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Ranking Explanations
The Top Ranked 200M
Backstroke Swimmers of All-Time
|
Rnk |
Athlete |
Nation |
|
1 |
Roland Matthes |
East Germany |
|
2 |
Aaron Peirsol |
USA |
|
3 |
Ryan Murphy |
USA |
|
4 |
Evgeny Rylov |
Russia |
|
5 |
Ryan Lochte |
USA |
|
6 |
Martin Lopez-Zubero |
Spain |
|
7 |
Brad Bridgewater |
USA |
|
8 |
Ernst Hoppenberg |
Germany |
|
9 |
Hubert Kos |
Hungary |
|
10 |
Igor Polyansky |
Soviet Union |
|
11 |
Jed Graef |
USA |
|
12 |
John Naber |
USA |
|
13 |
Lenny Krayzelburg |
USA |
|
14 |
Rick Carey |
USA |
|
15 |
Sandor Wladar |
Hungary |
|
16 |
Tyler Clary |
USA |
|
17 |
Mitch Ivey |
USA |
|
18 |
Ryosuke Irie |
Japan |
|
19 |
Zoltan Verraszto |
Hungary |
|
20 |
Markus Rogan |
Austria |
|
21 |
Tripp Schwenk |
USA |
|
22 |
Mitch Larkin |
Australia |
|
23 |
Frederic Delcourt |
France |
|
24 |
Vladimir Selkov |
Unified Team |
|
25 |
Apostolos Christou |
Greece |
|
26 |
Frank Baltrusch |
East Germany |
|
27 |
Gary Dilley |
USA |
|
28 |
Karl Ruberl |
Austria |
|
29 |
Mike Stamm |
USA |
|
30 |
Peter Rocca |
USA |
|
31 |
Razvan Florea |
Romania |
|
32 |
Emanuele Merisi |
Italy |
|
33 |
Arkady Vyachanin |
Russia |
|
34 |
Mark Kerry |
Australia |
|
35 |
Roman Mityukov |
Switzerland |
|
36 |
Stefano Battistelli |
Italy |
|
37 |
Matt Welsh |
Australia |
|
38 |
Paul Kingsman |
New Zealand |
|
39 |
Luke Greenbank |
Great Britain |
|
40 |
Bob Bennett |
USA |
|
41 |
Cam Henning |
Canada |
|
42 |
Dan Harrigan |
USA |
|
43 |
Jack Horsley |
USA |
|
44 |
Johannes Drost |
Netherlands |
|
45 |
Radoslaw Kawecki |
Poland |
|
46 |
Xu Jiayu |
China |
|
47 |
Hajime Itoi |
Japan |
|
48 |
Mark Tonelli |
Australia |
|
49 |
Mewen Tomac |
France |
|
50 |
Bartosz Sikora |
Poland |
|
51 |
Brad Cooper |
Australia |
|
52 |
Bryce Mefford |
USA |
|
53 |
Gary Hall |
USA |
|
54 |
James Goddard |
Great Britain |
|
55 |
Johannes Bloemen |
Netherlands |
|
56 |
Orn Arnarson |
Iceland |
|
57 |
Ricardo Prado |
Brazil |
|
58 |
Sergey Zabolotnov |
Soviet Union |
|
59 |
Shigeo Fukushima |
Japan |
|
60 |
Vladimir Shemetov |
Soviet Union |
|
61 |
Zhang Fenglin |
China |
|
62 |
Adam Telegdy |
Hungary |
|
63 |
Santiago Esteva |
Spain |
|
64 |
Dirk Richter |
East Germany |
|
65 |
Bill Burgess |
Great Britain |
|
66 |
Ernst-Joachim Kuppers |
Germany |
|
67 |
Fred Eefting |
Netherlands |
|
68 |
Gary Hurring |
New Zealand |
|
69 |
Jacob Pebley |
USA |
|
70 |
Keaton Jones |
USA |
|
71 |
Tim McKee |
USA |
|
72 |
Tomomi Morita |
