Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	22 June (heats and semifinals); 23 June (final)
Competitors	42 from 37 nations
Winning time	1:54.52
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 22 and 23 June 2022.^[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 started on 22 June at 09:20.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Shaine Casas	United States	1:56.66	Q
2	4	6	Joshua Edwards-Smith	Australia	1:56.85	Q
3	4	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:56.96	Q
4	3	2	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:57.09	Q
5	3	6	Mewen Tomac	France	1:57.21	Q
6	2	4	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:57.33	Q
7	2	5	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:57.82	Q
8	4	7	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:57.88	Q
9	2	6	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:57.89	Q
10	3	5	Yohann Ndoye Brouard	France	1:58.10	Q
11	3	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:58.58	Q
12	4	3	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:58.61	Q
13	2	3	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	1:58.65	Q
14	3	7	Evangelos Makrygiannis	Greece	1:59.25	Q
15	2	2	Hugo González	Spain	1:59.61	Q
16	3	1	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	1:59.77	Q
17	4	1	Richie Stokes	Canada	1:59.86
18	2	1	Erikas Grigaitis	Lithuania	1:59.92
19	3	8	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	2:00.62
20	3	3	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	2:00.69
21	2	7	Michele Lamberti	Italy	2:00.92
22	2	8	Ziyad Ahmed	Sudan	2:01.05	NR
23	4	2	Oleksandr Zheltiakov	Ukraine	2:02.69
24	4	8	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	2:03.12
25	2	0	Armin Lelle	Estonia	2:03.58
26	4	9	Mohamed Mohamady	Egypt	2:03.84
27	3	0	Farrel Tangkas	Indonesia	2:04.84
28	4	0	Patrick Groters	Aruba	2:05.90
29	1	4	Ratthawit Thammananthachote	Thailand	2:07.12
30	1	5	Elías Ardiles	Chile	2:07.92
31	1	3	Ali Al-Essa	Saudi Arabia	2:15.66

The semifinals were started on 22 June at 19:36.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:55.43	Q
2	1	5	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:56.17	Q
3	1	3	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:56.42	Q
4	2	3	Mewen Tomac	France	1:56.52	Q
5	2	6	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:56.80	Q
6	2	4	Shaine Casas	United States	1:56.90	Q
7	1	7	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:57.08	Q
8	1	6	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:57.12	Q
9	2	7	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:57.36
10	1	2	Yohann Ndoye Brouard	France	1:57.38
11	1	4	Joshua Edwards-Smith	Australia	1:57.52
12	2	2	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:57.55
13	2	8	Hugo González	Spain	1:59.05
14	2	1	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	1:59.28
15	1	1	Evangelos Makrygiannis	Greece	1:59.72
16	1	8	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	2:01.47

The final was held on 23 June at 19:01.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:54.52
	3	Luke Greenbank	Great Britain	1:55.16
	7	Shaine Casas	United States	1:55.35
4	5	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:56.16
5	6	Mewen Tomac	France	1:56.35
6	2	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:56.91
7	1	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:57.45
8	8	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:58.52