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 DateWorld record Championship recordAaron Peirsol 1:51.92 RomeJuly 31, 2009

Results

Heats 32 swimmers participated in 5 heats.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes1 2 4 Tyler Clary 1:56.32 Q2 2 2 Péter Bernek 1:57.23 Q3 4 3 Stanislav Donets 1:57.30 Q 4 3 4 Ryan Lochte 1:57.34 Q5 3 5 Zhang Fenglin 1:57.37 Q6 4 4 Ryosuke Irie 1:57.58 Q7 2 3 Kazuki Watanabe 1:57.62 Q 8 2 5 Radosław Kawęcki 1:57.97 Q9 4 7 Nick Driebergen 1:58.10 Q10 4 1 Tobias Oriwol 1:58.19 Q11 3 8 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin 1:58.21 Q, NR12 3 2 Sebastiano Ranfagni 1:58.26 Q13 2 8 Leonardo de Deus 1:58.29 Q14 4 2 Yannick Lebherz 1:58.30 Q15 4 6 Benjamin Stasiulis 1:58.42 Q16 1 5 Omar Pinzón 1:58.48 Q 17 3 3 Chris Walker-Hebborn 1:58.59 18 1 6 Darren Murray 1:58.73 19 2 7 Matthew Hawes 1:58.84 20 3 1 Cheng Feiyi 1:59.08 21 2 6 Ashley Delaney 2:00.15 22 1 3 Mattias Carlsson 2:00.44 NR23 4 8 Mitch Larkin 2:00.52 24 3 6 Gareth Kean 2:00.74 25 2 1 Kim Ji-Heun 2:01.06 26 1 4 Sebastian Stoss 2:01.13 27 1 2 Pedro Medel 2:02.16 28 1 7 Jean-François Schneiders 2:03.68 29 1 1 Abdullah Al-Tuwaini 2:07.63 30 1 8 Awse Ma'aya 2:12.22 – 3 7 Aschwin Wildeboer DNS – 4 5 James Goddard DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 19:23.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Ryan Lochte 1:55.65 Q2 3 Ryosuke Irie 1:55.96 Q3 6 Radosław Kawęcki 1:57.15 Q4 7 Sebastiano Ranfagni 1:57.96 Q5 4 Péter Bernek 1:58.14 6 1 Yannick Lebherz 1:58.56 7 8 Omar Pinzón 1:58.95 8 2 Tobias Oriwol 1:59.45

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Tyler Clary 1:56.00 Q2 3 Zhang Fenglin 1:56.70 Q3 6 Kazuki Watanabe 1:57.97 Q4 5 Stanislav Donets 1:58.00 Q5 2 Nick Driebergen 1:58.08 6 8 Benjamin Stasiulis 1:58.19 7 1 Leonardo de Deus 1:59.77 8 7 Yakov-Yan Toumarkin 1:59.92

Final The final was held at 18:10.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Ryan Lochte 1:52.96 5 Ryosuke Irie 1:54.11 3 Tyler Clary 1:54.69 4 6 Zhang Fenglin 1:56.39 5 2 Radosław Kawęcki 1:57.33 6 8 Stanislav Donets 1:57.36 7 7 Sebastiano Ranfagni 1:57.49 8 1 Kazuki Watanabe 1:57.82

References

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