• World record (WR)
  World record progression 200 metres backstroke
  This is a history of the 200 m backstroke world record as swum in both long course pools and short course pools – the two categories recognized/tracked by FINA.-Long course:-Short course:-Long course:...
  
  : 1:54.44, Aaron Peirsol
  Aaron Peirsol
  Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...
  
   (USA), August 19, 2006 in Victoria, Canada
  2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  The tenth edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course event, was held in 2006 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from August 17–20. Six world records were tallied compared to one from the 2002 edition. This edition was slower than it would have been because of the...
  
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• Championship record (CR): 1:54.66, Aaron Peirsol
  Aaron Peirsol
  Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...
  
   (USA), Montreal 2005
  Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships
  The swimming events at the XI FINA World Championships took place in the Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada from July 24–31, 2005.The swimming portion consisted of 50 events – 25 for men and 25 for women – all of which were swum in a long-course pool...
  
   (July 29, 2005)

Finals

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...	United States	1:54.32	WR World record progression 200 metres backstroke This is a history of the 200 m backstroke world record as swum in both long course pools and short course pools – the two categories recognized/tracked by FINA.-Long course:-Short course:-Long course:...
2	Aaron Peirsol Aaron Peirsol Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...	United States	1:54.80
3	Markus Rogan Markus Rogan Markus Antonius Rogan is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester...	Austria	1:56.02
4	Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin is an Russian backstroke swimmer. Vyatchanin has lived and trained in Taganrog since 1999 and is a student of the South Federal University...	Russia	1:57.14
5	Răzvan Florea Razvan Florea Răzvan Florea is a former Olympic and national record setting backstroke swimmer from Romania. He was the first Romanian male to win an Olympic medal in Swimming when he won the bronze medal in the 200 backstroke at the 2004 Olympics...	Kingdom of Romania	1:57.31
6	James Goddard James Goddard James Francis Goddard is a British backstroke swimmer.Goddard represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley swimming events...	Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	1:58.88
7	Tomomi Morita Tomomi Morita is a backstroke swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There, he won two bronze medals in the 100 m backstroke and as a member of the 4x100 m medley relay team.-References:* *...	Japan	1:59.14
8	Gregor Tait Gregor Tait Gregor Tait is a Scottish swimmer. He was the Commonwealth Games 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley champion at the 2006 games in Melbourne....	Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	1:59.41

Semifinals

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...	United States	1:55.99	Q
2	Aaron Peirsol Aaron Peirsol Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...	United States	1:56.39	Q
3	Markus Rogan Markus Rogan Markus Antonius Rogan is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester...	Austria	1:56.62	Q
4	Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin is an Russian backstroke swimmer. Vyatchanin has lived and trained in Taganrog since 1999 and is a student of the South Federal University...	Russia	1:57.56	Q
5	Răzvan Florea Razvan Florea Răzvan Florea is a former Olympic and national record setting backstroke swimmer from Romania. He was the first Romanian male to win an Olympic medal in Swimming when he won the bronze medal in the 200 backstroke at the 2004 Olympics...	Kingdom of Romania	1:58.59	Q
6	James Goddard James Goddard James Francis Goddard is a British backstroke swimmer.Goddard represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley swimming events...	Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	1:58.68	Q
7	Tomomi Morita Tomomi Morita is a backstroke swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There, he won two bronze medals in the 100 m backstroke and as a member of the 4x100 m medley relay team.-References:* *...	Japan	1:58.91	Q
8	Gregor Tait Gregor Tait Gregor Tait is a Scottish swimmer. He was the Commonwealth Games 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley champion at the 2006 games in Melbourne....	Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	1:59.52	Q
9	Luca Marin Luca Marin Luca Marin is an Italian medley swimmer. He specializes in the 400 m medley, and won six silver medals at the European and World Championship in this event. At the 2006 European Championship he won a gold medal, beating László Cseh, world record holder...	Italy	1:59.81
10	Ouyang Kunpeng Ouyang Kunpeng Ouyang Kunpeng is a Chinese swimmer and China's top male backstroker, holding the Chinese record in the long course and short course 50m, 100m, and 200m backstroke....	Mainland China	1:59.91
11	Masafumi Yamaguchi	Japan	2:00.03
12	Damiano Lestingi	Italy	2:00.17
13	Ephraim Hannant	Australia	2:00.95
14	Pedro Oliveira Pedro Oliveira (swimmer) Pedro Oliveira is a butterfly and backstroke swimmer from Portugal. Currently he studies at the University of Louisville and trains with the college's swimming team....	Portugal	2:01.18
15	Nicholas Neckles Nicholas Neckles Nicholas Alfred Neckles is a 3-time Olympic swimmer from Barbados. He swam for Barbados at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics...	Barbados	2:01.66
16	Itai Chammah Itai Chammah Itai Chammah is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:He is Jewish.He competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.- External links :*...	Israel	2:01.79

