Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	6 August (heats and semifinals) 7 August (final)
Competitors	37 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:53.58
Medalists
Mitch Larkin   Australia   Radosław Kawęcki   Poland   Evgeny Rylov   Russia

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.

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:56.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:55.88	Q
2	3	4	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:56.68	Q
3	3	5	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:56.71	Q
4	3	3	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:56.78	Q
5	2	4	Xu Jiayu	China	1:56.90	Q
6	4	4	Tyler Clary	United States	1:56.92	Q
7	4	6	Christian Diener	Germany	1:57.42	Q
8	4	3	Josh Beaver	Australia	1:57.62	Q
9	2	3	Masaki Kaneko	Japan	1:57.63	Q
10	3	7	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:57.73	Q
11	4	1	Grigory Tarasevich	Russia	1:57.77	Q
12	2	2	Li Guangyuan	China	1:58.02	Q
13	2	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:58.09	Q
14	2	1	Corey Main	New Zealand	1:58.22	Q
15	4	2	Luca Mencarini	Italy	1:58.31	Q
16	2	6	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1:58.55	Q
17	4	7	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:58.64
18	3	6	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	1:58.79
19	3	2	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:59.00
20	2	7	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	1:59.05
21	1	5	Lavrans Solli	Norway	1:59.23
22	3	8	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1:59.24
23	2	8	Carlos Omaña	Venezuela	1:59.59	NR
24	3	1	Mateusz Wysoczyński	Poland	2:00.26
25	4	9	Armando Barrera	Cuba	2:00.92
26	1	3	Rexford Tullius	Virgin Islands	2:01.22
27	4	0	Roman Dmytrijev	Czech Republic	2:01.49
28	3	0	Matias López	Paraguay	2:01.74
29	2	0	Lukas Rauftlin	Switzerland	2:03.00
30	1	6	Lin Shih-chieh	Chinese Taipei	2:04.00
31	1	4	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	2:04.15
32	2	9	Lê Nguyễn Paul	Vietnam	2:04.78
33	3	9	Vuk Čelić	Serbia	2:05.54
34	1	2	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	2:06.74
35	1	7	Lushano Lamprecht	Namibia	2:08.14
36	1	1	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco	2:09.14
37	1	8	Rami Elias	Sudan	2:19.53
	4	8	Apostolos Christou	Greece		DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:57.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
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	Josh Beaver	Australia	1:57.99
8	1	Corey Main	New Zealand	1:59.50

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
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.

Before the final (from top: Clary, Kawecki, Xu, Larkin)

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	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