# Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 29 March (heats and semifinals) and 30 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 57 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 55 swam.
Existing records at the start of the event were:
* World record (WR): 1:54.44, Aaron Peirsol (USA), August 19, 2006 in Victoria, Canada.
* Championship record (CR): 1:54.66, Aaron Peirsol (USA), Montreal 2005 (July 29, 2005)

## Results
### Finals

| Place | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| 1 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:54.32 | WR |
| 2 | Aaron Peirsol | United States | 1:54.80 | |
| 3 | Markus Rogan | Austria | 1:56.02 | |
| 4 | Arkady Vyatchanin | Russia | 1:57.14 | |
| 5 | Răzvan Florea | Romania | 1:57.31 | |
| 6 | James Goddard | United Kingdom | 1:58.88 | |
| 7 | Tomomi Morita | Japan | 1:59.14 | |
| 8 | Gregor Tait | United Kingdom | 1:59.41 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Note |
| 1 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:55.99 | Q |
| 2 | Aaron Peirsol | United States | 1:56.39 | Q |
| 3 | Markus Rogan | Austria | 1:56.62 | Q |
| 4 | Arkady Vyatchanin | Russia | 1:57.56 | Q |
| 5 | Răzvan Florea | Romania | 1:58.59 | Q |
| 6 | James Goddard | United Kingdom | 1:58.68 | Q |
| 7 | Tomomi Morita | Japan | 1:58.91 | Q |
| 8 | Gregor Tait | United Kingdom | 1:59.52 | Q |
| 9 | Luca Marin | Italy | 1:59.81 | |
| 10 | Ouyang Kunpeng | China | 1:59.91 | |
| 11 | Masafumi Yamaguchi | Japan | 2:00.03 | |
| 12 | Damiano Lestingi | Italy | 2:00.17 | |
| 13 | Ephraim Hannant | Australia | 2:00.95 | |
| 14 | Pedro Oliveira | Portugal | 2:01.18 | |
| 15 | Nicholas Neckles | Barbados | 2:01.66 | |
| 16 | Itai Chammah | Israel | 2:01.79 | |

### Heats

| Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Note |
| 1 | Aaron Peirsol | USA | 1:57.79 | Q |
| 2 | Ryan Lochte | USA | 1:57.95 | Q |
| 3 | James Goddard | Great Britain | 1:58.36 | Q |
| 4 | Markus Rogan | Austria | 1:59.00 | Q |
| 5 | Răzvan Florea | Romania | 1:59.25 | Q |
| 6 | Tomomi Morita | Japan | 1:59.37 | Q |
| 7 | Gregor Tait | Great Britain | 1:59.85 | Q |
| 7 | Arkady Vyatchanin | Russia | 1:59.85 | Q |
| 9 | Masafumi Yamaguchi | Japan | 1:59.98 | Q |
| 10 | Ephraim Hannant | Australia | 2:00.31 | Q |
| 11 | Damiano Lestingi | Italy | 2:00.38 | Q |
| 12 | Luca Marin | Italy | 2:00.42 | Q |
| 13 | Pedro Oliveira | Portugal | 2:00.62 | Q |
| 14 | Itai Chammah | Israel | 2:00.93 | Q |
| 15 | Nicholas Neckles | Barbados | 2:01.18 | Q |
| 16 | Ouyang Kunpeng | China | 2:01.21 | Q |
| 17 | Simon Dufour | France | 2:01.52 | |
| 18 | Georgios Demetis | Greece | 2:01.57 | |
| 18 | Derya Büyükuncu | Turkey | 2:01.57 | |
| 20 | George Du Rand | South Africa | 2:01.79 | |
| 21 | Zhang Bodong | China | 2:01.88 | |
| 22 | Ehud Segal | Israel | 2:02.02 | |
| 23 | Andre Schultz | Brazil | 2:02.16 | |
| 24 | Hayden Stoeckel | Australia | 2:02.32 | |
| 25 | Helge Meeuw | Germany | 2:02.34 | |
| 26 | Jens Thiele | Germany | 2:04.02 | |
| 27 | Juan Veloz | Mexico | 2:04.47 | |
| 28 | Seunghyeon Lee | South Korea | 2:04.66 | |
| 29 | Pavel Sankovich | Belarus | 2:05.02 | |
| 30 | Miguel Robles | Mexico | 2:05.54 | |
| 31 | Sergey Pankov | Uzbekistan | 2:05.90 | |
| 32 | Andriy Oleynyk | Ukraine | 2:07.22 | |
| 33 | Gart Tune | South Africa | 2:07.81 | |
| 34 | Taki Mrabet | Tunisia | 2:08.46 | |
| 35 | Geoffrey Robin Cheah | Hong Kong | 2:09.22 | |
| 36 | David Dunford | Kenya | 2:09.34 | |
| 37 | Iurii Zakharov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:10.36 | |
| 38 | Felix Cristiadi Sutanto | Indonesia | 2:10.42 | |
| 39 | Rony Bakale | Congo | 2:10.85 | |
| 40 | Gael Adam | Mauritius | 2:11.13 | |
| 41 | Wei Shien Zach Ong | Singapore | 2:12.16 | |
| 42 | Kevin Soow Choy Yeap | Malaysia | 2:12.32 | |
| 43 | Stanislav Ossinskiy | Kazakhstan | 2:12.65 | |
| 44 | Sohaib Kalali | Syria | 2:12.79 | |
| 45 | Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani | Iran | 2:14.53 | |
| 46 | Yu An Lin | Chinese Taipei | 2:14.65 | |
| 47 | Juan Montenegro | Guatemala | 2:14.71 | |
| 48 | Adonis Ganiev | Uzbekistan | 2:14.79 | |
| 49 | Eric Chang | Malaysia | 2:15.33 | |
| 50 | Wen Hao Joshua Lim | Singapore | 2:16.01 | |
| 51 | Amine Kouam | Morocco | 2:16.23 | |
| 52 | Carlos Eduardo Gil | Peru | 2:16.80 | |
| 53 | Andrey Molchanov | Turkmenistan | 2:24.03 | |
| 54 | Richard Randrianandraina | Madagascar | 2:33.35 | |
| 55 | Timur Atahanov | Turkmenistan | 2:39.95 | |
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