08.63	1	6
9	Hugues Duboscq	France	2:09.00	2	7
10	Kristopher Gilchrist	Great Britain	2:09.01	2	2	NR
11	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:09.36	1	1	NR
12	Marco Koch	Germany	2:09.44	1	5
13	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	2:09.61	2	1	AF
14	Yuta Suenaga	Japan	2:09.70	1	2
15	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan	2:10.15	1	3
16	Igor Borysik	Ukraine	2:10.82	2	8

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Dániel Gyurta	Hungary	2:07.64	6	ER
	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:07.65	5
	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2:07.80	2	NR
	Christian Sprenger	Australia	2:07.80	4
5	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:08.23	3
6	Edoardo Giorgetti	Italy	2:08.86	8
7	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:09.35	1
8	Loris Facci	Italy	2:10.26	7

External links[]

• Heats Results
• Semifinals Results
• Final Results