The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 December 2024 at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:
The following records was established during the competition: Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 15 December Final Hubert Kós 1:45.65 CR
Background Three of the eight finalists from the 2022 Short Course World Championships in Melbourne returned to the event. Neither Ryan Murphy nor Shaine Casas, who won gold and silver in Melbourne, competed in the event. The top seeds included Italy’s Lorenzo Mora, France’s Mewen Tomac, and Australia’s Joshua Edwards-Smith, all entered with times in the 1:48–1:49 range. Edwards-Smith led the world rankings with a 1:49.14 from the Australian Short Course Championships, his personal best and the fastest time of the season. Mora, the 2022 bronze medalist and 2023 European champion, entered with a national record of 1:48.43 set at those championships. Tomac, sixth in Melbourne and a Paris Olympic finalist, held a season best of 1:51.15. Olympic champion Hubert Kós entered with a fast long-course time, while Roman Mityukov, Paris bronze medalist, also returned. Other sub-1:51 entrants included Oleksandr Zheltiakov, Guannan Tao, Enoch Robb, and Dmitrii Savenko.
SwimSwam predicted Kós would win, Mora would take second, and Edwards-Smith would take third.
Results Heats The heats were started at 10:08. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 1 Hubert Kós 1:48.02 Q, NR 2 3 4 Mewen Tomac 1:50.34 Q 3 4 2 Jan Čejka 1:50.36 Q 4 3 3 Daiki Yanagawa 1:50.45 Q 5 4 4 Lorenzo Mora 1:50.97 Q 6 3 5 Tao Guannan 1:51.03 Q 7 4 3 Dmitrii Savenko Neutral Athletes B 1:51.20 Q 8 3 8 Jack Aikins 1:51.28 Q 9 2 2 Radosław Kawęcki 1:51.29 R 10 2 5 Enoch Robb 1:51.39 R 11 1 5 Blake Tierney 1:51.56 12 1 3 John Shortt 1:51.60 NR 13 4 7 Apostolos Siskos 1:51.80 14 3 2 Antoine Herlem 1:51.98 15 2 4 Joshua Edwards-Smith 1:52.05 16 3 7 Nicolas Albiero 1:52.11 17 1 7 Hayden Kwan 1:52.48 NR 18 3 1 Samuel Törnqvist 1:52.71 19 2 3 Aleksei Tkachev Neutral Athletes B1:52.84 20 2 8 Roman Mityukov 1:52.87 21 3 6 Ádám Telegdy 1:53.27 22 1 6 Yeziel Morales 1:53.59 23 4 9 Lee Ju-ho 1:53.69 24 4 1 Robert Badea 1:54.48 25 3 0 Guðmundur Leo Rafnsson 1:55.27 26 4 5 Oleksandr Zheltiakov 1:55.39 27 1 2 Martin Perečinský 1:55.81 28 2 0 Evaldas Babakinas 1:56.52 29 4 0 Yegor Popov 1:56.57 30 4 8 Samuel Brown 1:57.04 31 2 6 Jiang Chenglin 1:57.05 32 2 9 Nikolass Deičmans 1:57.68 33 1 4 Khiew Hoe Yean 1:57.72 34 1 1 Denilson Cyprianos 1:58.02 NR 35 1 0 Patrick Groters 1:58.27 NR 36 1 8 Farrel Tangkas 2:02.13 37 1 9 Eid Al-Mujaini 2:18.07 2 7 Christian Bacico 3 9 Oliver Morgan 4 6 Kacper Stokowski
Final The final was held at 18:12. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Hubert Kós 1:45.65 CR, ER 2 Lorenzo Mora 1:48.96 5 Mewen Tomac 1:49.93 4 6 Daiki Yanagawa 1:50.28 5 8 Jack Aikins 1:50.60 6 7 Tao Guannan 1:51.04 7 1 Dmitrii Savenko Neutral Athletes B 1:51.27 8 3 Jan Čejka 1:51.81
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