Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Date	August 1, 2013 (heats &; semifinals); August 2, 2013 (final)
Competitors	35 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:53.79
Medalists
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The men's 200 metre backstroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1–2 August July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009	^[3]^[4]

The heats were held at 10:21.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Tyler Clary	United States	1:56.76	Q
2	2	5	Craig McNally	Great Britain	1:57.18	Q
3	2	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:57.19	Q
4	4	3	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:57.20	Q
5	2	3	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1:57.33	Q
6	3	3	Matson Lawson	Australia	1:57.48	Q
7	4	5	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:57.52	Q
8	3	4	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:57.53	Q
9	4	2	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	1:57.95	Q
10	3	6	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1:57.98	Q
11	3	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:57.99	Q
12	4	7	Xu Jiayu	China	1:58.29	Q
13	3	7	Federico Turrini	Italy	1:58.54	Q
14	4	1	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:59.11	Q
15	2	2	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:59.17	Q
16	2	1	Darren Murray	South Africa	1:59.19	Q
17	4	6	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:59.34
18	3	2	Yakov-Yan Toumarkin	Israel	1:59.39
19	2	7	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	1:59.95
20	3	8	Lukas Rauftlin	Switzerland	2:00.45
21	4	0	Russell Wood	Canada	2:00.51
22	3	1	Alexandr Tarabrin	Kazakhstan	2:01.08
23	2	8	Im Tae-Jeong	South Korea	2:01.23
24	2	6	Gareth Kean	New Zealand	2:02.81
25	2	0	Jean-François Schneiders	Luxembourg	2:02.96
26	3	0	Marko Krce Rabar	Croatia	2:03.50
27	4	8	Pedro Medel	Cuba	2:03.63
28	2	9	I Gede Siman Sudartawa	Indonesia	2:04.90
29	3	9	Ezequiel Trujillo	Mexico	2:05.92
30	1	4	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	2:06.09
31	1	6	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	2:08.74
32	1	5	Gorazd Chepishevski	North Macedonia	2:09.89
33	1	3	Awse Ma'aya	Jordan	2:12.31
34	1	2	Yaaqoub Al-Saadi	United Arab Emirates	2:21.51
	4	9	Danil Bukin	Uzbekistan		DSQ

The semifinals were held at 19:20.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:56.14	Q
2	7	Xu Jiayu	China	1:56.42	Q
3	4	Craig McNally	Great Britain	1:56.97	Q
4	5	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:57.37	Q
5	2	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1:57.42
6	3	Matson Lawson	Australia	1:57.55
7	1	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:59.05
8	8	Darren Murray	South Africa	2:02.12

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Tyler Clary	United States	1:55.16	Q
2	5	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:55.88	Q
3	7	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:56.14	Q
4	6	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:56.24	Q
5	3	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1:57.71
6	8	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:57.92
7	2	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	1:58.16
8	1	Federico Turrini	Italy	1:59.16

The final was held at 18:09.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:53.79
	6	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:54.24	ER, NR
	4	Tyler Clary	United States	1:54.64
4	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:55.07
5	2	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:55.43
6	1	Craig McNally	Great Britain	1:55.67
7	7	Xu Jiayu	China	1:57.13
8	8	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:58.26