Japan |
|
73 |
Simon Dufour |
France |
|
74 |
Miloslav Rolko |
Czechoslovakia |
|
75 |
Michael Soderlund |
Sweden |
|
76 |
Hugo Gonzalez |
Spain |
|
77 |
de Romand |
France |
|
78 |
Hayden Stoeckel |
Australia |
|
79 |
Jens-Peter Berndt |
West Germany |
|
80 |
Kazuki Watanabe |
Japan |
|
81 |
Leonid Dobroskokin |
Soviet Union |
|
82 |
Li Guangyuan |
China |
|
83 |
Lothar Noack |
East Germany |
|
84 |
Nicolai Klapkarek |
West Germany |
|
85 |
Tino Weber |
Germany |
|
86 |
Viktor Mazanov |
Soviet Union |
|
87 |
Rogerio Romero |
Brazil |
|
88 |
Robert Rudolf |
Hungary |
|
89 |
Yakov Toumarkin |
Israel |
|
90 |
Gregor Tait |
Great Britain |
|
91 |
Tamas Deutsch |
Hungary |
|
92 |
Christian Diener |
Germany |
|
93 |
Mirko Mazzari |
Italy |
|
94 |
Dan Veatch |
USA |
|
95 |
Douglas Campbell |
Great Britain |
|
96 |
Joachim Rother |
East Germany |
|
97 |
Paolo Bussetti |
Italy |
|
98 |
Pieter Coetze |
South Africa |
|
99 |
Ralph Hutton |
Canada |
|
100 |
Ricardo Aldabe |
Spain |
|
101 |
Goran Kozulj |
Croatia |
|
102 |
Rodolfo Falcon |
Cuba |
|
103 |
Blaz Medvesek |
Slovenia |
|
104 |
David Orbell |
Australia |
|
105 |
Erik Eriksson |
Sweden |
|
106 |
Franco Del Campo |
Italy |
|
107 |
Jean-Paul Berjeau |
France |
|
108 |
Lukas Martens |
Germany |
|
109 |
Nicolas Garcia |
Spain |
|
110 |
Paul Moorfoot |
Australia |
|
111 |
Peter Reynolds |
Australia |
|
112 |
Stefaan Maene |
Belgium |
|
113 |
Jan-Philip Glania |
Germany |
|
114 |
Bob Schoutsen |
Netherlands |
|
115 |
Marko Strahija |
Croatia |
|
116 |
Yohann Ndoye Brouard |
France |
|
117 |
Jim Carter |
Great Britain |
|
118 |
Nick Driebergen |
Netherlands |
|
119 |
Colin Cunningham |
Great Britain |
|
120 |
Daryl Skilling |
Canada |
|
121 |
Dino Rora |
Italy |
|
122 |
Frank Hoffmeister |
West Germany |
|
123 |
Georges Leuillieux |
France |
|
124 |
Helge Meeuw |
Germany |
|
125 |
Isagi Osumi |
Japan |
|
126 |
Leif Ericsson |
Sweden |
|
127 |
Matyas Borloi |
Hungary |
|
128 |
Neil Martin |
Australia |
|
129 |
Paolo Falchini |
Italy |
|
130 |
Reinhard Blechert |
West Germany |
|
131 |
Robert Crawshaw |
Great Britain |
|
132 |
Ryuji Horii |
Japan |
|
133 |
Thomas Ceccon |
Italy |
|
134 |
Chris Renaud |
Canada |
|
135 |
Ash Delaney |
Australia |
|
136 |
Bryce Hunt |
USA |
|
137 |
Jorg Stingl |
East Germany |
|
138 |
Josh Beaver |
Australia |
|
139 |
Klaas-Erik Zwering |
Netherlands |
|
140 |
Mike West |
Canada |
|
141 |
Steve Bigelow |
USA |
|
142 |
Tristan Hollard |
Australia |
|
143 |
