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
Hubert Kós    Hungary   Ryan Murphy    United States   Roman Mityukov     Switzerland

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

Results

Heats

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

Semifinals

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

Final

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

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