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Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 29 March (heats and semifinals) and 30 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 57 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 55 swam.

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
VenueRod Laver Arena
Dates29 March 2007 (heats, semifinals)
30 March 2007 (final)
Competitors57
Winning time1:54.32 WR
Medalists
gold medal Ryan Lochte   United States
silver medal Aaron Peirsol   United States
bronze medal Markus Rogan   Austria
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Existing records at the start of the event were:

Results edit

Finals edit

Place Name Nationality Time Note
1 Ryan Lochte   United States 1:54.32 WR
2 Aaron Peirsol   United States 1:54.80
3 Markus Rogan   Austria 1:56.02
4 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 1:57.14
5 Răzvan Florea   Romania 1:57.31
6 James Goddard   United Kingdom 1:58.88
7 Tomomi Morita   Japan 1:59.14
8 Gregor Tait   United Kingdom 1:59.41

Semifinals edit

Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note
1 Ryan Lochte   United States 1:55.99 Q
2 Aaron Peirsol   United States 1:56.39 Q
3 Markus Rogan   Austria 1:56.62 Q
4 Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia 1:57.56 Q
5 Răzvan Florea   Romania 1:58.59 Q
6 James Goddard   United Kingdom 1:58.68 Q
7 Tomomi Morita   Japan 1:58.91 Q
8 Gregor Tait   United Kingdom 1:59.52 Q
9 Luca Marin   Italy 1:59.81
10 Ouyang Kunpeng   China 1:59.91
11 Masafumi Yamaguchi   Japan 2:00.03
12 Damiano Lestingi   Italy 2:00.17
13 Ephraim Hannant   Australia 2:00.95
14 Pedro Oliveira   Portugal 2:01.18
15 Nicholas Neckles   Barbados 2:01.66
16 Itai Chammah   Israel 2:01.79

Heats edit

Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note
1 Aaron Peirsol   USA 1:57.79 Q
2 Ryan Lochte   USA 1:57.95 Q
3 James Goddard   Great Britain 1:58.36 Q
4 Markus Rogan   Austria 1:59.00 Q
5 Răzvan Florea   Romania 1:59.25 Q
6 Tomomi Morita   Japan 1:59.37 Q
7 Gregor Tait   Great Britain 1:59.85 Q
Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia Q
9 Masafumi Yamaguchi   Japan 1:59.98 Q
10 Ephraim Hannant   Australia 2:00.31 Q
11 Damiano Lestingi   Italy 2:00.38 Q
12 Luca Marin   Italy 2:00.42 Q
13 Pedro Oliveira   Portugal 2:00.62 Q
14 Itai Chammah   Israel 2:00.93 Q
15 Nicholas Neckles   Barbados 2:01.18 Q
16 Ouyang Kunpeng   China 2:01.21 Q
17 Simon Dufour   France 2:01.52
18 Georgios Demetis   Greece 2:01.57
Derya Büyükuncu   Turkey
20 George Du Rand   South Africa 2:01.79
21 Zhang Bodong   China 2:01.88
22 Ehud Segal   Israel 2:02.02
23 Andre Schultz   Brazil 2:02.16
24 Hayden Stoeckel   Australia 2:02.32
25 Helge Meeuw   Germany 2:02.34
26 Jens Thiele   Germany 2:04.02
27 Juan Veloz   Mexico 2:04.47
28 Seunghyeon Lee   South Korea 2:04.66
29 Pavel Sankovich   Belarus 2:05.02
30 Miguel Robles   Mexico 2:05.54
31 Sergey Pankov   Uzbekistan 2:05.90
32 Andriy Oleynyk   Ukraine 2:07.22
33 Gart Tune   South Africa 2:07.81
34 Taki Mrabet   Tunisia 2:08.46
35 Geoffrey Robin Cheah   Hong Kong 2:09.22
36 David Dunford   Kenya 2:09.34
37 Iurii Zakharov   Kyrgyzstan 2:10.36
38 Felix Cristiadi Sutanto   Indonesia 2:10.42
39 Rony Bakale   Congo 2:10.85
40 Gael Adam   Mauritius 2:11.13
41 Wei Shien Zach Ong   Singapore 2:12.16
42 Kevin Soow Choy Yeap   Malaysia 2:12.32
43 Stanislav Ossinskiy   Kazakhstan 2:12.65
44 Sohaib Kalali   Syria 2:12.79
45 Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani   Iran 2:14.53
46 Yu An Lin   Chinese Taipei 2:14.65
47 Juan Montenegro   Guatemala 2:14.71
48 Adonis Ganiev   Uzbekistan 2:14.79
49 Eric Chang   Malaysia 2:15.33
50 Wen Hao Joshua Lim   Singapore 2:16.01
51 Amine Kouam   Morocco 2:16.23
52 Carlos Eduardo Gil   Peru 2:16.80
53 Andrey Molchanov   Turkmenistan 2:24.03
54 Richard Randrianandraina   Madagascar 2:33.35
55 Timur Atahanov   Turkmenistan 2:39.95
-- Nuno Rola   Angola DNS
-- Samson Opuakpo   Nigeria DNS

See also edit

References edit

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