Viktor Kuznetsov |
Soviet Union |
|
144 |
Nenad Milos |
Yugoslavia |
|
145 |
Lee Ju-Ho |
South Korea |
|
146 |
Gabor Balog |
Hungary |
|
147 |
Anders Sandberg |
Sweden |
|
148 |
Bill Kennedy |
Canada |
|
149 |
Cameron Delaney |
Australia |
|
150 |
Chevrand |
France |
|
151 |
Damiano Lestingi |
Italy |
|
152 |
Ezio Della Savia |
Italy |
|
153 |
Jozsef Csikany |
Hungary |
|
154 |
Luca Bianchin |
Italy |
|
155 |
Masaki Kaneko |
Japan |
|
156 |
Massimo Nistri |
Italy |
|
157 |
Keith Beavers |
Canada |
|
158 |
Lutz Wanja |
East Germany |
|
159 |
Sergey Ostapchuk |
Russia |
|
160 |
Oliver Agh |
Hungary |
|
161 |
Andrey Shabasov |
Russia |
|
162 |
Djan Madruga |
Brazil |
|
163 |
Franco Chino |
Italy |
|
164 |
Grigory Tarasevich |
Russia |
|
165 |
Igor Omelchenko |
Soviet Union |
|
166 |
Jaime Monzo |
Spain |
|
167 |
Jaime Rivera |
Mexico |
|
168 |
Kevin Draxinger |
Canada |
|
169 |
Lapostolet |
France |
|
170 |
Lue |
France |
|
171 |
Mark Tewksbury |
Canada |
|
172 |
Mike Scarth |
Canada |
|
173 |
Oliver Morgan |
Great Britain |
|
174 |
Peter Bernek |
Hungary |
|
175 |
Rinus van Beek |
Netherlands |
|
176 |
Steve Hardy |
Canada |
|
177 |
Adam Ruckwood |
Great Britain |
|
178 |
Leonardo de Deus |
Brazil |
|
179 |
Georgi Mikhalev |
Bulgaria |
|
180 |
Bengt Baron |
Sweden |
|
181 |
George du Rand |
South Africa |
|
182 |
Jorge Sanchez |
Spain |
|
183 |
Keisuke Ito |
Japan |
|
184 |
Manuel Guzman |
Puerto Rico |
|
185 |
Stefan Peter |
West Germany |
|
186 |
Volodymyr Dolhov |
Soviet Union |
|
187 |
Wolfgang Wagner |
Germany |
|
188 |
Tobias Oriwol |
Canada |
|
189 |
Ji Sang-Jun |
South Korea |
|
190 |
Apostolos Siskos |
Greece |
|
191 |
Corey Main |
New Zealand |
|
192 |
Fumouze |
France |
|
193 |
Keita Sunama |
Japan |
|
194 |
Leonardo Costa |
Brazil |
|
195 |
Nathaniel O'Brien |
Canada |
|
196 |
Neil Cochran |
Great Britain |
|
197 |
Paul Peyrusson |
France |
|
198 |
Yasuhiro Vandewalle |
Belgium |
|
199 |
Daichi Suzuki |
Japan |
|
200 |
Volodymyr Nikolaichuk |
Ukraine |
|
201 |
Brodie Williams |
Great Britain |
|
202 |
Carlos van der Maath |
Argentina |
|
203 |
Fabrizio Bortolon |
Italy |
|
204 |
Henri van Osch |
Netherlands |
|
205 |
Hidekazu Takehara |
Japan |
|
206 |
Raymond Brown |
Canada |
|
207 |
Yannick Lebherz |
Germany |
|
208 |
Omar Pinzon |
Colombia |
|
209 |
Ejvind Pedersen |
Denmark |
|
210 |
Jose Urueta |
Mexico |
|
211 |
Lars Kraus Jensen |
Denmark |
|
212 |
Romulo Arantes Filho |
Brazil |
|
213 |
Gary Binfield |
Great Britain |
|
214 |
