SwimmingSwimming world record
200 m backstroke, men, 25 m pool
1 min 45.12 s
- Holder
- Hubert Kós
- Date
- Place
- Toronto, Canada
- Standing since
- 2025 (1 year)
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What to remember
Toronto, October 23, 2025: at a World Cup meet, Hubert Kós swam the 200 m backstroke in 1 min 45.12 s in a 25-metre pool. It is the event of his Olympic title, won in Paris in 2024.
The Hungarian splits his programme between backstroke and individual medley, and he has been part of the University of Texas swim team.
The men's 200 m backstroke has a long gap in its Olympic history: held at the 1900 Games, it was dropped from the 1904 programme and only returned in 1964. Women have raced it at the Olympics since 1968, and both events have been on the World Aquatics Championships schedule from 1973 on. The American Aaron Peirsol holds the men's long course record. In short course, it pairs Kós with Australia's Kaylee McKeown.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in swimming” (revision used 1379527312). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: Michiel Jelijs from Groningen, The Netherlands, Photo licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
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