# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 Individual Medley (or I.M.) event at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 27 – 28 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were 27 July; the Final 28 July. The top-16 swimmers from the Prelims in the morning advanced to the 1 of 2 Seminfinal in the evening; the top-8 swimmers from the Semifinals then advanced to the Final the next evening.
As the Swimming portion of the World Championships are swum in a long course (50m) pool, this race consisted of 4 lengths. As it was an IM event, each length was a different stroke, swum in the order of: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and then freestyle.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:
* WR: 1:55.94, Michael Phelps (USA), swum 9 August 2003 in College Park, USA;
* CR: 1:56.04, Michael Phelps (USA), swum 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.
No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Michael Phelps | USA | 1:56.68 |
| 2 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:57.61 |
| 3 | Ryan Lochte | USA | 1:57.79 |
| 4 | Alessio Boggiatto | Italy | 2:00.28 |
| 5 | Hidemasa Sano | Japan | 2:00.70 |
| 6 | Vytautas Janušaitis | Lithuania | 2:00.78 |
| 7 | Igor Berezutsky | Russia | 2:01.43 |
| 8 | Dean Kent | New Zealand | 2:01.81 |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S1 L5 | Ryan Lochte | USA | 1:58.06 | q |
| 2 | S2 L5 | Michael Phelps | USA | 1:58.36 | q |
| 3 | S1 L3 | Vytautas Janušaitis | Lithuania | 1:59.72 | q |
| 4 | S2 L4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 2:00.12 | q |
| 5 | S2 L3 | Hidemasa Sano | Japan | 2:00.45 | q |
| 6 | S1 L4 | Alessio Boggiatto | Italy | 2:00.52 | q |
| 7 | S1 L6 | Igor Berezutsky | Russia | 2:01.11 | q |
| 8 | S2 L2 | Dean Kent | New Zealand | 2:01.55 | q |
| 9 | S1 L2 | Adam Lucas | Australia | 2:01.99 | |
| 10 | S2 L7 | Leith Brodie | Australia | 2:02.28 | |
| 11 | S2 L8 | Mihail Alexandrov | Bulgaria | 2:02.32 | |
| 12 | S2 L6 | Jiro Miki | Japan | 2:02.49 | |
| 13 | S1 L7 | Bradley Ally | Barbados | 2:02.53 | |
| 14 | S2 L1 | Robin van Aggele | Netherlands | 2:02.98 | |
| 15 | S1 L8 | Keith Beavers | Canada | 2:03.27 | |
| 16 | S1 L1 | Ioannis Kokkodis | Greece | 2:04.15 | |

### Preliminary heats

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H6 L4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:59.56 | q |
| 2 | H7 L5 | Alessio Boggiatto | Italy | 2:00.24 | q |
| 3 | H8 L4 | Michael Phelps | United States | 2:00.30 | q |
| 4 | H7 L4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 2:00.51 | q |
| 5 | H6 L5 | Hidemasa Sano | Japan | 2:00.61 | q |
| 6 | H8 L5 | Vytautas Janušaitis | Lithuania | 2:00.93 | q |
| 7 | H8 L6 | Jiro Miki | Japan | 2:02.04 | q |
| 8 | H8 L2 | Igor Berezutsky | Russia | 2:02.30 | q |
| 9 | H6 L3 | Dean Kent | New Zealand | 2:02.35 | q |