Jose Joaquin Santibanez |
Mexico |
|
215 |
Krasimir Stoykov |
Bulgaria |
|
216 |
Luis Angel Acosta |
Mexico |
|
217 |
Markus Thormeyer |
Canada |
|
218 |
Rafael Rocha |
Mexico |
|
219 |
Reinhold Becker |
West Germany |
|
220 |
Stanislav Donets |
Russia |
|
221 |
Tadashi Honda |
Japan |
|
222 |
Texier |
France |
|
223 |
Yoav Gath |
Israel |
|
224 |
Dietmar Gohring |
East Germany |
|
225 |
Franky De Groote |
Belgium |
|
226 |
Ivan Ferak |
Czechoslovakia |
|
227 |
Jesse Vassallo |
USA |
|
228 |
Jurgen Dietze |
Germany |
|
229 |
Ksawery Masiuk |
Poland |
|
230 |
Pierre Roger |
France |
|
231 |
Yevgeny Alyoshin |
Russia |
|
232 |
Ralf Braun |
Germany |
|
233 |
Robert Glinta |
Romania |
|
234 |
Hans Fredin |
Sweden |
|
235 |
Jan Cejka |
Czech Republic |
|
236 |
Marco Loughran |
Great Britain |
|
237 |
Patrick Murphy |
Australia |
|
238 |
Royce Sharp |
USA |
|
239 |
Sean Murphy |
Canada |
|
240 |
Se-Bom Lee |
Australia |
|
241 |
Alejandro Alvizuri |
Peru |
|
242 |
Miroslav Machovic |
Slovakia |
|
243 |
Sebastian Stoss |
Austria |
|
244 |
Blake Tierney |
Canada |
|
245 |
Friedrich Suda |
Austria |
|
246 |
Jan Weeteling |
Netherlands |
|
247 |
Jesus Cabrera |
Spain |
|
248 |
Kim Terrell |
Australia |
|
249 |
Marcel Blazo |
Czechoslovakia |
|
250 |
Roland Rudolf |
Hungary |
|
251 |
Sebastiano Ranfagni |
Italy |
|
252 |
Simon Militis |
Great Britain |
|
253 |
Matteo Restivo |
Italy |
|
254 |
Neisser Bent |
Cuba |
|
255 |
Pedro Oliveira |
Portugal |
|
256 |
Cam Gibson |
New Zealand |
|
257 |
Dustin Hersee |
Canada |
|
258 |
Gerald Evard |
Switzerland |
|
259 |
Jim Shaw |
Canada |
|
260 |
John Davey |
Great Britain |
|
261 |
Karl Byrom |
Australia |
|
262 |
Keita Soraoka |
Japan |
|
263 |
Oleksandr Zheltyakov |
Ukraine |
|
264 |
Rexford Tullius |
US Virgin Islands |
|
265 |
Ronnie Wong |
Hong Kong |
|
266 |
Derya Buyukuncu |
Turkey |
|
267 |
Alex Lim |
Malaysia |
|
268 |
David Holderbach |
France |
|
269 |
Predrag Milos |
Yugoslavia |
|
270 |
Carlos Berrocal |
Puerto Rico |
|
271 |
Conrado Porta |
Argentina |
|
272 |
Danas Rapsys |
Lithuania |
|
273 |
Daniel Ayora |
Peru |
|
274 |
David Cummins |
Ireland |
|
275 |
Giovanni Frigo |
Venezuela |
|
276 |
Helmut Podolan |
Austria |
|
277 |
Ian MacKenzie |
Canada |
|
278 |
Ignacio Alvarez |
Mexico |
|
279 |
Ivan Mikolutsky |
Soviet Union |
|
280 |
Kane Follows |
New Zealand |
|
281 |
Lars Borgesen |
Denmark |
|
282 |
Martin Binedell |
South Africa |
|
283 |
Matson Lawson |
Australia |
|
284 |
Mihai Mandache |
