# 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:49.63 | Istanbul | 14 December 2012 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 12:59.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:53.49 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Mark Szaranek | Great Britain | 1:53.77 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | Kirill Prigoda | Russia | 1:53.94 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 6 | 4 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:54.07 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 5 | Josh Prenot | United States | 1:54.10 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 4 | Wang Shun | China | 1:54.21 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 1 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:54.30 | Q, NR |
| 8 | 7 | 3 | Takeharu Fujimori | Japan | 1:54.37 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:54.47 | |
| 10 | 5 | 6 | Daniil Pasynkov | Russia | 1:55.03 | |
| 11 | 7 | 6 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 1:55.13 | |
| 12 | 6 | 5 | Diogo Carvahlo | Portugal | 1:55.26 | |
| 13 | 5 | 5 | Thiago Simon | Brazil | 1:55.51 | |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:55.51 | |
| 15 | 5 | 2 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:55.77 | |
| 16 | 1 | 7 | Jakub Maly | Austria | 1:56.69 | |
| 17 | 4 | 7 | Evan White | Canada | 1:56.90 | |
| 18 | 6 | 8 | Neil Fair | South Africa | 1:57.27 | |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | Hu Yixuan | China | 1:57.30 | |
| 19 | 6 | 7 | Kyle Stolk | Netherlands | 1:57.30 | |
| 21 | 5 | 7 | Dávid Földházi | Hungary | 1:57.51 | |
| 22 | 7 | 0 | Daniel Skaaning | Denmark | 1:57.68 | |
| 23 | 7 | 7 | Michael Andrew | United States | 1:57.87 | |
| 24 | 7 | 1 | Markus Lie | Norway | 1:57.98 | |
| 25 | 7 | 8 | Tomas Peribonio | Ecuador | 1:58.28 | NR |
| 26 | 4 | 2 | Jan Šefl | Czech Republic | 1:58.43 | |
| 27 | 6 | 0 | Uvis Kalniņš | Latvia | 1:58.47 | |
| 28 | 7 | 2 | Daniel Wallace | Great Britain | 1:58.81 | |
| 29 | 4 | 8 | Martti Aljand | Estonia | 1:58.98 | |
| 30 | 3 | 4 | Frank Krznaric | Croatia | 1:59.06 | |
| 31 | 5 | 1 | Richárd Nagy | Slovakia | 1:59.27 | |
| 32 | 4 | 6 | Márton Barta | Hungary | 1:59.79 | |
| 33 | 4 | 4 | Joan Lluís Pons | Spain | 2:00.03 | |
| 34 | 5 | 0 | Adam Halas | Slovakia | 2:00.60 | |
| 35 | 5 | 9 | Luke Reilly | Canada | 2:00.74 | |
| 36 | 6 | 9 | Kristinn Þórarinsson | Iceland | 2:01.36 | |
| 37 | 5 | 8 | Eben Vorster | South Africa | 2:01.42 | |
| 38 | 1 | 8 | Trần Duy Khôi | Vietnam | 2:01.53 | |
| 39 | 3 | 8 | Keanan Dols | Jamaica | 2:02.06 | NR |
| 40 | 7 | 9 | Pang Sheng Jun | Singapore | 2:02.37 | |
| 41 | 4 | 0 | Wen Ren-hau | Chinese Taipei | 2:02.63 | |
| 42 | 4 | 1 | Matías López | Paraguay | 2:02.86 | |
| 43 | 3 | 5 | Sajan Prakash | India | 2:03.54 | NR |
| 44 | 3 | 6 | Luis Vega Torres | Cuba | 2:03.58 | NR |
| 45 | 4 | 3 | Lionel Khoo | Singapore | 2:03.78 | |
| 46 | 2 | 0 | Kyle Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 2:04.17 | NR |
| 47 | 3 | 0 | Jarod Arroyo | Puerto Rico | 2:04.71 | |
| 48 | 3 | 3 | Yeziel Morales Miranda | Puerto Rico | 2:04.72 | |
| 49 | 3 | 1 | Esteban Araya | Costa Rica | 2:04.91 | NR |
| 50 | 2 | 8 | Alberto Batungbacal | Philippines | 2:05.00 | |
| 51 | 3 | 7 | Felipe Quiroz Uteau | Chile | 2:05.09 | NR |
| 52 | 2 | 5 | Lin Sizhuang | Macau | 2:05.58 | NR |
| 53 | 4 | 5 | Mak Ho Lu Raymond | Hong Kong | 2:05.67 | |
| 54 | 3 | 9 | Said Saber | Morocco | 2:06.29 | |
| 55 | 2 | 3 | Brandon Vives | Dominican Republic | 2:08.57 | |
| 56 | 2 | 6 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 2:08.62 | NR |
| 57 | 2 | 4 | Colin Bensadon | Gibraltar | 2:09.31 | |
| 58 | 2 | 2 | Mathias Zacarias | Paraguay | 2:10.45 | |
| 59 | 4 | 9 | Carlos Claverie | Venezuela | 2:10.68 | |
| 60 | 2 | 7 | Noah Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 2:16.27 | |
| 61 | 2 | 9 | Kennet Libohova | Albania | 2:17.62 | |
| 62 | 2 | 1 | Fausto Huerta | Dominican Republic | 2:20.05 | |
| 63 | 1 | 4 | Carlos Vasquez | Honduras | 2:20.68 | NR |
| 64 | 1 | 5 | Stanford Kawale | Papua New Guinea | 2:24.47 | |
| 65 | 1 | 3 | Mark Hoare | Eswatini | 2:27.66 | |
| 66 | 1 | 6 | Christian Villacrusis | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:31.79 | |
| 67 | 1 | 2 | Salofi Welch | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:32.17 | |
| | 4 | 0 | Jonathan Gómez | Colombia | | DNS |

### Final

The final was held at 19:59.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 7 | Wang Shun | China | 1:51.74 | |
| | 6 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:52.07 | |
| | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:52.89 | |
| 4 | 2 | Josh Prenot | United States | 1:52.91 | |
| 5 | 3 | Kirill Prigoda | Russia | 1:53.47 | NR |
| 6 | 5 | Mark Szaranek | Great Britain | 1:54.45 | |
| 7 | 8 | Takeharu Fujimori | Japan | 1:55.51 | |
| 8 | 1 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:55.80 | |