Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke
The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 28 July | Final A | Martín López-Zubero | | 1:58.47 | |
Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Martín López-Zubero | | 1:59.22 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 3 | Tino Weber | | 1:59.40 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 5 | Stefano Battistelli | | 1:59.56 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 7 | Stefaan Maene | | 1:59.64 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 5 | 6 | Vladimir Selkov | | 1:59.81 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | Tripp Schwenk | | 1:59.92 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | Hajime Itoi | | 1:59.95 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Tamás Deutsch | | 2:00.50 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Rodolfo Falcón | | 2:00.52 | q, NR |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Dirk Richter | | 2:00.94 | q, |
| 11 | 5 | 4 | Royce Sharp | | 2:00.97 | q, |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Rogério Romero | | 2:00.99 | q |
| 13 | 3 | 5 | Yasuhiro Vandewalle | | 2:01.46 | q |
| 14 | 4 | 2 | Kevin Draxinger | | 2:01.73 | q |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Raymond Brown | | 2:01.81 | q |
| 16 | 5 | 7 | Manuel Guzmán | | 2:01.84 | q |
| 17 | 3 | 7 | Georgi Mihalev | | 2:02.24 | q |
| 18 | 4 | 6 | Luca Bianchin | | 2:02.65 | q |
| 19 | 3 | 2 | Marcel Blažo | | 2:02.81 | |
| 20 | 2 | 2 | Alejandro Alvizuri | | 2:03.10 | NR |
| 20 | 4 | 7 | Keita Soraoka | | 2:03.10 | |
| 22 | 6 | 6 | David Holderbach | | 2:03.11 | |
| 23 | 4 | 1 | Rastislav Bizub | | 2:03.30 | |
| 24 | 4 | 8 | Adam Ruckwood | | 2:03.54 | |
| 25 | 3 | 4 | Jorge Pérez | | 2:03.68 | |
| 26 | 2 | 3 | Alejandro Bermúdez | | 2:04.46 | |
| 27 | 3 | 3 | Olivér Ágh | | 2:04.52 | |
| 28 | 2 | 5 | Simon Percy | | 2:05.53 | |
| 29 | 2 | 4 | Ji Sang-jun | | 2:05.56 | |
| 30 | 2 | 6 | Ilmar Ojase | | 2:05.76 | |
| 31 | 6 | 1 | Thomas Sopp | | 2:05.91 | |
| 32 | 5 | 8 | Matthew O'Connor | | 2:05.94 | |
| 33 | 4 | 5 | Derya Büyükuncu | | 2:06.01 | |
| 34 | 2 | 7 | Miguel Arrobas | | 2:06.02 | |
| 35 | 6 | 2 | Toby Haenen | | 2:06.79 | |
| 36 | 3 | 6 | Lars Sørensen | | 2:06.80 | |
| 37 | 2 | 1 | Eran Groumi | | 2:07.91 | |
| 38 | 1 | 6 | Gary Tan | | 2:11.36 | |
| 39 | 1 | 5 | Marcos Prono | | 2:15.25 | |
| 40 | 1 | 3 | Sultan Al-Otaibi | | 2:19.02 | |
| 41 | 1 | 2 | Salvador Jiménez | | 2:20.15 | |
| 42 | 1 | 7 | Carl Probert | | 2:22.54 | |
| 1 | 1 | Abdullah Sultan | | | |
| 1 | 4 | Raymond Papa | | | |
| 6 | 8 | Jani Sievinen | | | |
Finals
Final B
Final A
