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

All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00)

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

World Record	Ippei Watanabe (JPN)	2:06.67	Tokyo, Japan	29 January 2017
Asian Record	Ippei Watanabe (JPN)	2:06.67	Tokyo, Japan	29 January 2017
Games Record	Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ)	2:07.67	Incheon, South Korea	23 September 2014

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	3	Ippei Watanabe (JPN)	2:11.92
2	3	Yan Zibei (CHN)	2:12.45
3	2	Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN)	2:12.77
4	3	Denis Petrashov (KGZ)	2:12.89
5	1	Qin Haiyang (CHN)	2:13.51
6	2	Cho Sung-jae (KOR)	2:14.05
7	2	Chao Man Hou (MAC)	2:15.34
8	3	Amro Al-Wir (JOR)	2:16.15
9	3	Phạm Thanh Bảo (VIE)	2:16.51
10	1	Kim Jae-youn (KOR)	2:16.83
10	2	Boris Yang (HKG)	2:16.83
12	1	Zachary Tan (SGP)	2:17.01
13	1	Marcus Mok (HKG)	2:17.18
14	3	Lionel Khoo (SGP)	2:17.62
15	1	Nuttapong Ketin (THA)	2:18.17
16	2	Vladislav Mustafin (UZB)	2:19.02
17	3	Batyr Täçmyradow (TKM)	2:29.15
18	2	Abdelrahman Hesham Mohamed (QAT)	2:31.22
19	1	Batmönkhiin Jürmed (MGL)	2:40.71
20	1	Muhammad Hamza Malik (PAK)	2:40.72
21	2	Gotsbayaryn Tengis (MGL)	3:11.23

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN)	2:07.81
	Ippei Watanabe (JPN)	2:07.82
	Qin Haiyang (CHN)	2:08.07
4	Yan Zibei (CHN)	2:11.07
5	Denis Petrashov (KGZ)	2:12.19
6	Cho Sung-jae (KOR)	2:13.86
7	Chao Man Hou (MAC)	2:15.82
8	Amro Al-Wir (JOR)	2:17.43