The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2016.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordMitch Larkin1:45.63Sydney27 November 2015Championship recordRyan Lochte1:46.68Dubai19 December 2010

Results Heats The heats were held at 09:37.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Masaki Kaneko 1:50.30 Q 2 5 4 Radosław Kawęcki 1:51.00 Q 3 4 6 Jacob Pebley 1:51.17 Q 4 4 5 Xu Jiayu 1:51.35 Q 5 5 5 Danas Rapšys 1:51.38 Q 6 6 2 Hayate Matsubara 1:51.51 Q 7 6 4 Mitch Larkin 1:51.87 Q 8 5 6 Robert Glință 1:51.92 Q, NR 9 6 7 Péter Bernek 1:52.05 10 6 9 Grigoriy Tarasevich 1:52.46 11 6 3 Leonardo de Deus 1:52.59 12 4 7 Michael Taylor 1:52.62 13 5 7 Mikita Tsmyh 1:52.89 NR 14 4 3 Ádám Telegdy 1:52.92 15 6 5 Andrey Shabasov 1:52.93 16 3 9 Anton Loncar 1:53.35 17 4 0 Apostolos Christou 1:54.15 NR 18 3 2 Max Litchfield 1:54.29 19 4 2 Tomáš Franta 1:54.97 20 5 2 Oleg Garasymovytch 1:55.25 21 5 0 Gabriel Lopes 1:55.63 22 3 7 Uvis Kalniņš 1:56.07 NR 23 5 8 Ricky Ellis 1:56.32 24 5 3 David Gamburg 1:56.64 25 4 8 Markus Thormeyer 1:57.11 26 3 5 Trần Duy Khôi 1:57.35 NR 27 3 8 Charles Hockin 1:57.45 28 6 8 Axel Pettersson 1:57.72 29 2 5 Iskender Baslakov 1:57.77 30 1 8 Jérémy Desplanches 1:57.96 31 3 4 Matías López 1:58.06 32 3 0 Yeziel Morales Miranda 1:58.17 NR 33 2 3 Boris Kirillov 1:58.50 NR 34 3 6 João Vital 1:58.53 35 5 1 Mattias Carlsson 1:59.28 36 6 0 Gaston Hernandez 1:59.37 37 2 6 Keanan Dols 1:59.43 NR 38 5 9 Joan Pons Ramon 1:59.44 39 6 1 Jarryd Baxter 1:59.82 40 4 9 Kristinn Þórarinsson 2:02.14 41 2 4 Gorazd Chepishevski 2:02.35 NR 42 1 0 Fran Krznaric 2:02.58 43 2 8 Adil Assouab 2:02.79 NR 44 2 1 Jarod Arroyo 2:02.96 45 2 2 Steven Maina 2:05.60 NR 46 2 0 Eisner Barberena Espinoza 2:06.75 NR 47 2 9 Mathieu Marquet 2:08.72 48 1 4 Kennet Libohova 2:13.44 NR 49 1 5 Heriniavo Rasolonjatovo 2:14.02 NR 50 1 6 Carlos Vasquez 2:17.66 NR 51 1 3 Gabriel Siwady 2:19.31 52 1 1 Elijah Cruz 2:20.31 NR 53 1 7 Daryl Appleton 2:22.29 NR 54 1 2 Naveed Hussian 2:25.42 NR 2 7 Driss Lahrichi 3 1 Francis Fong 3 3 Daniil Bukin 4 1 Javier Acevedo 6 6 Bobby Hurley

Final The final was held at 19:24.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Radosław Kawęcki 1:47.63 3 Jacob Pebley 1:48.98 4 Masaki Kaneko 1:49.18 4 1 Mitch Larkin 1:49.25 5 2 Danas Rapšys 1:50.87 NR 6 6 Xu Jiayu 1:51.37 7 7 Hayate Matsubara 1:52.16 8 8 Robert Glință 1:52.57

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