The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 27 and 28 July 2017.Schedule Start list

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

Results Heats The heats were held on 27 July at 09:51.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 1:56.11 Q 2 5 2 1:56.53 Q 3 3 7 1:56.67 Q, NR 4 3 5 1:56.74 Q 5 5 5 Xu Jiayu 1:56.92 Q 6 3 3 1:57.21 Q 7 4 4 1:57.28 Q 8 5 1 1:57.41 Q 9 5 3 Li Guangyuan 1:57.66 Q 10 5 6 1:57.67 Q 4 8 Q 12 4 6 1:57.97 Q 13 3 4 1:58.00 Q 14 4 5 1:58.05 Q 15 5 7 1:58.33 Q 16 5 8 1:58.34 Q 17 3 6 1:58.37 18 4 3 1:58.41 19 3 8 1:58.72 20 4 7 1:58.92 21 5 0 1:59.03 22 3 0 1:59.15 23 4 2 1:59.25 24 2 5 Quah Zheng Wen 1:59.49 NR 25 2 3 2:00.27 26 4 1 2:00.44 27 4 9 2:00.46 28 5 9 2:00.68 29 2 1 2:00.96 30 4 0 2:01.38 31 3 9 2:01.84 32 3 2 2:02.41 33 1 4 2:02.78 34 2 8 2:03.09 35 2 2 2:03.13 36 2 4 2:03.49 37 2 6 2:05.11 38 2 7 2:09.22 39 1 5 2:11.92 40 1 3 2:21.04 3 1

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 27 July at 19:03.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Kliment Kolesnikov 1:55.15 Q, WJ 2 1 Jacob Pebley 1:55.20 Q 3 3 Ryosuke Irie 1:55.79 Q 3 4 Péter Bernek 1:55.79 Q, NR 5 6 Ádám Telegdy 1:56.69 6 2 Luke Greenbank 1:58.50 7 7 Kosuke Hagino 1:58.72 8 8 Corey Main 2:01.00

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Xu Jiayu 1:54.79 Q 2 4 Ryan Murphy 1:54.93 Q 3 6 Evgeny Rylov 1:54.96 Q 4 5 Danas Rapšys 1:56.11 Q, NR 5 2 Li Guangyuan 1:57.10 6 8 Leonardo de Deus 1:57.89 7 7 Josh Beaver 1:58.10 8 1 Mitch Larkin 1:59.10

Final The final was held on 28 July at 17:40.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Evgeny Rylov 1:53.61 ER 5 Ryan Murphy 1:54.21 2 Jacob Pebley 1:55.06 4 6 Kliment Kolesnikov 1:55.14 WJ 5 4 Xu Jiayu 1:55.26 6 1 Péter Bernek 1:55.58 NR 7 7 Ryosuke Irie 1:56.35 8 8 Danas Rapšys 1:56.96

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