Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Venue	National Taiwan Sport University Arena
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Dates	24 August (heats and semifinals) 25 August (final)
Competitors	39 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:56.52
Medalists
Danas Rapšys    Lithuania   Austin Katz    United States      Russia
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 24 and 25 August 2017.^[1]

Records[]

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

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Competition record	Ryosuke Irie (JPN)	1:54.13	Belgrade, Serbia	10 July 2009

Results[]

Heats[]

The heats were held on 24 August at 9:00.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:58.83	Q
2	5	5		United States	1:58.96	Q
3	4	5	Austin Katz	United States	1:59.64	Q
4	4	6	Martin Binedell		1:59.98	Q
5	3	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	2:00.25	Q
6	3	6	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:00.46	Q
7	3	2	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	2:00.50	Q
8	4	2		Canada	2:00.78	Q
8	5	6		Russia	2:00.78	Q
10	4	7	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	2:00.98	Q
11	4	4	Matteo Restivo	Italy	2:01.12	Q
12	3	3	Gábor Balog	Hungary	2:01.17	Q
13	4	3		Italy	2:01.37	Q
14	5	7		Sweden	2:01.42	Q
15	5	1		Japan	2:01.55	Q
16	3	5	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	2:02.19	Q
17	5	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	2:02.20
18	5	2		Israel	2:02.51
19	3	1		Mexico	2:03.08
20	3	8	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	2:04.10
21	4	8			2:04.26
22	4	1			2:04.39
23	2	4	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	2:04.52
24	2	6	Girts Feldbergs		2:04.99
25	2	2			2:05.16
26	5	8		Colombia	2:05.82
27	1	4	Arjan Knipping		2:06.08
28	2	1		Ireland	2:06.23
29	2	5	Adil Kaskabay	Kazakhstan	2:06.38
30	3	7	Axel Pettersson	Sweden	2:06.61
31	2	8		Indonesia	2:07.50
32	2	7			2:07.57
33	2	3		Israel	2:08.56
34	1	3		Hong Kong	2:09.42
35	1	5		Ireland	2:09.81
36	1	2		Estonia	2:12.28
37	1	7		Philippines	2:19.59
38	1	6		Paraguay	2:21.57
39	1	1		Philippines	2:30.38
	1	8			DNS

Semifinals[]

The semifinals were held on 24 August at 19:57.^[3]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4		United States	1:58.32	Q
2	5	Martin Binedell		1:58.37	Q
3	8	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	1:59.40	Q
4	6		Russia	1:59.84	Q
5	7	Gábor Balog	Hungary	2:00.35
6	2	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	2:00.88
7	3	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:02.22
8	1		Sweden	2:02.57

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:57.47	Q
2	5	Austin Katz	United States	1:57.69	Q
3	4	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:58.28	Q
4	1		Italy	2:00.06	Q
5	6	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	2:00.84
6	7	Matteo Restivo	Italy	2:01.06
7	2		Canada	2:01.22
8	8		Japan	2:03.96

Final[]

The final was held on 25 August at 20:10.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:56.52
	5	Austin Katz	United States	1:56.70
	1		Russia	1:57.29
4	3	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:57.77
5	7	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	1:58.16
6	2	Martin Binedell		1:58.17
7	6		United States	1:58.52
8	8		Italy	2:00.52

References[]