Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates	7 December
Competitors	59 from 45 nations
Winning time	1:47.38
Medalists
Radosław Kawęcki    Poland   Ryan Lochte    United States   Mitch Larkin    Australia
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2014 FINA World Swimming Championships
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×50 m	freestyle	medley
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The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) will be held on 7 December.^[1]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	1:46.11	Berlin	15 November 2009
Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:46.68	Dubai	19 December 2010

The heats were held at 09:38.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	5	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:49.57	Q, AS
2	6	3	Tyler Clary	United States	1:50.05	Q
3	6	0	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:50.35	Q
4	5	2	David Gamburg	Israel	1:50.83	Q
4	6	4	Yuki Shirai	Japan	1:50.83	Q
6	7	4	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:51.11	Q
7	6	8	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1:51.29	Q,
8	7	6	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:51.44	Q
9	5	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:51.59
10	7	3	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:51.86
11	5	4	Christian Diener	Germany	1:51.89
12	6	5	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:52.70
13	7	7	Russell Wood	Canada	1:53.49
14	5	7	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1:53.54
15	6	6	Lukas Rauftlin	Switzerland	1:53.68
16	5	0	Henrique Rodrigues	Brazil	1:54.05
17	5	8	Ricky Ellis	South Africa	1:54.22
18	6	7	Federico Turrini	Italy	1:54.47
19	5	9	Apostolos Christou	Greece	1:54.70
20	6	1	Simone Sabbioni	Italy	1:54.80
21	4	5	Robert Glință	Romania	1:55.32
22	7	8	David Kunčar	Czech Republic	1:55.69
23	4	6	Lavrans Solli	Norway	1:56.01
24	5	6	Fernando Santos	Brazil	1:56.23
25	7	1	Martin Zhelev	Bulgaria	1:56.37
26	7	2	Marko Krce Rabar	Croatia	1:56.73
27	5	1	Roman Dmytrijev	Czech Republic	1:58.04
28	4	8	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:58.54
29	3	6	Boris Kirillov	Azerbaijan	1:58.74
30	7	0	Stephanus Coetzer	South Africa	1:58.97
31	3	1	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	1:59.37
32	4	2	Lau Shiu Yue	Hong Kong	1:59.77
33	4	9	David Adalsteinsson	Iceland	2:00.07
34	4	1	Lin Shih-chieh	Chinese Taipei	2:00.52
35	6	9	Matias López	Paraguay	2:01.39
36	4	7	Armando Barrera	Cuba	2:01.46
37	3	7	Grigorii Kalminskii	Azerbaijan	2:02.17
38	4	0	Daniil Bukin	Uzbekistan	2:02.29
39	3	2	Andres Olvera	Mexico	2:02.37
40	4	4	Kristinn Þórarinsson	Iceland	2:03.17
41	3	4	Gorazd Chepishevski	Macedonia	2:03.28
42	3	8	Jamal Chavoshifar	Iran	2:03.39
43	3	3	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco	2:03.50
44	3	5	Lushano Lamprecht	Namibia	2:03.65
45	2	3	Rodrigo Suriano	El Salvador	2:04.58
46	7	9	Jiang Tiansheng	China	2:07.40
47	4	3	Xiao Lei	China	2:07.47
48	3	9	Yaaqoub Al-Saadi	United Arab Emirates	2:08.86
49	2	5	Soroush Ghandchi	Iran	2:09.41
50	2	6	Maroun Waked	Lebanon	2:10.09
51	3	0	Patrick Groters	Aruba	2:10.89
52	2	2	Cristian Santi	San Marino	2:11.24
53	2	4	Noah Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	2:14.81
54	1	4	Nathan Nades	Papua New Guinea	2:21.98
55	2	7	Dean Hoffman	Seychelles	2:24.88
56	2	1	Temaruata Strickland	Cook Islands	2:25.03
57	2	8	Aleksander Ngresi	Albania	2:26.02
58	1	5	Htut Ahnt Khaung	Myanmar	2:29.68
59	1	3	Tanner Poppe	Guam	2:40.53
—	6	2	Travis Mahoney	Australia		DNS
—	7	5	Benjamin Stasiulis	France		DNS

The final was held at 18:15.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1:47.38
	3	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:48.20
	7	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1:48.35
4	4	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1:48.77	AS
5	5	Tyler Clary	United States	1:49.87
6	1	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1:50.88	SA
7	2	Yuki Shirai	Japan	1:51.67
8	6	David Gamburg	Israel	1:52.24