Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m chest (men)

sport	swim
discipline	200 meters chest
gender	Men
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	34 athletes from 28 countries
Competition phase	July 31/1. August 2012

The competition over 200m breaststroke men at the 2012 Olympics in London was born on 31 July and 1 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Center held. 34 athletes took part.

There were five preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals that were held on the same day. Here too, the finalists qualified by setting the eight fastest times in both semi-finals.

Abbreviations: WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record

Existing records

World record	Christian Sprenger ( Australia )	2: 07.31 min	Rome , Italy	July 30, 2009
Olympic record	Kōsuke Kitajima ( Japan )	2: 07.64 min	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 14, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Kōsuke Kitajima ( Japan )	2: 07.64 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Dániel Gyurta ( Hungary )	2: 08.41 min	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Dániel Gyurta ( Hungary )	2: 08.60 min	Debrecen 2012
German champions	Marco Koch	2: 09.48 min	Berlin 2012

leader

Forward 1

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Irakli Bolkvadze	Georgia	2: 15.86 min	NO
2	Dmitry Aleksandrov	Kyrgyzstan	2: 17.92 min
-	Tsilavina Ramanantsoa	Madagascar	DSQ

Forward 2

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Scott Dickens	Canada	2: 10.95 min
2	Sławomir Kuczko	Poland	2: 12.51 min
3	Tomáš Klobučník	Slovakia	2: 13.40 min
4th	Christian Schurr	Mexico	2: 14.16 min
5	Hunor Mate	Austria	2: 15.98 min
6th	Nuttapong Ketin	Thailand	2: 16.07 min
7th	Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson	Iceland	2: 16.72 min

Forward 3

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	2: 08.71 min
2	Michael Jamieson	United Kingdom	2: 08.98 min	NO
3	Scott Weltz	United States	2: 09.67 min
4th	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2: 10.55 min	NO
5	Matti Mattson	Finland	2: 11.81 min	NO
6th	Ihor Boryssyk	Ukraine	2: 12.61 min
7th	Choi Kyu-woong	South Korea	2: 13.57 min
8th	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	2: 14.82 min

Forward 4

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2: 09.37 min
2	Clark Burckle	United States	2: 09.55 min
3	Vyacheslav Sinkevich	Russia	2: 10.48 min
4th	Tales of Cerdeira	Brazil	2: 11.05 min
5	Christian vom Lehn	Germany	2: 11.66 min
6th	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2: 12.05 min
7th	Ákos Molnár	Hungary	2: 12.42 min
8th	Yannick Käser	Switzerland	2: 13.49 min

Forward 5

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Andrew Willis	United Kingdom	2: 09.33 min
2	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2: 09.43 min
3	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2: 10.36 min
4th	Marco Koch	Germany	2: 10.61 min
5	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2: 10.83 min
6th	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2: 11.41 min
7th	Lennart Stekelenburg	Netherlands	2: 12.02 min
8th	Chen Cheng	People's Republic of China	2: 19.83 min

Semifinals

Run 1

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Jamieson	United Kingdom	2: 08.20 min	NO
2	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2: 09.11 min
3	Clark Burckle	United States	2: 09.13 min
4th	Tales of Cerdeira	Brazil	2: 09.77 min
5	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	2: 09.95 min
6th	Christian vom Lehn	Germany	2: 10.50 min
7th	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2: 11.14 min
8th	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2: 11.17 min

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Run 2

July 31, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	2: 08.32 min
2	Andrew Willis	United Kingdom	2: 08.47 min
3	Scott Weltz	United States	2: 08.99 min
4th	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2: 09.03 min
5	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2: 09.31 min
6th	Vyacheslav Sinkevich	Russia	2: 09.90 min
7th	Marco Koch	Germany	2: 10.73 min
8th	Scott Dickens	Canada	2: 11.71 min

final

August 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	2: 07.28 min	WR , OR
2	Michael Jamieson	United Kingdom	2: 07.43 min	NO
3	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	2: 08.29 min
4th	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2: 08.35 min
5	Scott Weltz	United States	2: 09.02 min
6th	Clark Burckle	United States	2: 09.25 min
7th	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2: 09.28 min
8th	Andrew Willis	United Kingdom	2: 09.44 min

Silver medalist Jamieson not only managed to beat the British record three times in this competition. In the final, he was also faster than the previous Olympic record. It was the third fastest time ever swum over this distance.

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m chest in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )