Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Hamad Aquatic Centre
Date	December 7, 2006
Competitors	26 from 18 nations
Medalists
Kosuke Kitajima   Japan   Daisuke Kimura   Japan   Vladislav Polyakov   Kazakhstan

Swimming at the 2006 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

The men's 200m breaststroke swimming event at the 2006 Asian Games was held on December 7, 2006 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar.

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Date	Time	Event
Thursday, 7 December 2006	10:23	Heats
	18:11	Final

Records

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

World Record	Brendan Hansen (USA)	2:08.50	Victoria, Canada	21 August 2006
Asian Record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:09.42	Barcelona, Spain	24 July 2003
Games Record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:09.97	Busan, South Korea	2 October 2002

Results

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	4	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:15.57
2	2	Daisuke Kimura (JPN)	2:16.57
3	2	Shin Su-jong (KOR)	2:16.78
4	4	Wang Wei-wen (TPE)	2:17.81
5	4	Lai Zhongjian (CHN)	2:18.02
6	3	Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:18.36
7	3	Xie Zhi (CHN)	2:18.44
8	2	Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:19.38
9	3	Chiang Hsin-hung (TPE)	2:19.49
10	1	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (KAZ)	2:20.72
11	3	Andrey Morkovin (UZB)	2:21.03
12	4	Vorrawuti Aumpiwan (THA)	2:21.39
13	4	Leonard Tan (SIN)	2:22.48
14	3	Gerard Bordado (PHI)	2:23.96
15	2	Nguyễn Hữu Việt (VIE)	2:25.95
16	4	Abdulrahman Al-Bader (KUW)	2:27.90
17	2	Lim Zhi Cong (SIN)	2:28.89
18	3	You Seung-hun (KOR)	2:29.15
19	3	Osama El-Aarag (QAT)	2:31.19
20	3	Wael Koubrousli (LIB)	2:33.35
21	2	Firas Chihade (SYR)	2:33.41
22	4	Lao Hei Meng (MAC)	2:34.10
23	2	Pavel Kuleshov (KGZ)	2:38.38
24	4	Ma Chan Wai (MAC)	2:46.43
25	1	Hassan Ashraf (MDV)	2:54.69
—	1	Guvanch Ataniyazov (TKM)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:12.05
	Daisuke Kimura (JPN)	2:13.17
	Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:13.60
4	Lai Zhongjian (CHN)	2:14.95
5	Xie Zhi (CHN)	2:15.11
6	Shin Su-jong (KOR)	2:15.90
7	Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:17.89
8	Wang Wei-wen (TPE)	2:17.95

References

• Results