| 10 | H8 L3 | Adam Lucas | Australia | 2:02.45 | q |
| 11 | H6 L6 | Leith Brodie | Australia | 2:02.73 | q |
| 12 | H7 L7 | Bradley Ally | Barbados | 2:02.83 | q |
| 13 | H8 L7 | Robin van Aggele | Netherlands | 2:03.48 | q |
| 14 | H7 L6 | Ioannis Kokkodis | Greece | 2:03.77 | q |
| 15 | H6 L2 | Mihail Alexandrov | Bulgaria | 2:04.50 | q |
| 16 | H7 L2 | Keith Beavers | Canada | 2:04.54 | q |
| 17 | H6 L8 | Miguel Molina | Philippines | 2:04.68 | |
| 18 | H5 L5 | Paulius Andrijauskas | Lithuania | 2:04.77 | |
| 19 | H5 L2 | Gard Kvale | Norway | 2:04.93 | |
| 20 | H7 L8 | Jacob Carstensen | Denmark | 2:04.97 | |
| 21 | H5 L1 | Dmitriy Gordiyenko | Kazakhstan | 2:05.17 | |
| 22 | H8 L8 | Dmytro Nazarenko | Ukraine | 2:05.19 | |
| 23 | H6 L1 | Sebastian Stoss | Austria | 2:05.91 | |
| 24 | H3 L4 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 2:06.05 | |
| 25 | H5 L6 | Hocine Haciane | Andorra | 2:06.16 | |
| 26 | H8 L1 | Nicolas Rostoucher | France | 2:06.56 | |
| 27 | H5 L3 | Dzianis Silkov | Belarus | 2:06.79 | |
| 28 | H7 L1 | Guntars Deicmans | Latvia | 2:07.03 | |
| 29 | H5 L7 | Andrei Zaharov | Moldova | 2:07.84 | |
| 30 | H4 L4 | Oleg Pukhnatiy | Uzbekistan | 2:08.97 | |
| 31 | H4 L6 | M. Akbar Nasution | Indonesia | 2:09.16 | |
| 32 | H4 L2 | Yury Zaharov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:09.90 | |
| 33 | H7 L3 | Peng Wu | China | 2:10.52 | |
| 34 | H5 L4 | Kuo-Chuan Tsai | Chinese Taipei | 2:10.64 | |
| 35 | H5 L8 | Gary Tan | Singapore | 2:11.11 | |
| 36 | H4 L8 | Vasilii Danilov | Kyrgyzstan | 2:11.45 | |
| 37 | H3 L3 | Mohamad Al-Naser | Kuwait | 2:11.64 | |
| 38 | H4 L3 | Mark Chay | Singapore | 2:13.10 | |
| 39 | H3 L6 | Francisco Montenegro | Guatemala | 2:13.28 | |
| 40 | H2 L5 | James Walsh | Philippines | 2:13.52 | |
| 41 | H3 L7 | Graham Smith | Bermuda | 2:14.03 | |
| 42 | H4 L5 | Yu-An Lin | Chinese Taipei | 2:14.06 | |
| 43 | H2 L3 | Shahin Baradaran | Iran | 2:14.96 | |
| 44 | H2 L4 | Morgan Locke | Virgin Islands | 2:15.30 | |
| 45 | H3 L2 | Youssef Hafdi | Morocco | 2:15.65 | |
| 46 | H2 L7 | Rony Bakale | Republic of the Congo | 2:15.85 | |
| 47 | H3 L8 | Khaly Ciss | Senegal | 2:17.11 | |
| 48 | H2 L6 | Johnny Castillo | Panama | 2:18.02 | |
| 49 | H3 L1 | Francois Ghattas | Lebanon | 2:19.47 | |
| 50 | H1 L5 | Reginaldo Panting | Honduras | 2:20.13 | |
| 51 | H1 L3 | Amar Shah | Kenya | 2:20.15 | |
| 52 | H2 L2 | Joel Refos | Suriname | 2:21.10 | |
| 53 | H2 L8 | Diego Foianini | Bolivia | 2:21.13 | |
| 54 | H2 L1 | Fernando Medrano | Nicaragua | 2:25.05 | |
| 55 | H1 L4 | Chisela Kanchela | Zambia | 2:26.11 | |
| 56 | H1 L6 | Joseph Kimani | Kenya | 2:31.02 | |
| 57 | H1 L7 | Hassan Shah | Maldives | 2:58.27 | |
| - | H4 L1 | Aleksander Hetland | Norway | DQ | |
| - | H1 L2 | Alain Brigion-Tobe | Cameroon | DNS | |
| - | H3 L5 | Ahmed Salah | Egypt | DNS | |
| - | H6 L7 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | DNS | |