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 |
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Victory Ceremony
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Dates | 6 August (heats and semifinals) 7 August (final) |
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Competitors | 37 from 30 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 1:53.58 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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2015 FINA World Championships Kazan, Russia |
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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]
Contents
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]
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 18:57.[3]
Semifinal 1
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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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 | Joshua Beaver | Australia | 1:57.99 | |
8 | 1 | Corey Main | New Zealand | 1:59.50 |
Semifinal 2
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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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]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 1:53.58 | OC | |
2 | Radosław Kawęcki | Poland | 1:54.55 | ||
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 |