Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

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Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Kazan 2015 - Victory Ceremony 200m backstroke M.JPG
Victory Ceremony
Dates6 August (heats and semifinals)
7 August (final)
Competitors37 from 30 nations
Winning time1:53.58
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
  2013
2017  

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 6 August with the heats and the semifinals and 7 August with the final. [1]

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Records

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

World record Flag of the United States.svg  Aaron Peirsol  (USA)1:51.92 Rome, Italy 31 July 2009
Competition recordFlag of the United States.svg  Aaron Peirsol  (USA)1:51.92 Rome, Italy 31 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:56. [2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
145 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1:55.88Q
234 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:56.68Q
335 Ryan Murphy Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:56.71Q
433 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:56.78Q
524 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:56.90Q
644 Tyler Clary Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:56.92Q
746 Christian Diener Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:57.42Q
843 Josh Beaver Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1:57.62Q
923 Masaki Kaneko Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:57.63Q
1037 Leonardo de Deus Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:57.73Q
1141 Grigory Tarasevich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:57.77Q
1222 Li Guangyuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:58.02Q
1325 Radosław Kawęcki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:58.09Q
1421 Corey Main Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:58.22Q
1542 Luca Mencarini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:58.31Q
1626 Gábor Balog Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:58.55Q
1747 Yakov Toumarkin Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 1:58.64
1836 Christopher Ciccarese Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:58.79
1932 Danas Rapšys Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:59.00
2027 Benjamin Stasiulis Flag of France.svg  France 1:59.05
2115 Lavrans Solli Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 1:59.23
2238 Omar Pinzón Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 1:59.24
2328 Carlos Omaña Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 1:59.59 NR
2431 Mateusz Wysoczyński Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:00.26
2549 Armando Barrera Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 2:00.92
2613 Rexford Tullius Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg  Virgin Islands 2:01.22
2740 Roman Dmytrijev Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 2:01.49
2830 Matias López Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay 2:01.74
2920 Lukas Rauftlin Flag of Switzerland.svg   Switzerland 2:03.00
3016 Lin Shih-chieh Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 2:04.00
3114 Yeziel Morales Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 2:04.15
3229 Lê Nguyễn Paul Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 2:04.78
3339 Vuk Čelić Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 2:05.54
3412 Boris Kirillov Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 2:06.74
3517 Lushano Lamprecht Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia 2:08.14
3611 Driss Lahrichi Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 2:09.14
3718 Rami Elias Flag of Sudan.svg  Sudan 2:19.53
48 Apostolos Christou Flag of Greece.svg  Greece DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:57. [3]

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
15 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:55.54Q
24 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:55.76Q
33 Tyler Clary Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:56.58Q
47 Li Guangyuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:57.12Q
58 Gábor Balog Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:57.91
62 Leonardo de Deus Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:57.96
76 Josh Beaver Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1:57.99
81 Corey Main Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:59.50

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1:54.29Q, OC
25 Ryan Murphy Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:55.10Q
33 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:55.13Q
41 Radosław Kawęcki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:55.54Q
56 Christian Diener Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:57.17
62 Masaki Kaneko Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:57.33
78 Luca Mencarini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:57.81
87 Grigory Tarasevich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:58.30

Final

The final was held on 7 August at 17:40. [4]

Before the final (from top: Clary, Kawecki, Xu, Larkin) Kazan 2015 - 200m backstroke final.JPG
Before the final (from top: Clary, Kawecki, Xu, Larkin)
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Mitch Larkin Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1:53.58 OC
Silver medal icon.svg2 Radosław Kawęcki Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:54.55
Bronze medal icon.svg6 Evgeny Rylov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:54.60 NR
47 Ryosuke Irie Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:54.81
55 Ryan Murphy Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:55.00
63 Xu Jiayu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:55.20
71 Tyler Clary Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:56.26
88 Li Guangyuan Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:56.79 WJ

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