2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	54
Nations:	43
Win Value:	1:47.63
Gold:	Radosław Kawęcki
Goldnoc:	POL
Silver:	Jacob Pebley
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Masaki Kaneko
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Mitch Larkin		1:45.63	Sydney	27 November 2015
Championship record	Ryan Lochte		1:46.68	Dubai	19 December 2010

The heats were held at 09:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	1:50.30	Q
2	5	4	1:51.00	Q
3	4	6	1:51.17	Q
4	4	5	1:51.35	Q
5	5	5	1:51.38	Q
6	6	2	1:51.51	Q
7	6	4	1:51.87	Q
8	5	6	1:51.92	Q, NR
9	6	7	1:52.05
10	6	9	1:52.46
11	6	3	1:52.59
12	4	7	1:52.62
13	5	7	1:52.89	NR
14	4	3	1:52.92
15	6	5	1:52.93
16	3	9	1:53.35
17	4	0	1:54.15	NR
18	3	2	1:54.29
19	4	2	1:54.97
20	5	2	1:55.25
21	5	0	1:55.63
22	3	7	1:56.07	NR
23	5	8	1:56.32
24	5	3	1:56.64
25	4	8	1:57.11
26	3	5	1:57.35	NR
27	3	8	1:57.45
28	6	8	1:57.72
29	2	5	1:57.77
30	1	8	1:57.96
31	3	4	1:58.06
32	3	0	1:58.17	NR
33	2	3	1:58.50	NR
34	3	6	1:58.53
35	5	1	1:59.28
36	6	0	1:59.37
37	2	6	1:59.43	NR
38	5	9	1:59.44
39	6	1	1:59.82
40	4	9	2:02.14
41	2	4	2:02.35	NR
42	1	0	2:02.58
43	2	8	2:02.79	NR
44	2	1	2:02.96
45	2	2	2:05.60	NR
46	2	0	2:06.75	NR
47	2	9	2:08.72
48	1	4	2:13.44	NR
49	1	5	2:14.02	NR
50	1	6	2:17.66	NR
51	1	3	2:19.31
52	1	1	2:20.31	NR
53	1	7	2:22.29	NR
54	1	2	2:25.42	NR
	2	7
	3	1
	3	3
	4	1
	6	6

The final was held at 19:24.^[3]

Web site: Schedule . 2016-12-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161206122713/http://www.finawindsor2016.com/content/competition-schedule . 2016-12-06 . dead .
Web site: Heats results . 2017-06-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170801004709/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00010800FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . 2017-08-01 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2017-06-15 . 2017-03-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170329112905/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000110000D00010802FFFFFFFFFFFF02 . dead .