200 metre backstroke at the Olympic Games
Swimming pictogram
Overview
Sport	Swimming
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1900, 1964–2016 Women: 1968–2016
Reigning champion
Men	Ryan Murphy (USA)
Women	Maya DiRado (USA)

The 200-metre backstroke event is an event held at the Summer Olympic Games. The men's event was introduced in 1900, then was not held again until 1964, with a 100-metre backstroke) held from 1904 to 1960. When the event returned in 1964, it replaced the men's 100-metre backstroke for that year; in 1968, both the 100- and 200-metre versions were held for men. The 200-metre backstroke has been held at every Summer Games since 1964. The women's backstroke was introduced in 1968, and it has been held at every Summer Olympics since.

Medals

Men's medals

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens	Not held
1900 Paris	Ernst Hoppenberg  Germany	Karl Ruberl  Austria	Johannes Drost  Netherlands
1904 St. Louis	Not held
1908 London	Not held
1912 Stockholm	Not held
1920 Antwerp	Not held
1924 Paris	Not held
1928 Amsterdam	Not held
1932 Los Angeles	Not held
1936 Berlin	Not held
1948 London	Not held
1952 Helsinki	Not held
1956 Melbourne	Not held
1960 Rome	Not held
1964 Tokyo	Jed Graef  United States	Gary Dilley  United States	John Nelson  United States
1968 Mexico City	Roland Matthes  East Germany	Mitch Ivey  United States	Jack Horsley  United States
1972 Munich	Roland Matthes  East Germany	Mike Stamm  United States	Mitch Ivey  United States
1976 Montreal	John Naber  United States	Peter Rocca  United States	Dan Harrigan  United States
1980 Moscow	Sándor Wladár  Hungary	Zoltán Verrasztó  Hungary	Mark Kerry  Australia
1984 Los Angeles	Rick Carey  United States	Frédéric Delcourt  France	Cameron Henning  Canada
1988 Seoul	Igor Polyansky  Soviet Union	Frank Baltrusch  East Germany	Paul Kingsman  New Zealand
1992 Barcelona	Martín López-Zubero  Spain	Vladimir Selkov  Unified Team	Stefano Battistelli  Italy
1996 Atlanta	Brad Bridgewater  United States	Tripp Schwenk  United States	Emanuele Merisi  Italy
2000 Sydney	Lenny Krayzelburg  United States	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Matt Welsh  Australia
2004 Athens	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Markus Rogan  Austria	Răzvan Florea  Romania
2008 Beijing	Ryan Lochte  United States	Aaron Peirsol  United States	Arkady Vyatchanin  Russia
2012 London	Tyler Clary  United States	Ryosuke Irie  Japan	Ryan Lochte  United States
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Ryan Murphy  United States	Mitch Larkin  Australia	Evgeny Rylov  Russia

Men's multiple medalists

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Roland Matthes	East Germany	1968–1972	2	0	0	2
2	Aaron Peirsol	United States	2000–2008	1	2	0	3
3	Ryan Lochte	United States	2008–2012	1	0	1	2
4	Mitch Ivey	United States	1968–1972	0	1	1	2

Men's medalists by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	9	7	5	21
2	East Germany	2	1	0	3
3	Hungary	1	1	0	2
4	Germany	1	0	0	1
	Soviet Union	1	0	0	1
	Spain	1	0	0	1
7	Austria	0	2	0	2
8	Australia	0	1	2	3
9	France	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Unified Team	0	1	0	1
12	Italy	0	0	2	2
	Russia	0	0	2	2
14	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1

Women's medals

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1968 Mexico City	Lillian Watson  United States	Elaine Tanner  Canada	Kaye Hall  United States
1972 Munich	Melissa Belote  United States	Susie Atwood  United States	Donna Gurr  Canada
1976 Montreal	Ulrike Richter  East Germany	Birgit Treiber  East Germany	Nancy Garapick  Canada
1980 Moscow	Rica Reinisch  East Germany	Cornelia Polit  East Germany	Birgit Treiber  East Germany
1984 Los Angeles	Jolanda de Rover  Netherlands	Amy White  United States	Anca Pătrășcoiu  Romania
1988 Seoul	Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary	Kathrin Zimmermann  East Germany	Cornelia Sirch  East Germany
1992 Barcelona	Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary	Dagmar Hase  Germany	Nicole Stevenson  Australia
1996 Atlanta	Krisztina Egerszegi  Hungary	Whitney Hedgepeth  United States	Cathleen Rund  Germany
2000 Sydney	Diana Mocanu  Romania	Roxana Maracineanu  France	Miki Nakao  Japan
2004 Athens	Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe	Stanislava Komarova  Russia	Reiko Nakamura  Japan Antje Buschschulte  Germany
2008 Beijing	Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe	Margaret Hoelzer  United States	Reiko Nakamura  Japan
2012 London	Missy Franklin  United States	Anastasia Zuyeva  Russia	Elizabeth Beisel  United States
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Maya DiRado  United States	Katinka Hosszú  Hungary	Hilary Caldwell  Canada

Women's multiple medalists

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Krisztina Egerszegi	Hungary	1988–1996	3	0	0	3
2	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2004–2008	2	0	0	2
3	Birgit Treiber	East Germany	1976–1980	0	1	1	2
4	Reiko Nakamura	Japan	2004–2008	0	0	2	2

Women's medalists by nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	4	3	11
2	Hungary	3	1	0	4
3	East Germany	2	3	2	7
4	Zimbabwe	2	0	0	2
5	Romania	1	0	1	2
6	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
7	Russia	0	2	0	2
8	Canada	0	1	2	3
	Germany	0	1	2	3
10	France	0	1	0	1
11	Japan	0	0	3	3
12	Australia	0	0	1	1

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