Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

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Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Games:	2018 Mediterranean Games
Dates:	25 June
Venue:	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location:	Tarragona, Spain
Competitors:	18
Nations:	12
Win Value:	1:58.79
Gold:	Christopher Ciccarese
Gold Nation:	ITA
Silver:	Hugo González
Silver Nation:	ESP
Bronze:	Apostolos Christou
Bronze Nation:	GRE
Prev:	2013
Next:	2022

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 25 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record		1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Mediterranean Games record		1:54.96	Pescara, Italy	27 June 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:57.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Hugo González		2:00.42	Q
2	1	5	Anton Lončar		2:00.98	Q
3	3	5	Christopher Ciccarese		2:01.28	Q
4	2	4	Geoffroy Mathieu		2:01.52	Q
5	2	3	Nikolaos Sofianidis		2:02.15	Q
6	3	6	Jan Giralt		2:02.80	Q
7	3	4	Matteo Restivo		2:03.13	Q
8	1	4	Apostolos Christou		2:03.74	Q
9	2	6	Anže Ferš Eržen		2:04.60
10	2	2	Berk Özkul		2:05.09
11	2	7	Youssef Said		2:05.61
12	1	7	Driss Lahrichi		2:05.96
13	3	3	Francisco Santos		2:05.97
14	1	6	Ege Başer		2:06.12
15	1	3	João Vital		2:06.25
16	3	2	Ryad Bouhamidi		2:07.98
17	1	2	Sebastian Konnaris		2:10.60
18	3	7	Omar Eltonbary		2:11.17

Final

The final was held at 18:12.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Christopher Ciccarese		1:58.79
	4	Hugo González		1:58.94
	8	Apostolos Christou		2:00.37
4	5	Anton Lončar		2:01.39
5	2	Nikolaos Sofianidis		2:01.66
6	6	Geoffroy Mathieu		2:01.93
7	1	Matteo Restivo		2:02.86
8	7	Jan Giralt		2:03.03

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2018 Mediterranean Games – Swimming schedule. tarragona2018.cat. 23 June 2018.
2. https://tarragona2018-reports.s3.amazonaws.com/SWM/MED18_SWMM200MBA------------------------_C76_v1.pdf Final results