The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 December 2018.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordMarco Koch2:00.44Berlin20 November 2016Championship recordMarco Koch2:01.21Windsor8 December 2016

The following new records were set during this competition: Date Event Name Nation Time Record 13 December Final Kirill Prigoda 2:00.16 , CR

Results Heats The heats were started at 11:05.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 6 Qin Haiyang 2:01.64 Q, NR 2 5 4 Kirill Prigoda 2:01.82 Q 3 4 4 Marco Koch 2:02.83 Q 4 5 1 Josh Prenot 2:03.23 Q 5 4 5 Yasuhiro Koseki 2:03.41 Q 6 4 3 Erik Persson 2:03.51 Q, NR 7 3 4 Mikhail Dorinov 2:03.84 Q 8 5 5 Arno Kamminga 2:03.88 Q 9 5 8 Andrew Wilson 2:04.02 10 3 7 Anton Sveinn McKee 2:04.37 NR 11 3 3 Yukihiro Takahashi 2:04.68 12 3 2 Tomáš Klobučník 2:04.85 5 3 Ilya Shymanovich 14 3 5 Caio Pumputis 2:05.00 15 4 0 Andrius Šidlauskas 2:05.99 NR 16 5 2 Martin Allikvee 2:06.23 17 4 1 Thibaut Capitaine 2:06.38 18 4 6 Yan Zibei 2:07.10 19 3 1 Luca Pizzini 2:07.28 20 3 6 Dávid Horváth 2:07.49 21 2 4 Darragh Greene 2:07.60 NR 22 2 3 Carlos Claverie 2:07.83 23 4 2 Yannick Käser 2:08.00 24 4 7 Ayrton Sweeney 2:08.15 25 3 8 Berkay Omer Ogretir 2:08.32 NR 26 5 7 Giedrius Titenis 2:08.44 27 2 2 Lyubomir Epitropov 2:08.51 28 3 9 Maximilian Pilger 2:08.73 29 2 8 David Schlicht 2:09.12 30 5 9 Cai Bing Rong 2:09.30 31 4 9 Mykyta Koptielov 2:10.26 32 2 5 Raphaël Stacchiotti 2:10.37 33 5 0 Denis Petrashov 2:11.27 34 3 0 George Schroder 2:11.45 35 4 8 Daniils Bobrovs 2:11.63 36 2 1 Phạm Thanh Bảo 2:11.79 NR 37 1 4 Adriel Sanes 2:13.65 38 1 5 Arnoldo Herrera 2:13.81 NR 39 2 0 Amro Al-Wir 2:13.83 NR 40 2 6 Taichi Vakasama 2:13.84 NR 41 2 7 Alberto Batungbacal 2:16.67 42 2 9 Liam Davis 2:17.01 43 1 7 Felipe Gomes 2:19.33 NR 44 1 2 Nkosi Dunwoody 2:22.54 45 1 3 Vali Israfilov 2:23.04 46 1 6 Alejandro Panting 2:23.60

Final The final was held at 19:00.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Kirill Prigoda 2:00.16 4 Qin Haiyang 2:01.15 AS 3 Marco Koch 2:01.42 4 2 Yasuhiro Koseki 2:02.18 5 6 Josh Prenot 2:03.12 6 1 Mikhail Dorinov 2:03.20 7 8 Arno Kamminga 2:03.72 8 7 Erik Persson 2:04.15

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