| Men 200m Backstroke Swimming IV World Championship 1982 Guayaquil, Ecuador - Gold Medal: Rick Carey, United States |
| Final 03.08 | | time | | gap | L | ag | pts | | 1. Rick Carey | United States | 2:00.82 | CR | | - | 19 | 869 | | 2. Sandor Wladar | Hungary | 2:01.31 | | +0.49s | - | 19 | 858 | | 3. Frank Baltrusch | East Germany | 2:01.51 | | +0.69s | - | 18 | 854 | | 4. Vladimir Shemetov | Soviet Union | 2:01.72 | | +0.90s | - | 18 | 850 | | 5. Steve Barnicoat | United States | 2:03.00 | | +2.18s | - | 20 | 823 | | 6. Cam Henning | Canada | 2:03.11 | | +2.29s | - | 21 | 821 | | 7. Sergey Zabolotnov | Soviet Union | 2:03.54 | | +2.72s | - | 18 | 813 | | 8. Ricardo Prado | Brazil | 2:04.38 | | +3.56s | - | 17 | 796 |
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| Final B | | time | | gap | L | ag | | 9. Frederic Delcourt | France | 2:03.90 | | | 4 | 18 | | 10.Djan Madruga | Brazil | 2:04.42 | | +0.52s | 5 | 23 | | 11.Hidetoshi Takahashi | Japan | 2:04.77 | NR | +0.87s | 3 | | | 12.Zbigniew Januszkiewicz | Poland | 2:05.09 | | +1.19s | 6 | 19 | | 13.Stefan Peter | West Germany | 2:05.73 | | +1.83s | 2 | 17 | | 14.John Davey | Great Britain | 2:05.79 | | +1.89s | 1 | 17 | | 15.Douglas Campbell | Great Britain | 2:07.24 | | +3.34s | 7 | 21 | | 16.Ricardo Aldabe | Spain | 2:08.41 | | +4.51s | 8 | 17 |
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| Best 8 times advanced to Final>. Next 8 times to Final B. |
| Heat - | | time | | gap | L | ag | | 1. Sandor Wladar | Hungary | 2:01.36 | CR | | - | 19 | | 2. Rick Carey | United States | 2:01.98 | | +0.62s | - | 19 | | 3. Frank Baltrusch | East Germany | 2:02.22 | | +0.86s | - | 18 | | 4. Vladimir Shemetov | Soviet Union | 2:02.47 | | +1.11s | - | 18 | | 5. Steve Barnicoat | United States | 2:02.83 | | +1.47s | - | 20 | | 6. Sergey Zabolotnov | Soviet Union | 2:03.71 | | +2.35s | - | 18 | | 7. Cam Henning | Canada | 2:03.89 | | +2.53s | - | 21 | | 8. Ricardo Prado | Brazil | 2:04.33 | | +2.97s | - | 17 | | 9. Frederic Delcourt | France | 2:04.40 | | +3.04s | - | 18 | | 10.Djan Madruga | Brazil | 2:05.12 | | +3.76s | - | 23 | | 11.Hidetoshi Takahashi | Japan | 2:05.47 | | +4.11s | - | | | 12.Zbigniew Januszkiewicz | Poland | 2:06.16 | | +4.80s | - | 19 | | 13.Douglas Campbell | Great Britain | 2:06.23 | | +4.87s | - | 21 | | 14.Stefan Peter | West Germany | 2:06.55 | | +5.19s | - | 17 | | 15.John Davey | Great Britain | 2:06.61 | | +5.25s | - | 17 | | 16.Ricardo Aldabe | Spain | 2:07.26 | | +5.90s | - | 17 | | 17.Conrado Porta | Argentina | 2:07.66 | | +6.30s | - | 24 | | 18.Edsard Schlingemann | Netherlands | 2:08.05 | | +6.69s | - | 15 | | 19.Paolo Falchini | Italy | 2:06.89 | | +5.53s | - | 18 | | 20.Francisco Benitez | Spain | 2:08.95 | | +7.59s | - | | | 21.Petter Ulvestad | Norway | 2:09.17 | | +7.81s | - | | | 22.Miguel Carrion | Ecuador | 2:10.64 | | +9.28s | - | | | 23.Allan Marsh | Jamaica | 2:14.69 | NR | +13.33s | - | 19 | | 24.Shigang Gao | China | 2:15.60 | | +14.24s | - | | | 25.Enrique Conterno | Peru | 2:15.86 | NR | +14.50s | - | | | 26.Sadri Ozun | Turkey | 2:17.93 | | +16.57s | - | 18 | | -. Michael West | Canada | DSQ | | | - | 17 |
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