2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors	54 from 43 nations
Winning time	1:47.63
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:45.63	Sydney	27 November 2015
Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:46.68	Dubai	19 December 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Masaki Kaneko	Japan	1:50.30	Q
2	5	4	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:51.00	Q
3	4	6	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:51.17	Q
4	4	5	Xu Jiayu	China	1:51.35	Q
5	5	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:51.38	Q
6	6	2	Hayate Matsubara	Japan	1:51.51	Q
7	6	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:51.87	Q
8	5	6	Robert Glință	Romania	1:51.92	Q, NR
9	6	7	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:52.05
10	6	9	Grigoriy Tarasevich	Russia	1:52.46
11	6	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:52.59
12	4	7	Michael Taylor	United States	1:52.62
13	5	7	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	1:52.89	NR
14	4	3	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:52.92
15	6	5	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	1:52.93
16	3	9	Anton Loncar	Croatia	1:53.35
17	4	0	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:54.15	NR
18	3	2	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	1:54.29
19	4	2	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	1:54.97
20	5	2	Oleg Garasymovytch	France	1:55.25
21	5	0	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:55.63
22	3	7	Uvis Kalniņš	Latvia	1:56.07	NR
23	5	8	Ricky Ellis	South Africa	1:56.32
24	5	3	David Gamburg	Israel	1:56.64
25	4	8	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	1:57.11
26	3	5	Trần Duy Khôi	Vietnam	1:57.35	NR
27	3	8	Charles Hockin	Paraguay	1:57.45
28	6	8	Axel Pettersson	Sweden	1:57.72
29	2	5	Iskender Baslakov	Turkey	1:57.77
30	1	8	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:57.96
31	3	4	Matías López	Paraguay	1:58.06
32	3	0	Yeziel Morales Miranda	Puerto Rico	1:58.17	NR
33	2	3	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	1:58.50	NR
34	3	6	João Vital	Portugal	1:58.53
35	5	1	Mattias Carlsson	Sweden	1:59.28
36	6	0	Gaston Hernandez	Argentina	1:59.37
37	2	6	Keanan Dols	Jamaica	1:59.43	NR
38	5	9	Joan Pons Ramon	Spain	1:59.44
39	6	1	Jarryd Baxter	South Africa	1:59.82
40	4	9	Kristinn Þórarinsson	Iceland	2:02.14
41	2	4	Gorazd Chepishevski	Macedonia	2:02.35	NR
42	1	0	Fran Krznaric	Croatia	2:02.58
43	2	8	Adil Assouab	Morocco	2:02.79	NR
44	2	1	Jarod Arroyo	Puerto Rico	2:02.96
45	2	2	Steven Maina	Kenya	2:05.60	NR
46	2	0	Eisner Barberena Espinoza	Nicaragua	2:06.75	NR
47	2	9	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	2:08.72
48	1	4	Kennet Libohova	Albania	2:13.44	NR
49	1	5	Heriniavo Rasolonjatovo	Madagascar	2:14.02	NR
50	1	6	Carlos Vasquez	Honduras	2:17.66	NR
51	1	3	Gabriel Siwady	Honduras	2:19.31
52	1	1	Elijah Cruz	Gibraltar	2:20.31	NR
53	1	7	Daryl Appleton	Antigua and Barbuda	2:22.29	NR
54	1	2	Naveed Hussian	Pakistan	2:25.42	NR
	2	7	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco		DNS
	3	1	Francis Fong	Singapore		DNS
	3	3	Daniil Bukin	Uzbekistan		DNS
	4	1	Javier Acevedo	Canada		DNS
	6	6	Bobby Hurley	Australia		DNS

Final

The final was held at 19:24.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:47.63
	3	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:48.98
	4	Masaki Kaneko	Japan	1:49.18
4	1	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:49.25
5	2	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:50.87	NR
6	6	Xu Jiayu	China	1:51.37
7	7	Hayate Matsubara	Japan	1:52.16
8	8	Robert Glință	Romania	1:52.57

References

^ "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
^ "Heats results". Archived from the original on 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
^ "Final results". Archived from the original on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-06-15.

[1] "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2016-12-05.

[2] "Heats results". Archived from the original on 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2017-06-15.

[3] "Final results". Archived from the original on 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-06-15.

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