Swimming — 200 metres Backstroke, Men

Times held 17
Total participants 471
Total countries 91

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1900 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 16 7
1964 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 34 21
1968 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 30 21
1972 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 36 23
1976 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 33 23
1980 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 25 16
1984 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 34 25
1988 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 44 32
1992 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 44 34
1996 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 39 33
2000 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 45 38
2004 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 36 30
2008 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 40 31
2012 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 35 27
2016 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 26 19
2020 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 29 23
2024 200 metres Backstroke, Men Olympic 29 22

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Ernst HoppenbergGER Karl RuberlAUT Johannes DrostNED
1964 Jed GraefUSA Gary DilleyUSA Bob BennettUSA
1968 Roland MatthesGDR Mitch IveyUSA Jack HorsleyUSA
1972 Roland MatthesGDR Mike StammUSA Mitch IveyUSA
1976 John NaberUSA Peter RoccaUSA Dan HarriganUSA
1980 Sándor WladárHUN Zoltán VerrasztóHUN Mark KerryAUS
1984 Rick CareyUSA Frédéric DelcourtFRA Cam HenningCAN
1988 Igor PolyanskyURS Frank BaltruschGDR Paul KingsmanNZL
1992 Martín López-ZuberoESP Vladimir SelkovEUN Stefano BattistelliITA
1996 Brad BridgewaterUSA Tripp SchwenkUSA Emanuele MerisiITA
2000 Lenny KrayzelburgUSA Aaron PeirsolUSA Matt WelshAUS
2004 Aaron PeirsolUSA Markus RoganAUT Răzvan FloreaROU
2008 Ryan LochteUSA Aaron PeirsolUSA Arkady VyatchaninRUS
2012 Tyler ClaryUSA Ryosuke IrieJPN Ryan LochteUSA
2016 Ryan MurphyUSA Mitch LarkinAUS Yevgeny RylovRUS
2020 Yevgeny RylovROC Ryan MurphyUSA Luke GreenbankGBR
2024 Hubert KósHUN Apostolos ChristouGRE Roman MityukovSUI

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States USA 9 8 5 22
East Germany GDR 2 1 0 3
Hungary HUN 2 1 0 3
Germany GER 1 0 0 1
ROC ROC 1 0 0 1
Soviet Union URS 1 0 0 1
Spain ESP 1 0 0 1
Austria AUT 0 2 0 2
Australia AUS 0 1 2 3
France FRA 0 1 0 1
Greece GRE 0 1 0 1
Japan JPN 0 1 0 1
Unified Team EUN 0 1 0 1
Italy ITA 0 0 2 2
Russian Federation RUS 0 0 2 2
Canada CAN 0 0 1 1
Great Britain GBR 0 0 1 1
Netherlands NED 0 0 1 1
New Zealand NZL 0 0 1 1
Romania ROU 0 0 1 1
Switzerland SUI 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Roland Matthes GDR 2 0 0 2
Aaron Peirsol USA 1 2 0 3
Ryan Murphy USA 1 1 0 2
Ryan Lochte USA 1 0 1 2
Yevgeny Rylov ROC
RUS
1 0 1 2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Argentina ARG 1964 Summer Olympics Carlos van der Maath 16 See all
Australia AUS 2016 Summer Olympics Mitch Larkin 2 Silver See all
Austria AUT 1900 Summer Olympics Karl Ruberl 2 Silver See all
