Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre backstroke

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Aaron Peirsol (USA)	1:55.15	Minneapolis, United States	20 March 2002
Asian Record	Fu Yong (CHN)	1:58.72	Shanghai, China	19 October 1997
Games Record	Fu Yong (CHN)	1:59.30	Bangkok, Thailand	7 December 1998

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	2	Takashi Nakano (JPN)	2:01.28
2	2	Naoya Sonoda (JPN)	2:04.83
3	1	Sung Min (KOR)	2:07.61
4	2	Wu Peng (CHN)	2:09.57
5	1	Alex Lim (MAS)	2:09.82
6	1	Yu Rui (CHN)	2:09.88
7	2	Dickson Fai (HKG)	2:10.10
8	2	Gerald Koh (SIN)	2:19.25
9	2	Rashid Al-Mohannadi (QAT)	2:32.86
—	1	Maher Al-Motar (KSA)	DNS
—	1	François Ghattas (LIB)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Wu Peng (CHN)	2:00.40
	Takashi Nakano (JPN)	2:00.76
	Naoya Sonoda (JPN)	2:01.22
4	Yu Rui (CHN)	2:01.28
5	Alex Lim (MAS)	2:01.97
6	Sung Min (KOR)	2:03.23
7	Gerald Koh (SIN)	2:08.51
8	Dickson Fai (HKG)	2:11.39

• 2002 Asian Games Report, Page 185
• Results