Romania |
|
285 |
Phạm Van Thanh |
Vietnam |
|
286 |
Sarun Van |
Cambodia |
|
287 |
Takashi Nakano |
Japan |
|
288 |
Ernesto Vela |
Mexico |
|
289 |
Patrick Ferland |
Switzerland |
|
290 |
Arunas Savickas |
Lithuania |
|
291 |
Chris Walker-Hebborn |
Great Britain |
|
292 |
David Foldhazi |
Hungary |
|
293 |
David Gerchik |
Israel |
|
294 |
Francisco Santos |
Portugal |
|
295 |
John Byrom |
Australia |
|
296 |
Pedro Diz |
Argentina |
|
297 |
Ron Jacks |
Canada |
|
298 |
Scott Talbot-Cameron |
New Zealand |
|
299 |
Simon Upton |
Australia |
|
300 |
Rastislav Bizub |
Czechoslovakia |
|
301 |
Nicky Neckles |
Barbados |
|
302 |
Anton Anchin |
Russia |
|
303 |
Berke Saka |
Turkey |
|
304 |
Kai van Westering |
Netherlands |
|
305 |
Kristofer Stivenson |
Greece |
|
306 |
Lucas Salatta |
Brazil |
|
307 |
Steven Dewick |
Australia |
|
308 |
Viktor Bodrogi |
Hungary |
|
309 |
Benjamin Stasiulis |
France |
|
310 |
Chan King-Ming |
Chinese Taipei |
|
311 |
Edvard Per Edvardsson |
Iceland |
|
312 |
Eliseo Vidal |
Cuba |
|
313 |
Hans Ljungberg |
Sweden |
|
314 |
Kaloyan Levterov |
Bulgaria |
|
315 |
Neil Harper |
Great Britain |
|
316 |
Raymond Papa |
Philippines |
|
317 |
Bradley Woodward |
Australia |
|
318 |
Darren Murray |
South Africa |
|
319 |
Jorge Perez |
Spain |
|
320 |
Luki Niode |
Indonesia |
|
321 |
Mattia Aversa |
Italy |
|
322 |
Mikita Tsmyh |
Belarus |
|
323 |
Richard Gheel |
Ireland |
|
324 |
Zbigniew Januszkiewicz |
Poland |
|
325 |
Alejandro Bermudez |
Colombia |
|
326 |
Aschwin Wildeboer |
Spain |
|
327 |
Chiang Jin Choon |
Malaysia |
|
328 |
Lars Sorensen |
Denmark |
|
329 |
Akos Gulyas |
Hungary |
|
330 |
Boris Kirillov |
Azerbaijan |
|
331 |
Dulyarit Phuangthong |
Thailand |
|
332 |
Fu Yong |
China |
|
333 |
Geoffrey Thwaites |
Great Britain |
|
334 |
Gerhard Wieland |
Austria |
|
335 |
Herman Verbauwen |
Belgium |
|
336 |
John Hawes |
Canada |
|
337 |
Karim Ressang |
Netherlands |
|
338 |
Kim Ji-Hyeon |
South Korea |
|
339 |
Pavel Suskov |
Lithuania |
|
340 |
Peter Lerpiniere |
Great Britain |
|
341 |
Pierre Baehr |
France |
|
342 |
Robert Christophe |
France |
|
343 |
Ryszard Zugaj |
Poland |
|
344 |
Sergio Hasbun |
El Salvador |
|
345 |
Thomas Hofer |
Switzerland |
|
346 |
Yeziel Morales |
Puerto Rico |
|
347 |
Pedro Medel |
Cuba |
|
348 |
Adam Mania |
Poland |
|
349 |
Allan Marsh |
Jamaica |
|
350 |
Itai Chammah |
Israel |
|
351 |
Jakub Skierka |
Poland |
|
352 |
Leonardo Baremboin |
Argentina |
|
353 |
Nicolas Rajcevich |
