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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Dates	29 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) 30 March 2007 (final)
Competitors	57
Winning time	1 minute 54.32 seconds
Medalists
Ryan Lochte    United States   Aaron Peirsol    United States   Markus Rogan    Austria

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.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 1:54.44, Aaron Peirsol (USA), August 19, 2006 in Victoria, Canada.
• Championship record (CR): 1:54.66, Aaron Peirsol (USA), Montreal 2005 (July 29, 2005)

Results

Finals

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Ryan Lochte	USA	1:54.32	WR
2	Aaron Peirsol	USA	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	Great Britain	1:58.88
7	Tomomi Morita	Japan	1:59.14
8	Gregor Tait	Great Britain	1:59.41

Semifinals

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Ryan Lochte	USA	1:55.99	Q
2	Aaron Peirsol	USA	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	Great Britain	1:58.68	Q
7	Tomomi Morita	Japan	1:58.91	Q
8	Gregor Tait	Great Britain	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

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 M'Rabet	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

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

References

• Men's 200m Back Preliminary results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 200m Back Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 200m Back Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.