2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:Men's 200m Backstroke
Competition:2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:16 December (heats and final)
Win Value:1:48.48
Gold:Radosław Kawęcki
Goldnoc:POL
Silver:Ryan Lochte
Silvernoc:USA
Bronze:Ryan Murphy
Bronzenoc:USA
Prev:2010
Next:2014

See main article: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World recordArkady Vyatchaninalign=left 1:46.11 15 November 2009
Championship record align=left 1:46.68 19 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Time Notes
1 4 4 1:49.71 Q
2 3 1 1:50.60 Q
3 5 4 1:50.92 Q
4 3 5 1:51.20 Q
5 3 4 1:51.33 Q
6 4 5 1:51.38 Q
7 5 3 1:51.68 Q
8 3 3 1:52.25 Q
9 1 3 1:52.44
10 1 5 1:52.74
11 4 6 1:52.94
12 2 8 1:53.08
13 4 3 1:53.36
14 5 6 1:53.40
15 3 7 1:53.66
16 3 6 1:53.84
17 4 2 1:54.70
18 5 2 1:55.63
19 5 0 1:55.68
20 4 8 1:55.83
20 5 7 1:55.83
22 4 7 1:55.91
23 4 0 1:56.49
24 5 8 1:56.53 NR
25 4 1 1:56.79
26 3 0 1:57.78
27 3 8 1:58.06
28 5 1 1:58.21
29 4 9 1:58.91
30 3 2 1:59.06
31 5 9 2:00.58
32 3 9 2:02.30
33 2 3 2:03.67 NR
34 2 5 2:04.00
35 2 6 2:08.25
36 2 4 2:09.55
37 2 2 2:11.37
38 2 7 2:25.92
39 2 1 2:27.19
1 4
5 5

Final

The final was held at 19:11.[2]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
3 1:48.48 NR
4 1:48.50
5 1:48.86
4 7 1:51.00
5 2 1:51.24
6 6 1:51.51
7 1 1:52.09
8 8 1:52.48

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20121220043445/http://www.omegatiming.com/file/download/?id=00010C010D00010800FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-20. dead.
  2. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218233556/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00010802FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.