Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	28 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	45 from 35 nations
Winning time	1:58.47 OR
Medalists
Martín López-Zubero  Spain Vladimir Selkov  Unified Team Stefano Battistelli  Italy

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

Records

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

World record	Martín López-Zubero (ESP)	1:56.57	Tuscaloosa, United States	23 November 1991
Olympic record	Rick Carey (USA)	1:58.99	Los Angeles, United States	31 July 1984

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
28 July	Final A	Martín López-Zubero	Spain	1:58.47	OR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Martín López-Zubero	Spain	1:59.22	Q
2	6	3	Tino Weber	Germany	1:59.40	Q
3	6	5	Stefano Battistelli	Italy	1:59.56	Q
4	6	7	Stefaan Maene	Belgium	1:59.64	Q, NR
5	5	6	Vladimir Selkov	Unified Team	1:59.81	Q
6	4	4	Tripp Schwenk	United States	1:59.92	Q
7	5	5	Hajime Itoi	Japan	1:59.95	Q
8	4	3	Tamás Deutsch	Hungary	2:00.50	Q
9	3	1	Rodolfo Falcón	Cuba	2:00.52	q, NR
10	5	3	Dirk Richter	Germany	2:00.94	q, WD
11	5	4	Royce Sharp	United States	2:00.97	q, WD
12	5	2	Rogério Romero	Brazil	2:00.99	q
13	3	5	Yasuhiro Vandewalle	Belgium	2:01.46	q
14	4	2	Kevin Draxinger	Canada	2:01.73	q
15	5	1	Raymond Brown	Canada	2:01.81	q
16	5	7	Manuel Guzmán	Puerto Rico	2:01.84	q
17	3	7	Georgi Mihalev	Bulgaria	2:02.24	q
18	4	6	Luca Bianchin	Italy	2:02.65	q
19	3	2	Marcel Blažo	Czechoslovakia	2:02.81
20	2	2	Alejandro Alvizuri	Peru	2:03.10	NR
	4	7	Keita Soraoka	Japan
22	6	6	David Holderbach	France	2:03.11
23	4	1	Rastislav Bizub	Czechoslovakia	2:03.30
24	4	8	Adam Ruckwood	Great Britain	2:03.54
25	3	4	Jorge Pérez	Spain	2:03.68
26	2	3	Alejandro Bermúdez	Colombia	2:04.46
27	3	3	Olivér Ágh	Hungary	2:04.52
28	2	5	Simon Percy	New Zealand	2:05.53
29	2	4	Ji Sang-jun	South Korea	2:05.56
30	2	6	Ilmar Ojase	Estonia	2:05.76
31	6	1	Thomas Sopp	Norway	2:05.91
32	5	8	Matthew O'Connor	Great Britain	2:05.94
33	4	5	Derya Büyükuncu	Turkey	2:06.01
34	2	7	Miguel Arrobas	Portugal	2:06.02
35	6	2	Toby Haenen	Australia	2:06.79
36	3	6	Lars Sørensen	Denmark	2:06.80
37	2	1	Eran Groumi	Israel	2:07.91
38	1	6	Gary Tan	Singapore	2:11.36
39	1	5	Marcos Prono	Paraguay	2:15.25
40	1	3	Sultan Al-Otaibi	Kuwait	2:19.02
41	1	2	Salvador Jiménez	Honduras	2:20.15
42	1	7	Carl Probert	Fiji	2:22.54
	1	1	Abdullah Sultan	United Arab Emirates	DSQ
	1	4	Raymond Papa	Philippines	DSQ
	6	8	Jani Sievinen	Finland	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Rodolfo Falcón	Cuba	2:00.22
10	5	Rogério Romero	Brazil	2:01.02
11	8	Luca Bianchin	Italy	2:01.70
12	6	Kevin Draxinger	Canada	2:01.79
13	7	Manuel Guzmán	Puerto Rico	2:01.87
14	3	Yasuhiro Vandewalle	Belgium	2:02.45
15	2	Raymond Brown	Canada	2:03.01
	1	Georgi Mihalev	Bulgaria	DSQ

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Martín López-Zubero	Spain	1:58.47	OR
	2	Vladimir Selkov	Unified Team	1:58.87
	3	Stefano Battistelli	Italy	1:59.40
4	1	Hajime Itoi	Japan	1:59.52
5	7	Tripp Schwenk	United States	1:59.73
6	5	Tino Weber	Germany	1:59.78
7	8	Tamás Deutsch	Hungary	2:00.06
8	6	Stefaan Maene	Belgium	2:00.91

External links

• Official Report