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

The Men's 200 Backstroke at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was swum 19 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 51 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning, with the top-8 finishers advancing to swim again in the Final that evening.
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 | Radosław Kawęcki (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 Büyükuncu (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 Dūda (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 | Květoslav 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 | Radosław Kawęcki (POL) | 1:50.90 | |
| 7 | 8 | John Tapp (CAN) | 1:52.56 | |
| – | 1 | Damiano Lestingi (ITA) | | DSQ |