# Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 February 2024.

## 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 12 February at 10:21.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Lukas Märtens | Germany | 1:45.74 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 3 | Rafael Miroslaw | Germany | 1:45.89 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 3 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:45.95 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 5 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:46.09 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Luke Hobson | United States | 1:46.54 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 1 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:46.69 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 3 | Kai James Taylor | Australia | 1:46.81 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 5 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:46.84 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Lucas Henveaux | Belgium | 1:46.93 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 5 | Lee Ho-joon | South Korea | 1:46.97 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 4 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:46.99 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 7 | Ji Xinjie | China | 1:47.13 | Q |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Kamil Sieradzki | Poland | 1:47.25 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Guilherme Costa | Brazil | 1:47.28 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 6 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:47.30 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 6 | Denis Loktev | Israel | 1:47.37 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 0 | César Castro | Spain | 1:47.40 | |
| 18 | 7 | 2 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 1:47.42 | |
| 19 | 7 | 0 | Nándor Németh | Hungary | 1:47.52 | |
| 20 | 4 | 4 | Kregor Zirk | Estonia | 1:47.54 | |
| 21 | 6 | 8 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:47.55 | |
| 22 | 5 | 1 | Jorge Iga | Mexico | 1:47.56 | |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Robin Hanson | Sweden | 1:47.56 | |
| 24 | 7 | 8 | Matteo Ciampi | Italy | 1:47.65 | |
| 25 | 5 | 2 | Antonio Djakovic | Switzerland | 1:47.67 | |
| 26 | 5 | 7 | Jack McMillan | Great Britain | 1:47.85 | |
| 27 | 6 | 9 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 1:47.98 | |
| 28 | 4 | 6 | Niko Janković | Croatia | 1:48.39 | |
| 29 | 6 | 6 | Marco De Tullio | Italy | 1:48.46 | |
| 30 | 7 | 9 | Alfonso Mestre | Venezuela | 1:48.74 | |
| 31 | 4 | 5 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 1:48.89 | |
| 32 | 4 | 3 | Khiew Hoe Yean | Malaysia | 1:49.14 | |
| 33 | 5 | 9 | Sašo Boškan | Slovenia | 1:49.66 | |
| 34 | 4 | 2 | Glen Lim Jun Wei | Singapore | 1:49.71 | |
| 35 | 3 | 4 | Ondrej Gemov | Czech Republic | 1:49.78 | |
| 35 | 4 | 1 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 1:49.78 | |
| 37 | 3 | 5 | František Jablcnik | Slovakia | 1:50.88 | |
| 38 | 6 | 7 | Pan Zhanle | China | 1:51.03 | |
| 39 | 3 | 7 | Tanish Mathew | India | 1:51.68 | |
| 40 | 2 | 5 | Reds Rullis | Latvia | 1:52.42 | |
| 41 | 4 | 0 | Yordan Yanchev | Bulgaria | 1:52.43 | |
| 42 | 3 | 1 | Rafael Ponce | Peru | 1:52.75 | |
| 43 | 4 | 8 | Max Mannes | Luxembourg | 1:52.76 | |
| 44 | 2 | 3 | Enkhtamir Batbayar | Mongolia | 1:52.96 | |
| 45 | 4 | 7 | Dulyawat Kaewsriyong | Thailand | 1:53.01 | |
| 46 | 4 | 9 | Ngô Đình Chuyền | Vietnam | 1:53.64 | |
| 47 | 1 | 2 | Alex Sobers | Barbados | 1:53.93 | |
| 48 | 3 | 9 | Matthieu Seye | Senegal | 1:54.16 | |
| 49 | 1 | 3 | Oliver Durand | Namibia | 1:54.22 | |
| 50 | 3 | 2 | Omar Abbass | Syria | 1:54.28 | |
| 51 | 3 | 8 | Egor Covaliov | Moldova | 1:54.43 | |
| 52 | 2 | 6 | Henrique Mascarenhas | Angola | 1:54.82 | |
| 53 | 2 | 4 | Anthony Piñeiro | Dominican Republic | 1:55.85 | |
| 54 | 2 | 2 | Monyo Maina | Kenya | 1:56.15 | |
| 55 | 3 | 3 | James Richard Allison | Cayman Islands | 1:56.18 | |
| 56 | 2 | 7 | Isaac Beitia | Panama | 1:56.31 | |
| 57 | 2 | 8 | Nasir Hussain | Nepal | 1:56.39 | NR |
| 58 | 1 | 7 | Zaid Al-Sarraj | Saudi Arabia | 1:57.85 | |
| 59 | 2 | 0 | Khaled Al-Otaibi | Kuwait | 1:58.02 | |
| 60 | 3 | 6 | Ryan Barbe | Morocco | 1:58.07 | |
| 61 | 2 | 1 | Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh | Palestine | 1:58.24 | |
| 62 | 3 | 0 | Luka Kukhalashvili | Georgia | 1:58.79 | |
| 63 | 2 | 9 | Kaeden Gleason | U.S. Virgin Islands | 1:59.66 | |
| 64 | 1 | 4 | Israel Poppe | Guam | 2:02.60 | |
| 65 | 1 | 5 | Sangay Tenzin | Bhutan | 2:04.13 | |
| 66 | 1 | 6 | Mohamed Shiham | Maldives | 2:06.32 | |
| 67 | 1 | 1 | Ali Abdulla Al-Nuaimi | Qatar | 2:07.82 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 12 February at 20:11.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:44.96 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 7 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:45.15 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Lukas Märtens | Germany | 1:45.21 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Luke Hobson | United States | 1:45.53 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 3 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:45.90 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 4 | Rafael Miroslaw | Germany | 1:45.95 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | Guilherme Costa | Brazil | 1:46.06 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 5 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:46.24 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 6 | Kai James Taylor | Australia | 1:46.37 | |
| 10 | 1 | 6 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:46.53 | |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | Lucas Henveaux | Belgium | 1:46.75 | |
| 12 | 1 | 7 | Ji Xinjie | China | 1:46.92 | |
| 13 | 1 | 8 | Denis Loktev | Israel | 1:47.11 | |
| 14 | 2 | 1 | Kamil Sieradzki | Poland | 1:47.33 | |
| 15 | 1 | 2 | Lee Ho-joon | South Korea | 1:47.38 | |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:48.03 | |

### Final

The final was held on 13 February at 19:02.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:44.75 |
| | 4 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:45.05 |
| | 6 | Luke Hobson | United States | 1:45.26 |
| 4 | 3 | Lukas Märtens | Germany | 1:45.33 |
| 5 | 7 | Rafael Miroslaw | Germany | 1:45.84 |
| 6 | 8 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:45.86 |
| 7 | 2 | Elijah Winnington | Australia | 1:46.20 |
| 8 | 1 | Guilherme Costa | Brazil | 1:46.87 |