Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre breaststroke

Olympic sporting event

Part of	swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Competition class	men's 200 metre breaststroke
Sport	swimming
Country	France
Ein location	Paris La Défense Arena
Dey follow	swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre breaststroke
Tym dem start	30 July 2024
End tym	31 July 2024
Participant	Léon Marchand, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Caspar Corbeau
Winner	Léon Marchand, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Caspar Corbeau

Na dem hold de men's 200 metre breaststroke event for de 2024 Summer Olympics from 30 to 31 July 2024 for de Paris Aquatics Centre.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Qin Haiyang (CHN)	2:05.48	Fukuoka, Japan	28 July 2023
Olympic record	Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS)	2:06.38	Tokyo, Japan	29 July 2021

Na dem establish de record wey dey follow during de competition:

Date	Event	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Record
31 July	Final	Léon Marchand	France	2:05.85	OR

Qualification

National Olympic Committee (NOC) fi enter maximum of two qualified athletes insyd each individual event, buh only if both of dem attain de Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event fi potentially enter if dem meet de Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), anaa if de total quota of 852 athletes no be targeted. NOCs sanso fi permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under Universality place since dem get no swimmers wey dey attain either of de standard entry times (OQT/OCT).

Dey follow de end of de qualification window, World Aquatics go assess de number of swimmers wey achieve de OQT, de number of relay-only swimmers, den de number of Universality places, before dem invite those plus OCT make dem fulfill de total quota of 852. Additionally, dem go distribute OCT places by event according to de position of de World Aquatics Rankings during de qualifying deadline.

Time standards

Dem for obtain de qualifying time standards for de 2023 den 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships den selection trials, den various international meets dem approve by World Aquatics insyd de period between 1 March 2023 den 23 June 2024.

De table wey dey follow dey outline de qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for dis event:

Men's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
200 m breaststroke	2:09.68	2:10.33

* OQTs dey correspond to de time dem achieve by fourteenth-place swimmer for ein respective preliminary heat of each event for de previous Games.

^ Dem dey derive OCTs by adding 0.5% of de OQT standard.

Competition format

De competition dey consist of three rounds: heats, semifinals, den final. De swimmers plus de best 16 times insyd de heats advance go de semifinals. De swimmers plus de best 8 times insyd de semifinals advance go de final. Dem dey use swim-offs as necessary make dem break ties for advancement to de next round.

Schedule

All times be Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
30 July 2024	13:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
31 July 2024	17:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	7	Cho Sung-jae	South Korea	2:09.45	Q
2	3	4	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:09.49	Q
3	4	5	Leon Marchand	France	2:09.55	Q
4	3	3	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:09.78	Q
5	3	5	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:09.86	Q
6	4	3	Dong Zhihao	China	2:09.91	Q
7	2	5	Yu Hanaguruma	Japan	2:10.35	Q
	3	2	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.35	Q
9	4	2	Anton McKee	Iceland	2:10.36	Q
10	3	6	Josh Matheny	United States	2:10.39	Q
11	2	4	Matthew Fallon	United States	2:10.49	Q
12	4	6	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:10.53	Q, WD
13	2	2	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:10.59	Q
14	2	3	Joshua Yong	Australia	2:10.68	Q
15	4	4	Qin Haiyang	China	2:10.98	Q
16	3	1	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:10.99	Q
17	3	7	Miguel de Lara	Mexico	2:11.16	q
18	2	6	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:11.18
19	2	7	Aleksas Savickas	Lithuania	2:11.53
20	4	1	Jan Kalusowski	Poland	2:11.87
21	4	8	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:13.66
22	1	5	Tyler Christianson	Panama	2:15.62
23	2	1	Amro Al-Wir	Jordan	2:15.78
24	1	4	Julio Horrego	Honduras	2:18.91
25	1	3	Saud Ghali	Bahrain	2:22.51

Semifinals

De swimmers plus de best 8 times, regardless of heat, advance to de final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Léon Marchand	France	2:08.11	Q
2	1	4	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:08.57	Q
3	1	3	Dong Zhihao	China	2:08.99	Q
4	1	5	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:09.52	Q
5	2	3	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:09.62	Q
6	1	2	Josh Matheny	United States	2:09.70	Q
7	2	6	Yu Hanaguruma	Japan	2:09.72	Q
8	1	1	Joshua Yong	Australia	2:09:89	Q
9	2	1	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:09.93
10	2	7	Matthew Fallon	United States	2:09.96
	2	8	Qin Haiyang	China	2:09.96
12	2	4	Cho Sung-jae	South Korea	2:10.03
13	1	6	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.11
14	1	8	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:10.19
15	2	2	Anton McKee	Iceland	2:10.42
16	1	7	Miguel de Lara	Mexico	2:11.28

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Léon Marchand	France	2:05.85	OR, ER
2	5	Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia	2:06.79
3	6	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:07.90
4	3	Dong Zhihao	China	2:08.46
5	1	Yu Hanaguruma	Japan	2:08.79
6	2	Ippei Watanabe	Japan	2:08.83
7	7	Josh Matheny	United States	2:09.52
8	8	Joshua Yong	Australia	2:11.44

References

Olympic champions in men's 200 m breaststroke

1908:  Frederick Holman (GBR) 1912:  Walter Bathe (GER) 1920:  Håkan Malmrot (SWE) 1924:  Bob Skelton (USA) 1928:  Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN) 1932:  Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN) 1936:  Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 1948:  Joe Verdeur (USA) 1952:  John Davies (AUS) 1956:  Masaru Furukawa (JPN) 1960:  Bill Mulliken (USA) 1964:  Ian O'Brien (AUS) 1968:  Felipe Muñoz (MEX) 1972:  John Hencken (USA) 1976:  David Wilkie (GBR) 1980:  Robertas Žulpa (URS) 1984:  Victor Davis (CAN) 1988:  József Szabó (HUN) 1992:  Mike Barrowman (USA) 1996:  Norbert Rózsa (HUN) 2000:  Domenico Fioravanti (ITA) 2004:  Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) 2008:  Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) 2012:  Dániel Gyurta (HUN) 2016:  Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ) 2020:  Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS) 2024:  Léon Marchand (FRA)