The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2018.
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 started at 09:37.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 1 Ryan Murphy 1:49.26 Q 2 4 5 Mitch Larkin 1:49.55 Q 3 4 4 Radosław Kawęcki 1:50.05 Q 4 2 5 Evgeny Rylov 1:50.11 Q 5 3 5 Christian Diener 1:50.31 Q, 6 3 3 Ryosuke Irie 1:50.51 Q 7 3 4 Xu Jiayu 1:50.65 Q 8 3 8 Jacob Pebley 1:50.80 Q 9 2 3 Hayate Matsubara 1:50.99 Q 10 4 3 Grigoriy Tarasevich 1:51.32 11 2 1 Matteo Restivo 1:51.58 12 4 6 Jorden Merrilees 1:51.60 13 2 6 Anton Lončar 1:51.79 14 2 4 Danas Rapšys 1:52.25 15 4 2 Ádám Telegdy 1:52.48 16 3 0 Gabriel Lópes 1:52.66 NR 17 1 4 Omar Pinzón 1:53.07 18 2 2 Hugo González 1:53.08 19 3 2 Dávid Földházi 1:53.09 20 2 0 Apostolos Christou 1:53.20 21 1 3 Nils Liess 1:54.55 22 4 7 Tomáš Franta 1:54.78 23 3 9 Daniel Martin 1:55.24 24 4 1 Bradlee Ashby 1:55.77 25 4 8 Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas 1:56.01 26 3 6 Mikita Tsmyh 1:56.14 27 2 8 Chuang Mu-lun 1:56.66 28 1 5 Yeziel Morales Miranda 1:58.26 29 1 7 Matthew Mays 1:58.99 30 4 0 Berk Özkul 1:59.04 31 4 9 Lee Ju-ho 1:59.48 32 1 2 Driss Lahrichi 1:59.50 33 1 6 Erick Gordillo 1:59.80 34 2 9 Armando Barrera Aira 2:00.82 35 1 8 Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly 2:09.03 36 1 1 Andrianirina Lalanomena 2:09.90 37 1 0 Joel Gjini 2:20.26 2 7 Li Guangyuan 3 7 Leonardo de Deus
Final The final was held at 18:55.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Evgeny Rylov 1:47.02 4 Ryan Murphy 1:47.34 3 Radosław Kawęcki 1:48.25 5 Mitch Larkin 5 1 Jacob Pebley 1:49.72 6 7 Xu Jiayu 1:49.91 7 2 Ryosuke Irie 1:50.88 8 8 Hayate Matsubara 1:51.96
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