# Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Tamás Darnyi (HUN) | 1:59.36 | Perth, Australia | 13 January 1991 |
| Olympic record | Tamás Darnyi (HUN) | 2:00.17 | Seoul, South Korea | 25 September 1988 |

## Results
### Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 5 | Jani Sievinen | Finland | 2:01.18 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 8 | 4 | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 2:01.29 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | Greg Burgess | United States | 2:01.35 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 4 | Ron Karnaugh | United States | 2:01.64 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 5 | Attila Czene | Hungary | 2:02.05 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | Christian Geßner | Germany | 2:02.43 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 3 | Gary Anderson | Canada | 2:02.63 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | 7 | Matthew Dunn | Australia | 2:02.75 | Q, OC |
| 9 | 6 | 4 | Martín López-Zubero | Spain | 2:03.07 | q |
| 10 | 8 | 2 | Tatsuya Kinugasa | Japan | 2:03.32 | q |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | Luca Sacchi | Italy | 2:03.54 | q, WD |
| 12 | 8 | 6 | Darren Ward | Canada | 2:03.71 | q |
| 13 | 7 | 6 | Frédéric Lefevre | France | 2:03.82 | q |
| 14 | 7 | 8 | Serghei Mariniuc | Unified Team | 2:04.23 | q |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Lars Sørensen | Denmark | 2:04.65 | q |
| 16 | 6 | 2 | Takahiro Fujimoto | Japan | 2:04.89 | q |
| 17 | 7 | 7 | Manuel Guzmán | Puerto Rico | 2:04.95 | q |
| 18 | 8 | 8 | John Davey | Great Britain | 2:05.07 | |
| 19 | 5 | 2 | Aleksandr Savitsky | Unified Team | 2:05.09 | |
| 20 | 4 | 5 | Marcin Maliński | Poland | 2:05.32 | |
| 21 | 5 | 4 | Petteri Lehtinen | Finland | 2:05.65 | |
| 22 | 6 | 7 | Marcel Wouda | Netherlands | 2:05.95 | |
| 23 | 6 | 1 | Joaquín Fernández | Spain | 2:06.09 | |
| 24 | 5 | 5 | Stefaan Maene | Belgium | 2:06.16 | |
| 25 | 4 | 4 | Marian Satnoianu | Romania | 2:06.45 | |
| 26 | 4 | 2 | Denislav Kalchev | Bulgaria | 2:06.51 | |
| 27 | 1 | 8 | Clifford Lyne | South Africa | 2:06.62 | AF |
| 28 | 5 | 7 | Simon Percy | New Zealand | 2:06.76 | |
| 29 | 3 | 6 | Igor Łuczak | Poland | 2:07.08 | |
| 30 | 4 | 6 | José Carlos Souza | Brazil | 2:07.09 | |
| 31 | 4 | 7 | Desmond Koh | Singapore | 2:07.16 | |
| 32 | 7 | 2 | Josef Hladký | Germany | 2:07.18 | |
| 33 | 3 | 4 | Diogo Madeira | Portugal | 2:07.38 | |
| 34 | 5 | 6 | Gary O'Toole | Ireland | 2:07.67 | |
| 35 | 5 | 3 | Renato Ramalho | Brazil | 2:07.78 | |
| 36 | 3 | 5 | Andy Rolley | Great Britain | 2:09.22 | |
| 37 | 3 | 7 | Arthur Li Kai Yien | Hong Kong | 2:09.32 | |
| 38 | 4 | 3 | Joseph Eric Buhain | Philippines | 2:09.33 | |
| 39 | 2 | 4 | Ratapong Sirisanont | Thailand | 2:11.02 | |
| 40 | 3 | 2 | Gary Tan | Singapore | 2:11.14 | |
| 41 | 3 | 1 | Ricardo Torres | Panama | 2:12.01 | |
| 42 | 2 | 2 | Duncan Todd | Hong Kong | 2:12.29 | |
| 43 | 2 | 6 | Christophe Verdino | Monaco | 2:12.46 | |
| 44 | 4 | 1 | Sultan Al-Otaibi | Kuwait | 2:13.68 | |
| 45 | 2 | 5 | Alejandro Alvizuri | Peru | 2:15.10 | |
| 46 | 2 | 7 | Plutarco Castellanos | Honduras | 2:15.50 | |
| 47 | 2 | 1 | Émile Lahoud | Lebanon | 2:22.08 | |
| 48 | 1 | 4 | Carl Probert | Fiji | 2:22.09 | |
| 49 | 1 | 3 | Mohamed Bin Abid | United Arab Emirates | 2:22.95 | |
| 50 | 1 | 1 | Mouhamed Diop | Senegal | 2:23.92 | |
| 51 | 1 | 6 | Kenny Roberts | Seychelles | 2:30.35 | |
| 52 | 1 | 2 | Jean-Paul Adam | Seychelles | 2:35.35 | |
| | 2 | 3 | Roberto Bonilla | Guatemala | DSQ | |
| | 5 | 1 | Rodrigo González | Mexico | DSQ | |
| | 7 | 1 | Jan Bidrman | Sweden | DSQ | |
| | 8 | 1 | Martin Roberts | Australia | DSQ | |
| | 1 | 7 | Bruno N'Diaye | Senegal | DNS | |
| | 1 | 5 | Ziyad Kashmiri | Saudi Arabia | DNS | |
| | 3 | 3 | Eran Groumi | Israel | DNS | |
| | 6 | 8 | Stefano Battistelli | Italy | DNS | |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 9 | 4 | Martín López-Zubero | Spain | 2:03.34 |
| 10 | 2 | Serghei Mariniuc | Unified Team | 2:03.72 |
| 11 | 7 | Lars Sørensen | Denmark | 2:03.81 |
| 12 | 6 | Frédéric Lefevre | France | 2:04.05 |
| 13 | 5 | Tatsuya Kinugasa | Japan | 2:04.29 |
| 14 | 3 | Darren Ward | Canada | 2:05.09 |
| 15 | 1 | Takahiro Fujimoto | Japan | 2:07.74 |
| | 8 | Manuel Guzmán | Puerto Rico | DNS |

#### Final A

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Tamás Darnyi | Hungary | 2:00.76 |
| | 3 | Greg Burgess | United States | 2:00.97 |
| | 2 | Attila Czene | Hungary | 2:01.00 |
| 4 | 4 | Jani Sievinen | Finland | 2:01.28 |
| 5 | 7 | Christian Geßner | Germany | 2:01.97 |
| 6 | 6 | Ron Karnaugh | United States | 2:02.18 |
| 7 | 8 | Matthew Dunn | Australia | 2:02.79 |
| 8 | 1 | Gary Anderson | Canada | 2:02.79 |