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

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

Victory Ceremony
Dates 6 August (heats and semifinals)
7 August (final)
Competitors 37 from 30 nations
Winning time 1:53.58
Medalists
 Mitch Larkin   Australia
 Radosław Kawęcki   Poland
 Evgeny Rylov   Russia
2015 FINA
World Championships
Kazan, Russia
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
Mixed 3 m 10 m
Team
High diving
Open water swimming
5 km men women
10 km men women
25 km men women
Team team
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Mixed relay
4×100 m freestyle medley
Synchronised swimming
Solo technical free
Duet technical free
Team technical free
combination
Mixed duet technical free
Water polo

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]

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

Results

Heats

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

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 5 Mitch Larkin  Australia 1:55.88 Q
2 3 4 Ryosuke Irie  Japan 1:56.68 Q
3 3 5 Ryan Murphy  United States 1:56.71 Q
4 3 3 Evgeny Rylov  Russia 1:56.78 Q
5 2 4 Xu Jiayu  China 1:56.90 Q
6 4 4 Tyler Clary  United States 1:56.92 Q
7 4 6 Christian Diener  Germany 1:57.42 Q
8 4 3 Josh Beaver  Australia 1:57.62 Q
9 2 3 Masaki Kaneko  Japan 1:57.63 Q
10 3 7 Leonardo de Deus  Brazil 1:57.73 Q
11 4 1 Grigory Tarasevich  Russia 1:57.77 Q
12 2 2 Li Guangyuan  China 1:58.02 Q
13 2 5 Radosław Kawęcki  Poland 1:58.09 Q
14 2 1 Corey Main  New Zealand 1:58.22 Q
15 4 2 Luca Mencarini  Italy 1:58.31 Q
16 2 6 Gábor Balog  Hungary 1:58.55 Q
17 4 7 Yakov Toumarkin  Israel 1:58.64
18 3 6 Christopher Ciccarese  Italy 1:58.79
19 3 2 Danas Rapšys  Lithuania 1:59.00
20 2 7 Benjamin Stasiulis  France 1:59.05
21 1 5 Lavrans Solli  Norway 1:59.23
22 3 8 Omar Pinzón  Colombia 1:59.24
23 2 8 Carlos Omaña  Venezuela 1:59.59 NR
24 3 1 Mateusz Wysoczyński  Poland 2:00.26
25 4 9 Armando Barrera  Cuba 2:00.92
26 1 3 Rexford Tullius  Virgin Islands 2:01.22
27 4 0 Roman Dmytrijev  Czech Republic 2:01.49
28 3 0 Matias López  Paraguay 2:01.74
29 2 0 Lukas Rauftlin   Switzerland 2:03.00
30 1 6 Lin Shih-chieh  Chinese Taipei 2:04.00
31 1 4 Yeziel Morales  Puerto Rico 2:04.15
32 2 9 Lê Nguyễn Paul  Vietnam 2:04.78
33 3 9 Vuk Čelić  Serbia 2:05.54
34 1 2 Boris Kirillov  Azerbaijan 2:06.74
35 1 7 Lushano Lamprecht  Namibia 2:08.14
36 1 1 Driss Lahrichi  Morocco 2:09.14
37 1 8 Rami Elias  Sudan 2:19.53
38 4 8 Apostolos Christou  Greece DNS

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Evgeny Rylov  Russia 1:55.54 Q
2 4 Ryosuke Irie  Japan 1:55.76 Q
3 3 Tyler Clary  United States 1:56.58 Q
4 7 Li Guangyuan  China 1:57.12 Q
5 8 Gábor Balog  Hungary 1:57.91
6 2 Leonardo de Deus  Brazil 1:57.96
7 6 Josh Beaver  Australia 1:57.99
8 1 Corey Main  New Zealand 1:59.50

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Mitch Larkin  Australia 1:54.29 Q, OC
2 5 Ryan Murphy  United States 1:55.10 Q
3 3 Xu Jiayu  China 1:55.13 Q
4 1 Radosław Kawęcki  Poland 1:55.54 Q
5 6 Christian Diener  Germany 1:57.17
6 2 Masaki Kaneko  Japan 1:57.33
7 8 Luca Mencarini  Italy 1:57.81
8 7 Grigory Tarasevich  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)
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 4 Mitch Larkin  Australia 1:53.58 OC
2nd, silver medalist(s) 2 Radosław Kawęcki  Poland 1:54.55
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 6 Evgeny Rylov  Russia 1:54.60 NR
4 7 Ryosuke Irie  Japan 1:54.81
5 5 Ryan Murphy  United States 1:55.00
6 3 Xu Jiayu  China 1:55.20
7 1 Tyler Clary  United States 1:56.26
8 8 Li Guangyuan  China 1:56.79 WJ

References

  1. ↑ Start list
  2. ↑ Heats results
  3. ↑ Semifinal results
  4. ↑ Final results
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