The Men's 200 Metre Backstroke competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2019.ScheduleStart list

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

Results Heats The heats were held on 25 July at 10:28.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Ryan Murphy 1:56.61 Q 2 5 4 Evgeny Rylov 1:56.76 Q 3 4 3 Luke Greenbank 1:56.83 Q 4 3 3 Radosław Kawęcki 1:56.99 Q 5 3 5 Xu Jiayu 1:57.15 Q, 6 3 2 Ádám Telegdy 1:57.20 Q 7 5 5 Ryosuke Irie 1:57.60 Q 8 4 2 Christian Diener 1:57.61 Q 8 5 8 Jakub Skierka 1:57.61 Q 10 5 6 Matteo Restivo 1:57.67 Q 11 3 8 Daniel Cristian Martin 1:57.76 Q 12 3 1 Lee Ju-ho 1:57.80 Q 13 5 7 Grigoriy Tarasevich 1:57.99 Q 14 5 2 Danas Rapšys 1:58.04 Q 14 5 9 Roman Mityukov 1:58.04 Q, NR 16 5 3 Jacob Pebley 1:58.07 Q 17 5 1 Markus Thormeyer 1:58.16 Q 18 4 6 Bradley Woodward 1:58.31 19 4 5 Keita Sunama 1:58.40 20 3 7 Christopher Reid 1:58.44 21 3 6 Li Guangyuan 1:58.57 22 4 1 Leonardo de Deus 1:58.74 23 3 0 Anton Loncar 1:59.07 24 4 7 Apostolos Christou 1:59.42 25 5 0 Yakov Toumarkin 1:59.79 26 4 8 Cole Pratt 2:00.45 27 2 4 Tomáš Franta 2:00.52 28 2 1 Yeziel Morales 2:01.13 29 2 2 Ivan Štšeglov 2:01.19 NR 30 3 9 Mikita Tsmyh 2:01.44 31 4 0 Hugo González 2:01.84 32 2 8 Srihari Nataraj 2:02.08 NR 33 4 9 Conor Ferguson 2:02.37 34 2 5 Gabriel Lópes 2:03.33 35 2 3 Chuang Mu-lun 2:03.73 36 2 7 Omar Pinzón 2:04.76 37 2 6 Armando Barrera 2:05.23 38 2 0 Erick Gordillo 2:05.53 39 1 4 Ng Cheuk Yin 2:06.64 40 1 5 Matthew Mays 2:07.03 41 2 9 Patrick Groters 2:10.25 42 1 3 Ali Imaan 2:33.23 3 4 Mitch Larkin

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 25 July at 21:35.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Evgeny Rylov 1:55.48 Q 2 8 Markus Thormeyer 1:56.96 Q, NR 3 5 Radosław Kawęcki 1:57.24 Q 4 3 Ryosuke Irie 1:57.26 Q 5 2 Daniel Cristian Martin 1:57.66 6 7 Grigoriy Tarasevich 1:57.72 7 1 Roman Mityukov 1:57.93 NR 6 Jakub Skierka DSQ

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Ryan Murphy 1:56.25 Q 2 5 Luke Greenbank 1:56.60 Q 3 8 Jacob Pebley 1:56.65 Q 4 3 Ádám Telegdy 1:57.07 Q 5 6 Christian Diener 1:57.33 6 7 Lee Ju-ho 1:57.68 7 2 Matteo Restivo 1:58.12 8 1 Danas Rapšys 1:58.29

Final The final was held on 26 July at 21:00.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Evgeny Rylov 1:53.40 5 Ryan Murphy 1:54.12 3 Luke Greenbank 1:55.85 4 1 Radosław Kawęcki 1:56.37 5 8 Ryosuke Irie 1:56.52 6 6 Jacob Pebley 1:56.72 7 7 Ádám Telegdy 1:56.86 8 2 Markus Thormeyer 1:58.50

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