2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates:	16 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	37
Nations:	32
Win Value:	1:47.02
Gold:	Evgeny Rylov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Ryan Murphy
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Radosław Kawęcki
Bronzenoc:	POL
Bronze2:	Mitch Larkin
Bronzenoc2:	AUS
Prev:	2016
Next:	2021

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2018.^[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 started at 09:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	3	1	1:49.26	Q
2	4	5	1:49.55	Q
3	4	4	1:50.05	Q
4	2	5	1:50.11	Q
5	3	5	1:50.31	Q,
6	3	3	1:50.51	Q
7	3	4	1:50.65	Q
8	3	8	1:50.80	Q
9	2	3	1:50.99	Q
10	4	3	1:51.32
11	2	1	1:51.58
12	4	6	1:51.60
13	2	6	1:51.79
14	2	4	1:52.25
15	4	2	1:52.48
16	3	0	1:52.66	NR
17	1	4	1:53.07
18	2	2	1:53.08
19	3	2	1:53.09
20	2	0	1:53.20
21	1	3	1:54.55
22	4	7	1:54.78
23	3	9	1:55.24
24	4	1	1:55.77
25	4	8	1:56.01
26	3	6	1:56.14
27	2	8	1:56.66
28	1	5	1:58.26
29	1	7	1:58.99
30	4	0	1:59.04
31	4	9	1:59.48
32	1	2	1:59.50
33	1	6	1:59.80
34	2	9	2:00.82
35	1	8	2:09.03
36	1	1	2:09.90
37	1	0	2:20.26
	2	7
	3	7

The final was held at 18:55.^[3]

Web site: Competition Schedule. Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. 16 December 2018.
Web site: Heats results . 2018-12-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181216074034/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0102EE01FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-16 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2018-12-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181216163504/http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0102EE04FFFFFFFFFFFF01 . 2018-12-16 . dead .