The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 24 and 25 August 2017.

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

Results Heats The heats were held on 24 August at 9:00.Heats results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes154Kosuke Hagino1:58.83Q255Robert Owen1:58.96Q345Austin Katz1:59.64Q446Martin Binedell1:59.98Q534Danas Rapšys2:00.25Q636Mikita Tsmyh2:00.46Q732Lee Ju-ho2:00.50Q842Robert Hill2:00.78Q856Roman Larin2:00.78Q1047Markus Thormeyer2:00.98Q1144Matteo Restivo2:01.12Q1233Gábor Balog2:01.17Q1343Christopher Ciccarese2:01.37Q1457Dag Fredriksson2:01.42Q1551Shuhei Uno2:01.55Q1635Andrey Shabasov2:02.19Q1753Leonardo de Deus2:02.20 1852David Gamburg2:02.51 1931Andy Song2:03.08 2038Gytis Stankevičius2:04.10 2148Corneille Coetzee2:04.26 2241Neil Fair2:04.39 2324Gabriel Lópes2:04.52 2426Girts Feldbergs2:04.99 2522Bayley Main2:05.162658David Céspedes2:05.82 2714Arjan Knipping2:06.08 2821Rory McEvoy2:06.23 2925Adil Kaskabay2:06.38 3037Axel Pettersson2:06.61 3128Adityastha Rai Wratsangka2:07.50 3227Thomas Liess2:07.573323Yonatan Batsha2:08.56 3413Lau Shiu Yue2:09.423515David Prendergast2:09.81 3612Andrei Gussev2:12.283717Arian Neil Puyo2:19.593816Alfredo Yaluk2:21.57 3911Gian Berino2:30.38 18Abdulrahman Al-Hashmi

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 24 August at 19:57.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes14Robert Owen1:58.32 Q25Martin Binedell1:58.37 Q38Andrey Shabasov1:59.40 Q46Roman Larin1:59.84 Q57Gábor Balog2:00.35 62Markus Thormeyer2:00.88 73Mikita Tsmyh2:02.22 81Dag Fredriksson2:02.57

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes13Danas Rapšys1:57.47 Q25Austin Katz1:57.69 Q34Kosuke Hagino1:58.28 Q41Christopher Ciccarese2:00.06 Q 56Lee Ju-ho2:00.84 67Matteo Restivo2:01.06 72Robert Hill2:01.22 88Shuhei Uno2:03.96

Final The final was held on 25 August at 20:10.Final results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes4Danas Rapšys1:56.525Austin Katz1:56.701Roman Larin1:57.29 43Kosuke Hagino1:57.77 57Andrey Shabasov1:58.16 62Martin Binedell1:58.17 76Robert Owen1:58.52 88Christopher Ciccarese2:00.52

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