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

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 December 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:39.37 | Berlin | 15 November 2009 |
| Championship record | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:41.08 | Dubai | 15 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 7 December | Final | Park Tae-hwan | South Korea | 1:41.03 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:41.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 9 | 0 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 1:42.90 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 11 | 4 | Aleksandr Krasnykh | Russia | 1:43.08 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 5 | Myles Brown | South Africa | 1:43.50 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 4 | Matias Koski | Finland | 1:43.68 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Anders Lie | Denmark | 1:43.98 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 4 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:43.98 | Q |
| 7 | 9 | 8 | Park Tae-hwan | South Korea | 1:44.09 | Q |
| 8 | 10 | 5 | Daniel Smith | Australia | 1:44.20 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 7 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 1:44.27 | |
| 10 | 9 | 4 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 1:44.29 | |
| 11 | 10 | 6 | Maarten Brzoskowski | Netherlands | 1:44.34 | |
| 12 | 10 | 1 | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 1:44.44 | |
| 13 | 9 | 7 | Zane Grothe | United States | 1:44.53 | |
| 14 | 11 | 6 | Jordan Pothain | France | 1:44.83 | |
| 15 | 9 | 6 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:44.93 | |
| 16 | 10 | 3 | Mikhail Dovgalyuk | Russia | 1:45.02 | |
| 17 | 8 | 0 | Jordan Sloan | Ireland | 1:45.16 | |
| 18 | 8 | 5 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:45.19 | |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Stephen Milne | Great Britain | 1:45.22 | |
| 20 | 9 | 5 | Yuki Kobori | Japan | 1:45.32 | |
| 21 | 8 | 7 | Qian Zhiyong | China | 1:45.34 | |
| 22 | 9 | 9 | Markus Thormeyer | Canada | 1:45.36 | |
| 23 | 8 | 1 | Henrik Christiansen | Norway | 1:45.53 | |
| 23 | 11 | 2 | Kyle Stolk | Netherlands | 1:45.53 | |
| 25 | 11 | 3 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 1:45.54 | |
| 26 | 11 | 1 | Jack Gerrard | Australia | 1:45.63 | |
| 27 | 8 | 3 | Shang Keyuan | China | 1:45.69 | |
| 28 | 1 | 2 | Simonas Bilis | Lithuania | 1:45.81 | |
| 29 | 8 | 2 | Daniel Skaaning | Denmark | 1:46.04 | |
| 30 | 10 | 8 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:46.16 | |
| 31 | 8 | 8 | Ádám Telegdy | Hungary | 1:46.19 | |
| 32 | 10 | 9 | Markus Lie | Norway | 1:46.38 | |
| 33 | 8 | 4 | Daniel Hunter | New Zealand | 1:46.51 | |
| 34 | 7 | 2 | Jeremy Bagshaw | Canada | 1:46.54 | |
| 35 | 11 | 0 | Reed Malone | United States | 1:46.58 | |
| 36 | 11 | 9 | Adam Paulsson | Sweden | 1:46.79 | |
| 37 | 9 | 1 | David Gamburg | Israel | 1:46.88 | |
| 38 | 8 | 9 | Cheung Kin Tat Kent | Hong Kong | 1:46.93 | |
| 38 | 10 | 0 | Poul Zellmann | Germany | 1:46.93 | |
| 40 | 10 | 2 | Khader Baqlah | Jordan | 1:47.07 | |
| 41 | 7 | 5 | Yeo Kai Quan | Singapore | 1:47.08 | |
| 42 | 3 | 8 | Gabriel Lopes | Portugal | 1:47.31 | |
| 42 | 8 | 6 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 1:47.31 | |
| 44 | 9 | 2 | Ben Hockin | Paraguay | 1:47.41 | |
| 45 | 11 | 8 | Daniel Wallace | Great Britain | 1:47.70 | |
| 46 | 6 | 3 | Uvis Kalniņš | Latvia | 1:47.73 | |
| 47 | 6 | 2 | Mokhtar Al-Yamani | Yemen | 1:47.78 | |
| 48 | 7 | 6 | Pang Sheng Jun | Singapore | 1:47.88 | |
| 49 | 7 | 3 | Martin Bau | Slovenia | 1:48.17 | |
| 50 | 1 | 7 | Jean Dencausse | France | 1:48.29 | |
| 51 | 7 | 8 | Tomas Peribonio | Ecuador | 1:48.48 | |
| 52 | 1 | 8 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 1:48.60 | |
| 53 | 7 | 7 | Pit Brandenburger | Luxembourg | 1:48.95 | |
| 54 | 6 | 7 | An Ting-Yao | Chinese Taipei | 1:49.24 | |
