# Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 24 and 25 August 2017.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Universiade records were as follows.
| World record | Aaron Peirsol (USA) | 1:51.92 | Rome, Italy | 31 July 2009 |
| Competition record | Ryosuke Irie (JPN) | 1:54.13 | Belgrade, Serbia | 10 July 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 24 August at 9:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:58.83 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | Robert Owen | United States | 1:58.96 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 5 | Austin Katz | United States | 1:59.64 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 6 | Martin Binedell | South Africa | 1:59.98 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 2:00.25 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 6 | Mikita Tsmyh | Belarus | 2:00.46 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lee Ju-ho | South Korea | 2:00.50 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Robert Hill | Canada | 2:00.78 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 6 | Roman Larin | Russia | 2:00.78 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 7 | Markus Thormeyer | Canada | 2:00.98 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | Matteo Restivo | Italy | 2:01.12 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | Gábor Balog | Hungary | 2:01.17 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 3 | Christopher Ciccarese | Italy | 2:01.37 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 7 | Dag Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:01.42 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Shuhei Uno | Japan | 2:01.55 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 5 | Andrey Shabasov | Russia | 2:02.19 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 3 | Leonardo de Deus | Brazil | 2:02.20 | |
| 18 | 5 | 2 | David Gamburg | Israel | 2:02.51 | |
| 19 | 3 | 1 | Andy Song | Mexico | 2:03.08 | |
| 20 | 3 | 8 | Gytis Stankevičius | Lithuania | 2:04.10 | |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Corneille Coetzee | New Zealand | 2:04.26 | |
| 22 | 4 | 1 | Neil Fair | South Africa | 2:04.39 | |
| 23 | 2 | 4 | Gabriel Lópes | Portugal | 2:04.52 | |
| 24 | 2 | 6 | Girts Feldbergs | Latvia | 2:04.99 | |
| 25 | 2 | 2 | Bayley Main | New Zealand | 2:05.16 | |
| 26 | 5 | 8 | David Céspedes | Colombia | 2:05.82 | |
| 27 | 1 | 4 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:06.08 | |
| 28 | 2 | 1 | Rory McEvoy | Ireland | 2:06.23 | |
| 29 | 2 | 5 | Adil Kaskabay | Kazakhstan | 2:06.38 | |
| 30 | 3 | 7 | Axel Pettersson | Sweden | 2:06.61 | |
| 31 | 2 | 8 | Adityastha Rai Wratsangka | Indonesia | 2:07.50 | |
| 32 | 2 | 7 | Thomas Liess | Switzerland | 2:07.57 | |
| 33 | 2 | 3 | Yonatan Batsha | Israel | 2:08.56 | |
| 34 | 1 | 3 | Lau Shiu Yue | Hong Kong | 2:09.42 | |
| 35 | 1 | 5 | David Prendergast | Ireland | 2:09.81 | |
| 36 | 1 | 2 | Andrei Gussev | Estonia | 2:12.28 | |
| 37 | 1 | 7 | Arian Neil Puyo | Philippines | 2:19.59 | |
| 38 | 1 | 6 | Alfredo Yaluk | Paraguay | 2:21.57 | |
| 39 | 1 | 1 | Gian Berino | Philippines | 2:30.38 | |
| | 1 | 8 | Abdulrahman Al-Hashmi | Oman | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 24 August at 19:57.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Robert Owen | United States | 1:58.32 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Martin Binedell | South Africa | 1:58.37 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Andrey Shabasov | Russia | 1:59.40 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Roman Larin | Russia | 1:59.84 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Gábor Balog | Hungary | 2:00.35 | |
| 6 | 2 | Markus Thormeyer | Canada | 2:00.88 | |
| 7 | 3 | Mikita Tsmyh | Belarus | 2:02.22 | |
| 8 | 1 | Dag Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:02.57 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:57.47 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Austin Katz | United States | 1:57.69 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:58.28 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Christopher Ciccarese | Italy | 2:00.06 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Lee Ju-ho | South Korea | 2:00.84 | |
| 6 | 7 | Matteo Restivo | Italy | 2:01.06 | |
| 7 | 2 | Robert Hill | Canada | 2:01.22 | |
| 8 | 8 | Shuhei Uno | Japan | 2:03.96 | |

### Final

The final was held on 25 August at 20:10.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:56.52 |
| | 5 | Austin Katz | United States | 1:56.70 |
| | 1 | Roman Larin | Russia | 1:57.29 |
| 4 | 3 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:57.77 |
| 5 | 7 | Andrey Shabasov | Russia | 1:58.16 |
| 6 | 2 | Martin Binedell | South Africa | 1:58.17 |
| 7 | 6 | Robert Owen | United States | 1:58.52 |
| 8 | 8 | Christopher Ciccarese | Italy | 2:00.52 |