Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke


The men's 200 metre backstroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 1–2 August July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:21.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
144Tyler Clary1:56.76Q
225Craig McNally1:57.18Q
324Ryan Lochte1:57.19Q
443Péter Bernek1:57.20Q
523Yannick Lebherz1:57.33Q
633Matson Lawson1:57.48Q
745Kosuke Hagino1:57.52Q
834Ryosuke Irie1:57.53Q
942Chris Walker-Hebborn1:57.95Q
1036Gábor Balog1:57.98Q
1135Radosław Kawęcki1:57.99Q
1247Xu Jiayu1:58.29Q
1337Federico Turrini1:58.54Q
1441Danas Rapšys1:59.11Q
1522Leonardo de Deus1:59.17Q
1621Darren Murray1:59.19Q
1746Mitch Larkin1:59.34
1832Yakov-Yan Toumarkin1:59.39
1927Pedro Oliveira1:59.95
2038Lukas Rauftlin2:00.45
2140Russell Wood2:00.51
2231Alexandr Tarabrin2:01.08
2328Im Tae-Jeong2:01.23
2426Gareth Kean2:02.81
2520Jean-François Schneiders2:02.96
2630Marko Krce Rabar2:03.50
2748Pedro Medel2:03.63
2829I Gede Siman Sudartawa2:04.90
2939Ezequiel Trujillo2:05.92
3014Yeziel Morales2:06.09
3116Boris Kirillov2:08.74
3215Gorazd Chepishevski2:09.89
3313Awse Ma'aya2:12.31
3412Yaaqoub Al-Saadi2:21.51
49Danil Bukin

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:20.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final

The final was held at 18:09.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
5Ryan Lochte1:53.79
6Radosław Kawęcki1:54.24ER, NR
4Tyler Clary1:54.64
43Ryosuke Irie1:55.07
52Kosuke Hagino1:55.43
61Craig McNally1:55.67
77Xu Jiayu1:57.13
88Péter Bernek1:58.26