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The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 27 July. The heats^[1] and semifinals^[2] took place 26 July, with the final being held on 27 July.^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:

World record	Lenny Krayzelburg (USA)	1:55.87	Sydney, Australia	27 August 1999
Championship record	Vladimir Selkov (RUS)	1:57.42	Rome, Italy	7 September 1994

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
27 July	Final	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:57.13	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:59.79	Q
2	Marc Lindsay	United States	2:00.12	Q
3	Viktor Bodrogi	Hungary	2:00.27	Q
4	Matt Welsh	Australia	2:00.63	Q
5	Örn Arnarson	Iceland	2:00.66	Q
6	Yoav Gath	Israel	2:00.72	Q
7	Emanuele Merisi	Italy	2:00.82	Q
8	Marko Strahija	Croatia	2:00.97	Q
9	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	2:01.19	Q
10	Rogerio Romero	Brazil	2:01.30	Q
11	Markus Rogan	Austria	2:01.35	Q
12	Klaas-Erik Zwering	Netherlands	2:01.36	Q, WD
13	Pierre Roger	France	2:01.41	Q
14	Raymond Hass	Australia	2:01.42	Q
15	Tobias Oriwol	Canada	2:01.57	Q
16	Kozan Hashimoto	Japan	2:01.61	Q
17	Steffen Driesen	Germany	2:02.40	Q
18	Haruki Takeuchi	Japan	2:02.43
19	Miroslav Machovič	Slovakia	2:02.48
20	Péter Horváth	Hungary	2:02.74
21	Keng Liat Lim	Malaysia	2:03.17
22	Blaž Medvešek	Slovenia	2:03.45
23	Eduardo Germán Otero	Argentina	2:03.81
24	Ioannis Kokkodis	Greece	2:04.82
25	Zheng Shibin	China	2:04.94
26	Martin Viilep	Estonia	2:05.19
27	George Gleason	United States Virgin Islands	2:05.21
28	Philipp Gilgen	Switzerland	2:05.23
29	Diego Urreta	Mexico	2:06.04
30	Gary Tan	Singapore	2:06.45
31	Juan Carlos Rodela	Mexico	2:07.90
32	Gerald Koh	Singapore	2:08.30
33	Sergio Cabrera	Paraguay	2:09.43
34	Ignacio Bengoechea	Chile	2:11.27
35	Christophee Backisavs	Dominican Republic	2:14.50
36	Eduardo Gil	El Salvador	2:14.63
37	Wu Nien-Pin	Chinese Taipei	2:14.71
38	Hsu Kuo-Tung	Chinese Taipei	2:18.03
39	Chi Lon Lei	Macau	2:19.12
40	Mohammad Nazeri	Iran	2:19.91
41	Rony Bakale	Republic of the Congo	2:26.44
–	Hojamammed Hojamammedou	Turkmenistan	DSQ
–	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:58.12	Q
2	Markus Rogan	Austria	1:58.91	Q
3	Viktor Bodrogi	Hungary	1:59.24	Q
4	Matt Welsh	Australia	1:59.34	Q
5	Yoav Gath	Israel	1:59.39	Q
6	Örn Arnarson	Iceland	1:59.75	Q
7	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	1:59.80	Q
8	Emanuele Merisi	Italy	1:59.98	Q
9	Raymond Hass	Australia	1:59.99
10	Marc Lindsay	United States	2:00.72
11	Marko Strahija	Croatia	2:00.98
12	Rogerio Romero	Brazil	2:01.05
13	Tobias Oriwol	Canada	2:01.33
14	Kozan Hashimoto	Japan	2:01.34
15	Steffen Driesen	Germany	2:01.54
16	Pierre Roger	France	2:02.98

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Aaron Peirsol	United States	1:57.13	CR
	Markus Rogan	Austria	1:58.07
	Örn Arnarson	Iceland	1:58.37
4	Matt Welsh	Australia	1:58.80
5	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	1:59.23
6	Viktor Bodrogi	Hungary	1:59.74
7	Emanuele Merisi	Italy	1:59.83
8	Yoav Gath	Israel	2:00.09

References