2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke

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

Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors	54 from 43 nations
Winning time	1:47.63
Medalists
Radosław Kawęcki   Poland   Jacob Pebley   United States   Masaki Kaneko   Japan

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:45.63	Sydney	27 November 2015
Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:46.68	Dubai	19 December 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:37.

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

Final

The final was held at 19:24.

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