# Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August with the heats and the semifinals and 6 August with the final.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |
| Competition record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:57.90 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | Daniel Wallace | Great Britain | 1:58.28 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | Wang Shun | China | 1:58.33 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:58.63 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:58.92 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 3 | 4 | Henrique Rodrigues | Brazil | 1:58.95 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:59.11 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 5 | Thiago Pereira | Brazil | 1:59.18 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 5 | Roberto Pavoni | Great Britain | 1:59.29 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 8 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:59.46 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 1:59.61 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:59.64 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 3 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | Australia | 1:59.96 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:59.97 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | Marcin Cieślak | Poland | 1:59.99 | Q |
| 16 | 2 | 7 | Mohamed Hussein | Egypt | 2:00.22 | Q, NR |
| 17 | 4 | 8 | Uvis Kalniņš | Latvia | 2:00.39 | NR |
| 18 | 4 | 2 | Yang Zhixian | China | 2:00.80 | |
| 19 | 5 | 7 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:00.94 | |
| 20 | 3 | 1 | Semen Makovich | Russia | 2:01.05 | |
| 21 | 3 | 8 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 2:01.68 | |
| 22 | 5 | 0 | Pavel Janeček | Czech Republic | 2:02.43 | NR |
| 23 | 3 | 7 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:02.60 | |
| 24 | 4 | 0 | Omar Pinzón | Colombia | 2:02.80 | |
| 25 | 5 | 1 | Bradlee Ashby | New Zealand | 2:02.96 | |
| 26 | 3 | 9 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 2:03.21 | |
| 27 | 2 | 3 | Carlos Omaña | Venezuela | 2:03.54 | |
| 28 | 5 | 9 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 2:03.67 | |
| 29 | 2 | 9 | Alpkan Örnek | Turkey | 2:03.93 | |
| 30 | 2 | 8 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:04.01 | |
| 31 | 2 | 0 | Trần Duy Khôi | Vietnam | 2:04.30 | |
| 32 | 1 | 4 | Mateo González | Mexico | 2:04.77 | |
| 33 | 2 | 2 | Marko Blaževski | North Macedonia | 2:04.79 | |
| 34 | 1 | 5 | Pedro Pinotes | Angola | 2:04.85 | |
| 35 | 2 | 5 | Aleksey Derlyugov | Uzbekistan | 2:04.98 | |
| 36 | 2 | 6 | Ensar Hajder | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2:04.99 | |
| 37 | 2 | 1 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 2:05.37 | |
| 38 | 4 | 9 | Rafael Alfaro | El Salvador | 2:05.78 | |
| 39 | 1 | 6 | Irakli Bolkvadze | Georgia | 2:07.14 | |
| 40 | 3 | 0 | Jessie Lacuna | Philippines | 2:07.51 | |
| 41 | 1 | 7 | Esteban Araya | Costa Rica | 2:08.89 | |
| 42 | 1 | 8 | Alvi Hjelm | Faroe Islands | 2:08.98 | |
| 43 | 1 | 1 | Benjamin Schulte | Guam | 2:09.50 | |
| 44 | 1 | 2 | Luis Vega Torres | Cuba | 2:09.53 | |
| 45 | 1 | 3 | Jean Gómez | Dominican Republic | 2:09.59 | |
| 46 | 1 | 0 | Rami Elias | Sudan | 2:20.94 | |
| 47 | 1 | 9 | Haris Bandey | Pakistan | 2:22.31 | |
| | 2 | 4 | Triady Fauzi Sidiq | Indonesia | DNS | |
| | 4 | 1 | Kevin Wedel | Germany | DNS | |
| | 4 | 3 | László Cseh | Hungary | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:45.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Thiago Pereira | Brazil | 1:57.33 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Daniel Wallace | Great Britain | 1:57.77 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:58.10 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Henrique Rodrigues | Brazil | 1:58.45 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:58.54 | QSO |
| 6 | 1 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:58.86 | |
| 7 | 2 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:59.35 | NR |
| 8 | 8 | Mohamed Hussein | Egypt | 2:01.41 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:56.81 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Wang Shun | China | 1:57.07 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Marcin Cieślak | Poland | 1:58.20 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 2 | Roberto Pavoni | Great Britain | 1:58.54 | QSO |
| 5 | 1 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | Australia | 1:58.83 | |
| 6 | 3 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:59.53 | |
| 7 | 6 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 2:00.05 | |
| 8 | 7 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 2:00.31 | |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off was held at 19:42.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:58.18 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Roberto Pavoni | Great Britain | 1:58.26 | |

### Final

The final was held at 17:42.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:55.81 | |
| | 3 | Thiago Pereira | Brazil | 1:56.65 | |
| | 5 | Wang Shun | China | 1:56.81 | NR |
| 4 | 6 | Daniel Wallace | Great Britain | 1:57.59 | |
| 5 | 8 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:57.96 | |
| 6 | 7 | Marcin Cieślak | Poland | 1:58.14 | NR |
| 7 | 1 | Henrique Rodrigues | Brazil | 1:58.52 | |
| 8 | 2 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:59.06 | |