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

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	30 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 31 July 2004 (Final)
Competitors	25

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics will be held from July 30 to July 31 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing records were as follows.

Record	Time	Name	Nation	Event	Date	Notes
World
Olympic

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.

Time standards

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

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

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
July 30 2024	10:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
July 31 2024	17:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
			Zac Stubblety-Cook	Australia
			Joshua Yong	Australia
			Saud Ghali	Bahrain
			Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria
			Zhihao Dong	China
			Haiyang Qin	China
			Matti Mattsson	Finland
			Leon Marchand	France
			Julio Horrego	Honduras
			Anton Mckee	Iceland
			Amro Al-Wir	Jordan
			Yu Hanaguruma	Japan
			Ippei Watanabe	Japan
			Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan
			Sung Jae Cho	South Korea
			Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia
			Aleksas Savickas	Lithuania
			Miguel Alejandro De Lara Ojeda	Mexico
			Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands
			Arno Kamminga	Netherlands
			Bernhard Tyler Christianson	Panama
			Jan Kalusowski	Poland
			Erik Persson	Sweden
			Matt Fallon	United States
			Josh Matheny	United States

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes