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Beijing Olympics 2008 200m Men Breaststoke Swimming Scoreboard

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Medalists

Gold	Kosuke Kitajima Japan (JPN)
Silver	Brenton Rickard Australia (AUS)
Bronze	Hugues Duboscq France (FRA)

Records

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

World Record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:07.51	Tokyo, Japan	8 June 2008
Olympic Record	Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)	2:09.44	Athens, Greece	18 August 2004

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	OR	WR
August 12	Heat 5	Paolo Bossini	Italy	2:08.98	OR
August 12	Heat 7	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.68	OR
August 13	Semifinal 1	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:08.61	OR
August 14	Final	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:07.64	OR

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Edvinas Dautartas	Lithuania	2:13.11
2	6	Sandeep Sejwal	India	2:15.24
3	2	Leopoldo José Andara Gonzalez	Venezuela	2:17.77
4	5	Omer Aslanoglu	Turkey	2:17.93
5	3	Sergio Andres Ferreyra	Argentina	2:20.10

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Carlos Almeida	Portugal	2:13.34
2	3	Jakob Johann Sveinsson	Iceland	2:15.58
3	8	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:15.87
4	5	Sujong Sin	South Korea	2:16.21
5	6	Martti Aljand	Estonia	2:16.52
6	2	Miguel Molina	Philippines	2:16.94
7	1	Wei-Wen Wang	Chinese Taipei	2:17.20
8	7	Valentin Preda	Romania	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	2:11.40
2	5	Tom Be'eri	Israel	2:11.44
3	4	Melquiades Alvarez	Spain	2:12.59
4	2	Jirí Jedlicka	Czech Republic	2:15.79
5	8	Romanos Iasonas Alyfantis	Greece	2:16.04
6	7	Sofiane Daid	Algeria	2:16.15
7	6	Zhongjian Lai	China	2:16.28
8	1	Robin Van Aggele	Netherlands	2:17.14

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Andrew Bree	Irevland	2:10.91	Q
2	6	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:11.19	Q
3	1	Istvan Hunor Mate	Austria	2:11.56
4	5	Yevgeniy Ryzhkov	Kazakhstan	2:12.44
5	8	Julien Nicolardot	France	2:12.76
6	3	Sergio Garcia	Spain	2:14.30
7	2	Maxim Podoprigora	Austria	2:14.43
8	4	James Kirton	Great Britain	2:15.25

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Paolo Bossini	Italy	2:08.98	Q, OR
2	5	Scott Spann	United States	2:10.61	Q
3	3	Kristopher Gilchrist	Great Britain	2:11.13	Q
4	4	Grigory Falko	Russia	2:11.88
5	8	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	2:11.94
6	6	Christian Sprenger	Australia	2:12.56
7	1	Mathieu Bois	Canada	2:12.87
8	7	Alexey Zinovyev	Russia	2:16.40

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Mike Andrew Brown	Canada	2:09.84	Q
2	3	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:10.29	Q
3	2	William Diering	South Africa	2:10.39	Q
4	7	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	2:10.50	Q
5	4	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:11.00	Q
6	5	Alexander Dale Oen	Norway	2:11.30
7	1	Henrique Barbosa	Brazil	2:12.99
8	8	Chris Christensen	Denmark	2:13.92

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	2:08.68	Q, OR
2	2	Loris Facci	Italy	2:09.12	Q
3	5	Hugues Duboscq	France	2:09.42	Q
4	4	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:09.89	Q
5	7	Vladislav Polyakov	Kazvakhstan	2:10.83	Q
6	1	Igor Borysik	Ukraine	2:11.08	Q
7	3	Yuta Suenaga	Japan	2:11.30
8	8	Valerii Dymo	Ukraine	2:11.65

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:08.61	Q, OR
3	2	Scott Spann	United States	2:09.08	Q
7	4	Paolo Bossini	Italy	2:09.95	Q
8	5	Hugues Duboscq	France	2:09.97	Q
11	7	Andrew Bree	Ireland	2:10.16
12	6	William Diering	South Africa	2:10.21
14	1	Igor Borysik	Ukraine	2:10.99
16	8	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	2:12.07

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
2	3	Mike Brown	Canada	2:08.88	Q
4	1	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:09.72	Q
5	4	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	2:09.73	Q
6	5	Loris Facci	Italy	2:09.75	Q
9	3	Neil Versfeld	South Africa	2:10.06
10	6	Eric Shanteau	United States	2:10.10
13	8	Kristopher Gilchrist	Great Britain	2:10.27	NR
15	7	Vladislav Polyakov	Kazakhstan	2:11.87

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	2:07.64	OR
2	6	Brenton Rickard	Australia	2:08.88	OC
3	8	Hugues Duboscq	France	2:08.94
4	5	Mike Brown	Canada	2:09.03
5	2	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	2:09.22
6	3	Scott Spann	United States	2:09.76
7	7	Loris Facci	Italy	2:10.57
8	1	Paolo Bossini	Italy	2:11.48

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