Heats

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Aaron Peirsol Aaron Peirsol Aaron Wells Peirsol is a former American swimmer who specialized in the backstroke. He is a three-time Olympian and seven-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay...	United States	1:57.79	Q
2	Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...	United States	1:57.95	Q
3	James Goddard James Goddard James Francis Goddard is a British backstroke swimmer.Goddard represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley swimming events...	Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	1:58.36	Q
4	Markus Rogan Markus Rogan Markus Antonius Rogan is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester...	Austria	1:59.00	Q
5	Răzvan Florea Razvan Florea Răzvan Florea is a former Olympic and national record setting backstroke swimmer from Romania. He was the first Romanian male to win an Olympic medal in Swimming when he won the bronze medal in the 200 backstroke at the 2004 Olympics...	Kingdom of Romania	1:59.25	Q
6	Tomomi Morita Tomomi Morita is a backstroke swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There, he won two bronze medals in the 100 m backstroke and as a member of the 4x100 m medley relay team.-References:* *...	Japan	1:59.37	Q
7	Gregor Tait Gregor Tait Gregor Tait is a Scottish swimmer. He was the Commonwealth Games 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley champion at the 2006 games in Melbourne....	Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...	1:59.85	Q
	Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Vyatchanin Arkady Arkadyevich Vyatchanin is an Russian backstroke swimmer. Vyatchanin has lived and trained in Taganrog since 1999 and is a student of the South Federal University...	Russia		Q
9	Masafumi Yamaguchi	Japan	1:59.98	Q
10	Ephraim Hannant	Australia	2:00.31	Q
11	Damiano Lestingi	Italy	2:00.38	Q
12	Luca Marin Luca Marin Luca Marin is an Italian medley swimmer. He specializes in the 400 m medley, and won six silver medals at the European and World Championship in this event. At the 2006 European Championship he won a gold medal, beating László Cseh, world record holder...	Italy	2:00.42	Q
13	Pedro Oliveira Pedro Oliveira (swimmer) Pedro Oliveira is a butterfly and backstroke swimmer from Portugal. Currently he studies at the University of Louisville and trains with the college's swimming team....	Portugal	2:00.62	Q
14	Itai Chammah Itai Chammah Itai Chammah is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:He is Jewish.He competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.- External links :*...	Israel	2:00.93	Q
15	Nicholas Neckles Nicholas Neckles Nicholas Alfred Neckles is a 3-time Olympic swimmer from Barbados. He swam for Barbados at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympics...	Barbados	2:01.18	Q
16	Ouyang Kunpeng Ouyang Kunpeng Ouyang Kunpeng is a Chinese swimmer and China's top male backstroker, holding the Chinese record in the long course and short course 50m, 100m, and 200m backstroke....	Mainland China	2:01.21	Q
17	Simon Dufour	Early Modern France	2:01.52
18	Georgios Demetis	Greece	2:01.57
	Derya Büyükuncu Derya Büyükunçu Derya Büyükuncu is a five-time olympic backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Turkey.In 2009, during the LEN Shourt Course European Championships, Buyukuncu was a finalist in 200 m backstroke. He finished in 5th place at the age of 33. -References:...	Turkey
