| 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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