Swimming at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Aoti Aquatics Centre
Date	18 November 2010
Competitors	20 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:10.36
Medalists
Naoya Tomita    Japan   Xue Ruipeng    China   Choi Kyu-woong    South Korea
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Swimming at the 2010 Asian Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 2010 Asian Games took place on 18 November 2010 at Guangzhou Aoti Aquatics Centre.

There were 20 competitors from 18 countries who took part in this event. Three heats were held, with two containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top eight times from the entire field qualified for the finals.

Naoya Tomita from Japan won the gold medal, Xue Ruipeng from China and Choi Kyu-woong from South Korea were both awarded the silver medal due to reaching in the same time.

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Christian Sprenger (AUS)	2:07.31	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009
Asian Record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:07.51	Barcelona, Spain	8 June 2008
Games Record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:09.97	Busan, South Korea	2 October 2002

Legend

• DSQ — Disqualified

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	1	Xue Ruipeng (CHN)	2:15.20
2	2	Choi Kyu-woong (KOR)	2:15.26
3	2	Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:15.49
4	1	Xie Zhi (CHN)	2:15.59
5	3	Naoya Tomita (JPN)	2:16.06
6	2	Nuttapong Ketin (THA)	2:16.15
7	3	Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:17.15
8	3	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (KAZ)	2:17.61
9	1	Yap See Tuan (MAS)	2:19.77
10	2	Sandeep Sejwal (IND)	2:19.78
11	2	Dmitriy Shvetsov (UZB)	2:20.90
12	3	Lionel Khoo (SIN)	2:21.06
13	3	Dmitrii Aleksandrov (KGZ)	2:21.45
14	3	Nguyễn Hữu Việt (VIE)	2:22.06
15	1	Indra Gunawan (INA)	2:23.08
16	1	Chen Cho-yi (TPE)	2:24.93
17	2	Soroush Khajegi (IRI)	2:27.99
18	3	Chou Kit (MAC)	2:29.19
19	1	Mubarak Al-Besher (UAE)	2:31.61
20	2	Ahmed Atari (QAT)	2:36.48

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Naoya Tomita (JPN)	2:10.36
	Xue Ruipeng (CHN)	2:12.25
	Choi Kyu-woong (KOR)	2:12.25
4	Xie Zhi (CHN)	2:12.37
5	Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:12.38
6	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (KAZ)	2:14.94
7	Nuttapong Ketin (THA)	2:17.79
—	Miguel Molina (PHI)	DSQ

• 16th Asian Games Results^[usurped]

• Men's 200m Breaststroke Heats Official Website
• Men's 200m Breaststroke Ev.No.35 Final Official Website