The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 18 December 2022.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were started at 12:03.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Shaine Casas 1:49.46 Q 2 4 3 Mewen Tomac 1:49.61 Q 3 4 4 Ryan Murphy 1:49.71 Q 4 4 5 Lorenzo Mora 1:49.79 Q 5 4 6 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 1:50.12 Q 6 3 3 Luke Greenbank 1:50.34 Q 7 2 5 Ryota Naito 1:50.78 Q 8 2 4 Radosław Kawęcki 1:50.97 Q 9 2 6 Bradley Woodward 1:51.46 10 2 2 Pieter Coetze 1:51.51 11 3 2 Ty Hartwell 1:51.95 12 2 3 Hugo González 1:52.02 13 4 7 Yakov Toumarkin 1:53.03 14 3 1 Kane Follows 1:53.11 15 2 7 Tao Guannan 1:53.14 16 3 8 João Costa 1:53.54 17 3 7 Kacper Stokowski 1:53.88 18 2 1 Hayden Kwan 1:53.95 NR 19 4 1 Yeziel Morales 1:53.99 20 4 2 Armin Evert Lelle 1:54.16 21 4 8 Kaloyan Levterov 1:55.98 22 1 6 Merdan Ataýew 1:59.49 NR 23 1 4 Abdellah Ardjoune 1:59.78 24 2 8 Ratthawit Thammananthachote 2:00.85 3 5 Javier Acevedo 1 2 Bede Aitu 1 3 Chuang Mu-lun 1 5 Ziyad Saleem 3 6 Daiki Yanagawa
Final The final was held at 20:22.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Ryan Murphy 1:47.41 4 Shaine Casas 1:48.01 6 Lorenzo Mora 1:48.45 NR 4 2 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard 1:49.23 NR 5 7 Luke Greenbank 1:49.79 6 5 Mewen Tomac 1:49.93 7 8 Radosław Kawęcki 1:50.33 8 1 Ryota Naito 1:51.67
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