# Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 25 and 26. The heats and semifinals took place July 25 and the final was held July 26.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:42.00 | Rome | July 28, 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

60 swimmers participated in 8 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:46.34 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 3 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 1:46.53 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:46.56 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 4 | Park Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 1:46.63 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 5 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:46.98 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | 4 | Yannick Agnel | France | 1:47.11 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 1:47.38 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | 1 | Ross Davenport | Great Britain | 1:47.59 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 3 | Danila Izotov | Russia | 1:47.72 | Q |
| 10 | 7 | 8 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 1:47.73 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | Robert Renwick | Great Britain | 1:47.88 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or | Israel | 1:48.11 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Yuki Kobori | Japan | 1:48.19 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 5 | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 1:48.28 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 8 | Nicolas Oliveira | Brazil | 1:48.33 | Q |
| 16 | 8 | 6 | Kenrick Monk | Australia | 1:48.42 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 2 | Tim Wallburger | Germany | 1:48.43 | |
| 18 | 6 | 7 | Gianluca Maglia | Italy | 1:48.54 | |
| 19 | 6 | 1 | Sho Uchida | Japan | 1:48.64 | |
| 20 | 6 | 8 | Marco Belotti | Italy | 1:48.66 | |
| 21 | 5 | 5 | Markus Rogan | Austria | 1:48.82 | |
| 22 | 6 | 3 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | Australia | 1:48.86 | |
| 23 | 4 | 3 | Matthew Stanley | New Zealand | 1:48.93 | |
| 24 | 7 | 2 | Li Yunqi | China | 1:48.94 | |
| 25 | 7 | 6 | Jean Basson | South Africa | 1:48.95 | |
| 26 | 8 | 8 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 1:48.96 | |
| 27 | 5 | 6 | Chad Bobrosky | Canada | 1:49.01 | |
| 28 | 5 | 7 | Cristian Quintero | Venezuela | 1:49.27 | |
| 29 | 6 | 2 | Jiang Haiqi | China | 1:49.43 | |
| 30 | 8 | 7 | Joost Reijns | Netherlands | 1:49.56 | |
| 31 | 3 | 5 | Wong Kai Wai David | Hong Kong | 1:49.58 | |
| 32 | 5 | 2 | Mads Glæsner | Denmark | 1:49.59 | |
| 33 | 5 | 1 | Benjamin Hockin | Paraguay | 1:49.85 | |
| 34 | 4 | 5 | Dominik Straga | Croatia | 1:51.35 | |
| 35 | 4 | 4 | Radovan Siljevski | Serbia | 1:51.42 | |
| 36 | 3 | 2 | Uvis Kalnins | Latvia | 1:52.20 | |
| 37 | 4 | 2 | Robin Andreasson | Sweden | 1:52.21 | |
| 38 | 5 | 4 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 1:52.23 | |
| 39 | 4 | 6 | Mateo de Angulo | Colombia | 1:52.25 | |
| 40 | 4 | 7 | Jessie Lacuna | Philippines | 1:52.27 | |
| 41 | 3 | 4 | Martín Kutscher | Uruguay | 1:52.49 | |
| 42 | 4 | 1 | Danny Yeo | Singapore | 1:52.54 | |
| 43 | 3 | 7 | Mario Montoya | Costa Rica | 1:52.64 | |
| 44 | 4 | 8 | Raúl Martínez | Puerto Rico | 1:52.93 | |
| 45 | 3 | 1 | Sebastián Jahnsen Madico | Peru | 1:53.68 | |
| 46 | 3 | 6 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 1:54.02 | |
| 47 | 2 | 4 | Nicholas Schwab | Dominican Republic | 1:54.95 | |
| 48 | 2 | 5 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 1:55.33 | NR |
| 48 | 3 | 3 | Phạm Thành Nguyện | Vietnam | 1:55.33 | |
| 50 | 2 | 2 | Allan Gutierrez | Honduras | 1:56.74 | |
| 51 | 2 | 3 | Emanuele Nicolini | San Marino | 1:57.23 | |
| 52 | 2 | 7 | Quinton Delie | Namibia | 1:57.47 | |
| 53 | 3 | 8 | Mohamed Madouh | Kuwait | 1:57.64 | |
| 54 | 2 | 6 | Jemal Le Grand | Aruba | 1:58.24 | |
| 55 | 1 | 4 | Obaid Al Jasmi | United Arab Emirates | 1:58.49 | |
| 56 | 2 | 1 | Gebrel Ahmed | Palestine | 2:02.27 | |
| 57 | 2 | 8 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 2:02.41 | |
| 58 | 1 | 5 | Paul Elaisa | Fiji | 2:03.95 | |
| 59 | 1 | 3 | Anderson Lim | Brunei | 2:06.40 | |
| 60 | 1 | 6 | Ryan Givinden | Seychelles | 2:18.07 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinal were held at 18:57.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Yannick Agnel | France | 1:45.62 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Park Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 1:46.23 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 1:47.34 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 1:47.52 | |
| 5 | 6 | Ross Davenport | Great Britain | 1:47.76 | |
| 6 | 8 | Kenrick Monk | Australia | 1:47.86 | |
| 7 | 2 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 1:48.46 | |
| 8 | 7 | Nimrod Shapira Bar Or | Israel | 1:48.59 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:45.93 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:46.11 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:46.91 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 1:47.30 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Danila Izotov | Russia | 1:47.39 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Robert Renwick | Great Britain | 1:47.89 | |
| 7 | 8 | Nicolas Oliveira | Brazil | 1:48.18 | |
| 8 | 1 | Yuki Kobori | Japan | 1:48.65 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:02.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:44.44 | |
| | 2 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:44.79 | |
| | 5 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:44.88 | |
| 4 | 6 | Park Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 1:44.92 | |
| 5 | 4 | Yannick Agnel | France | 1:44.99 | NR |
| 6 | 1 | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 1:46.57 | |
| 7 | 7 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 1:47.02 | |
| 8 | 8 | Danila Izotov | Russia | 1:47.46 | |