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

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	16 December (heats and final)
Competitors	37 from 32 nations
Winning time	1:47.02
Medalists
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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	Australia	1:45.63	Sydney	27 November 2015
Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:46.68	Dubai	19 December 2010

The heats were started at 09:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	1	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:49.26	Q
2	4	5	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:49.55	Q
3	4	4	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:50.05	Q
4	2	5	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:50.11	Q
5	3	5	Christian Diener	Germany	1:50.31	Q, WD
6	3	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:50.51	Q
7	3	4	Xu Jiayu	China	1:50.65	Q
8	3	8	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:50.80	Q
9	2	3	Hayate Matsubara	Japan	1:50.99	Q
10	4	3	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:51.32
11	2	1	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:51.58
12	4	6	Jorden Merrilees	Australia	1:51.60
13	2	6	Anton Lončar	Croatia	1:51.79
14	2	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:52.25
15	4	2	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:52.48
16	3	0	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	1:52.66	NR
17	1	4	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1:53.07
18	2	2	Hugo González	Spain	1:53.08
19	3	2	Dávid Földházi	Hungary	1:53.09
20	2	0	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:53.20
21	1	3	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:54.55
22	4	7	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	1:54.78
23	3	9	Daniel Martin	Romania	1:55.24
24	4	1	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	1:55.77
25	4	8	Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas	Norway	1:56.01
26	3	6	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	1:56.14
27	2	8	Chuang Mu-lun	Chinese Taipei	1:56.66
28	1	5	Yeziel Morales Miranda	Puerto Rico	1:58.26
29	1	7	Matthew Mays	United States Virgin Islands	1:58.99
30	4	0	Berk Özkul	Turkey	1:59.04
31	4	9	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:59.48
32	1	2	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco	1:59.50
33	1	6	Erick Gordillo	Guatemala	1:59.80
34	2	9	Armando Barrera Aira	Cuba	2:00.82
35	1	8	Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly	Qatar	2:09.03
36	1	1	Andrianirina Lalanomena	Madagascar	2:09.90
37	1	0	Joel Gjini	Albania	2:20.26
	2	7	Li Guangyuan	China		DNS
	3	7	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil		DNS

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	6	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:47.02
	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:47.34
	3	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:48.25
	5	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:48.25
5	1	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:49.72
6	7	Xu Jiayu	China	1:49.91
7	2	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:50.88
8	8	Hayate Matsubara	Japan	1:51.96