20	George Du Rand George Du Rand Johannes Du Rand is a South African swimmer. As of 2008, he is the African and South African record holder in the men's long course 200 m backstroke...	South Africa	2:01.79
21	Zhang Bodong	Mainland China	2:01.88
22	Ehud Segal	Israel	2:02.02
23	Andre Schultz	Brazil	2:02.16
24	Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Stoeckel Hayden Ernest Stoeckel is an Olympic and National Record holding backstroke swimmer from Australia...	Australia	2:02.32
25	Helge Meeuw Helge Meeuw Helge Meeuw is a German swimmer from Wiesbaden. At the 2008 German Swimming Championships in Berlin, he swam in 53.10 sec a new European record at 100 m backstroke...	Germany	2:02.34
26	Jens Thiele	Germany	2:04.02
27	Juan Veloz Juan Veloz Juan José Veloz Dávila is an Olympic and national record-holding swimmer for Mexico. He swam for his native country at the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympics.-Career:...	Mexico	2:04.47
28	Seunghyeon Lee	South Korea	2:04.66
29	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	2:05.02
30	Miguel Robles	Mexico	2:05.54
31	Sergey Pankov	Uzbekistan	2:05.90
32	Andriy Oleynyk	Ukraine	2:07.22
33	Gart Tune	South Africa	2:07.81
34	Taki M'Rabet	Tunisia	2:08.46
35	Geoffrey Robin Cheah	Hong Kong	2:09.22
36	David Dunford David Dunford David Harvey Dunford is a swimmer from Kenya who specializes in sprint freestyle. He is an African champion, Commonwealth Games finalist and the second Kenyan swimmer in history to qualify for the Olympics Games...	Kenya	2:09.34
37	Iurii Zakharov	Kyrgyzstan	2:10.36
38	Felix Cristiadi Sutanto	Indonesia	2:10.42
39	Rony Bakale Rony Bakale Rony Bakale is an Olympic swimmer from the Republic of the Congo. He swam for the Congo at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. He was the Congo's flagbearer in 2004.He also swam at the 2007 World Championships.-References:*...	Republic of the Congo	2:10.85
40	Gael Adam	Mauritius	2:11.13
41	Wei Shien Zach Ong	Singapore	2:12.16
42	Kevin Soow Choy Yeap	Malaysia	2:12.32
43	Stanislav Ossinskiy	Kazakhstan	2:12.65
44	Sohaib Kalali	Syria	2:12.79
45	Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani	Iran	2:14.53
46	Yu An Lin	Chinese Taipei	2:14.65
47	Juan Montenegro	Guatemala	2:14.71
48	Adonis Ganiev	Uzbekistan	2:14.79
49	Eric Chang	Malaysia	2:15.33
50	Wen Hao Joshua Lim	Singapore	2:16.01
51	Amine Kouam	Morocco	2:16.23
52	Carlos Eduardo Gil	Peru	2:16.80
53	Andrey Molchanov Andrey Molchanov (swimmer) Andrey Molchanov is an Olympic swimmer from the Turkmenistan. He swam for the Turkmenistan at the 2008 Olympics, where he finished 64th in the 50m free.He also swam at the 2007 World Championships.-References:...	Turkmenistan	2:24.03
54	Richard Randrianandraina	Madagascar	2:33.35
55	Timur Atahanov	Turkmenistan	2:39.95
--	Nuno Rola	Angola	DNS
--	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria	DNS

See also

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 m backstroke
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke
  Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke
  The record now stands as recorded below:-Heat 1:-Heat 2:-Heat 3:-Heat 4:-Heat 5:-Heat 6:-Semifinal 1:-Semifinal 2:-Swim-Off:-Final:-References:...
  
  
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200m backstroke
  Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200m backstroke
  The heats for the men's 200 m backstroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July, with the final in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.-Records:-Heats:-Semifinals:-Final:...