Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 28, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 29, 2011 (final)
Competitors	32 from 26 nations
Winning time	1:52.96
Medalists
Ryan Lochte    United States   Ryosuke Irie    Japan   Tyler Clary    United States
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The men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 28 with the heats and the semifinals and July 29 with the final.

Records[]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:51.92	Rome	July 31, 2009

Results[]

Heats[]

32 swimmers participated in 5 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Tyler Clary	United States	1:56.32	Q
2	2	2	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:57.23	Q
3	4	3	Stanislav Donets	Russia	1:57.30	Q
4	3	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:57.34	Q
5	3	5	Zhang Fenglin	China	1:57.37	Q
6	4	4	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:57.58	Q
7	2	3	Kazuki Watanabe	Japan	1:57.62	Q
8	2	5	Radoslaw Kawecki	Poland	1:57.97	Q
9	4	7	Nick Driebergen	Netherlands	1:58.10	Q
10	4	1	Tobias Oriwol	Canada	1:58.19	Q
11	3	8	Yakov-Yan Toumarkin	Israel	1:58.21	Q, NR
12	3	2	Sebastiano Ranfagni	Italy	1:58.26	Q
13	2	8	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:58.29	Q
14	4	2	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1:58.30	Q
15	4	6	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	1:58.42	Q
16	1	5	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1:58.48	Q
17	3	3	Chris Walker-Hebborn	Great Britain	1:58.59
18	1	6	Darren Murray	South Africa	1:58.73
19	2	7	Matthew Hawes	Canada	1:58.84
20	3	1	Cheng Feiyi	China	1:59.08
21	2	6	Ashley Delaney	Australia	2:00.15
22	1	3		Sweden	2:00.44	NR
23	4	8	Mitch Larkin	Australia	2:00.52
24	3	6	Gareth Kean	New Zealand	2:00.74
25	2	1	Kim Ji-Heun	South Korea	2:01.06
26	1	4	Sebastian Stoss	Austria	2:01.13
27	1	2	Pedro Medel	Cuba	2:02.16
28	1	7		Luxembourg	2:03.68
29	1	1		Kuwait	2:07.63
30	1	8		Jordan	2:12.22
–	3	7	Aschwin Wildeboer	Spain		DNS
–	4	5	James Goddard	Great Britain		DNS

Semifinals[]

The semifinals were held at 19:23.^[2]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:55.65	Q
2	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:55.96	Q
3	6	Radoslaw Kawecki	Poland	1:57.15	Q
4	7	Sebastiano Ranfagni	Italy	1:57.96	Q
5	4	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:58.14
6	1	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1:58.56
7	8	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1:58.95
8	2	Tobias Oriwol	Canada	1:59.45

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Tyler Clary	United States	1:56.00	Q
2	3	Zhang Fenglin	China	1:56.70	Q
3	6	Kazuki Watanabe	Japan	1:57.97	Q
4	5	Stanislav Donets	Russia	1:58.00	Q
5	2	Nick Driebergen	Netherlands	1:58.08
6	8	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	1:58.19
7	1	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:59.77
8	7	Yakov-Yan Toumarkin	Israel	1:59.92

Final[]

The final was held at 18:10.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:52.96
	5	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:54.11
	3	Tyler Clary	United States	1:54.69
4	6	Zhang Fenglin	China	1:56.39
5	2	Radoslaw Kawecki	Poland	1:57.33
6	8	Stanislav Donets	Russia	1:57.36
7	7	Sebastiano Ranfagni	Italy	1:57.49
8	1	Kazuki Watanabe	Japan	1:57.82

References[]

External links[]

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre backstroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.