Hugo González won gold in the 200 meters backstroke at the Doha World Cup. With a finish time of 1:55.30, the Mallorcan swimmer finished ten hundredths ahead of the Swiss Roman Mityukov (1: 55.40) It is the fourth Spaniard to be crowned world champion in long course after Martín López Zubero, Nina Zhivanevskaya, and the aforementioned Mireia Belmonte.