# 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 Individual Medley (or "I.M.") at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum on 17 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 57 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning, from which the top-8 finishers advanced to swim again in the Final that evening.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| WR | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 1:51.55 | Berlin | 15 December 2009 |
| CR | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:51.56 | Manchester | 11 April 2008 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nation | Time | WR | CR |
| 17 December 2010 | Final | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:50.08 | WR | CR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 4 | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:53.39 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 4 | Markus Rogan (AUT) | 1:53.66 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 3 | Henrique Rodrigues (BRA) | 1:53.96 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 5 | Tyler Clary (USA) | 1:54.69 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | 3 | Vytautas Janušaitis (LTU) | 1:54.80 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | 1 | Kenneth To (AUS) | 1:54.88 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 5 | Dinko Jukić (AUT) | 1:55.14 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 2 | Tommaso D'Orsogna (AUS) | 1:55.41 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 6 | Gal Nevo (ISR) | 1:55.43 | |
| 10 | 7 | 5 | László Cseh (HUN) | 1:55.47 | |
| 11 | 7 | 6 | Diogo Carvalho (POR) | 1:55.87 | |
| 12 | 6 | 8 | Chad le Clos (RSA) | 1:56.00 | |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Bradley Ally (BAR) | 1:56.11 | |
| 14 | 5 | 6 | Takuro Fujii (JPN) | 1:56.17 | |
| 15 | 4 | 5 | Shaune Fraser (CAY) | 1:56.21 | |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Dávid Verrasztó (HUN) | 1:56.29 | |
| 17 | 7 | 7 | Omar Pinzón (COL) | 1:56.35 | NR |
| 18 | 8 | 7 | Simon Sjödin (SWE) | 1:56.36 | |
| 19 | 6 | 7 | Marcin Cieślak (POL) | 1:56.59 | |
| 20 | 6 | 6 | Alexander Tikhonov (RUS) | 1:57.27 | |
| 21 | 7 | 2 | Federico Turrini (ITA) | 1:57.39 | |
| 22 | 6 | 3 | Lukasz Wojt (POL) | 1:57.44 | |
| 23 | 5 | 2 | Taki Mrabet (TUN) | 1:57.98 | |
| 24 | 5 | 4 | Pavel Sankovich (BLR) | 1:58.01 | |
| 25 | 8 | 8 | Diogo Yabe (BRA) | 1:58.36 | |
| 26 | 6 | 1 | Tomáš Fucík (CZE) | 1:58.54 | |
| 27 | 4 | 3 | Aleksey Derlyugov (UZB) | 1:58.69 | |
| 28 | 7 | 8 | Raphaël Stacchiotti (LUX) | 1:59.13 | |
| 29 | 1 | 5 | Huang Chaoseng (CHN) | 1:59.23 | |
| 30 | 1 | 3 | Wang Chengxiang (CHN) | 1:59.76 | |
| 31 | 5 | 3 | Alexander Broberg Skeltved (NOR) | 2:00.61 | |
| 32 | 5 | 8 | Vasilii Danilov (KGZ) | 2:01.94 | NR |
| 33 | 5 | 7 | Saeed Malekae Ashtiani (IRI) | 2:02.74 | |
| 34 | 3 | 4 | Andres Montoya (COL) | 2:02.82 | |
| 35 | 3 | 3 | Jean Luis Apolinar Gomez Nuñes (DOM) | 2:03.17 | |
| 36 | 5 | 1 | Ensar Hajder (BIH) | 2:03.31 | |
| 37 | 4 | 2 | Dmitriy Shvetsov (UZB) | 2:03.64 | |
| 38 | 4 | 1 | Chu Kevin Kam Yin (HKG) | 2:04.44 | |
| 39 | 5 | 5 | Pedro Miguel Pinotes (ANG) | 2:05.20 | |
| 40 | 2 | 5 | Jourdy Martis (AHO) | 2:06.93 | |
| 41 | 3 | 5 | Giorgi Mtvralashvili (GEO) | 2:07.13 | |
| 42 | 3 | 1 | Nicholas James (ZIM) | 2:07.60 | |
| 43 | 4 | 6 | Edvin Angjeli (ALB) | 2:07.88 | |
| 44 | 4 | 7 | Obaid Al-Jasmi (UAE) | 2:08.64 | |
| 45 | 4 | 4 | Yousef Alaskari (KUW) | 2:08.68 | |
| 46 | 3 | 2 | Quinton Delie (NAM) | 2:09.77 | |
| 47 | 3 | 7 | Colin Bensadon (GIB) | 2:11.50 | |
| 48 | 3 | 6 | Loai Abdulwahid Tashkandi (KSA) | 2:12.57 | |
| 49 | 3 | 8 | Chou Kit (MAC) | 2:13.32 | |
| 50 | 2 | 4 | James Sanderson (GIB) | 2:15.03 | |
| 51 | 4 | 8 | Ali Al Kaabi (UAE) | 2:15.31 | |
| 52 | 2 | 3 | Nisar Ahmed (PAK) | 2:20.53 | |
| 53 | 2 | 7 | Ahmed Atari (QAT) | 2:25.29 | |
| 54 | 2 | 2 | Hamdan Iqbal Bayusuf (KEN) | 2:25.44 | |
| – | 1 | 4 | Kouassi Franck Olivier Brou (CIV) | DNS | |
| – | 2 | 6 | Tano Pierre Claver Atta (CIV) | DNS | |
| – | 6 | 4 | Markus Deibler (GER) | DNS | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:50.08 | WR |
| | 5 | Markus Rogan (AUT) | 1:52.90 | |
| | 6 | Tyler Clary (USA) | 1:53.56 | |
| 4 | 3 | Henrique Rodrigues (BRA) | 1:54.20 | |
| 5 | 2 | Vytautas Janušaitis (LTU) | 1:54.79 | |
| 6 | 7 | Kenneth To (AUS) | 1:55.64 | |
| 7 | 1 | Dinko Jukić (AUT) | 1:56.51 | |
| 8 | 8 | Tommaso D'Orsogna (AUS) | 1:57.12 | |