Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H8 L4 Kosuke Kitajima Japan 2:10.66 q , CR
2 H9 L5 Ian Edmond Great Britain 2:12.07 q
3 H9 L4 Dmitry Komornikov Russia 2:13.35 q
4 H9 L6 Mike Brown Canada 2:13.38 q
5 H7 L2 Andrey Ivanov Russia 2:13.45 q
6 H8 L1 Dániel Gyurta Hungary 2:13.63 q
7 H9 L3 Jim Piper Australia 2:13.65 q
8 H7 L5 Brendan Hansen United States 2:13.92 q
9 H9 L2 Terence Parkin South Africa 2:14.14 q
10 H8 L5 Yohan Bernard France 2:14.53 q
11 H7 L3 Morgan Knabe Canada 2:14.72 q
12 H8 L8 Domenico Fioravanti Italy 2:14.78 q
13 H7 L4 Davide Rummolo Italy 2:14.79 q
13 H8 L6 Maxim Podoprigora Austria 2:14.79 q
15 H9 L8 Martin Gustavsson Sweden 2:14.96 q
16 H6 L4 Jakob Sveinsson Iceland 2:15.20 q
17 H9 L1 Andrew Bree Ireland 2:15.23
18 H8 L7 Taiki Kawagoe Japan 2:15.24
19 H7 L1 Richárd Bodor Hungary 2:15.74
20 H8 L3 Regan Harrison Australia 2:15.77
Results -- Preliminaries
The Men's 200 Breaststroke event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam July 23-24, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam on 23 July, while the Final swam on 24 July. At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: