Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	31 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 1 August 2024 (Final)
Competitors	29 from 22 nations
Winning time	1:54.26
Medalists
Hubert Kos   Hungary Apostolos Christou   Greece Roman Mityukov   Switzerland
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The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 31 July to 1 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. ^[1]

Records

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

World record	Aaron Peirsol  (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009	[2] [3]
Olympic record	Evgeny Rylov  (ROC)	1:53.27	Tokyo, Japan	30 July 2021

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). ^[4] For this event, the OQT was 1:57.50. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. ^{[4] [5]} Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 01:58.09 for this event. ^[4] In total, 27 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, two athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT. ^[5]

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
31 July 2024	10:00	Heats
	19:37	Semifinals
1 August 2024	17:30	Final

Results

Heats

Results ^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:56.62	Q
2	4	2	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:56.89	Q
3	2	6	Pieter Coetze	South Africa	1:56.92	Q
4	4	4	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.01	Q
5	3	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:57.03	Q
6	2	4	Hugo González	Spain	1:57.08	Q
7	2	7	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:57.18	Q
8	3	7	Hidekazu Takehara	Japan	1:57.23	Q
9	4	3	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:57.26	Q
10	3	2	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:57.39	Q
11	4	5	Keaton Jones	United States	1:57.54	Q
12	4	7	Oliver Morgan	Great Britain	1:57.56	Q
13	3	3	Mewen Tomac	France	1:57.62	Q
14	2	1	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	1:57.69	Q
15	2	2	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:57.92	Q
16	4	6	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:57.98	Q
17	3	1	Ksawery Masiuk	Poland	1:58.01
18	1	4	Se-Bom Lee	Australia	1:58.30
19	4	8	Blake Tierney	Canada	1:58.39
20	3	6	Oleksandr Zheltyakov	Ukraine	1:58.41
21	1	5	Kane Follows	New Zealand	1:58.63
22	1	3	David Gerchik	Israel	1:58.79
23	2	8	Kai van Westering  [ nl ]	Netherlands	1:58.99
24	3	8	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:59.05
25	2	3	Bradley Woodward	Australia	2:00.50
26	1	6	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	2:00.60
27	1	2	Ziyad Saleem	Sudan	2:01.44
28	1	7	Denilson Cyprianos	Zimbabwe	2:01.91	NR
	2	5	Xu Jiayu	China	DNS
	4	1	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	DSQ

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Results ^[7]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:55.96	Q
2	2	4	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:56.05	Q
3	2	5	Pieter Coetze	South Africa	1:56.09	Q
4	1	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:56.33	Q
4	2	6	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:56.33	Q
6	2	7	Keaton Jones	United States	1:56.39	Q
7	2	1	Mewen Tomac	France	1:56.43	Q
8	1	3	Hugo González	Spain	1:56.52	Q
9	1	1	Thomas Ceccon	Italy	1:56.59
10	2	3	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:56.62
11	1	2	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:56.76
12	1	7	Oliver Morgan	Great Britain	1:57.28
13	1	8	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:57.58
14	2	2	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:57.77
15	1	6	Hidekazu Takehara	Japan	1:58.03
16	2	8	Yohann Ndoye-Brouard	France	1:58.65

Final

Results ^[8]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Hubert Kos	Hungary	1:54.26
	2	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:54.82	NR
	5	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:54.85	NR
4	1	Mewen Tomac	France	1:55.38	NR
5	7	Keaton Jones	United States	1:55.39
6	8	Hugo González	Spain	1:55.47
7	3	Pieter Coetze	South Africa	1:55.60	AF
8	6	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:55.97

References

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