Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke
| Men's 200 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 31 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 1 August 2024 (Final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 29 from 22 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:54.26 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |||
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| Qualification | |||
| Freestyle | |||
| 50 m | men | women | |
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| 400 m | men | women | |
| 800 m | men | women | |
| 1500 m | men | women | |
| Backstroke | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Breaststroke | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Butterfly | |||
| 100 m | men | women | |
| 200 m | men | women | |
| Individual medley | |||
| 200 m | men | women | |
| 400 m | men | women | |
| Freestyle relay | |||
| 4 × 100 m | men | women | |
| 4 × 200 m | men | women | |
| Medley relay | |||
| 4 × 100 m | men | mixed | women |
| Marathon | |||
| 10 km | men | women | |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Heats
[edit]
Semifinals
[edit]The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.
| 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
[edit]| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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4 | Hubert Kos | Hungary |
1:54.26 | |
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2 | Apostolos Christou | Greece |
1:54.82 | NR |
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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
[edit]- ^ "Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official". World Aquatics. Retrieved 16 July 2024.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Cavic supplants Phelps' 100 fly time". ESPN. 31 July 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ^ Michaelis, Vicky (31 July 2009). "Phelps earns relay gold medal, Peirsol sets 200m backstroke mark". USA Today. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- ^ a b c "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ a b Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
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