# Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 26 and 27 July 2017.

## 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 on 26 July at 10:34.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:56.46 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | Chase Kalisz | United States | 1:56.48 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:56.64 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:57.55 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 5 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:57.59 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 2 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 1:58.06 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:58.99 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Qin Haiyang | China | 1:59.01 | Q, WJ |
| 9 | 5 | 6 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:59.29 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 4 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:59.49 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 4 | Wang Shun | China | 1:59.56 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | 5 | Abrahm DeVine | United States | 1:59.65 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 6 | Mark Szaranek | Great Britain | 1:59.68 | Q |
| 14 | 3 | 6 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.69 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 2 | Bradlee Ashby | New Zealand | 2:00.20 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 7 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 2:00.23 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 9 | Mohamed Hussein | Egypt | 2:00.68 | |
| 18 | 4 | 7 | Kirill Prigoda | Russia | 2:00.81 | |
| 19 | 4 | 2 | Thiago Simon | Brazil | 2:01.01 | |
| 20 | 5 | 9 | Tomas Peribonio | Ecuador | 2:01.21 | |
| 21 | 3 | 1 | Daniel Skaaning | Denmark | 2:01.34 | |
| 22 | 4 | 1 | Dániel Sós | Hungary | 2:01.54 | |
| 23 | 5 | 1 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:01.60 | |
| 24 | 2 | 3 | Richard Nagy | Slovakia | 2:01.78 | NR |
| 25 | 2 | 5 | Dawid Szwedzki | Poland | 2:01.96 | |
| 26 | 3 | 7 | Hugo González | Spain | 2:02.78 | |
| 27 | 2 | 7 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:03.15 | |
| 28 | 2 | 6 | Andrius Šidlauskas | Lithuania | 2:03.25 | |
| 29 | 2 | 2 | Stefan Šorak | Serbia | 2:03.45 | |
| 30 | 3 | 0 | Uvis Kalniņš | Latvia | 2:03.66 | |
| 31 | 4 | 8 | Pavel Janeček | Czech Republic | 2:03.87 | |
| 32 | 5 | 8 | Ayrton Sweeney | South Africa | 2:04.18 | |
| 33 | 2 | 1 | Thomas Tsiopanis | Cyprus | 2:05.19 | NR |
| 34 | 5 | 0 | Triady Fauzi Sidiq | Indonesia | 2:05.34 | |
| 35 | 3 | 9 | Wen Ren-hau | Chinese Taipei | 2:05.85 | |
| 36 | 4 | 0 | José Martínez | Mexico | 2:06.00 | |
| 37 | 3 | 8 | Carlos Omaña | Venezuela | 2:06.29 | |
| 38 | 1 | 4 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 2:07.64 | |
| 39 | 2 | 0 | Jessie Lacuna | Philippines | 2:08.31 | |
| 40 | 2 | 8 | Luis Vega Torres | Cuba | 2:08.91 | |
| 41 | 2 | 9 | Adriel Sanes | U.S. Virgin Islands | 2:09.20 | |
| 42 | 1 | 5 | Noel Keane | Palau | 2:18.66 | |
| 43 | 1 | 3 | Abdulrahman Al-Kulaibi | Oman | 2:19.06 | |
| 44 | 1 | 6 | Andrianirina Lalanomena | Madagascar | 2:23.97 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 26 July at 18:45.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Chase Kalisz | United States | 1:55.88 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:56.92 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Qin Haiyang | China | 1:57.81 | Q, WJ |
| 4 | 7 | Abrahm DeVine | United States | 1:58.01 | |
| 5 | 1 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.22 | |
| 6 | 8 | Federico Turrini | Italy | 1:59.56 | |
| 7 | 3 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 1:59.80 | |
| 8 | 2 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:59.98 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:56.04 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:56.70 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:56.86 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 6 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:57.27 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Wang Shun | China | 1:57.39 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:57.98 | NR |
| 7 | 1 | Mark Szaranek | Great Britain | 1:58.80 | |
| 8 | 8 | Bradlee Ashby | New Zealand | 1:59.24 | NR |

### Final

The final was held on 27 July at 17:32.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Chase Kalisz | United States | 1:55.56 | |
| | 5 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:56.01 | |
| | 1 | Wang Shun | China | 1:56.28 | |
| 4 | 3 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:56.86 | |
| 5 | 2 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:56.97 | |
| 6 | 8 | Qin Haiyang | China | 1:57.06 | WJ |
| 7 | 7 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:57.43 | |
| 8 | 6 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:57.50 | |