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Men's 200 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	10 August 2016 (heats & semifinals) 11 August 2016 (final)
Competitors	26 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:53.62
Medalists
Ryan Murphy  United States Mitch Larkin  Australia Evgeny Rylov  Russia

The men's 200 metre backstroke was one of the swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[1] It took place on 10–11 August 2016 and featuring 26 men from 19 countries. It was the fifteenth appearance of an Olympic men's 200 metre backstroke event since the first at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. The event, which took place at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, consisted of three rounds with those been the heats, semi-finals and final. The race was won by Ryan Murphy of the United Sates with Australian Mitch Larkin finishing second and Evgeny Rylov (Russia) finishing third.

The heat round was conducted on 10 August in the morning session. The 26 swimmers were split into four heats. The first heat had three athletes in it, the second heat had seven athletes in it, the third heat had eight athletes in it and the fourth heat had eight athletes in it. Athletes had to be in the top 16 fastest athletes to progress to the semi-finals. The quickest athlete in the heat round was Rylov with a time of one minute and 55.02 seconds. Xu Jiayu (China) was second fastest and Larkin was third fastest. The slowest athlete to progress from the heats was Yakov Toumarkin (Israel) whose time was one minute and 57.58 seconds.

The semi-final round was held in the evening session on 10 August. There were two semi-finals of eight athletes each. The top eight fastest athletes qualified for the final. The first semi-final was won by Murphy and the second semi-final was won by Rylov. The top eight athletes consisted of three from the first semi-final and five from the second. Rylov recorded the quickest time overall with his time of one minute and 54.45 seconds slightly quicker than Larkin's, who was second quickest overall.

The final was held in the night session on 11 August 2016.

Records

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

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Olympic record	Tyler Clary (USA)	1:53.41	London, United Kingdom	2 August 2012

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:55.02	Q
2	2	5	Xu Jiayu	China	1:55.51	Q
3	4	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:56.01	Q
4	3	4	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:56.29	Q
5	3	5	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:56.44	Q
6	2	3	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	1:56.50	Q
	4	7	Andrey Shabasov	Russia		Q
8	4	3	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:56.61	Q
9	2	2	Christian Diener	Germany	1:56.62	Q
10	4	6	Josh Beaver	Australia	1:56.65	Q
11	3	6	Li Guangyuan	China	1:56.85	Q
12	4	1	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:57.00	Q, NR
13	2	6	Masaki Kaneko	Japan	1:57.19	Q
14	3	2	Hugo González	Spain	1:57.50	Q
15	4	8	Corey Main	New Zealand	1:57.51	Q
16	3	3	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:57.58	Q
17	4	5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:57.61
18	1	4	Robert Glință	Romania	1:57.91
19	2	7	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:59.09
20	1	5	Rexford Tullius	Virgin Islands	1:59.14
21	4	2	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:59.58
22	3	1	Dávid Földházi	Hungary	1:59.69
	3	8	Omar Pinzón	Colombia
24	3	7	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:59.78
25	2	1	Mikita Tsmyh	Belarus	2:00.96
26	1	3	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	2:05.01

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:55.15	Q
2	4	Xu Jiayu	China	1:55.66	Q
3	6	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:56.31	Q
4	3	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	1:56.53
5	2	Josh Beaver	Australia	1:56.57
6	7	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:57.67
7	8	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:58.63
8	1	Hugo González	Spain	1:59.08

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:54.45	Q
2	5	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:54.73	Q
3	3	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:54.92	Q
4	7	Li Guangyuan	China	1:55.92	Q
5	2	Christian Diener	Germany	1:56.37	Q
6	1	Masaki Kaneko	Japan	1:56.78
7	6	Andrey Shabasov	Russia	1:56.84
8	8	Corey Main	New Zealand	1:58.08

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Ryan Murphy	United States	1:53.62
	5	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:53.96
	4	Evgeny Rylov	Russia	1:53.97	EU
4	2	Xu Jiayu	China	1:55.16
5	3	Jacob Pebley	United States	1:55.52
6	7	Li Guangyuan	China	1:55.89
7	8	Christian Diener	Germany	1:56.27
8	1	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:56.36

References

Men's 00200 metre backstroke Olympics