Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2005 FINA World Championships
Dates	28 July 2005 (heats, semifinals) 29 July 2005 (final)
Competitors	47 from 39 nations
Winning time	1 minute 54.66 seconds
Medalists
Aaron Peirsol    United States   Markus Rogan    Austria   Ryan Lochte    United States
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The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships took place between 28 July – 29 July. Both the heats and semifinals were held on 28 July with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The final was held on 29 July.

Records[]

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:54.74	Long Beach	12 July 2004
Championship record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:55.82	Barcelona	24 July 2003

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	WR	CR
July 29	Final	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:54.66	WR	CR

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Heat/Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	H6 L4	Aaron Peirsol		1:58.04	qualified
2	H6 L2	Gordan Kožulj		1:59.03	qualified
3	H4 L4	Markus Rogan		1:59.33	qualified
4	H6 L6	Tomomi Morita		1:59.78	qualified
5	H5 L5	Răzvan Florea		1:59.88	qualified
6	H4 L3	Takashi Nakano		1:59.97	qualified
7	H5 L6	Blaž Medvešek		2:00.11	qualified
8	H6 L5	Ryan Lochte		2:00.27	qualified
9	H6 L3	Gregor Tait		2:00.57	qualified
10	H4 L5	Arkady Vyatchanin		2:01.03	qualified
11	H5 L3	Simon Dufour		2:01.60	qualified
12	H4 L2	Steffen Driesen		2:01.69	qualified
13	H4 L1	Derya Büyükuncu		2:01.93	qualified
14	H5 L4	James Goddard		2:02.00	qualified
15	H5 L1	Yoav Gath		2:02.12	qualified
16	H5 L7	Patrick Murphy		2:02.27	qualified
17	H5 L8	Pavel Suskov		2:02.36
18	H4 L6	Matt Welsh		2:02.64
19	H5 L2	Keith Beavers		2:02.88
20	H4 L7	Cameron Gibson		2:02.89
21	H6 L7	Luca Marin		2:03.41
22	H6 L1	Nick Neckles		2:04.00
23	H6 L8	Alex Lim		2:04.09
24	H3 L4			2:04.15
25	H4 L8	Sebastian Stoss		2:04.30
26	H3 L5	Adriano Niz		2:04.61
27	H3 L6			2:06.92
28	H3 L1			2:09.63
29	H3 L8	Sergey Pankov		2:10.28
30	H2 L5			2:11.04
31	H2 L3			2:11.35
32	H2 L7	Kieran Locke		2:11.96
33	H2 L2	Andy Wibowo		2:12.42
34	H2 L1	David Dunford		2:12.84
35	H3 L2	Yury Zaharov		2:12.91
36	H2 L8			2:13.46
37	H2 L4	Gael Adam		2:13.75
38	H1 L4			2:15.04
39	H1 L3			2:15.79
40	H3 L7			2:17.29
41	H2 L6	LIN Yu-An		2:17.30
42	H1 L8			2:19.15
43	H1 L5			2:22.11
44	H1 L6			2:22.28
45	H1 L1			2:23.19
46	H1 L2			2:23.29
47	H1 L7			2:23.46

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat/Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Aaron Peirsol	USA	1:56.60	q
2	S2 L5	Markus Rogan	Austria	1:57.16	q
3	S2 L3	Răzvan Florea	Romania	1:58.03	q
4	S1 L6	Ryan Lochte	USA	1:58.17	q
5	S1 L2	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	1:58.60	q
6	S1 L5	Tomomi Morita	Japan	1:58.70	q
7	S1 L4	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	1:58.74	q
8	S1 L3	Takashi Nakano	Japan	1:58.91	q
9	S2 L2	Gregor Tait	Great Britain	1:58.97
10	S2 L6	Blaž Medvešek	Slovenia	1:59.10
11	S1 L1	James Goddard	Great Britain	1:59.16
12	S2 L7	Simon Dufour	France	2:00.08
13	S1 L7	Steffen Driesen	Germany	2:00.88
14	S2 L8	Yoav Gath	Israel	2:01.58
14	S2 L1	Derya Büyükuncu	Turkey	2:01.58
16	S1 L8	Patrick Muphry	Australia	2:03.15

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Aaron Peirsol	USA	1:54.66	WR
	Markus Rogan	Austria	1:56.63
	Ryan Lochte	USA	1:57.00
4	Răzvan Florea	Romania	1:57.03
5	Takashi Nakano	Japan	1:58.03
6	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	1:58.28
7	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	1:59.02
8	Tomomi Morita	Japan	1:59.34

Key: WR = World record

References[]

• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23.