Marginal Wood Fern – Dryopteris marginalis

The Men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 15 and 16 February 2024.^[1][2]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[3]

World record	Qin Haiyang (CHN)	2:05.48	Fukuoka, Japan	28 July 2023
Competition record	Qin Haiyang (CHN)	2:05.48	Fukuoka, Japan	28 July 2023

The heats were started on 15 February at 10:28.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:09.15	Q
2	4	2	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:10.57	Q
3	3	3	Ikuru Hiroshima	Japan	2:10.73	Q
4	4	4	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:10.85	Q
5	2	5	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.94	Q
6	3	5	Nic Fink	United States	2:11.00	Q
7	3	4	Dong Zhihao	China	2:11.13	Q
8	4	5	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:11.22	Q
9	2	4	Jake Foster	United States	2:11.27	Q
10	3	2	Maksym Ovchinnikov	Ukraine	2:11.55	Q
11	2	2	Adam Chillingworth	Hong Kong	2:11.98	Q
12	3	6	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:12.23	Q
13	4	6	James Dergousoff	Canada	2:12.34	Q
14	2	7	Lee Sang-hoon	South Korea	2:12.43	Q
15	4	3	Miguel de Lara	Mexico	2:12.50	Q
16	2	6	Carles Coll Martí	Spain	2:12.72	Q
17	4	1	Eoin Corby	Ireland	2:13.10
18	3	1	Vojtěch Netrh	Czech Republic	2:13.83
19	4	7	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	2:14.28
20	4	8	Xavier Ruiz	Puerto Rico	2:14.71
21	3	8	Daniils Bobrovs	Latvia	2:15.25
22	2	8	Matthew Randle	South Africa	2:16.10
23	3	0	Denis Svet	Moldova	2:16.98
24	4	0	Vicente Villanueva	Chile	2:17.45
25	3	7	Phạm Thanh Bảo	Vietnam	2:18.58
26	2	0	Liam Davis	Zimbabwe	2:18.89
27	4	9	Giacomo Casadei	San Marino	2:19.60
28	1	6	Abobakr Abass	Sudan	2:20.80
29	1	5	Saud Ghali	Bahrain	2:21.94
30	2	9	Jacob Story	Cook Islands	2:22.66
31	2	1	Jorge Murillo	Colombia	2:22.90
32	1	4	Luis Weekes	Barbados	2:32.02
33	3	9	Jonathan Chung	Mauritius	2:26.00
34	1	3	Caio Lobo	Mozambique	2:29.27

The semifinals were held on 15 February at 19:43.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	2	Jake Foster	United States	2:08.78	Q
2	2	6	Dong Zhihao	China	2:09.16	Q
3	1	5	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:09.34	Q
4	2	4	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:09.43	Q
4	2	5	Ikuru Hiroshima	Japan	2:09.43	Q
6	1	3	Nic Fink	United States	2:09.87	Q
7	2	3	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.04	Q
8	1	6	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:10.30	Q
9	1	8	Carles Coll Martí	Spain	2:10.77
10	1	7	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	2:10.81
11	1	4	Lyubomir Epitropov	Bulgaria	2:10.89
12	1	2	Maksym Ovchinnikov	Ukraine	2:11.82
13	1	1	Lee Sang-hoon	South Korea	2:11.87
14	2	7	Adam Chillingworth	Hong Kong	2:12.14
15	2	8	Miguel de Lara	Mexico	2:12.58
16	2	1	James Dergousoff	Canada	2:12.59

The final was held on 16 February at 20:08.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Dong Zhihao	China	2:07.94
	3	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	2:08.24
	7	Nic Fink	United States	2:08.85
4	4	Jake Foster	United States	2:09.31
5	2	Ikuru Hiroshima	Japan	2:09.37
6	6	Matti Mattsson	Finland	2:09.80
7	8	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	2:10.06
8	1	Erik Persson	Sweden	2:10.21