The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 6 August with the heats and the semifinals and 7 August with the final.Start list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were held at 09:56.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 5 Mitch Larkin 1:55.88 Q 2 3 4 Ryosuke Irie 1:56.68 Q 3 3 5 Ryan Murphy 1:56.71 Q 4 3 3 Evgeny Rylov 1:56.78 Q 5 2 4 Xu Jiayu 1:56.90 Q 6 4 4 Tyler Clary 1:56.92 Q 7 4 6 Christian Diener 1:57.42 Q 8 4 3 Josh Beaver 1:57.62 Q 9 2 3 Masaki Kaneko 1:57.63 Q 10 3 7 Leonardo de Deus 1:57.73 Q 11 4 1 Grigory Tarasevich 1:57.77 Q 12 2 2 Li Guangyuan 1:58.02 Q 13 2 5 Radosław Kawęcki 1:58.09 Q 14 2 1 Corey Main 1:58.22 Q 15 4 2 Luca Mencarini 1:58.31 Q 16 2 6 Gábor Balog 1:58.55 Q 17 4 7 Yakov Toumarkin 1:58.64 18 3 6 Christopher Ciccarese 1:58.79 19 3 2 Danas Rapšys 1:59.00 20 2 7 Benjamin Stasiulis 1:59.05 21 1 5 Lavrans Solli 1:59.23 22 3 8 Omar Pinzón 1:59.24 23 2 8 Carlos Omaña 1:59.59 NR 24 3 1 2:00.26 25 4 9 Armando Barrera 2:00.92 26 1 3 Rexford Tullius 2:01.22 27 4 0 Roman Dmytrijev 2:01.49 28 3 0 Matias López 2:01.74 29 2 0 Lukas Rauftlin 2:03.00 30 1 6 Lin Shih-chieh 2:04.00 31 1 4 Yeziel Morales 2:04.15 32 2 9 Lê Nguyễn Paul 2:04.78 33 3 9 Vuk Čelić 2:05.54 34 1 2 Boris Kirillov 2:06.74 35 1 7 Lushano Lamprecht 2:08.14 36 1 1 Driss Lahrichi 2:09.14 37 1 8 Rami Elias 2:19.53 4 8 Apostolos Christou DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 18:57.Semifinal results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Evgeny Rylov 1:55.54 Q 2 4 Ryosuke Irie 1:55.76 Q 3 3 Tyler Clary 1:56.58 Q 4 7 Li Guangyuan 1:57.12 Q 5 8 Gábor Balog 1:57.91 6 2 Leonardo de Deus 1:57.96 7 6 Josh Beaver 1:57.99 8 1 Corey Main 1:59.50

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Mitch Larkin 1:54.29 Q, OC 2 5 Ryan Murphy 1:55.10 Q 3 3 Xu Jiayu 1:55.13 Q 4 1 Radosław Kawęcki 1:55.54 Q 5 6 Christian Diener 1:57.17 6 2 Masaki Kaneko 1:57.33 7 8 Luca Mencarini 1:57.81 8 7 Grigory Tarasevich 1:58.30

Final The final was held on 7 August at 17:40.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Mitch Larkin 1:53.58 OC 2 Radosław Kawęcki 1:54.55 6 Evgeny Rylov 1:54.60 NR 4 7 Ryosuke Irie 1:54.81 5 5 Ryan Murphy 1:55.00 6 3 Xu Jiayu 1:55.20 7 1 Tyler Clary 1:56.26 8 8 Li Guangyuan 1:56.79 WJ

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