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Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	27 July (heats and semifinals); 28 July (final)
Competitors	39 from 33 nations
Winning time	1:54.14
Medalists
	← 2022 2024 →

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2023.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[4]

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Competition record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009

The heats were started on 27 July at 10:56.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Bradley Woodward	Australia	1:57.14	Q
2	4	3	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:57.24	Q
3	2	4	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.27	Q
4	4	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:57.37	Q
5	4	6	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:57.40	Q
6	2	2	Oliver Morgan	Great Britain	1:57.61	Q
7	3	1	Hugh McNeill	Canada	1:57.73	Q
8	3	4	Destin Lasco	United States	1:57.84	Q
9	2	5	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:57.92	Q
10	4	1	Hugo González	Spain	1:57.99	Q
10	4	2	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:57.99	Q
12	3	3	Mewen Tomac	France	1:58.09	Q
13	3	7	Daiki Yanagawa	Japan	1:58.14	Q
14	3	5	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:58.17	Q
15	3	2	Antoine Herlem	France	1:58.20	Q
16	3	6	Hidekazu Takehara	Japan	1:58.46	Q
17	2	6	Matteo Restivo	Italy	1:58.57
18	4	7	Andrew Jeffcoat	New Zealand	1:59.01
19	2	1	João Costa	Portugal	1:59.30
20	3	9	Berke Saka	Turkey	1:59.48
21	4	8	Tao Guannan	China	1:59.74
22	3	8	John Shortt	Ireland	1:59.79
23	2	7	Lorenzo Mora	Italy	1:59.99
24	2	0	Ziyad Ahmed	Sudan	2:00.52
25	2	8	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	2:00.76
26	4	0	Erikas Grigaitis	Lithuania	2:00.98
27	1	2	Denilson Cyprianos	Zimbabwe	2:02.12	NR
28	1	5	Mohamed Mohamady	Egypt	2:02.23
29	1	4	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	2:03.14
30	4	9	Tonnam Kanteemool	Thailand	2:03.46
31	3	0	Srihari Nataraj	India	2:04.42
32	1	6	Jack Harvey	Bermuda	2:04.52
33	1	3	Armin Lelle	Estonia	2:05.20
34	2	9	Trần Hưng Nguyên	Vietnam	2:07.40
35	1	8	Merdan Atayev	Turkmenistan	2:07.48
36	1	7	Matthieu Seye	Senegal	2:08.44	NR
37	1	1	Thomas Wareing	Malta	2:12.57
38	1	0	Joel Ling	Brunei	2:13.07
39	1	9	Ali Imaan	Maldives	2:23.46
	2	3	Ksawery Masiuk	Poland	Did not start

The semifinals were held on 27 July at 21:33.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:55.85	Q, NR
2	1	1	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:55.89	Q
3	2	5	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:55.99	Q
4	1	5	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:56.02	Q
5	1	7	Mewen Tomac	France	1:56.05	Q
6	2	4	Bradley Woodward	Australia	1:56.16	Q
7	2	1	Daiki Yanagawa	Japan	1:57.23	Q
8	1	2	Hugo González	Spain	1:57.28	Q
9	1	3	Oliver Morgan	Great Britain	1:57.50
10	2	8	Antoine Herlem	France	1:57.55
11	2	2	Brodie Williams	Great Britain	1:57.93
12	2	3	Apostolos Siskos	Greece	1:58.04
13	2	7	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	1:58.05
14	1	8	Hidekazu Takehara	Japan	1:58.10
15	2	6	Hugh McNeill	Canada	1:58.86
16	1	6	Destin Lasco	United States	1:59.18

The final was started on 28 July at 20:59.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:54.14	NR
	6	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:54.83
	4	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:55.34	NR
4	2	Mewen Tomac	France	1:55.79
5	5	Benedek Kovács	Hungary	1:55.85
6	7	Bradley Woodward	Australia	1:56.29
7	8	Hugo González	Spain	1:56.33
8	1	Daiki Yanagawa	Japan	1:58.75

^ "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
^ "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2023.
^ "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
^ "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 January 2024.
^ "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 27 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 January 2024.
^ "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 28 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 December 2023.