| 55 | 6 | 4 | Vladimír Štefánik | Slovakia | 1:49.32 | |
| 56 | 1 | 1 | Teimuraz Kobakhidze | Georgia | 1:49.54 | |
| 57 | 5 | 7 | Alex Sobers | Barbados | 1:49.69 | |
| 58 | 4 | 9 | Kyle Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 1:50.15 | |
| 59 | 6 | 5 | Ilijan Malčić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:50.36 | |
| 60 | 5 | 5 | Angelo Šimić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:50.37 | |
| 61 | 5 | 6 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 1:50.63 | NR |
| 62 | 7 | 0 | Pál Joensen | Faroe Islands | 1:50.69 | |
| 63 | 4 | 4 | Christian Bayo Punter | Puerto Rico | 1:51.08 | |
| 64 | 5 | 4 | Oli Mortensen | Faroe Islands | 1:51.12 | |
| 65 | 6 | 9 | Matias Pinto | Chile | 1:51.20 | |
| 66 | 4 | 1 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 1:51.26 | |
| 67 | 3 | 7 | Gabriel Fleitas | Uruguay | 1:51.39 | |
| 68 | 3 | 4 | Alex Ngui | Philippines | 1:51.40 | |
| 68 | 4 | 5 | Dioser Nunez | Dominican Republic | 1:51.40 | |
| 70 | 4 | 3 | Sam Seghers | Papua New Guinea | 1:52.08 | |
| 71 | 4 | 8 | Kevin Avila Soto | Guatemala | 1:52.22 | |
| 72 | 5 | 9 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 1:52.23 | |
| 73 | 7 | 9 | Dominic Walter | Jamaica | 1:52.43 | |
| 74 | 6 | 1 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 1:52.44 | |
| 75 | 4 | 7 | Lin Sizhuang | Macau | 1:52.62 | |
| 76 | 5 | 1 | Yeziel Morales Miranda | Puerto Rico | 1:52.87 | |
| 77 | 5 | 0 | Matt Galea | Malta | 1:52.98 | |
| 78 | 4 | 6 | Steven Maina | Kenya | 1:53.23 | |
| 79 | 6 | 0 | Mazen Elkamash | Egypt | 1:53.37 | |
| 80 | 5 | 3 | Xander Skinner | Namibia | 1:53.47 | |
| 81 | 3 | 6 | Adel Elfakir | Libya | 1:53.50 | |
| 82 | 3 | 2 | Said Saber | Morocco | 1:53.72 | |
| 83 | 5 | 8 | Jean-Luc Zephir | Saint Lucia | 1:53.79 | |
| 84 | 3 | 0 | Mathias Zacarias | Paraguay | 1:53.90 | |
| 85 | 3 | 5 | Antonio Gonzalez | Costa Rica | 1:54.82 | |
| 86 | 6 | 8 | Stanislav Karnaukhov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:55.01 | |
| 87 | 2 | 4 | Emilio Avila | Guatemala | 1:55.55 | |
| 88 | 2 | 5 | Jeremy Lim | Philippines | 1:55.71 | |
| 89 | 6 | 6 | Lâm Quang Nhật | Vietnam | 1:56.23 | |
| 90 | 4 | 2 | Constantinos Hadjittooulis | Cyprus | 1:57.13 | |
| 91 | 3 | 9 | Walter Caballero Quilla | Bolivia | 1:57.32 | |
| 92 | 2 | 0 | Stanford Kawale | Papua New Guinea | 1:57.95 | |
| 93 | 2 | 6 | Zandanbal Gunsennorov | Mongolia | 1:58.03 | |
| 94 | 3 | 3 | Eisner Barberena Espinoza | Nicaragua | 1:59.64 | |
| 95 | 2 | 7 | David Hitchcock | Gibraltar | 2:00.53 | |
| 96 | 2 | 8 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 2:01.05 | |
| 97 | 3 | 1 | Franci Aleksi | Albania | 2:01.26 | |
| 98 | 2 | 2 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 2:02.27 | |
| 99 | 2 | 3 | Nabeel Hatoum | Palau | 2:03.30 | |
| 100 | 2 | 1 | Josue Portillo | Honduras | 2:05.12 | |
| 101 | 1 | 3 | Temaruata Strickland | Cook Islands | 2:06.04 | |
| 102 | 1 | 4 | Tanner Poppe | Guam | 2:06.36 | |
| 103 | 1 | 9 | Tongli Panuve | Tonga | 2:08.83 | |
| 104 | 1 | 5 | Salofi Welch | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:10.87 | |
| 105 | 2 | 9 | Christian Villacrusis | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:11.82 | |
| 106 | 1 | 6 | Joseph Sumari | Tanzania | 2:30.15 | |
| | 4 | 0 | Bakr Salam Ali Al-Dulaimi | Iraq | | DNS |
| | 5 | 2 | Joseph Macias Rubio | Ecuador | | DNS |
| | 7 | 1 | Aleksey Tarasenko | Uzbekistan | | DNS |
| | 10 | 7 | Christoffer Carlsen | Sweden | | DNS |

### Final

The final was held at 19:23.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 1 | Park Tae-hwan | South Korea | 1:41.03 | CR, AS |
| | 7 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:41.65 | |
| | 5 | Aleksandr Krasnykh | Russia | 1:41.95 | |
| 4 | 4 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 1:42.48 | NR |
| 5 | 3 | Myles Brown | South Africa | 1:43.22 | |
| 5 | 8 | Daniel Smith | Australia | 1:43.22 | |
| 7 | 6 | Matias Koski | Finland | 1:43.51 | |
| 8 | 2 | Anders Lie | Denmark | 1:43.69 | NR |