Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Prior to the competition, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were:

• WR: 2:09.04 swum by Brendan Hansen (USA) on 11 July 2004 in Long Beach, USA;
• CR: 2:09.42 swum by Kosuke Kitajima (Japan) on 24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Brendan Hansen	USA	2:09.85
2	Mike Brown	Canada	2:11.22
3	Genki Imamura	Japan	2:11.54
4	Jim Piper	Australia	2:12.42
5	Sławomir Kuczko	Poland	2:12.44
6	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:12.51
7	Loris Facci	Italy	2:12.62
8	Vlad Polyakov	Kazakhstan	2:12.72

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S1 L4	Brendan Hansen	USA	2:10.23	q
2	S1 L5	Mike Brown	Canada	2:11.26	q
3	S1 L3	Genki Imamura	Japan	2:11.77	q
4	S1 L6	Jim Piper	Australia	2:12.17	q
5	S2 L3	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:12.20	q
6	S2 L5	Sławomir Kuczko	Poland	2:12.34	q
7	S2 L6	Loris Facci	Italy	2:12.43	q
8	S2 L4	Vlad Polyakov	Kazakhstan	2:12.50	q
9	S2 L2	Scott Usher	USA	2:13.03
10	S1 L1	Dmitry Komornikov	Russia	2:13.56
11	S2 L7	Daisuke Kimura	Japan	2:14.00
12	S1 L8	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	2:14.02
13	S1 L7	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:14.68
14	S1 L2	Igor Borysik	Ukraine	2:14.94
15	S2 L1	Jakob Sveinsson	Iceland	2:15.61
16	S2 L8	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan	2:15.80

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H7 L5	Vlad Polyakov	Kazakhstan	2:12.73	q
2	H7 L4	Brendan Hansen	United States	2:12.74	q
3	H7 L3	Sławomir Kuczko	Poland	2:12.76	q
4	H5 L3	Mike Brown	Canada	2:12.96	q
5	H6 L3	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:13.35	q
6	H5 L4	Genki Imamura	Japan	2:13.36	q
7	H5 L6	Loris Facci	Italy	2:13.46	q
8	H6 L4	Jim Piper	Australia	2:13.47	q
9	H5 L5	Scott Usher	United States	2:13.89	q
10	H6 L7	Igor Borysik	Ukraine	2:14.74	q
11	H7 L2	Daisuke Kimura	Japan	2:15.20	q
12	H7 L6	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:15.26	q
13	H7 L1	Jakob Sveinsson	Iceland	2:15.28	q
14	H6 L5	Dmitry Komornikov	Russia	2:15.35	q
15	H5 L7	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan	2:15.65	q
16	H7 L7	Valeriy Dymo	Ukraine	2:15.94	q
17	H4 L4	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	2:16.08
18	H6 L2	Maxim Podoprigora	Austria	2:16.33
19	H3 L7	Alexander Dale Oen	Norway	2:16.38
20	H6 L6	Richárd Bodor	Hungary	2:16.82
21	H4 L5	Aleksander Baldin	Estonia	2:16.83
22	H6 L8	Tom Be'eri	Israel	2:16.89
23	H5 L1	Scott Dickens	Canada	2:17.28
24	H6 L1	Jiri Jedlicka	Czech Republic	2:17.67
25	H3 L4	You Seung-Hun	South Korea	2:17.89
26	H4 L1	Miguel Molina	Philippines	2:18.71
26	H5 L2	Martin Gustavsson	Sweden	2:18.71
28	H3 L1	Alwin de Prins	Luxembourg	2:19.11
29	H4 L7	Bradley Ally	Barbados	2:19.12
30	H5 L8	Wei-Wen Wang	Chinese Taipei	2:19.13
31	H4 L8	Shin Su-Jong	South Korea	2:20.02
32	H3 L3	Thabang Moeketsane	South Africa	2:20.38
33	H7 L8	Sofiane Daid	Algeria	2:20.69
34	H3 L2	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:21.33
34	H4 L3	Andrey Morkovin	Uzbekistan	2:21.33
36	H4 L6	Hocine Haciane	Andorra	2:21.98
37	H3 L5	Vorrawuti Aumpiwan	Thailand	2:23.26
38	H2 L5	Mark Tan	Singapore	2:23.85
39	H2 L6	M. Akbar Nasution	Indonesia	2:24.07
40	H3 L8	Puneet Rana	India	2:25.32
41	H2 L4	Herry Yudhianto	Indonesia	2:25.67
42	H2 L3	Leonard Tan	Singapore	2:28.71
43	H2 L7	Johnny Castillo	Panama	2:29.42
44	H3 L6	Maksim Shilov	Uzbekistan	2:29.57
45	H2 L1	Kevin Hensley	Virgin Islands	2:30.19
46	H1 L4	Hei Meng Lao	Macau	2:30.43
47	H1 L6	Yousuf Alyousuf	Saudi Arabia	2:30.61
48	H1 L8	Youssef Hafdi	Morocco	2:30.85
49	H2 L2	Alfonso Espinosa	Dominican Republic	2:31.82
50	H2 L8	Graham Smith	Bermuda	2:32.14
51	H1 L3	Ivane Lekvtadze	Georgia	2:32.47
52	H1 L5	Chan Wai Ma	Macau	2:32.73
53	H1 L7	Amar Shah	Kenya	2:37.61
54	H1 L2	Chisela Kanchela	Zambia	2:38.69
-	H1 L1	Aziz Abdul	Pakistan	DQ
-	H4 L2	Ayman Khattab	Egypt	DNS

• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Semifinals^{[permanent dead link‍]}, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Finals^{[permanent dead link‍]}, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-25.