Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre backstroke
Championship:	2019 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	25 July (heats and semifinals) 26 July (final)
Venue:	Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center
Location:	Gwangju, South Korea
Competitors:	42
Nations:	36
Win Value:	1:53.40
Gold:	Evgeny Rylov
Gold Nation:	RUS
Silver:	Ryan Murphy
Silver Nation:	USA
Bronze:	Luke Greenbank
Bronze Nation:	GBR
Prev:	2017
Next:	2022

The Men's 200 Metre Backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2019.^[1] ^[2]

Records

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

The heats were held on 25 July at 10:28.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	1:56.61	Q
2	5	4	1:56.76	Q
3	4	3	1:56.83	Q
4	3	3	1:56.99	Q
5	3	5	1:57.15	Q,
6	3	2	1:57.20	Q
7	5	5	1:57.60	Q
8	4	2	1:57.61	Q
8	5	8	1:57.61	Q
10	5	6	1:57.67	Q
11	3	8	1:57.76	Q
12	3	1	1:57.80	Q
13	5	7	1:57.99	Q
14	5	2	1:58.04	Q
14	5	9	1:58.04	Q, NR
16	5	3	1:58.07	Q
17	5	1	1:58.16	Q
18	4	6	1:58.31
19	4	5	1:58.40
20	3	7	1:58.44
21	3	6	1:58.57
22	4	1	1:58.74
23	3	0	1:59.07
24	4	7	1:59.42
25	5	0	1:59.79
26	4	8	2:00.45
27	2	4	2:00.52
28	2	1	2:01.13
29	2	2	2:01.19	NR
30	3	9	2:01.44
31	4	0	2:01.84
32	2	8	2:02.08	NR
33	4	9	2:02.37
34	2	5	2:03.33
35	2	3	2:03.73
36	2	7	2:04.76
37	2	6	2:05.23
38	2	0	2:05.53
39	1	4	2:06.64
40	1	5	2:07.03
41	2	9	2:10.25
42	1	3	2:33.23
	3	4

The semifinals were held on 25 July at 21:35.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:55.48	Q
2	8	1:56.96	Q, NR
3	5	1:57.24	Q
4	3	1:57.26	Q
5	2	1:57.66
6	7	1:57.72
7	1	1:57.93	NR
	6	DSQ

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	1:56.25	Q
2	5	1:56.60	Q
3	8	1:56.65	Q
4	3	1:57.07	Q
5	6	1:57.33
6	7	1:57.68
7	2	1:58.12
8	1	1:58.29

The final was held on 26 July at 21:00.^[5]