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 1:54.32 WR 2 Aaron Peirsol 1:54.80 3 Markus Rogan 1:56.02 4 Arkady Vyatchanin 1:57.14 5 Răzvan Florea 1:57.31 6 James Goddard 1:58.88 7 Tomomi Morita 1:59.14 8 Gregor Tait 1:59.41

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

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