Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke
Introduction The '''men's 200 metre backstroke''' event at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships took place between 28 July – 29 July. Both the heats and semifinals were held on 28 July, with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals in the evening session. The final was held on 29 July.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name  Nationality  Time  Location  Date '''World record'''  Aaron Peirsol   United States  1:54.74  Long Beach  12 July 2004 '''Championship record'''  Aaron Peirsol   United States  1:55.82  Barcelona  24 July 2003The following records were established during the competition:DateRoundNameNationalityTimeWRCR July 29  Final  Aaron Peirsol   United States  1:54.66   WR  CR
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Heat/Lane  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1  H6 L4  Aaron Peirsol    1:58.04  qualified 2  H6 L2  Gordan Kožulj    1:59.03  qualified 3  H4 L4  Markus Rogan    1:59.33  qualified 4  H6 L6  Tomomi Morita    1:59.78  qualified 5  H5 L5  Răzvan Florea    1:59.88  qualified 6  H4 L3  Takashi Nakano    1:59.97  qualified 7  H5 L6  Blaž Medvešek    2:00.11  qualified 8  H6 L5  Ryan Lochte    2:00.27  qualified 9  H6 L3  Gregor Tait    2:00.57  qualified 10  H4 L5  Arkady Vyatchanin    2:01.03  qualified 11  H5 L3  Simon Dufour    2:01.60  qualified 12  H4 L2  Steffen Driesen    2:01.69  qualified 13  H4 L1  Derya Büyükuncu    2:01.93  qualified 14  H5 L4  James Goddard    2:02.00  qualified 15  H5 L1  Yoav Gath    2:02.12  qualified 16  H5 L7  Patrick Murphy    2:02.27  qualified 17  H5 L8  Pavel Suskov    2:02.36  18  H4 L6  Matt Welsh    2:02.64  19  H5 L2  Keith Beavers    2:02.88  20  H4 L7  Cameron Gibson    2:02.89  21  H6 L7  Luca Marin    2:03.41  22  H6 L1  Nick Neckles    2:04.00  23  H6 L8  Alex Lim    2:04.09  24  H3 L4  Tomasz Rumianowski    2:04.15  25  H4 L8  Sebastian Stoss    2:04.30  26  H3 L5  Adriano Niz    2:04.61  27  H3 L6  Seung-Hyeon Lee    2:06.92  28  H3 L1  Alessio Domenack    2:09.63  29  H3 L8  Sergey Pankov    2:10.28  30  H2 L5  Marcus Cheah    2:11.04  31  H2 L3  Zhi Cong Lim    2:11.35  32  H2 L7  Kieran Locke    2:11.96  33  H2 L2  Andy Wibowo    2:12.42  34  H2 L1  David Dunford    2:12.84  35  H3 L2  Yury Zaharov    2:12.91  36  H2 L8  Francisco Montenegro    2:13.46  37  H2 L4  Gael Adam    2:13.75  38  H1 L4  Shahin Baradaran    2:15.04  39  H1 L3  Antonio Tong    2:15.79  40  H3 L7  Suriya Suksuphak    2:17.29  41  H2 L6  LIN Yu-An    2:17.30  42  H1 L8  Francois Ghattas    2:19.15  43  H1 L5  Scott Hensley    2:22.11  44  H1 L6  Diego Foianini    2:22.28  45  H1 L1  Horacio Carcamo    2:23.19  46  H1 L2  Reginaldo Panting    2:23.29  47  H1 L7  Imdad Ali    2:23.46 ===Semifinals=== Rank  Heat/Lane  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1  S2 L4  Aaron Peirsol   USA  1:56.60  q 2  S2 L5  Markus Rogan   Austria  1:57.16  q  3  S2 L3  Răzvan Florea   Romania  1:58.03  q  4  S1 L6  Ryan Lochte   USA  1:58.17  q  5  S1 L2  Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia  1:58.60  q  6  S1 L5  Tomomi Morita   Japan  1:58.70  q  7  S1 L4  Gordan Kožulj   Croatia  1:58.74  q  8  S1 L3  Takashi Nakano   Japan  1:58.91  q  9  S2 L2  Gregor Tait   Great Britain  1:58.97  10  S2 L6  Blaž Medvešek   Slovenia  1:59.10  11  S1 L1  James Goddard   Great Britain  1:59.16  12  S2 L7  Simon Dufour   France  2:00.08  13  S1 L7  Steffen Driesen   Germany  2:00.88  14  S2 L8  Yoav Gath   Israel   2:01.58  14  S2 L1  Derya Büyükuncu   Turkey  2:01.58  16  S1 L8  Patrick Murphy   Australia  2:03.15 ===Final=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes  Aaron Peirsol   USA  1:54.66   '''WR '''  Markus Rogan   Austria  1:56.63     Ryan Lochte   USA  1:57.00  4  Răzvan Florea   Romania  1:57.03  5  Takashi Nakano   Japan  1:58.03   6  Gordan Kožulj   Croatia  1:58.28  7  Arkady Vyatchanin   Russia  1:59.02  8  Tomomi Morita   Japan  1:59.34  '''Key''': WR = World record
References * Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke '''Heats''', from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23. * Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke '''Semifinals''', from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23. * Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200 m backstroke '''Finals''', from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-23.