The heats for the men's 200 m backstroke race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 30 July, with the final in the evening session of 31 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 1:53.08 Indianapolis, United States 11 July 2009Championship record 1:54.32 Melbourne, Australia 30 March 2007 The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 30 July Semifinal 1 Aaron Peirsol United States 1:54.06 CR 31 July Final Aaron Peirsol United States 1:51.92 WR

Results

Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Ryosuke Irie 1:55.20 9 4 2 Aaron Peirsol 1:55.88 8 4 3 Ryan Lochte 1:55.97 7 4 4 Stanislav Donets 1:56.03 9 3 5 George Du Rand 1:56.06 8 1 AF 6 Yannick Lebherz 1:56.69 9 1 7 Radosław Kawęcki 1:56.74 9 8 8 Arkady Vyatchanin 1:56.97 9 5 9 Omar Pinzón 1:57.01 7 8 SA 10 Aschwin Wildeboer 1:57.15 8 5 11 Chris Walker-Hebborn 1:57.52 8 2 12 Takashi Nakano 1:57.58 7 3 13 Damiano Lestingi 1:57.73 9 6 14 Sebastiano Ranfagni 1:57.75 9 7 15 Nick Driebergen 1:57.86 7 7 NR 16 Sebastian Stoss 1:57.97 9 0 17 Ashley Delaney 1:58.02 8 3 18 Benjamin Stasiulis 1:58.17 7 6 19 Felix Wolf 1:58.41 7 2 20 Kurt Bassett 1:58.46 8 8 NR 21 Matt Hawes 1:58.89 8 6 22 Marco Loughran 1:59.19 8 7 23 Derya Büyükuncu 1:59.49 9 9 24 Péter Bernek 1:59.65 7 1 25 Darren Murray 1:59.84 5 5 26 Rufino Regueira 2:00.35 9 2 27 Markus Rogan 2:00.39 7 5 28 Dimitrios Chasiotis 2:00.42 8 0 29 Miguel Robles 2:00.99 6 7 NR 30 Zhang Yu 2:01.05 5 4 31 Leonardo Guedes 2:01.20 7 0 32 Pedro Oliveira 2:01.49 6 4 33 Pedro Medel 2:01.70 6 6 34 Itai Chammah 2:01.86 7 9 35 Jakub Jasinski 2:01.95 8 9 36 Květoslav Svoboda 2:02.00 6 0 37 Cheng Feiyi 2:02.29 6 3 38 Anders McIntyre 2:02.64 5 0 39 Andres Olvik 2:02.97 6 8 NR 40 Andriy Kovbasa 2:03.56 4 4 41 Oleg Rabota 2:03.71 6 2 42 Robi Zbogar 2:03.99 6 9 43 Karl Burdis 2:04.34 5 6 NR 44 David Rodriguez 2:04.42 5 2 45 Konstantins Bohins 2:04.61 4 2 46 Naoufel Benabid 2:05.06 5 1 47 Jean-Francois Schneiders 2:05.22 4 5 48 Stanislav Osinsky 2:06.12 5 3 49 Ehud Segal 2:06.91 6 1 50 Rehan Poncha 2:06.92 4 1 NR 51 Yury Zaharov 2:07.07 5 7 NR 52 Achelhi Bilal 2:07.59 3 3 NR 53 Cheah Geoffrey Robin 2:08.25 4 3 54 Ng Kai Wee Rainer 2:08.57 4 7 55 Do Huy Long 2:08.83 4 8 56 Jean Luis Gomez 2:10.22 3 6 57 Tsung Chao-Lin 2:10.44 4 6 58 Nicholas James 2:10.76 3 1 59 Boris Kirillov 2:10.96 3 7 60 Kaspar Raigla 2:11.61 1 4 61 Doğa Çelik 2:12.26 5 9 62 Alberto Tasini 2:12.80 3 0 63 Yousuf Essa Al Yousuf 2:12.81 3 4 64 Antonio Tong 2:13.22 4 9 65 Khachik Plavchyan 2:14.19 4 0 66 Byron Briedenhann 2:14.47 2 5 67 Ngou Pok Man 2:14.87 2 7 68 Abbas Raad 2:15.63 2 6 NR 69 Javier Hernandez Maradiaga 2:16.09 3 8 70 Nicholas Coard 2:16.65 2 2 71 Praveen Tokas 2:16.90 3 5 72 Mohammed Al Ghaferi 2:17.30 2 3 NR 73 Armando Zayas Claure 2:18.09 2 1 74 Mark Sammut 2:19.46 3 9 75 Benjamin Gabbard 2:20.25 1 5 76 Marcelino Richaards 2:21.05 2 8 77 Heimanu Sichan 2:21.63 2 4 78 Paul Elaisa 2:28.97 1 6 79 Mathieu Marquet 2:29.91 2 9 80 Timur Atahanov 2:34.13 1 2 81 Elaijie Erasito 2:36.75 1 1 82 Ahmet Halliyev 2:39.58 1 7 – Hocine Haciane DNS 1 3 – Ronny Vencatachellum DNS 2 0 – Andrejs Dūda DNS 3 2 – Saša Imprić DNS 5 8 – Brett Fraser DNS 6 5

Semifinals Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Aaron Peirsol 1:54.06 1 4 CR 2 Ryosuke Irie 1:54.14 2 4 3 Arkady Vyatchanin 1:54.90 1 6 ER 4 Stanislav Donets 1:55.25 1 5 5 Ryan Lochte 1:55.39 2 5 6 Radosław Kawęcki 1:55.62 2 6 7 George Du Rand 1:55.75 2 3 AF 8 Aschwin Wildeboer 1:55.78 1 2 9 Chris Walker-Hebborn 1:56.05 2 7 NR 10 Omar Pinzón 1:56.40 2 2 SA 11 Nick Driebergen 1:56.85 2 8 NR 12 Takashi Nakano 1:57.02 1 7 13 Sebastian Stoss 1:57.15 1 8 14 Damiano Lestingi 1:57.37 2 1 15 Yannick Lebherz 1:58.01 1 3 16 Sebastiano Ranfagni 1:58.84 1 1

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Aaron Peirsol 1:51.92 5 Ryosuke Irie 1:52.51 AS 2 Ryan Lochte 1:53.82 4 3 Arkady Vyatchanin 1:54.75 ER 5 8 Aschwin Wildeboer 1:54.92 NR 6 6 Stanislav Donets 1:55.36 7 7 Radosław Kawęcki 1:55.60 NR 8 1 George Du Rand 1:56.63

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