# Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 21 and 22 August 2017.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Universiade records were as follows.
| World record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |
| Competition record | Alex Vanderkaay (USA) | 1:57.58 | Belgrade, Serbia | 7 July 2009 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 22 August | Final | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:57.35 | UR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 21 August at 09:36.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:59.88 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | Aleksandr Osipenko | Russia | 2:01.35 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 2:01.39 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | Joe Litchfield | Great Britain | 2:01.46 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 2 | Michał Poprawa | Poland | 2:01.59 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Gabriel Lópes | Portugal | 2:01.64 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 4 | Will Licon | United States | 2:01.64 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 2 | Vinicius Lanza | Brazil | 2:01.65 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:01.76 | Q |
| 10 | 7 | 7 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 2:01.85 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 3 | Giovanni Sorriso | Italy | 2:02.09 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 5 | Kenneth To | Hong Kong | 2:02.41 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Robert Hill | Canada | 2:02.47 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Grant Sanders | United States | 2:03.03 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 8 | Luke Reilly | Canada | 2:03.33 | Q |
| 16 | 7 | 6 | Kevin Wedel | Germany | 2:03.48 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 5 | Claudio Fossi | Italy | 2:03.60 | |
| 18 | 6 | 5 | Georgios Spanoudakis | Greece | 2:03.67 | |
| 19 | 4 | 4 | Teemu Vuorela | Finland | 2:03.72 | |
| 20 | 6 | 7 | Dag Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:03.87 | |
| 21 | 5 | 1 | Dawid Szwedzki | Poland | 2:04.09 | |
| 22 | 4 | 6 | Wang Hsing-hao | Chinese Taipei | 2:04.32 | |
| 23 | 4 | 1 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 2:04.54 | |
| 24 | 6 | 1 | Wen Ren-hau | Chinese Taipei | 2:04.89 | |
| 25 | 5 | 7 | Kim Jae-woo | South Korea | 2:05.08 | |
| 26 | 4 | 5 | Tomáš Havránek | Czech Republic | 2:05.33 | |
| 27 | 6 | 8 | Neil Fair | South Africa | 2:05.34 | |
| 28 | 5 | 8 | Héctor Ruvalcaba | Mexico | 2:05.53 | |
| 29 | 4 | 7 | William Lulek | Sweden | 2:06.03 | |
| 30 | 4 | 2 | Mateo González Medina | Mexico | 2:06.25 | |
| 31 | 3 | 3 | Daniils Bobrovs | Latvia | 2:07.28 | |
| 32 | 6 | 3 | Dániel Sós | Hungary | 2:07.40 | |
| 33 | 3 | 5 | Nicolás Deferrari | Argentina | 2:07.96 | |
| 34 | 3 | 4 | Pavol Jelenák | Slovakia | 2:08.32 | |
| 35 | 3 | 7 | Ng Yan Kin | Hong Kong | 2:09.51 | |
| 36 | 4 | 8 | Thomas Dal | Belgium | 2:09.80 | |
| 37 | 3 | 6 | Muhammad Hamgari | Indonesia | 2:09.92 | |
| 38 | 3 | 1 | Felipe Quiroz Uteau | Chile | 2:10.18 | |
| 39 | 2 | 7 | Lin Sizhuang | Macau | 2:10.70 | NR |
| 40 | 3 | 8 | Muhammad Alamzah | Indonesia | 2:12.51 | |
| 41 | 3 | 2 | Li Xiaochen | China | 2:15.45 | |
| 42 | 2 | 4 | Mu Xingxu | China | 2:16.09 | |
| 43 | 2 | 2 | Maroun Waked | Lebanon | 2:16.42 | |
| 44 | 2 | 1 | Andy Frank Rodríguez | Uruguay | 2:16.45 | |
| 45 | 2 | 3 | Lim Fang Yi | Singapore | 2:19.76 | |
| 46 | 1 | 5 | Enrique Nava Miranda | Bolivia | 2:22.75 | |
| 47 | 2 | 5 | Luis Zacarias Rojas | Paraguay | 2:25.39 | |
| 48 | 1 | 3 | Daniil Latt | Estonia | 2:26.18 | |
| 49 | 1 | 4 | Leonard Licudo | Philippines | 2:31.11 | |
| | 2 | 6 | Andrei Gussev | Estonia | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 21 August at 19:55.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 2:00.17 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Joe Litchfield | Great Britain | 2:00.44 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Aleksandr Osipenko | Russia | 2:00.55 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Kenneth To | Hong Kong | 2:01.37 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 3 | Will Licon | United States | 2:01.44 | |
| 6 | 6 | Vinicius Lanza | Brazil | 2:01.58 | |
| 7 | 1 | Grant Sanders | United States | 2:02.28 | |
| 8 | 8 | Kevin Wedel | Germany | 2:03.10 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:58.63 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 2:00.81 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Michał Poprawa | Poland | 2:01.09 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Giovanni Sorriso | Italy | 2:01.13 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:01.89 | |
| 6 | 6 | Gabriel Lópes | Portugal | 2:01.95 | |
| 7 | 1 | Robert Hill | Canada | 2:01.96 | |
| 8 | 8 | Luke Reilly | Canada | 2:03.44 | |

### Final

The final was held on 22 August at 20:25.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:57.35 | UR |
| | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:58.73 | |
| | 3 | Joe Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:59.36 | |
| 4 | 5 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 2:00.26 | |
| 5 | 6 | Aleksandr Osipenko | Russia | 2:01.11 | |
| 6 | 7 | Michał Poprawa | Poland | 2:01.17 | |
| 7 | 1 | Giovanni Sorriso | Italy | 2:01.35 | |
| 8 | 8 | Kenneth To | Hong Kong | 2:01.64 | |