The men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 15 and 16 February 2024.

Qualification

Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time at approved qualifying events. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 1:58.07. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 2:02.20. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women into the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were started on 15 February at 09:56.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 3 Apostolos Siskos 1:56.64 Q, NR 2 4 7 Kai van Westering 1:57.29 Q 3 2 5 Pieter Coetze 1:57.90 Q 4 4 4 Roman Mityukov 1:58.03 Q 5 2 2 Ádám Telegdy 1:58.07 Q 6 3 3 Ksawery Masiuk 1:58.20 Q 7 4 6 Luke Greenbank 1:58.23 Q 8 3 4 Bradley Woodward 1:58.26 Q 9 3 5 Lee Ju-ho 1:58.29 Q 10 2 7 Lukas Märtens 1:58.45 Q 11 4 5 Jack Aikins 1:58.50 Q 12 3 6 Brodie Williams 1:58.72 Q 13 3 7 Osamu Kato 1:58.82 Q 14 4 3 Hugo González 1:59.00 Q 15 3 1 Raben Dommann 1:59.10 Q 16 4 1 John Shortt 1:59.27 Q 17 2 1 Yeziel Morales 1:59.38 18 4 8 Kaloyan Levterov 1:59.42 19 2 6 Lorenzo Mora 1:59.80 20 3 0 Ziyad Ahmed 2:00.53 21 2 8 Erikas Grigaitis 2:01.32 22 1 5 Yegor Popov 2:01.61 23 2 4 Oleksandr Zheltyakov 2:01.81 24 1 4 Denis-Laurean Popescu 2:02.05 25 3 8 Primož Šenica 2:04.11 26 4 9 Denilson Cyprianos 2:04.70 27 2 9 Farrel Tangkas 2:05.49 28 4 0 Patrick Groters 2:06.10 29 3 9 Diego Camacho Salgado 2:07.00 30 1 3 Alexis Kpade 2:07.25 31 1 6 Ahmad Safie 2:08.37 32 2 0 Trần Hưng Nguyên 2:08.71 33 1 2 Zeke Chan 2:12.94 3 2 Apostolos Christou 4 2 Andrew Jeffcoat

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 15 February at 20:33.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 7 Jack Aikins 1:56.32 Q 2 1 1 Hugo González 1:56.38 Q 3 2 2 Lee Ju-ho 1:56.40 Q 4 2 3 Ádám Telegdy 1:56.65 Q 5 1 5 Roman Mityukov 1:56.72 Q 6 2 4 Apostolos Siskos 1:56.82 Q 7 1 4 Kai van Westering 1:56.91 Q 8 2 5 Pieter Coetze 1:57.07 Q 9 2 6 Luke Greenbank 1:57.29 10 1 3 Ksawery Masiuk 1:57.48 11 1 6 Bradley Woodward 1:57.58 12 1 7 Brodie Williams 1:58.23 13 1 2 Lukas Märtens 1:58.24 14 1 8 John Shortt 1:58.47 NR 15 2 1 Osamu Kato 1:58.97 16 2 8 Raben Dommann 2:00.75

Final The final was held on 16 February at 19:59.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Hugo González 1:55.30 2 Roman Mityukov 1:55.40 8 Pieter Coetze 1:55.99 4 4 Jack Aikins 1:56.21 5 3 Lee Ju-ho 1:56.38 6 7 Apostolos Siskos 1:56.64 =NR 7 6 Ádám Telegdy 1:56.66 8 1 Kai van Westering 1:57.19

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