2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	21 December (heats and final)
Competitors	35 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:48.68
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 21 December 2021.^[1]

Records edit

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

World record	Mitch Larkin (AUS)	1:45.63	Sydney, Australia	27 November 2015
Competition record	Ryan Lochte (USA)	1:46.68	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	19 December 2010

The heats were started at 09:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	1	Shaine Casas	United States	1:49.82	Q
2	3	3	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	1:50.50	Q, NR
3	4	2	Yohann Ndoye Brouard	France	1:50.71	Q
4	3	4	Christian Diener	Germany	1:51.06	Q
5	2	4	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:51.58	Q
6	4	0	Antoine Herlem	France	1:51.93	Q
7	4	6	Armin Evert Lelle	Estonia	1:52.30	Q
8	4	4	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:52.35	Q
9	4	5	Hugo González	Spain	1:52.47
10	3	0	Hunter Tapp	United States	1:52.48
11	3	5	Michele Lamberti	Italy	1:52.52
12	4	3	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:52.61
13	2	3	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:52.66
14	4	7	Egor Dolomanov	Russian Swimming Federation	1:52.83
15	2	8	Nicolás García	Spain	1:53.66
16	2	5	Aleksei Tkachev	Russian Swimming Federation	1:54.02
17	2	7	Berke Saka	Turkey	1:54.14
18	3	8	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:54.23
19	3	7	Ole Braunschweig	Germany	1:54.37
20	2	2	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	1:54.46
21	4	9	Francisco Santos	Portugal	1:54.54
22	2	9	Wang Gukailai	China	1:55.02
23	4	8	Kaloyan Levterov	Bulgaria	1:55.26
24	2	6	Gabriel Fantoni	Brazil	1:55.44
25	1	4	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	1:56.02
26	3	6	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.41
27	1	7	Trần Hưng Nguyên	Vietnam	1:56.44	NR
28	1	6	Ng Cheuk Yin	Hong Kong	1:56.93	NR
29	3	9	Ziyad Saleem	Sudan	1:57.73
30	3	2	Tomáš Franta	Czech Republic	1:59.64
31	2	1	Charles Hockin	Paraguay	2:00.03
32	1	3	Julio Pérez	Costa Rica	2:01.08
33	1	5	Abdellah Ardjoune	Algeria	2:05.86
34	1	1	Abdul Al-Kulaibi	Oman	2:08.20
35	1	2	Faisal Al-Tannak	Kuwait	2:10.23
	2	0	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	DNS
	4	1	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	DNS

The final was held at 18:56.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:48.68
	4	Shaine Casas	United States	1:48.81
	6	Christian Diener	Germany	1:48.97	NR
4	2	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:49.27	NR
5	5	Jan Čejka	Czech Republic	1:49.93	NR
6	3	Yohann Ndoye Brouard	France	1:50.53
7	1	Armin Evert Lelle	Estonia	1:51.20	NR
8	7	Antoine Herlem	France	1:52.92

^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Omega Timing. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
^ Heats results
^ Final results