2012 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 200m backstroke (men)

sport	swim
discipline	200 meters back
gender	Men
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	35 athletes from 27 countries
Competition phase	1./2. August 2012

The competition over 200m backstroke men at the 2012 Olympics in London was on 1 and 2 August 2012 at London Aquatics Center held. 35 athletes took part.

There were five preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals that were held on the same day. Here too, the finalists qualified by setting the eight fastest times in both semi-finals.

Abbreviations: WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record

Existing records

World record	Aaron Peirsol ( United States )	1: 51.92 min	Rome , Italy	July 31, 2009
Olympic record	Ryan Lochte ( United States )	1: 53.94 min	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 15, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Ryan Lochte ( United States )	1: 53.94 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Ryan Lochte ( United States )	1: 52.96 min	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Radosław Kawęcki ( Poland )	1: 55.28 min	Debrecen 2012
German champions	Jan-Philip Glania	1: 55.87 min	Berlin 2012

leader

Forward 1

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Derya Bürükuncu	Turkey	2: 01.68 min
2	Sebastian Stoss	Austria	2: 02.91 min
3	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	2: 03.45 min

For the 36-year-old Bürükuncu it was the sixth participation in the Olympic Games.

Forward 2

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1: 56.98 min
2	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	1: 58.83 min	NO
3	Darren Murray	South Africa	2:00:01 min
4th	Aschwin Wildeboer Faber	Spain	2:00:02 min
5	Pedro Medel	Cuba	2:00:05 min	NO
6th	Oleksandr Isakov	Ukraine	2: 00.78 min
7th	Alexander Tarabrin	Kazakhstan	2: 01.22 min
8th	Park Hyeong-ju	South Korea	2: 01.50 min

Forward 3

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tyler Clary	United States	1: 56.24 min
2	Nick Driebergen	Netherlands	1: 57.29 min
3	Peter Bernek	Hungary	1: 57.52 min
4th	Tobias Oriwol	Canada	1: 58.06 min
5	Kazuki Watanabe	Japan	1: 58.17 min
6th	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	1: 58.69 min
7th	Marco Loughran	United Kingdom	1: 58.72 min
8th	Chris Walker-Hebborn	United Kingdom	1: 59.00 min

Forward 4

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1: 56.81 min
2	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	1: 57.01 min
3	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1: 57.53 min
4th	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1: 58.20 min
5	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1: 58.22 min
6th	Matson Lawson	Australia	1: 58.92 min
7th	Benjamin Stasiulis	France	1: 59.52 min
8th	Gareth Kean	New Zealand	2: 00.54 min

Forward 5

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 56.36 min
2	Zhan Fenglin	People's Republic of China	1: 56.71 min
3	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1: 57.33 min	NO
4th	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1: 58.07 min
5	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1: 58.18 min
6th	Sebastiano Ranfagni	Italy	1: 58.76 min
7th	Anton Antschin	Russia	1: 59.49 min
8th	Xu Jiayu	People's Republic of China	2: 00.26 min

Semifinals

Run 1

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 55.40 min
2	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1: 55.68 min
3	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1: 56.74 min
4th	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1: 56.82 min
5	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1: 57.33 min
6th	Jan-Philip Glania	Germany	1: 57.43 min
7th	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1: 58.14 min
8th	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1: 58.80 min

Toumarkin swam the exact same time as in the run-up, during which he set a new Israeli record.

Run 2

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tyler Clary	United States	1: 54.71 min
2	Zhang Fenglin	People's Republic of China	1: 55.66 min	NO
3	Kazuki Watanabe	Japan	1: 56.81 min
4th	Nick Driebergen	Netherlands	1: 57.35 min
5	Gábor Balog	Hungary	1: 57.56 min
6th	Peter Bernek	Hungary	1: 57.71 min
7th	Tobias Oriwol	Canada	1: 58.74 min
8th	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1: 58.99 min

final

August 2, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tyler Clary	United States	1: 53.41 min	OR
2	Ryosuke Irie	Japan	1: 53.78 min
3	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 53.94 min
4th	Radosław Kawęcki	Poland	1: 55.59 min
4th	Zhang Fenglin	People's Republic of China	1: 55.59 min	NO
6th	Kazuki Watanabe	Japan	1: 57.03 min
7th	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1: 57.62 min
8th	Mitch Larkin	Australia	1: 58.02 min

The swimmers in the medal ranks have never been so fast at the Summer Olympics. The winner Clary swam an Olympic record, and the silver medalist Irie stayed under the old mark. Defending champion Lochte swam the exact same time as when he won the Olympic Games in Beijing.
In this competition, the Chinese Fenglin was able to improve the Chinese national record twice.
Just under half an hour later, Lochte also took part in the final of the 200 meter medley, in which he won the silver medal.

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m back in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athlete profile