Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	27 July (heats and semifinals); 28 July (final)
Competitors	40 from 33 nations
Winning time	1:53.61
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2017.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Competition record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009

The heats were held on 27 July at 09:51.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:56.11	Q
2	5	2	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:56.53	Q
3	3	7	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:56.67	Q, NR
4	3	5	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	1:56.74	Q
5	5	5	Xu Jiayu	China	1:56.92	Q
6	3	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:57.21	Q
7	4	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:57.28	Q
8	5	1	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:57.41	Q
9	5	3	Li Guangyuan	China	1:57.66	Q
10	5	6	Josh Beaver	Australia	1:57.67	Q
10	4	8	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:57.67	Q
12	4	6	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:57.97	Q
13	3	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:58.00	Q
14	4	5	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:58.05	Q
15	5	7	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:58.33	Q
16	5	8	Corey Main	New Zealand	1:58.34	Q
17	3	6	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:58.37
18	4	3	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:58.41
19	3	8	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	1:58.72
20	4	7	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	1:58.92
21	5	0	Conor Ferguson	Ireland	1:59.03
22	3	0	Martin Binedell	South Africa	1:59.15
23	4	2	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:59.25
24	2	5	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	1:59.49	NR
25	2	3	Vuk Čelić	Serbia	2:00.27
26	4	1	Jakub Skierka	Poland	2:00.44
27	4	9	Anton Loncar	Croatia	2:00.46
28	5	9	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	2:00.68
29	2	1	Nils Liess	Switzerland	2:00.96
30	4	0	Roman Dmytrijev	Czech Republic	2:01.38
31	3	9	Matías López	Paraguay	2:01.84
32	3	2	Hugo González	Spain	2:02.41
33	1	4	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	2:02.78
34	2	8	Adil Kaskabay	Kazakhstan	2:03.09
35	2	2	Carlos Omaña	Venezuela	2:03.13
36	2	4	Daniil Bukin	Uzbekistan	2:03.49
37	2	6	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	2:05.11
38	2	7	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	2:09.22
39	1	5	Eisner Barberena	Nicaragua	2:11.92
40	1	3	Andrianirina Lalanomena	Madagascar	2:21.04
	3	1	Apostolos Christou	Greece	DNS

The semifinals were held on 27 July at 19:03.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	1:55.15	Q, WJ
2	1	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:55.20	Q
3	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:55.79	Q
3	4	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:55.79	Q, NR
5	6	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:56.69
6	2	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:58.50
7	7	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:58.72
8	8	Corey Main	New Zealand	2:01.00

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Xu Jiayu	China	1:54.79	Q
2	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:54.93	Q
3	6	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:54.96	Q
4	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:56.11	Q, NR
5	2	Li Guangyuan	China	1:57.10
6	8	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:57.89
7	7	Josh Beaver	Australia	1:58.10
8	1	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:59.10

The final was held on 28 July at 17:40.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.61	ER
	5	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:54.21
	2	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:55.06
4	6	Kliment Kolesnikov	Russia	1:55.14	WJ
5	4	Xu Jiayu	China	1:55.26
6	1	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:55.58	NR
7	7	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:56.35
8	8	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:56.96