The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 22 and 23 June 2022.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were started on 22 June at 09:50.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Zac Stubblety-Cook 2:09.09 Q 2 5 6 Caspar Corbeau 2:09.15 Q 3 3 6 Charlie Swanson 2:09.36 Q 4 3 5 Erik Persson 2:09.58 Q 5 3 7 Anton McKee 2:09.69 Q, NR 6 4 3 Yu Hanaguruma 2:09.86 Q 7 3 4 Matti Mattsson 2:10.05 Q 8 4 5 Ryuya Mura 2:10.20 Q 9 5 5 Nic Fink 2:10.27 Q 10 4 4 Arno Kamminga 2:10.33 Q, 11 4 6 Cho Sung-jae 2:10.69 Q 12 4 7 Dawid Wiekiera 2:10.86 Q 13 5 3 James Wilby 2:11.29 Q 14 5 7 Lyubomir Epitropov 2:11.52 Q 15 5 1 Denis Petrashov 2:11.88 Q 16 3 3 Matthew Wilson 2:11.89 Q 17 3 0 Amro Al-Wir 2:11.99 Q, NR 18 3 2 Antoine Viquerat 2:12.27 19 3 1 Caio Pumputis 2:12.72 20 4 2 Andrius Šidlauskas 2:13.13 21 2 7 Maksym Ovchinnikov 2:13.33 22 5 2 Qin Haiyang 2:13.35 23 2 3 James Dergousoff 2:13.89 24 2 6 Daniils Bobrovs 2:13.96 25 3 8 Maximillian Wei Ang 2:14.14 26 5 8 Savvas Thomoglou 2:14.20 27 2 5 Cai Bing-rong 2:15.46 28 2 8 Constantin Malachi 2:16.25 29 5 0 Phạm Thanh Bảo 2:17.34 30 4 9 Taichi Vakasama 2:17.49 31 2 4 Bernhard Tyler Christianson 2:18.77 32 2 9 Liam Davis 2:19.62 33 2 1 Jonathan Cook 2:19.95 34 3 9 Adriel Sanes 2:20.41 35 1 5 Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly 2:21.82 36 1 2 Saud Ghali 2:23.68 37 1 4 Jonathan Chung Yee 2:24.36 38 2 0 Arnoldo Herrera 2:24.46 39 1 6 Brandon Schuster 2:25.04 40 1 3 Andrej Stojanovski 2:26.11 4 0 Adam Chillingworth 4 1 Christopher Rothbauer 4 8 Carles Coll 5 9 Ron Polonsky 1 7 Luis Sebastian Weekes 2 2 André Klippenberg Grindheim

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 22 June at 18:45.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Zac Stubblety-Cook 2:06.72 Q 2 2 3 Anton McKee 2:08.74 Q, NR 3 1 3 Yu Hanaguruma 2:08.75 Q 4 1 5 Erik Persson 2:08.84 Q 5 2 6 Matti Mattsson 2:09.04 Q 6 1 4 Caspar Corbeau 2:09.17 Q 7 2 2 Nic Fink 2:09.23 Q 8 1 6 Ryuya Mura 2:09.69 Q 9 1 2 Cho Sung-jae 2:09.81 10 1 7 James Wilby 2:09.85 11 2 5 Charlie Swanson 2:09.89 12 1 1 Denis Petrashov 2:11.00 13 1 8 Amro Al-Wir 2:11.05 NR 14 2 1 Lyubomir Epitropov 2:11.01 15 2 8 Matthew Wilson 2:11.44 – 2 7 Dawid Wiekiera Disqualified

Final The final was held on 23 June at 19:28.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Zac Stubblety-Cook 2:07.07 3 Yu Hanaguruma 2:08.38 6 Erik Persson 2:08.38 4 8 Ryuya Mura 2:08.86 5 1 Nic Fink 2:09.05 6 5 Anton McKee 2:09.37 7 7 Caspar Corbeau 2:09.62 8 2 Matti Mattsson 2:09.65

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