Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatics Centre,
Paris La Défense Arena
Dates31 July 2024
(Heats and Semis)
1 August 2024
(Final)
Competitors29 from 22 nations
Winning time1:54.26
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hubert Kos  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Apostolos Christou  Greece
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Roman Mityukov  Switzerland
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The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 31 July to 1 August 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.[1]


Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Aaron Peirsol (USA) 1:51.92 Rome, Italy 31 July 2009 [2][3]
Olympic record  Evgeny Rylov (ROC) 1:53.27 Tokyo, Japan 30 July 2021

Qualification

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Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT).[4] For this event, the OQT was 1:57.50. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT.[4][5] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 01:58.09 for this event.[4] In total, 27 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, two athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT.[5]

Competition format

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The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Schedule

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All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
31 July 2024 10:00 Heats
19:37 Semifinals
1 August 2024 17:30 Final

Results

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Heats

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Results[6]
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 3 5 Roman Mityukov  Switzerland 1:56.62 Q
2 4 2 Lukas Märtens  Germany 1:56.89 Q
3 2 6 Pieter Coetze  South Africa 1:56.92 Q
4 4 4 Hubert Kós  Hungary 1:57.01 Q
5 3 4 Ryan Murphy  United States 1:57.03 Q
6 2 4 Hugo González  Spain 1:57.08 Q
7 2 7 Apostolos Christou  Greece 1:57.18 Q
8 3 7 Hidekazu Takehara  Japan 1:57.23 Q
9 4 3 Apostolos Siskos  Greece 1:57.26 Q
10 3 2 Lee Ju-ho  South Korea 1:57.39 Q
11 4 5 Keaton Jones  United States 1:57.54 Q
12 4 7 Oliver Morgan  Great Britain 1:57.56 Q
13 3 3 Mewen Tomac  France 1:57.62 Q
14 2 1 Thomas Ceccon  Italy 1:57.69 Q
15 2 2 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard  France 1:57.92 Q
16 4 6 Ádám Telegdy  Hungary 1:57.98 Q
17 3 1 Ksawery Masiuk  Poland 1:58.01
18 1 4 Se-Bom Lee  Australia 1:58.30
19 4 8 Blake Tierney  Canada 1:58.39
20 3 6 Oleksandr Zheltyakov  Ukraine 1:58.41
21 1 5 Kane Follows  New Zealand 1:58.63
22 1 3 David Gerchik  Israel 1:58.79
23 2 8 Kai van Westering [nl]  Netherlands 1:58.99
24 3 8 Matteo Restivo  Italy 1:59.05
25 2 3 Bradley Woodward  Australia 2:00.50
26 1 6 Yeziel Morales  Puerto Rico 2:00.60
27 1 2 Ziyad Saleem  Sudan 2:01.44
28 1 7 Denilson Cyprianos  Zimbabwe 2:01.91 NR
2 5 Xu Jiayu  China DNS
4 1 Luke Greenbank  Great Britain DSQ

Semifinals

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The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Results[7]
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 1 5 Hubert Kós  Hungary 1:55.96 Q
2 2 4 Roman Mityukov  Switzerland 1:56.05 Q
3 2 5 Pieter Coetze  South Africa 1:56.09 Q
4 1 4 Lukas Märtens  Germany 1:56.33 Q
4 2 6 Apostolos Christou  Greece 1:56.33 Q
6 2 7 Keaton Jones  United States 1:56.39 Q
7 2 1 Mewen Tomac  France 1:56.43 Q
8 1 3 Hugo González  Spain 1:56.52 Q
9 1 1 Thomas Ceccon  Italy 1:56.59
10 2 3 Ryan Murphy  United States 1:56.62
11 1 2 Lee Ju-ho  South Korea 1:56.76
12 1 7 Oliver Morgan  Great Britain 1:57.28
13 1 8 Ádám Telegdy  Hungary 1:57.58
14 2 2 Apostolos Siskos  Greece 1:57.77
15 1 6 Hidekazu Takehara  Japan 1:58.03
16 2 8 Yohann Ndoye-Brouard  France 1:58.65

Final

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Results[8]
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Hubert Kos  Hungary 1:54.26
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2 Apostolos Christou  Greece 1:54.82 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Roman Mityukov  Switzerland 1:54.85 NR
4 1 Mewen Tomac  France 1:55.38 NR
5 7 Keaton Jones  United States 1:55.39
6 8 Hugo González  Spain 1:55.47
7 3 Pieter Coetze  South Africa 1:55.60 AF
8 6 Lukas Märtens  Germany 1:55.97

References

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  1. ^ "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 16 July 2024.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Cavic supplants Phelps' 100 fly time". ESPN. 31 July 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  3. ^ Michaelis, Vicky (31 July 2009). "Phelps earns relay gold medal, Peirsol sets 200m backstroke mark". USA Today. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  4. ^ a b c "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  5. ^ a b Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
  6. ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.