The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordArkady Vyatchanin 1:46.11 Berlin 15 November 2009 Championship record Ryan Lochte 1:46.68 Dubai 19 December 2010
No new records were set during this competition.
Results
Heats
Rank Heat Lane Name Time Notes 1 4 4 1:49.71 Q 2 3 1 1:50.60 Q 3 5 4 1:50.92 Q 4 3 5 1:51.20 Q 5 3 4 1:51.33 Q 6 4 5 1:51.38 Q 7 5 3 1:51.68 Q 8 3 3 1:52.25 Q 9 1 3 1:52.44 10 1 5 1:52.74 11 4 6 1:52.94 12 2 8 1:53.08 13 4 3 1:53.36 14 5 6 1:53.40 15 3 7 1:53.66 16 3 6 1:53.84 17 4 2 1:54.70 18 5 2 1:55.63 19 5 0 1:55.68 20 4 8 1:55.83 20 5 7 1:55.83 22 4 7 1:55.91 23 4 0 1:56.49 24 5 8 1:56.53 NR 25 4 1 1:56.79 26 3 0 1:57.78 27 3 8 1:58.06 28 5 1 1:58.21 29 4 9 1:58.91 30 3 2 1:59.06 31 5 9 2:00.58 32 3 9 2:02.30 33 2 3 2:03.67 NR 34 2 5 2:04.00 35 2 6 2:08.25 36 2 4 2:09.55 37 2 2 2:11.37 38 2 7 2:25.92 39 2 1 2:27.19 1 4 5 5
Final
The final was held at 19:11.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Radosław Kawęcki 1:48.48 NR 4 Ryan Lochte 1:48.50 5 Ryan Murphy 1:48.86 4 7 Kosuke Hagino 1:51.00 5 2 Péter Bernek 1:51.24 6 6 Ashley Delaney 1:51.51 7 1 Travis Mahoney 1:52.09 8 8 Christian Diener 1:52.48
Notes