Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	26 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 27 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	42
Win Value:	1 minute 57.13 seconds
Gold:	Aaron Peirsol
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Markus Rogan
Silvernoc:	AUT
Bronze:	Örn Arnarson
Bronzenoc:	ISL
Previous:	1998
Next:	2003

See main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 27 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place 26 July, with the final being held on 27 July.^[3]

Records

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

World record		1:55.87	Sydney, Australia	align=right	27 August 1999
Championship record		1:57.42	Rome, Italy	align=right	7 September 1994

The following record was established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	1:59.79	Q
2	2:00.12	Q
3	2:00.27	Q
4	2:00.63	Q
5	2:00.66	Q
6	2:00.72	Q
7	2:00.82	Q
8	2:00.97	Q
9	2:01.19	Q
10	2:01.30	Q
11	2:01.35	Q
12	2:01.36	Q, WD
13	2:01.41	Q
14	2:01.42	Q
15	2:01.57	Q
16	2:01.61	Q
17	2:02.40	Q
18	2:02.43
19	2:02.48
20	2:02.74
21	2:03.17
22	2:03.45
23	2:03.81
24	2:04.82
25	2:04.94
26	2:05.19
27	2:05.21
28	2:05.23
29	2:06.04
30	2:06.45
31	2:07.90
32	2:08.30
33	2:09.43
34	2:11.27
35	2:14.50
36	2:14.63
37	2:14.71
38	2:18.03
39	2:19.12
40	2:19.91
41	2:26.44
–	DSQ
–	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Notes
1	1:58.12	Q
2	1:58.91	Q
3	1:59.24	Q
4	1:59.34	Q
5	1:59.39	Q
6	1:59.75	Q
7	1:59.80	Q
8	1:59.98	Q
9	1:59.99
10	2:00.72
11	2:00.98
12	2:01.05
13	2:01.33
14	2:01.34
15	2:01.54
16	2:02.98

Final

Rank	Time	Notes
	1:57.13	CR
	1:58.07
	1:58.37
4	1:58.80
5	1:59.23
6	1:59.74
7	1:59.83
8	2:00.09

Notes and References

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024123725/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay5.html#200BackM . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019211134/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay5FINAL.html#200BackM . 19 October 2004 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-06 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019120755/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsM200back.html . 19 October 2004 .