2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The Men's 200 Backstroke at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 19 December 2010 in Dubia, United Arab Emirates. 51 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning,[1] with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final that evening.[2]

Men's 200m Backstroke at the 2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates	19 December 2010
Competitors	51
Winning time	1:46.68
Medalists
Ryan Lochte    United States   Tyler Clary    United States   Markus Rogan    Austria

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	1:46.11	Berlin	15 November 2009
CR	Markus Rogan	Austria	1:47.84	Manchester	13 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	WR	CR
19 December 2010	Final	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:46.68		CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	6	5	Ryan Lochte (USA)	1:50.25	Q
2	7	3	Tyler Clary (USA)	1:50.82	Q
3	5	3	Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP)	1:51.63	Q
4	5	4	Markus Rogan (AUT)	1:51.82	Q
5	7	5	Ryosuke Irie (JPN)	1:51.85	Q
6	6	4	Radoslaw Kawecki (POL)	1:51.90	Q
7	6	3	Damiano Lestingi (ITA)	1:52.02	Q
8	3	4	John Tapp (CAN)	1:52.15	Q, NR
9	6	6	Omar Pinzón (COL)	1:52.34	SA
10	7	4	Arkady Vyatchanin (RUS)	1:52.62
11	5	5	Benjamin Stasiulis (FRA)	1:52.77
12	5	2	Nicolaas Driebergen (NED)	1:53.65
13	7	6	Derya Buyukuncu (TUR)	1:54.07
14	1	4	Guy Barnea (ISR)	1:54.23
15	1	3	Zhang Fenglin (CHN)	1:54.65
16	5	7	Charles Francis (CAN)	1:54.82
17	7	7	Kristian Kron (SWE)	1:55.67
18	7	2	Fabio Santi (BRA)	1:56.24
19	7	1	Andres Olvik (EST)	1:56.36	NR
20	7	8	Mattias Carlsson (SWE)	1:56.77
21	6	1	Jonatan Kopelev (ISR)	1:57.05
22	4	8	Sergey Pankov (UZB)	1:58.28
23	5	1	Lavrans Solli (NOR)	1:59.00
24	5	8	Jean-François Schneiders (LUX)	1:59.12
25	4	4	Federico Grabich (ARG)	1:59.42
26	3	5	Mohamed Hussein (EGY)	1:59.57
27	1	5	Andrejs Duda (LAT)	1:59.65
28	6	8	Juan David Molina (COL)	1:59.97
29	4	6	Lin Shih-Chieh (TPE)	2:00.08
30	4	7	Abdullah Altuwaini (KUW)	2:00.92
31	4	5	Charles Hockin (PAR)	2:01.66
32	3	7	Rehan Jehangir Poncha (IND)	2:02.52
33	3	3	Alex Hernández Medina (CUB)	2:02.95
34	4	2	Chu Kevin Kam Yin (HKG)	2:04.19
35	3	2	Jean Luis Apolinar Gomez Nuñez (DOM)	2:04.26
36	4	3	Oleg Rabota (KAZ)	2:04.89
37	2	3	Alar Lodi (EST)	2:04.99
38	6	7	Cheng Feiyi (CHN)	2:06.25
39	3	8	Shuaib Althuwaini (KUW)	2:06.30
40	2	4	Nicholas James (ZIM)	2:06.61
41	3	1	Boris Kirillov (AZE)	2:07.01
42	2	5	Morad Berrada (MAR)	2:07.18
43	2	6	Mark Sammut (MLT)	2:07.60
44	3	6	Ngou Pok Man (MAC)	2:08.65
45	2	2	Mohammed Al Ghaferi (UAE)	2:08.92
46	2	7	Edward Caruana Dingli (MLT)	2:11.11
-	2	1	Hamdan Iqbal Bayusuf (KEN)	DNS
-	2	8	Daniel Arnamnart (AUS)	DNS
-	4	1	Khachik Plavchyan (ARM)	DNS
-	5	6	Camille Lacourt (FRA)	DNS
-	6	2	Kvetoslav Svoboda (CZE)	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	4	Ryan Lochte (USA)	1:46.68	CR
	5	Tyler Clary (USA)	1:49.09
	6	Markus Rogan (AUT)	1:49.96
4	3	Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP)	1:50.01
5	2	Ryosuke Irie (JPN)	1:50.18
6	7	Radoslaw Kawecki (POL)	1:50.90
7	8	John Tapp (CAN)	1:52.56
–	1	Damiano Lestingi (ITA)		DSQ

References

1. "2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) - Men's 200 metre backstroke (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
2. "2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) - Men's 200 metre backstroke (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2010.