Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke
Introduction 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    1:54.32  '''WR''' 2  Aaron Peirsol    1:54.80  3  Markus Rogan    1:56.02  4  Arkady Vyatchanin    1:57.14  5  Răzvan Florea    1:57.31  6  James Goddard    1:58.88  7  Tomomi Morita    1:59.14  8  Gregor Tait    1:59.41 ===Semifinals=== Rank  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Note 1  Ryan Lochte    1:55.99  '''Q''' 2  Aaron Peirsol    1:56.39  '''Q''' 3  Markus Rogan    1:56.62  '''Q''' 4  Arkady Vyatchanin    1:57.56  '''Q''' 5  Răzvan Florea    1:58.59  '''Q''' 6  James Goddard    1:58.68  '''Q''' 7  Tomomi Morita    1:58.91  '''Q''' 8  Gregor Tait    1:59.52  '''Q''' 9  Luca Marin    1:59.81  10  Ouyang Kunpeng    1:59.91  11  Masafumi Yamaguchi    2:00.03  12  Damiano Lestingi    2:00.17  13  Ephraim Hannant    2:00.95  14  Pedro Oliveira    2:01.18  15  Nicholas Neckles    2:01.66  16  Itai Chammah    2:01.79 ===Heats=== Rank  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Note 1  Aaron Peirsol    1:57.79  '''Q''' 2  Ryan Lochte    1:57.95  '''Q''' 3  James Goddard   Great Britain   1:58.36  '''Q''' 4  Markus Rogan    1:59.00  '''Q''' 5  Răzvan Florea    1:59.25  '''Q''' 6  Tomomi Morita    1:59.37  '''Q''' 7  Gregor Tait   Great Britain  1:59.85  '''Q''' Arkady Vyatchanin    '''Q''' 9  Masafumi Yamaguchi    1:59.98  '''Q''' 10  Ephraim Hannant    2:00.31  '''Q''' 11  Damiano Lestingi    2:00.38  '''Q''' 12  Luca Marin    2:00.42  '''Q''' 13  Pedro Oliveira    2:00.62  '''Q''' 14  Itai Chammah    2:00.93  '''Q''' 15  Nicholas Neckles    2:01.18  '''Q''' 16  Ouyang Kunpeng    2:01.21  '''Q''' 17  Simon Dufour    2:01.52  18  Georgios Demetis    2:01.57  Derya Büyükuncu    20  George Du Rand    2:01.79  21  Zhang Bodong    2:01.88  22  Ehud Segal    2:02.02  23  Andre Schultz    2:02.16  24  Hayden Stoeckel    2:02.32  25  Helge Meeuw    2:02.34  26  Jens Thiele    2:04.02  27  Juan Veloz    2:04.47  28  Seunghyeon Lee    2:04.66  29  Pavel Sankovich    2:05.02  30  Miguel Robles    2:05.54  31  Sergey Pankov    2:05.90  32  Andriy Oleynyk    2:07.22  33  Gart Tune    2:07.81  34  Taki Mrabet    2:08.46  35  Geoffrey Robin Cheah    2:09.22  36  David Dunford    2:09.34  37  Iurii Zakharov    2:10.36  38  Felix Cristiadi Sutanto    2:10.42  39  Rony Bakale    2:10.85  40  Gael Adam    2:11.13  41  Wei Shien Zach Ong    2:12.16  42  Kevin Soow Choy Yeap    2:12.32  43  Stanislav Ossinskiy    2:12.65  44  Sohaib Kalali    2:12.79  45  Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani    2:14.53  46  Yu An Lin    2:14.65  47  Juan Montenegro    2:14.71  48  Adonis Ganiev    2:14.79  49  Eric Chang    2:15.33  50  Wen Hao Joshua Lim    2:16.01  51  Amine Kouam    2:16.23  52  Carlos Eduardo Gil    2:16.80  53  Andrey Molchanov    2:24.03  54  Richard Randrianandraina    2:33.35  55  Timur Atahanov    2:39.95  --  Nuno Rola    DNS  --  Samson Opuakpo    DNS
See also * Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke* Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke* Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke
References * Men's 200m Back '''Preliminary''' results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11. * Men's 200m Back '''Semifinals''' results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11. * Men's 200m Back '''Final''' results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.