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Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 28 with the heats and the semifinals and July 29 with the final.
Records edit
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record Championship record | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 2:07.31 | Rome | July 30, 2009 |
Results edit
Heats edit
55 swimmers participated in 8 heats.[1]
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 2 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:10.33 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 5 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 2:10.67 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 3 | Eric Shanteau | United States | 2:10.77 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 4 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:10.78 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:11.06 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 4 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:11.17 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 8 | Michael Brown | Canada | 2:11.51 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 6 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:11.59 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | Melquiades Alvarez | Spain | 2:11.86 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 7 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 2:12.38 | Q |
| 11 | 8 | 2 | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 2:12.54 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:12.56 | Q |
| 13 | 6 | 6 | Lennart Stekelenburg | Netherlands | 2:12.69 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 7 | Choi Kyu-Woong | South Korea | 2:12.69 | Q |
| 15 | 8 | 4 | Naoya Tomita | Japan | 2:12.73 | Q |
| 16 | 8 | 7 | Ákos Molnár | Hungary | 2:12.78 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 8 | Huang Chaosheng | China | 2:13.02 | |
| 18 | 7 | 7 | Elliott Keefer | United States | 2:13.13 | |
| 19 | 5 | 4 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | 2:13.17 | |
| 20 | 8 | 1 | Maksym Shemberev | Ukraine | 2:13.18 | |
| 21 | 7 | 5 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 2:13.51 | |
| 22 | 7 | 1 | Xue Ruipeng | China | 2:13.54 | |
| 23 | 8 | 6 | Hugues Duboscq | France | 2:13.56 | |
| 24 | 5 | 6 | Sławomir Kuczko | Poland | 2:13.75 | |
| 25 | 5 | 1 | Jakob Sveinsson | Iceland | 2:13.84 | |
| 26 | 6 | 1 | Craig Calder | Australia | 2:13.90 | |
| 27 | 5 | 5 | Andrew Dickens | Canada | 2:14.36 | |
| 28 | 4 | 6 | Nuttapong Ketin | Thailand | 2:14.68 | |
| 29 | 4 | 5 | Carlos Almeida | Portugal | 2:14.86 | |
| 30 | 7 | 2 | Anton Lobanov | Russia | 2:14.99 | |
| 31 | 4 | 1 | Jorge Murillo | Colombia | 2:15.41 | NR |
| 32 | 5 | 3 | Hunor Mate | Austria | 2:15.45 | |
| 33 | 7 | 8 | Vladislav Polyakov | Kazakhstan | 2:15.70 | |
| 34 | 3 | 3 | Tomáš Klobučník | Slovakia | 2:16.53 | |
| 35 | 4 | 4 | Mattia Pesce | Italy | 2:16.67 | |
| 36 | 3 | 4 | Édgar Crespo | Panama | 2:17.38 | |
| 37 | 4 | 7 | Sofiane Daid | Algeria | 2:18.32 | |
| 38 | 3 | 7 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:18.42 | |
| 39 | 4 | 2 | Martti Aljand | Estonia | 2:18.65 | |
| 40 | 4 | 3 | David Oliver Mercado | Mexico | 2:18.72 | |
| 41 | 4 | 8 | Indra Gunawan | Indonesia | 2:18.89 | |
| 42 | 3 | 2 | Azad Al-Barazi | Syria | 2:19.71 | |
| 43 | 3 | 5 | Aleksandrov Dmitrii | Kyrgyzstan | 2:21.51 | |
| 44 | 3 | 8 | Pedro Pinotes | Angola | 2:21.65 | NR |
| 45 | 3 | 6 | Juan Guerra | El Salvador | 2:22.82 | |
| 46 | 2 | 3 | Eli Ebenezer Wong | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:23.35 | |
| 47 | 2 | 4 | Genaro Britez | Paraguay | 2:23.78 | |
| 48 | 3 | 1 | Timothy Ferris | Zimbabwe | 2:23.96 | |
| 49 | 2 | 5 | Jordy Groters | Aruba | 2:24.60 | |
| 50 | 2 | 7 | Wael Koubrousli | Lebanon | 2:27.08 | |
| 51 | 2 | 6 | Diguan Pigot | Suriname | 2:27.21 | |
| 52 | 1 | 5 | Benjamin Schulte | Guam | 2:28.21 | |
| 53 | 1 | 4 | Andrew Rutherfurd | Bolivia | 2:30.78 | |
| 54 | 2 | 2 | Tarco Liobet | Bolivia | 2:30.98 | |
| 55 | 1 | 3 | Mamitina Ramanantsoa | Madagascar | 2:35.35 | |
| – | 5 | 8 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | DNS | |
| – | 6 | 5 | Alexander Dale Oen | Norway | DNS |
Semifinals edit
The semifinals were held at 18:56.[2]
Semifinal 1 edit
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:08.81 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:08.92 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 2:09.44 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:10.49 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Choi Kyu-Woong | South Korea | 2:11.27 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 2:11.68 | |
| 7 | 8 | Ákos Molnár | Hungary | 2:12.07 | |
| 8 | 7 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 2:12.23 |
Semifinal 2 edit
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Eric Shanteau | United States | 2:10.03 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:10.54 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:11.43 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Michael Brown | Canada | 2:11.63 | |
| 5 | 1 | Lennart Stekelenburg | Netherlands | 2:11.72 | |
| 6 | 8 | Naoya Tomita | Japan | 2:11.98 | |
| 7 | 2 | Melquiades Alvarez | Spain | 2:12.15 | |
| 8 | 7 | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 2:12.32 |
Final edit
The final was held at 19:33.[3]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Dániel Gyurta | Hungary | 2:08.41 | ||
| 4 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 2:08.63 | ||
| 3 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 2:09.06 | ||
| 4 | 6 | Eric Shanteau | United States | 2:09.28 | |
| 5 | 7 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 2:10.67 | |
| 6 | 8 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 2:11.07 | |
| 7 | 1 | Choi Kyu-Woong | South Korea | 2:11.17 | NR |
| 8 | 2 | Andrew Willis | Great Britain | 2:11.29 |
References edit
- ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-28.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-28.[permanent dead link]
- ^ (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-22. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
External links edit
- 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre breaststroke start list[permanent dead link], from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.