2004 Summer Olympics Markus Rogan 2 Silver
Azerbaijan AZE 2016 Summer Olympics Boris Kirillov 26 See all
Barbados BAR 2004 Summer Olympics Nicky Neckles 23 See all
Belarus BLR 2016 Summer Olympics Mikita Tsmyh 25 See all
Belgium BEL 1992 Summer Olympics Stefaan Maene 8 See all
Brazil BRA 1984 Summer Olympics Ricardo Prado 4 See all
Bulgaria BUL 1988 Summer Olympics Georgi Mihalev 13 See all
Cambodia CAM 1972 Summer Olympics Sarun Van 33 See all
Canada CAN 1984 Summer Olympics Cam Henning 3 Bronze See all
Cayman Islands CAY 2008 Summer Olympics Brett Fraser 29 See all
Chile CHI 1996 Summer Olympics Nicolás Rajcevich 27 See all
Chinese Taipei TPE 1968 Summer Olympics Chan King-Ming 30 See all
Colombia COL 2012 Summer Olympics Omar Pinzón 16 See all
Costa Rica CRC 1988 Summer Olympics Horst Niehaus 34 See all
Croatia CRO 2000 Summer Olympics Gordan Kožulj 8 See all
Cuba CUB 1996 Summer Olympics Rodolfo Falcón 8 See all
Czechia CZE 2020 Summer Olympics Jan Čejka 18 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1976 Summer Olympics Miloslav Roľko 6 See all
Denmark DEN 1968 Summer Olympics Ejvind Pedersen 10 See all
Dominican Republic DOM 2000 Summer Olympics Guillermo Cabrera 41 See all
East Germany GDR 1968 Summer Olympics Roland Matthes 1 Gold See all
1972 Summer Olympics Roland Matthes 1 Gold
Egypt EGY 1984 Summer Olympics Emad El-Shafei 29 See all
El Salvador ESA 1984 Summer Olympics Salvador Salguero 32 See all
Estonia EST 1992 Summer Olympics Ilmar Ojase 30 See all
Fiji FIJ 1992 Summer Olympics Carl Probert 42 See all
Finland FIN 2004 Summer Olympics Matti Mäki 33 See all
France FRA 1984 Summer Olympics Frédéric Delcourt 2 Silver See all
Germany GER 1900 Summer Olympics Ernst Hoppenberg 1 Gold See all
Great Britain GBR 2020 Summer Olympics Luke Greenbank 3 Bronze See all
Greece GRE 2024 Summer Olympics Apostolos Christou 2 Silver See all
Guam GUM 1988 Summer Olympics Patrick Sagisi 36 See all
Guatemala GUA 1968 Summer Olympics Antonio Cruz 28 See all
Honduras HON 1984 Summer Olympics Juan José Pino 34 See all
Hong Kong, China HKG 1968 Summer Olympics Ronnie Wong 29 See all
Hungary HUN 1980 Summer Olympics Sándor Wladár 1 Gold See all
2024 Summer Olympics Hubert Kós 1 Gold
Iceland ISL 2000 Summer Olympics Örn Arnarson 4 See all
Indonesia INA 1984 Summer Olympics Lukman Niode 25 See all
Ireland IRL 1980 Summer Olympics David Cummins 22 See all
Israel ISR 2012 Summer Olympics Yakov Toumarkin 7 See all
Italy ITA 1992 Summer Olympics Stefano Battistelli 3 Bronze See all
1996 Summer Olympics Emanuele Merisi 3 Bronze
Jamaica JAM 1984 Summer Olympics Allan Marsh 27 See all
Japan JPN 2012 Summer Olympics Ryosuke Irie 2 Silver See all
Kazakhstan KAZ 2012 Summer Olympics Aleksandr Tarabrin 31 See all
Kuwait KUW 1992 Summer Olympics Sultan Al-Otaibi 40 See all
Kyrgyzstan KGZ 2004 Summer Olympics Yury Zakharov 36 See all
Lebanon LBN 1988 Summer Olympics Rami Kantari 41 See all
Lithuania LTU 2016 Summer Olympics Danas Rapšys 21 See all
Malaysia MAS 2004 Summer Olympics Alex Lim 21 See all
Mexico MEX 1968 Summer Olympics Jaime Rivera =15 See all
1968 Summer Olympics José Joaquín Santibáñez =15
