Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Men's 200 metre backstroke ; at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Venue	National Taiwan Sport University Arena
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Dates	24 August (heats and semifinals); 25 August (final)
Competitors	39 from 27 nations
Winning time	1:56.52
Medalists
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 24 and 25 August 2017.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Competition record	Ryosuke Irie (JPN)	1:54.13	Belgrade, Serbia	10 July 2009

The heats were held on 24 August at 9:00.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:58.83	Q
2	5	5	Robert Owen	United States	1:58.96	Q
3	4	5	Austin Katz	United States	1:59.64	Q
4	4	6	Martin Binedell	South Africa	1:59.98	Q
5	3	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	2:00.25	Q
6	3	6	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:00.46	Q
7	3	2	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	2:00.50	Q
8	4	2	Robert Hill	Canada	2:00.78	Q
8	5	6	Roman Larin	Russia	2:00.78	Q
10	4	7	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	2:00.98	Q
11	4	4	Matteo Restivo	Italy	2:01.12	Q
12	3	3	Gábor Balog	Hungary	2:01.17	Q
13	4	3	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	2:01.37	Q
14	5	7	Dag Fredriksson	Sweden	2:01.42	Q
15	5	1	Shuhei Uno	Japan	2:01.55	Q
16	3	5	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	2:02.19	Q
17	5	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	2:02.20
18	5	2	David Gamburg	Israel	2:02.51
19	3	1	Andy Song	Mexico	2:03.08
20	3	8	Gytis Stankevičius	Lithuania	2:04.10
21	4	8	Corneille Coetzee	New Zealand	2:04.26
22	4	1	Neil Fair	South Africa	2:04.39
23	2	4	Gabriel Lópes	Portugal	2:04.52
24	2	6	Girts Feldbergs	Latvia	2:04.99
25	2	2	Bayley Main	New Zealand	2:05.16
26	5	8	David Céspedes	Colombia	2:05.82
27	1	4	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands	2:06.08
28	2	1	Rory McEvoy	Ireland	2:06.23
29	2	5	Adil Kaskabay	Kazakhstan	2:06.38
30	3	7	Axel Pettersson	Sweden	2:06.61
31	2	8	Adityastha Rai Wratsangka	Indonesia	2:07.50
32	2	7	Thomas Liess	Switzerland	2:07.57
33	2	3	Yonatan Batsha	Israel	2:08.56
34	1	3	Lau Shiu Yue	Hong Kong	2:09.42
35	1	5	David Prendergast	Ireland	2:09.81
36	1	2	Andrei Gussev	Estonia	2:12.28
37	1	7	Arian Neil Puyo	Philippines	2:19.59
38	1	6	Alfredo Yaluk	Paraguay	2:21.57
39	1	1	Gian Berino	Philippines	2:30.38
	1	8	Abdulrahman Al-Hashmi	Oman	DNS

The semifinals were held on 24 August at 19:57.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Robert Owen	United States	1:58.32	Q
2	5	Martin Binedell	South Africa	1:58.37	Q
3	8	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	1:59.40	Q
4	6	Roman Larin	Russia	1:59.84	Q
5	7	Gábor Balog	Hungary	2:00.35
6	2	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	2:00.88
7	3	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:02.22
8	1	Dag Fredriksson	Sweden	2:02.57

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:57.47	Q
2	5	Austin Katz	United States	1:57.69	Q
3	4	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:58.28	Q
4	1	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	2:00.06	Q
5	6	Lee Ju-ho	South Korea	2:00.84
6	7	Matteo Restivo	Italy	2:01.06
7	2	Robert Hill	Canada	2:01.22
8	8	Shuhei Uno	Japan	2:03.96

The final was held on 25 August at 20:10.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:56.52
	5	Austin Katz	United States	1:56.70
	1	Roman Larin	Russia	1:57.29
4	3	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:57.77
5	7	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	1:58.16
6	2	Martin Binedell	South Africa	1:58.17
7	6	Robert Owen	United States	1:58.52
8	8	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	2:00.52