Swimming 2020/Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke of Swimming 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 27-29 July 2021 in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With 40 athletes competing, the event was won by Izaac Stubblety-Cook from Australia, with Arno Kamminga from Netherlands taking the silver medal and Matti Mattsson from Finland taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to nine athletes. In the first round, the sixteen fastest athletes qualify for the semifinals. In the semifinals, the two fastest athletes of each race, as well as the four fastest non-qualifiers advance to the final. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview[]

Forty athletes qualified for the event with quite a few medal contenders in the field. Anton Chupkov was the world record holder when he won the world championships in 2019. Izaac Stubblety-Cook was the man in form with the second-fastest time ever at the national trials, with youngster Shoma Sato, silver medalist of the world championships Matthew Wilson, and silver medalist of the European championships Arno Kamminga as other big medal contenders. Other potential outsiders also included James Wilby, Nic Fink, Ryuya Mura, and Erik Persson.

Athlete	Nationality
Arnoldo Herrera	Costa Rica
Bernhard Tyler Christianson	Panama
Josue Dominguez Ramos	Dominican Republic
Taichi Vakasama	Fiji
Izaak Bastian	Bahamas
Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea
Julio Horrego	Honduras
Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly	Qatar
Adriel Sanes	Virgin Islands
Amro Al-Wir	Jordan
Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan
Anton McKee	Iceland
Martin Allikvee	Estonia
Jorge Murillo Valdes	Colombia
Ron Polonsky	Israel
Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia
Christopher Rothbauer	Austria
Matti Mattsson	Finland
Marco Koch	Germany
Shoma Sato	Japan
James Wilby	Great Britain
Ross Murdoch	Great Britain
Cho Sung-jae	South Korea
Antoine Viquerat	France
Berkay Ogretir	Turkey
Kirill Prigoda	ROC
Ryuya Mura	Japan
Izaac Stubblety-Cook	Australia
Arno Kamminga	Netherlands
Andrew Wilson	United States
Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands
Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria
Andrius Sidlauskas	Lithuania
Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan
Nic Fink	United States
Anton Chupkov	ROC
Matthew Wilson	Australia
Erik Persson	Sweden
Qin Haiyang	China
Darragh Greene	Ireland

Current Records[]

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	26 July 2019		Anton Chupkov	2:06.12
OR	9 August 2016		Ippei Watanabe	2:07.22

Summary[]

Round 1[]

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Bernhard Tyler Christianson	2:13.41	NR
2		Ryan Maskelyne	2:15.33	NR
3		Josue Dominguez Ramos	2:17.34
4		Taichi Vakasama	2:17.35
5		Izaak Bastian	2:17.40
6		Julio Horrego	2:17.51
7		Arnoldo Herrera	2:20.09
8		Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly	2:23.22

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Denis Petrashov	2:10.07	NR
2		Anton McKee	2:11.64
3		Martin Allikvee	2:12.60
4		Amro Al-Wir	2:12.61
5		Ron Polonsky	2:12.71
6		Jorge Murillo Valdes	2:13.46
7		Daniils Bobrovs	2:14.25
8		Adriel Sanes	2:16.87

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Matti Mattsson	2:08.44	Q
2		Shoma Sato	2:09.43	Q
3		Antoine Viquerat	2:09.54	Q, PR
4		James Wilby	2:09.70	Q
5		Ross Murdoch	2:09.95	Q
6		Cho Sung-jae	2:10.17
7		Marco Koch	2:10.18
8		Christopher Rothbauer	2:13.19

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Izaac Stubblety-Cook	2:07.37	Q
1		Arno Kamminga	2:07.37	Q
3		Ryuya Mura	2:09.00	Q
4		Kirill Prigoda	2:09.21	Q
5		Lyubomir Epitropov	2:09.68	Q, NR
6		Andrew Wilson	2:09.97
7		Caspar Corbeau	2:10.21
8		Berkay Ogretir	2:10.73

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Nic Fink	2:08.48	Q
2		Anton Chupkov	2:08.54	Q
3		Erik Persson	2:08.76	Q
4		Dmitriy Balandin	2:08.99	Q
5		Matthew Wilson	2:09.29	Q
6		Andrius Sidlauskas	2:09.56	Q
7		Darragh Greene	2:11.09
8		Qin Haiyang	DQ

Semifinals[]

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Arno Kamminga	2:07.99	Q
2		Nic Fink	2:08.00	Q
3		Ryuya Mura	2:08.27	Q
4		Erik Persson	2:08.76	Q
5		Antoine Viquerat	2:09.97
5		Ross Murdoch	2:09.97
7		Matthew Wilson	2:10.10
8		Lyubomir Epitropov	2:10.33

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Izaac Stubblety-Cook	2:07.35	Q
2		James Wilby	2:07.91	Q
3		Matti Mattsson	2:08.22	Q, NR
4		Anton Chupkov	2:08.54	Q
5		Kirill Prigoda	2:08.88
6		Shoma Sato	2:09.04
7		Dmitriy Balandin	2:09.22
8		Andrius Sidlauskas	2:10.69

Final[]

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Izaac Stubblety-Cook	2:06.38	OR
2		Arno Kamminga	2:07.01
3		Matti Mattsson	2:07.13	NR
4		Anton Chupkov	2:07.24
5		Nic Fink	2:07.93
6		James Wilby	2:08.19
7		Ryuya Mura	2:08.42
8		Erik Persson	2:08.88

Results[]

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Izaac Stubblety-Cook	Australia
	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands
	Matti Mattsson	Finland
4	Anton Chupkov	ROC
5	Nic Fink	United States
6	James Wilby	Great Britain
7	Ryuya Mura	Japan
8	Erik Persson	Sweden
9	Kirill Prigoda	ROC
10	Shoma Sato	Japan
11	Dmitriy Balandin	Kazakhstan
12	Antoine Viquerat	France
12	Ross Murdoch	Great Britain
14	Matthew Wilson	Australia
15	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria
16	Andrius Sidlauskas	Lithuania
17	Andrew Wilson	United States
18	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan
19	Cho Sung-jae	South Korea
20	Marco Koch	Germany
21	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands
22	Berkay Ogretir	Turkey
23	Darragh Greene	Ireland
24	Anton McKee	Iceland
25	Martin Allikvee	Estonia
26	Amro Al-Wir	Jordan
27	Ron Polonsky	Israel
28	Christopher Rothbauer	Austria
29	Bernhard Tyler Christianson	Panama
30	Jorge Murillo Valdes	Colombia
31	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia
32	Ryan Maskelyne	Papua New Guinea
33	Adriel Sanes	Virgin Islands
34	Josue Dominguez Ramos	Dominican Republic
35	Taichi Vakasama	Fiji
36	Izaak Bastian	Bahamas
37	Julio Horrego	Honduras
38	Arnoldo Herrera	Costa Rica
39	Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly	Qatar
-	Qin Haiyang	China

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400 m	100 m
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