FINA World Championships Predictions: Men’s 200 Back

by David Rieder - Senior Writer

15 July 2017, 12:00pm

Ryan Murphy won gold in both the 100 and 200 back in Rio, and if the majority of our experts are correct in their predictions for the 100 back, he will be going for the same sweep in the 200 back final at the FINA World Championships.

Murphy held off Mitch Larkin and Evgeny Rylov in that Rio final of the 200 back, and those two will certainly push him in Budapest, along with Rio fourth-place finisher Xu Jiayu, Murphy’s training partner Jacob Pebley and Short Course World Champion Radoslaw Kawecki.

Read below to see what Swimming World’s trio of experts think will happen in Budapest. David Rieder, John Lohn and Andy Ross will each offer their predictions for who will finish on the podium.

Men’s 200 Back

Current Records:

World Record: Aaron Peirsol, USA (2009) — 1:51.92
Championship Record: Aaron Peirsol, USA (2009) — 1:51.92
American Record: Aaron Peirsol (2009) — 1:51.92

2015 World Champion: Mitch Larkin, AUS — 1:53.58
2016 Olympic Gold Medalist: Ryan Murphy, USA — 1:53.62
2017 World No. 1: Evgeny Rylov, RUS — 1:53.81

Swimming World Predictions

David Rieder’s Picks:

Gold: Ryan Murphy, USA
Silver: Evgeny Rylov, RUS
Bronze: Mitch Larkin, AUS

John Lohn’s Picks:

Gold: Ryan Murphy, USA
Silver: Evgeny Rylov, RUS
Bronze: Xu Jiayu, CHN

Andy Ross’ Picks:

Gold: Evgeny Rylov, RUS
Silver: Ryan Murphy, USA
Bronze: Jacob Pebley, USA

Previous Events

Day One:

• Men’s 400 Free
• Women’s 400 Free
• Women’s 400 Free Relay
• Men’s 400 Free Relay

Day Two:

• Men’s 100 Breast
• Women’s 100 Fly
• Men’s 50 Fly
• Women’s 200 IM

Day Three:

• Men’s 200 Free
• Women’s 1500 Free
• Women’s 100 Back
• Men’s 100 Back
• Women’s 100 Breast

Day Four:

• Women’s 200 Free
• Men’s 200 Fly
• Men’s 50 Breast
• Men’s 800 Free
• Mixed 400 Medley Relay

Day Five:

• Men’s 200 IM
• Men’s 100 Free
• Women’s 50 Back
• Women’s 200 Fly
• Women’s 800 Free Relay

Day Six:

• Women’s 100 Free

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commonwombat

6 years ago

Am seeing Rylov as very much a threat to Murphy this year. Bronze is very open but Larkin can probably be discounted …. his showings have been very poor so far this year and would need to lift considerably to even final in both this and 100

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Charlie Lownes

6 years ago

Kingsley Bowen perspective…

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