Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships took place between 28 July 29 July. Both the heats and semifinals were held on 28 July with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The final was held on 29 July.

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2005 FINA World Championships
Dates28 July 2005 (heats, semifinals)
29 July 2005 (final)
Competitors47 from 39 nations
Winning time1 minute 54.66 seconds
Medalists
    United States
    Austria
    United States

Records

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

NameNationalityTimeLocationDate
World recordAaron Peirsol United States1:54.74Long Beach12 July 2004
Championship recordAaron Peirsol United States1:55.82Barcelona24 July 2003

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeWRCR
July 29FinalAaron Peirsol United States1:54.66WRCR

Results

Heats

RankHeat/LaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1H6 L4Aaron Peirsol  United States1:58.04qualified
2H6 L2Gordan Kožulj  Croatia1:59.03qualified
3H4 L4Markus Rogan  Austria1:59.33qualified
4H6 L6Tomomi Morita  Japan1:59.78qualified
5H5 L5Răzvan Florea  Romania1:59.88qualified
6H4 L3Takashi Nakano  Japan1:59.97qualified
7H5 L6Blaž Medvešek  Slovenia2:00.11qualified
8H6 L5Ryan Lochte  United States2:00.27qualified
9H6 L3Gregor Tait  Great Britain2:00.57qualified
10H4 L5Arkady Vyatchanin  Russia2:01.03qualified
11H5 L3Simon Dufour  France2:01.60qualified
12H4 L2Steffen Driesen  Germany2:01.69qualified
13H4 L1Derya Büyükuncu  Turkey2:01.93qualified
14H5 L4James Goddard  Great Britain2:02.00qualified
15H5 L1Yoav Gath  Israel2:02.12qualified
16H5 L7Patrick Murphy  Australia2:02.27qualified
17H5 L8Pavel Suskov  Lithuania2:02.36
18H4 L6Matt Welsh  Australia2:02.64
19H5 L2Keith Beavers  Canada2:02.88
20H4 L7Cameron Gibson  New Zealand2:02.89
21H6 L7Luca Marin  Italy2:03.41
22H6 L1Nick Neckles  Barbados2:04.00
23H6 L8Alex Lim  Malaysia2:04.09
24H3 L4Tomasz Rumianowski  Poland2:04.15
25H4 L8Sebastian Stoss  Austria2:04.30
26H3 L5Adriano Niz  Portugal2:04.61
27H3 L6Seung-Hyeon Lee  South Korea2:06.92
28H3 L1Alessio Domenack  Peru2:09.63
29H3 L8Sergey Pankov  Uzbekistan2:10.28
30H2 L5Marcus Cheah  Singapore2:11.04
31H2 L3Zhi Cong Lim  Singapore2:11.35
32H2 L7Kieran Locke  Virgin Islands2:11.96
33H2 L2Andy Wibowo  Indonesia2:12.42
34H2 L1David Dunford  Kenya2:12.84
35H3 L2Yury Zaharov  Kyrgyzstan2:12.91
36H2 L8Francisco Montenegro  Guatemala2:13.46
37H2 L4Gael Adam  Mauritius2:13.75
38H1 L4Shahin Baradaran  Iran2:15.04
39H1 L3Antonio Tong  Macau2:15.79
40H3 L7Suriya Suksuphak  Thailand2:17.29
41H2 L6LIN Yu-An  Chinese Taipei2:17.30
42H1 L8Francois Ghattas  Lebanon2:19.15
43H1 L5Scott Hensley  Virgin Islands2:22.11
44H1 L6Diego Foianini  Bolivia2:22.28
45H1 L1Horacio Carcamo  Honduras2:23.19
46H1 L2Reginaldo Panting  Honduras2:23.29
47H1 L7Imdad Ali  Pakistan2:23.46

Semifinals

RankHeat/LaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1S2 L4Aaron Peirsol USA1:56.60q
2S2 L5Markus Rogan Austria1:57.16q
3S2 L3Răzvan Florea Romania1:58.03q
4S1 L6Ryan Lochte USA1:58.17q
5S1 L2Arkady Vyatchanin Russia1:58.60q
6S1 L5Tomomi Morita Japan1:58.70q
7S1 L4Gordan Kožulj Croatia1:58.74q
8S1 L3Takashi Nakano Japan1:58.91q
9S2 L2Gregor Tait Great Britain1:58.97
10S2 L6Blaž Medvešek Slovenia1:59.10
11S1 L1James Goddard Great Britain1:59.16
12S2 L7Simon Dufour France2:00.08
13S1 L7Steffen Driesen Germany2:00.88
14S2 L8Yoav Gath Israel2:01.58
14S2 L1Derya Büyükuncu Turkey2:01.58
16S1 L8Patrick Muphry Australia2:03.15

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Aaron Peirsol USA1:54.66WR
Markus Rogan Austria1:56.63
Ryan Lochte USA1:57.00
4Răzvan Florea Romania1:57.03
5Takashi Nakano Japan1:58.03
6Gordan Kožulj Croatia1:58.28
7Arkady Vyatchanin Russia1:59.02
8Tomomi Morita Japan1:59.34

Key: WR = World record

References

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