| Men 200m Backstroke Swimming V World Championship 1986 Madrid, Spain - Tuesday, 19th August - Gold Medal: Igor Polianski, Soviet Union | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | pts |  | Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | pts |  | 1. Igor Polianski |   Soviet Union | 1:58.78 | CR |   | 4 | 19 | 914 |  | 2. Frank Baltrusch |   East Germany | 2:01.11 |   | +2.33s | 5 | 22 | 862 |  | 3. Frank Hoffmeister |   West Germany | 2:02.42 |   | +3.64s | 3 | 20 | 835 |  | 4. Dan Veatch |   United States | 2:02.82 |   | +4.04s | 7 | 21 | 827 |  | 5. Sean Murphy |   Canada | 2:03.54 |   | +4.76s | 1 | 22 | 813 |  | 6. Sergey Zabolotnov |   Soviet Union | 2:03.73 |   | +4.95s | 6 | 23 | 809 |  | 7. Paul Kingsman |   New Zealand | 2:04.08 |   | +5.30s | 8 | 19 | 802 |  | 8. Edvard Thor Edvardsson |   Iceland | 2:04.22 |   | +5.44s | 2 | 19 | 799 |   
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| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag |  | Final B |   | time |   | gap | L | ag |  | 9. Dirk Richter |   East Germany | 2:02.64 |   |   | 4 | 21 |  | 10.David Fairbank |   United States | 2:04.03 |   | +1.39s | 2 | 31 |  | 11.Charalambos Papanikolaou |   Greece | 2:04.76 |   | +2.12s | 7 | 17 |  | 12.Sandy Goss |   Canada | 2:05.25 |   | +2.61s | 5 | 19 |  | 13.Roberto Cassio |   Italy | 2:05.35 |   | +2.71s | 1 | 18 |  | 14.Ricardo Aldabe |   Spain | 2:05.80 |   | +3.16s | 3 | 21 |  | 15.Georgi Mikhalev |   Bulgaria | 2:06.34 |   | +3.70s | 8 | 18 |  | 16.Frederic Delcourt |   France | 2:10.18 |   | +7.54s | 6 | 22 |   
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Heats - Tuesday, 19th August | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. Next 8 to Final B. | 
| Heat 5 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 1. Igor Polianski |   Soviet Union | 2:01.85 |   |   | - | 19 | 1.  |  | 13.David Fairbank |   United States | 2:05.42 |   | +3.57s | - | 31 | 2.  |  | 17.Thomas Lebherz |   West Germany | 2:06.25 |   | +4.40s | - | 23 | 3.  |  | 19.Alejandro Alvizuri |   Peru | 2:07.15 |   | +5.30s | - | 18 | 4.  |  | 21.Ernesto Vila |   Mexico | 2:07.58 |   | +5.73s | - | 17 | 5.  |  | 22.Tamas Darnyi |   Hungary | 2:08.06 |   | +6.21s | - | 19 | 6.  |  | 28.Francisco Benitez |   Spain | 2:10.17 |   | +8.32s | - |   | 7.  |  | 36.Sofiane Benchekor |   Algeria | 2:18.06 |   | +16.21s | - |   | 8. |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 4. Sergey Zabolotnov |   Soviet Union | 2:02.86 |   | +1.01s | - | 23 | 1.  |  | 7. Sean Murphy |   Canada | 2:03.19 |   | +1.34s | - | 22 | 2.  |  | 11.Ricardo Aldabe |   Spain | 2:05.39 |   | +3.54s | - | 21 | 3.  |  | 12.Frederic Delcourt |   France | 2:05.40 |   | +3.55s | - | 22 | 4.  |  | 16.Georgi Mikhalev |   Bulgaria | 2:06.09 |   | +4.24s | - | 18 | 5.  |  | 32.David Lim |   Singapore | 2:12.36 |   | +10.51s | - | 19 | 6.  |  | 37.Danilo Vicioso |   Dominicana | 2:20.40 |   | +18.55s | - |   | 7.  |  | -. Andrew Phillips |   Jamaica | DNS |   |   | - |   |   |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 3. Frank Hoffmeister |   West Germany | 2:02.69 |   | +0.84s | - | 20 | 1.  |  | 10.Sandy Goss |   Canada | 2:04.40 |   | +2.55s | - | 19 | 2.  |  | 15.Roberto Cassio |   Italy | 2:05.94 |   | +4.09s | - | 18 | 3.  |  | 18.Robert Woodhouse |   Australia | 2:06.96 |   | +5.11s | - | 20 | 4.  |  | 23.Petro Staijman |   Netherlands | 2:08.16 |   | +6.31s | - |   | 5.  |  | 25.Ilias Malamas |   Greece | 2:06.61 |   | +4.76s | - | 20 | 6.  |  | 29.Joaquin Rios |   Cuba | 2:11.41 |   | +9.56s | - |   | 7.  |  | 35.Horst Niehaus |   Costa Rica | 2:15.75 |   | +13.90s | - | 18 | 8.  |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 6. Dan Veatch |   United States | 2:03.11 |   | +1.26s | - | 21 | 1.  |  | 9. Dirk Richter |   East Germany | 2:04.16 |   | +2.31s | - | 21 | 2.  |  | 14.Charalambos Papanikolaou |   Greece | 2:05.65 |   | +3.80s | - | 17 | 3.  |  | 20.Gary Binfield |   Great Britain | 2:07.33 |   | +5.48s | - | 20 | 4.  |  | 24.Patrick Ferland |   Switzerland | 2:08.33 |   | +6.48s | - | 20 | 5.  |  | 26.Peter De Rover |   Netherlands | 2:10.00 |   | +8.15s | - |   | 6.  |  | 33.Janne Soininen |   Finland | 2:14.72 |   | +12.87s | - |   | 7.  |  | 34.Emad El-Shafei |   Egypt | 2:15.66 |   | +13.81s | - | 30 | 8.  |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 2. Frank Baltrusch |   East Germany | 2:02.05 |   | +0.20s | - | 22 | 1.  |  | 5. Edvard Thor Edvardsson |   Iceland | 2:03.03 |   | +1.18s | - | 19 | 2.  |  | 8. Paul Kingsman |   New Zealand | 2:03.24 |   | +1.39s | - | 19 | 3.  |  | 27.Pedro Soares |   Portugal | 2:10.04 |   | +8.19s | - |   | 4.  |  | 30.Giovanni Frigo |   Venezuela | 2:11.42 |   | +9.57s | - | 22 | 5.  |  | 31.Cristiano Azevedo |   Brazil | 2:11.60 |   | +9.75s | - |   | 6.  |  | -. Hans Fredin |   Sweden | DNS |   |   | - |   |   |   
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