Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 23 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.[1]

Main article: Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Venue	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location	Tarragona, Spain
Dates	23 June
Competitors	12 from 9 nations
Winning time	2:09.91
Medalists
Luca Pizzini    Italy   Joan Ballester    Spain   Alex Castejón    Spain

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record	Ippei Watanabe (JPN)	2:06.67	Tokyo, Japan	29 January 2017
Mediterranean Games record	Melquíades Álvarez (ESP)	2:09.69	Pescara, Italy	29 June 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:12.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:12.75	Q
2	2	3	Alex Castejón	Spain	2:13.96	Q
3	1	5	Joan Ballester	Spain	2:15.06	Q
4	1	2	Wassim Elloumi	Tunisia	2:15.81	Q
5	2	4	Edoardo Giorgetti	Italy	2:15.99	Q
6	2	6	Aljaž Kerč	Slovenia	2:16.52	Q
7	1	3	Youssef Elkamash	Egypt	2:16.69	Q
8	1	7	Ioannis Karpouzlis	Greece	2:17.24	Q
9	2	2	Berkay Öğretir	Turkey	2:17.92
10	2	5	Romanos Alyfantis	Greece	2:18.22
11	2	7	Moncef Balamane	Algeria	2:23.24
	1	6	Tomás Veloso	Portugal	DSQ

Final

The heats was held at 18:23.[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Luca Pizzini	Italy	2:09.91
	3	Joan Ballester	Spain	2:13.48
	5	Alex Castejón	Spain	2:13.91
4	2	Edoardo Giorgetti	Italy	2:13.93
5	6	Wassim Elloumi	Tunisia	2:14.88
6	7	Aljaž Kerč	Slovenia	2:16.36
7	1	Youssef Elkamash	Egypt	2:17.57
8	8	Ioannis Karpouzlis	Greece	2:17.72

References

1. "2018 Mediterranean Games – Swimming schedule" (PDF). tarragona2018.cat. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
2. Final results