# Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 June 2022.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 1:42.00 | Rome, Italy | 28 July 2009 |
| Competition record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 1:42.00 | Rome, Italy | 28 July 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 19 June at 09:51.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | 7 | 5 | David Popovici | Romania | 1:45.18 |
| 2 | 7 | 2 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:45.79 |
| 3 | 7 | 6 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:45.84 |
| 4 | 7 | 4 | Tom Dean | Great Britain | 1:45.99 |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Drew Kibler | United States | 1:46.13 |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:46.19 |
| 7 | 6 | 3 | Lukas Märtens | Germany | 1:46.45 |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:46.70 |
| 9 | 5 | 4 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 1:46.71 |
| 10 | 6 | 4 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:46.72 |
| 11 | 6 | 5 | Kieran Smith | United States | 1:46.73 |
| 12 | 6 | 6 | Antonio Djakovic | Switzerland | 1:47.00 |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Marco De Tullio | Italy | 1:47.27 |
| 14 | 7 | 7 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 1:47.28 |
| 15 | 5 | 0 | Roman Mityukov | Switzerland | 1:47.44 |
| 16 | 7 | 0 | Jordan Pothain | France | 1:47.51 |
| 17 | 5 | 1 | Robin Hanson | Sweden | 1:47.54 |
| 18 | 7 | 8 | Denis Loktev | Israel | 1:47.63 |
| 19 | 6 | 0 | Hadrien Salvan | France | 1:47.71 |
| 19 | 6 | 1 | Ji Xinjie | China | 1:47.71 |
| 19 | 6 | 7 | Nándor Németh | Hungary | 1:47.71 |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Breno Correia | Brazil | 1:47.79 |
| 23 | 5 | 7 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:47.94 |
| 24 | 6 | 8 | Stefano Di Cola | Italy | 1:48.09 |
| 25 | 6 | 9 | Ruslan Gaziev | Canada | 1:48.10 |
| 26 | 5 | 2 | Rafael Miroslaw | Germany | 1:48.28 |
| 27 | 4 | 4 | Khiew Hoe Yean | Malaysia | 1:48.37 |
| 28 | 4 | 5 | Marwan Elkamash | Egypt | 1:48.48 |
| 29 | 4 | 3 | Dimitrios Markos | Greece | 1:48.72 |
| 30 | 5 | 6 | Matt Richards | Great Britain | 1:48.74 |
| 31 | 7 | 9 | Jorge Iga | Mexico | 1:48.96 |
| 32 | 6 | 2 | Zac Incerti | Australia | 1:49.12 |
| 33 | 3 | 4 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 1:49.39 |
| 34 | 3 | 3 | Aleksey Tarasenko | Uzbekistan | 1:49.87 |
| 35 | 4 | 1 | Glen Jun Wei Lim | Singapore | 1:49.94 |
| 36 | 4 | 7 | Sergio de Celis | Spain | 1:50.03 |
| 37 | 4 | 6 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 1:50.24 |
| 38 | 4 | 9 | Santiago Corredor | Colombia | 1:50.44 |
| 39 | 4 | 2 | Cameron Gray | New Zealand | 1:50.64 |
| 40 | 3 | 5 | Max Mannes | Luxembourg | 1:51.06 |
| 41 | 3 | 2 | František Jablčník | Slovakia | 1:51.25 |
| 42 | 5 | 9 | Cheuk Ming Ho | Hong Kong | 1:51.60 |
| 43 | 3 | 7 | Pavel Alovatki | Moldova | 1:51.64 |
| 44 | 4 | 8 | Hoàng Quý Phước | Vietnam | 1:52.47 |
| 45 | 4 | 0 | Yordan Yanchev | Bulgaria | 1:52.62 |
| 46 | 3 | 1 | Omar Abbass | Syria | 1:52.78 |
| 47 | 3 | 6 | Luka Kukhalashvili | Georgia | 1:53.08 |
| 48 | 3 | 8 | Noah Mascoll-Gomes | Antigua and Barbuda | 1:53.30 |
| 49 | 3 | 0 | Pedro Chiancone | Uruguay | 1:54.08 |
| 50 | 3 | 9 | José Campo | El Salvador | 1:55.74 |
| 51 | 2 | 6 | Ramazan Omarov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:56.22 |
| 52 | 2 | 1 | Salem Sabt | United Arab Emirates | 1:56.40 |
| 53 | 2 | 3 | Bartal Eidesgaard | Faroe Islands | 1:57.08 |
| 54 | 2 | 4 | Ado Gargović | Montenegro | 1:57.74 |
| 55 | 2 | 5 | Henrique Mascarenhas | Angola | 1:58.03 |
| 56 | 1 | 4 | Adnan Al-Abdallat | Jordan | 1:59.70 |
| 57 | 1 | 3 | Nasir Hussain | Nepal | 2:00.99 |
| 58 | 2 | 2 | Haziq Samil | Brunei | 2:04.14 |
| 59 | 2 | 8 | Israel Poppe | Guam | 2:05.00 |
| 60 | 1 | 5 | Eminguly Ballykov | Turkmenistan | 2:05.06 |
| 61 | 2 | 7 | Sangay Tenzin | Bhutan | 2:08.36 |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 19 June at 19:14.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | David Popovici | Romania | 1:44.40 | WJ, NR |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:45.17 | NR |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:45.46 | |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Tom Dean | Great Britain | 1:45.48 | |
| 5 | 1 | 3 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:45.53 | |
| 6 | 2 | 3 | Drew Kibler | United States | 1:45.54 | |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Lukas Märtens | Germany | 1:45.94 | |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Kieran Smith | United States | 1:46.06 | |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 1:46.11 | |
| 10 | 2 | 1 | Marco De Tullio | Italy | 1:46.29 | |
| 11 | 1 | 7 | Antonio Djakovic | Switzerland | 1:46.61 | |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 1:46.63 | |
| 12 | 1 | 2 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:46.63 | |
| 14 | 1 | 6 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:46.82 | |
| 15 | 1 | 8 | Jordan Pothain | France | 1:47.66 | |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | Roman Mityukov | Switzerland | 1:47.78 | |

### Final

The final was held on 20 June at 18:02.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | David Popovici | Romania | 1:43.21 | WJ, NR |
| | 3 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:44.47 | NR |
| | 6 | Tom Dean | Great Britain | 1:44.98 | |
| 4 | 7 | Drew Kibler | United States | 1:45.01 | |
| 5 | 5 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:45.11 | NR |
| 6 | 8 | Kieran Smith | United States | 1:45.16 | |
| 7 | 1 | Lukas Märtens | Germany | 1:45.73 | |
| 8 | 2 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:45.82 | |