Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre backstroke
The Men's 200 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 6 August with the heats and the semifinals and 7 August with the final.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.Results
Heats
The heats were held at 09:56.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 5 | Mitch Larkin | | 1:55.88 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 4 | Ryosuke Irie | | 1:56.68 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 5 | Ryan Murphy | | 1:56.71 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | Evgeny Rylov | | 1:56.78 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 4 | Xu Jiayu | | 1:56.90 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | Tyler Clary | | 1:56.92 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 6 | Christian Diener | | 1:57.42 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Josh Beaver | | 1:57.62 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 3 | Masaki Kaneko | | 1:57.63 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | 7 | Leonardo de Deus | | 1:57.73 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Grigory Tarasevich | | 1:57.77 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | Li Guangyuan | | 1:58.02 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 5 | Radosław Kawęcki | | 1:58.09 | Q |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | Corey Main | | 1:58.22 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Luca Mencarini | | 1:58.31 | Q |
| 16 | 2 | 6 | Gábor Balog | | 1:58.55 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 7 | Yakov Toumarkin | | 1:58.64 | |
| 18 | 3 | 6 | Christopher Ciccarese | | 1:58.79 | |
| 19 | 3 | 2 | Danas Rapšys | | 1:59.00 | |
| 20 | 2 | 7 | Benjamin Stasiulis | | 1:59.05 | |
| 21 | 1 | 5 | Lavrans Solli | | 1:59.23 | |
| 22 | 3 | 8 | Omar Pinzón | | 1:59.24 | |
| 23 | 2 | 8 | Carlos Omaña | | 1:59.59 | NR |
| 24 | 3 | 1 | | | 2:00.26 | |
| 25 | 4 | 9 | Armando Barrera | | 2:00.92 | |
| 26 | 1 | 3 | Rexford Tullius | | 2:01.22 | |
| 27 | 4 | 0 | Roman Dmytrijev | | 2:01.49 | |
| 28 | 3 | 0 | Matias López | | 2:01.74 | |
| 29 | 2 | 0 | Lukas Rauftlin | | 2:03.00 | |
| 30 | 1 | 6 | Lin Shih-chieh | | 2:04.00 | |
| 31 | 1 | 4 | Yeziel Morales | | 2:04.15 | |
| 32 | 2 | 9 | Lê Nguyễn Paul | | 2:04.78 | |
| 33 | 3 | 9 | Vuk Čelić | | 2:05.54 | |
| 34 | 1 | 2 | Boris Kirillov | | 2:06.74 | |
| 35 | 1 | 7 | Lushano Lamprecht | | 2:08.14 | |
| 36 | 1 | 1 | Driss Lahrichi | | 2:09.14 | |
| 37 | 1 | 8 | Rami Elias | | 2:19.53 | |
| 4 | 8 | Apostolos Christou | | | DNS |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 18:57.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final was held on 7 August at 17:40.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | Mitch Larkin | | 1:53.58 | OC |
| 2 | Radosław Kawęcki | | 1:54.55 | |
| 6 | Evgeny Rylov | | 1:54.60 | NR |
| 4 | 7 | Ryosuke Irie | | 1:54.81 | |
| 5 | 5 | Ryan Murphy | | 1:55.00 | |
| 6 | 3 | Xu Jiayu | | 1:55.20 | |
| 7 | 1 | Tyler Clary | | 1:56.26 | |
| 8 | 8 | Li Guangyuan | | 1:56.79 | WJ |