Netherlands NED 1900 Summer Olympics Johannes Drost 3 Bronze See all
New Zealand NZL 1988 Summer Olympics Paul Kingsman 3 Bronze See all
Norway NOR 1992 Summer Olympics Thomas Sopp 31 See all
Paraguay PAR 1992 Summer Olympics Marcos Prono 39 See all
People's Republic of China CHN 2012 Summer Olympics Zhang Fenglin =4 See all
2016 Summer Olympics Xu Jiayu 4
Peru PER 1988 Summer Olympics Alejandro Alvizuri 19 See all
Philippines PHI 1996 Summer Olympics Raymond Papa 25 See all
Poland POL 1996 Summer Olympics Bartosz Sikora 4 See all
2012 Summer Olympics Radosław Kawęcki =4
Portugal POR 2012 Summer Olympics Pedro Oliveira 20 See all
Puerto Rico PUR 1992 Summer Olympics Manuel Guzmán 13 See all
ROC ROC 2020 Summer Olympics Yevgeny Rylov 1 Gold See all
Republic of Korea KOR 2020 Summer Olympics Lee Ju-Ho 11 See all
2024 Summer Olympics Lee Ju-Ho 11
Republic of Moldova MDA 1996 Summer Olympics Artur Elizarov 33 See all
Romania ROU 2004 Summer Olympics Răzvan Florea 3 Bronze See all
Russian Federation RUS 2008 Summer Olympics Arkady Vyatchanin 3 Bronze See all
2016 Summer Olympics Yevgeny Rylov 3 Bronze
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 2000 Summer Olympics Miloš Cerović 43 See all
Singapore SGP 1988 Summer Olympics David Lim 31 See all
Slovakia SVK 1996 Summer Olympics Miroslav Machovič 19 See all
Slovenia SLO 2004 Summer Olympics Blaž Medvešek 8 See all
South Africa RSA 2024 Summer Olympics Pieter Coetze 7 See all
Soviet Union URS 1988 Summer Olympics Igor Polyansky 1 Gold See all
Spain ESP 1992 Summer Olympics Martín López-Zubero 1 Gold See all
Sudan SUD 2024 Summer Olympics Ziyad Saleem 27 See all
Sweden SWE 1980 Summer Olympics Michael Söderlund 6 See all
Switzerland SUI 2024 Summer Olympics Roman Mityukov 3 Bronze See all
Thailand THA 1996 Summer Olympics Dulyarit Phuangthong 26 See all
The Bahamas BAH 1984 Summer Olympics Dave Morley 31 See all
Turkmenistan TKM 2020 Summer Olympics Merdan Ataýew 29 See all
Türkiye TUR 1996 Summer Olympics Derya Büyükuncu 21 See all
Ukraine UKR 2000 Summer Olympics Volodymyr Nikolaichuk 15 See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Summer Olympics Vladimir Selkov 2 Silver See all
United Arab Emirates UAE 1988 Summer Olympics Mohammed Alghafri 39 See all
United States USA 1964 Summer Olympics Jed Graef 1 Gold See all
1976 Summer Olympics John Naber 1 Gold
1984 Summer Olympics Rick Carey 1 Gold
1996 Summer Olympics Brad Bridgewater 1 Gold
2000 Summer Olympics Lenny Krayzelburg 1 Gold
2004 Summer Olympics Aaron Peirsol 1 Gold
2008 Summer Olympics Ryan Lochte 1 Gold
2012 Summer Olympics Tyler Clary 1 Gold
2016 Summer Olympics Ryan Murphy 1 Gold
United States Virgin Islands ISV 2016 Summer Olympics Rex Tullius 20 See all
Uzbekistan UZB 2008 Summer Olympics Sergey Pankov 38 See all
Venezuela VEN 1984 Summer Olympics Giovanni Frigo 21 See all
Vietnam VIE 1980 Summer Olympics Phạm Văn Thành 25 See all
West Germany FRG 1984 Summer Olympics Nicolaj Klapkarek 6 See all
1988 Summer Olympics Jens-Peter Berndt 6
Yugoslavia YUG 1972 Summer Olympics Nenad Miloš 17 See all
1980 Summer Olympics Nenad Miloš 17
Zimbabwe ZIM 2024 Summer Olympics Denilson Cyprianos 28 See all