Chile |
|
354 |
Stephen Cullen |
Ireland |
|
355 |
Tony Asamali |
Philippines |
|
356 |
Ziyad Saleem |
Sudan |
|
357 |
Antonios Gioulbas |
Greece |
|
358 |
Denilson Cyprianos |
Zimbabwe |
|
359 |
Pavel Vokoun |
Czechoslovakia |
|
360 |
Simon Percy |
New Zealand |
|
361 |
Wang Hao |
China |
|
362 |
Antonio Cruz |
Guatemala |
|
363 |
Brett Fraser |
Cayman Islands |
|
364 |
Emad El-Shafei |
Egypt |
|
365 |
Francisco Ramis |
Puerto Rico |
|
366 |
Gareth Kean |
New Zealand |
|
367 |
Guillermo Mediano |
Spain |
|
368 |
Merdan Atayew |
Turkmenistan |
|
369 |
Nuno Laurentino |
Portugal |
|
370 |
Oleksandr Isakov |
Ukraine |
|
371 |
Carlos Arena |
Mexico |
|
372 |
Ilmar Ojase |
Estonia |
|
373 |
Lin Laijiu |
China |
|
374 |
Mario Carvalho |
Portugal |
|
375 |
Yu Rui |
China |
|
376 |
Gerardo Rosario |
Philippines |
|
377 |
Ahmed Hussain |
Egypt |
|
378 |
Aleksandr Tarabrin |
Kazakhstan |
|
379 |
Antonio de Melo de Melo |
Portugal |
|
380 |
Augusto Ferrero |
Peru |
|
381 |
Bruce Featherston |
Australia |
|
382 |
Chan Kam Hong |
Hong Kong |
|
383 |
Dave Morley |
Bahamas |
|
384 |
David Lim |
Singapore |
|
385 |
Eliot Chenaux |
Puerto Rico |
|
386 |
Mark Crocker |
Hong Kong |
|
387 |
Michael Eu |
Malaysia |
|
388 |
Norbert Verweyen |
West Germany |
|
389 |
Thomas Sopp |
Norway |
|
390 |
Jonathan Massacand |
Switzerland |
|
391 |
Martin Harris |
Great Britain |
|
392 |
Matthew O'Connor |
Great Britain |
|
393 |
Park Hyeong-Ju |
South Korea |
|
394 |
Salvador Salguero |
El Salvador |
|
395 |
Seong Min |
South Korea |
|
396 |
Shigemori Maruyama |
Japan |
|
397 |
Alex Fong |
Hong Kong |
|
398 |
Artur Elezarov |
Moldova |
|
399 |
Ernesto Jose Degenhart |
Guatemala |
|
400 |
Matti Maki |
Finland |
|
401 |
Oleg Rabota |
Kazakhstan |
|
402 |
Wladimir Ribeiro |
Brazil |
|
403 |
Andrei Mihailov |
Moldova |
|
404 |
Eduardo Otero |
Argentina |
|
405 |
Horst Niehaus |
Costa Rica |
|
406 |
Juan Jose Piro |
Honduras |
|
407 |
Miguel Arrobas |
Portugal |
|
408 |
Nicolae Butacu |
Romania |
|
409 |
Adrian O'Connor |
Ireland |
|
410 |
Dimitrios Chasiotis |
Greece |
|
411 |
Eric Greenwood |
Costa Rica |
|
412 |
Gustavo Gonzalez |
Argentina |
|
413 |
Quah Zheng Wen |
Singapore |
|
414 |
Toby Haenen |
Australia |
|
415 |
Torwai Sethsothorn |
Thailand |
|
416 |
Gerald Koh |
Singapore |
|
417 |
Kvetoslav Svoboda |
Czech Republic |
|
418 |
Patrick Sagisi |
Guam |
|
419 |
Yury Zakharov |
Kyrgyzstan |
|
420 |
Gary Tan |
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