The men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 22 to 23 July 2025. Daniel Diehl from the United States won the gold medal, David King from the United States took the silver medal and Mathys Chouchaoui from France earned the bronze medal.

Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round22 July 09:00 Heats 19:49 Semifinals 23 July 19:00 Final

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Aaron Peirsol 1:51.92 31 July 2009 Rome, Italy 2009 World Championships Universiade record Ryosuke Irie 1:54.13 10 July 2009 Belgrade, Serbia 2009 Summer Universiade

Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 16 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 4 4 1:58.53 2 3 4 1:58.90 3 5 4 1:58.92 4 5 3 1:59.50 5 5 7 1:59.65 6 5 1 1:59.82 7 4 2 1:59.93 8 4 6 2:00.02 9 3 6 2:00.33 10 3 3 2:00.42 10 4 3 2:00.42 12 5 5 2:00.64 13 5 2 2:00.82 14 3 5 2:00.94 15 5 6 2:01.00 16 3 7 Kim Seong-ju 2:01.17 17 4 1 2:01.18 18 4 7 2:01.77 19 3 2 2:02.39 20 4 5 2:02.55 21 3 1 2:02.93 22 3 8 Khiew Hoe Yean 2:03.20 23 4 8 2:03.21 24 5 8 2:03.24 25 2 1 2:05.34 26 2 4 2:06.15 27 2 3 2:06.44 28 2 2 2:07.25 29 1 4 2:11.63 30 1 5 2:11.89 31 2 7 2:16.10 32 1 3 2:19.29 — 2 5

Semifinals The 16 advancing swimmers were split into two semifinal heats of 8 during the evening session. The swimmers recording the top 8 fastest times advanced to the final round.

Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 4 1:57.54 2 1 5 1:57.72 3 1 4 1:58.00 4 2 5 1:58.17 5 1 3 1:58.78 6 1 6 1:59.08 7 1 1 1:59.25 8 2 6 1:59.30 9 2 3 1:59.38 10 1 2 1:59.49 11 2 7 1:59.88 12 1 7 2:00.41 13 2 2 2:00.99 14 1 8 Kim Seong-ju 2:01.45 15 2 8 2:02.46 — 2 1

Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.

Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 6 1:55.91 4 1:56.00 5 1:58.08 4 3 1:58.45 5 7 1:58.66 6 2 1:59.00 7 8 1:59.25 8 1 1:59.58

External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025

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