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	7 December 2006
Competitors	26 from 18 nations
Medalists
File:Gold medal icon.svg  Kosuke Kitajima   File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan File:Silver medal icon.svg  Daisuke Kimura   File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan File:Bronze medal icon.svg  Vladislav Polyakov   File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan

Main article: Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games

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, Asian and Games 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	File:Flag of Japan.svg 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	File:Flag of Japan.svg Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:15.57
2	2	File:Flag of Japan.svg Daisuke Kimura (JPN)	2:16.57
3	2	File:Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg Shin Su-jong (KOR)	2:16.78
4	4	File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Wang Wei-wen (TPE)	2:17.81
5	4	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lai Zhongjian (CHN)	2:18.02
6	3	File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:18.36
7	3	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xie Zhi (CHN)	2:18.44
8	2	File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:19.38
9	3	File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chiang Hsin-hung (TPE)	2:19.49
10	1	File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (KAZ)	2:20.72
11	3	File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Andrey Morkovin (UZB)	2:21.03
12	4	File:Flag of Thailand.svg Vorrawuti Aumpiwan (THA)	2:21.39
13	4	File:Flag of Singapore.svg Leonard Tan (SIN)	2:22.48
14	3	File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Gerard Bordado (PHI)	2:23.96
15	2	File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Nguyễn Hữu Việt (VIE)	2:25.95
16	4	File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Abdulrahman Al-Bader (KUW)	2:27.90
17	2	File:Flag of Singapore.svg Lim Zhi Cong (SIN)	2:28.89
18	3	File:Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg You Seung-hun (KOR)	2:29.15
19	3	File:Flag of Qatar.svg Osama El-Aarag (QAT)	2:31.19
20	3	File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Wael Koubrousli (LIB)	2:33.35
21	2	File:Flag of Syria.svg Firas Chihade (SYR)	2:33.41
22	4	File:Flag of Macau.svg Lao Hei Meng (MAC)	2:34.10
23	2	File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan (1992–2023).svg Pavel Kuleshov (KGZ)	2:38.38
24	4	File:Flag of Macau.svg Ma Chan Wai (MAC)	2:46.43
25	1	File:Flag of Maldives.svg Hassan Ashraf (MDV)	2:54.69
—	1	File:Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Guwanç Ataniýazow (TKM)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
File:Gold medal icon.svg	File:Flag of Japan.svg Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:12.05
File:Silver medal icon.svg	File:Flag of Japan.svg Daisuke Kimura (JPN)	2:13.17
File:Bronze medal icon.svg	File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ)	2:13.60
4	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lai Zhongjian (CHN)	2:14.95
5	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xie Zhi (CHN)	2:15.11
6	File:Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg Shin Su-jong (KOR)	2:15.90
7	File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:17.89
8	File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Wang Wei-wen (TPE)	2:17.95

References

• Results