Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

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Men's 200 metre backstroke at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Venue	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location	Tarragona, Spain
Dates	25 June
Competitors	18 from 12 nations
Winning time	1:58.79
Medalists
Christopher Ciccarese    Italy   Hugo González    Spain   Apostolos Christou    Greece

The men's 200 metre backstroke competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 25 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:51.92	Rome, Italy	31 July 2009
Mediterranean Games record	Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP)	1:54.96	Pescara, Italy	27 June 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:57.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Hugo González	Spain	2:00.42	Q
2	1	5	Anton Lončar	Croatia	2:00.98	Q
3	3	5	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	2:01.28	Q
4	2	4	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	2:01.52	Q
5	2	3	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	2:02.15	Q
6	3	6	Jan Giralt	Spain	2:02.80	Q
7	3	4	Matteo Restivo	Italy	2:03.13	Q
8	1	4	Apostolos Christou	Greece	2:03.74	Q
9	2	6	Anže Ferš Eržen	Slovenia	2:04.60
10	2	2	Berk Özkul	Turkey	2:05.09
11	2	7	Youssef Said	Egypt	2:05.61
12	1	7	Driss Lahrichi	Morocco	2:05.96
13	3	3	Francisco Santos	Portugal	2:05.97
14	1	6	Ege Başer	Turkey	2:06.12
15	1	3	João Vital	Portugal	2:06.25
16	3	2	Ryad Bouhamidi	Algeria	2:07.98
17	1	2	Sebastian Konnaris	Cyprus	2:10.60
18	3	7	Omar Eltonbary	Egypt	2:11.17

Final

The final was held at 18:12.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Christopher Ciccarese	Italy	1:58.79
	4	Hugo González	Spain	1:58.94
	8	Apostolos Christou	Greece	2:00.37
4	5	Anton Lončar	Croatia	2:01.39
5	2	Nikolaos Sofianidis	Greece	2:01.66
6	6	Geoffroy Mathieu	France	2:01.93
7	1	Matteo Restivo	Italy	2:02.86
8	7	Jan Giralt	Spain	2:03.03