# 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 17 December 2021.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 1:39.37 | Berlin, Germany | 15 November 2009 |
| Competition record | Danas Rapšys (LTU) | 1:40.95 | Hangzhou, China | 14 December 2018 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started at 9:36.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 3 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 1:42.42 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:42.43 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 4 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:42.58 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 0 | Kieran Smith | United States | 1:42.64 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | 7 | Aleksandr Shchegolev | Russian Swimming Federation | 1:42.76 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 4 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:42.82 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | Antonio Djakovic | Switzerland | 1:42.82 | Q, NR |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | Matteo Ciampi | Italy | 1:42.99 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 5 | Luc Kroon | Netherlands | 1:43.05 | |
| 10 | 6 | 3 | Murilo Sartori | Brazil | 1:43.08 | |
| 11 | 8 | 6 | Jack McMillan | Ireland | 1:43.13 | |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:43.49 | |
| 13 | 8 | 1 | Kregor Zirk | Estonia | 1:43.58 | |
| 14 | 8 | 5 | David Popovici | Romania | 1:43.62 | |
| 15 | 8 | 2 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:43.97 | |
| 16 | 6 | 8 | Denis Loktev | Israel | 1:44.08 | |
| 17 | 4 | 5 | Alfonso Mestre | Venezuela | 1:44.26 | |
| 18 | 8 | 8 | Jordan Pothain | France | 1:44.34 | |
| 19 | 5 | 3 | Hong Jinquan | China | 1:44.78 | |
| 20 | 6 | 2 | Baturalp Ünlü | Turkey | 1:44.79 | |
| 21 | 7 | 3 | Stan Pijnenburg | Netherlands | 1:44.85 | |
| 22 | 7 | 6 | Ivan Giryov | Russian Swimming Federation | 1:45.08 | |
| 23 | 6 | 1 | Marco De Tullio | Italy | 1:45.63 | |
| 24 | 8 | 0 | Thomas Thijs | Belgium | 1:45.92 | |
| 25 | 5 | 0 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 1:46.08 | NR |
| 26 | 5 | 1 | Marwan Elkamash | Egypt | 1:46.11 | NR |
| 27 | 5 | 9 | Juan Morales | Colombia | 1:46.30 | NR |
| 28 | 5 | 6 | Cheuk Ming Ho | Hong Kong | 1:46.50 | |
| 28 | 7 | 1 | Jordan Sloan | Ireland | 1:46.50 | |
| 30 | 7 | 8 | Lukas Martens | Germany | 1:46.52 | |
| 31 | 4 | 4 | Sajan Prakash | India | 1:46.61 | NR |
| 32 | 6 | 0 | Dimitrios Markos | Greece | 1:46.90 | |
| 33 | 5 | 7 | Alex Sobers | Barbados | 1:46.91 | NR |
| 34 | 5 | 5 | Max Mannes | Luxembourg | 1:47.61 | |
| 35 | 4 | 1 | Xander Skinner | Namibia | 1:47.66 | NR |
| 36 | 8 | 9 | Joaquín Vargas | Peru | 1:48.05 | |
| 37 | 7 | 9 | Mohamed Lagili | Tunisia | 1:48.18 | |
| 38 | 4 | 3 | Nguyễn Huy Hoàng | Vietnam | 1:48.19 | |
| 39 | 5 | 4 | Yordan Yanchev | Bulgaria | 1:48.60 | |
| 40 | 4 | 0 | Mohamed Djaballah | Algeria | 1:48.97 | |
| 41 | 5 | 2 | Luka Kukhalashvili | Georgia | 1:49.53 | |
| 42 | 5 | 8 | Supha Sangaworawong | Thailand | 1:50.25 | |
| 43 | 4 | 7 | Omar Abbass | Syria | 1:50.50 | |
| 44 | 3 | 9 | James Allison | Cayman Islands | 1:50.67 | |
| 45 | 3 | 4 | Nikola Bjelajac | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:50.89 | |
| 46 | 4 | 8 | Pavel Alovatki | Moldova | 1:51.26 | |
| 47 | 3 | 7 | Ado Gargović | Montenegro | 1:51.42 | NR |
| 48 | 4 | 2 | Dylan Cachia | Malta | 1:51.49 | |
| 49 | 3 | 6 | Ridhwan Mohamed | Kenya | 1:51.79 | NR |
| 50 | 1 | 6 | Ramazan Omarov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:52.68 | |
| 51 | 4 | 9 | Henrique Mascarenhas | Angola | 1:52.88 | |
| 52 | 2 | 2 | Ghalib Sabt | United Arab Emirates | 1:52.94 | |
| 53 | 3 | 3 | Bartal Erlingsson Eidesgaard | Faroe Islands | 1:53.03 | |
| 54 | 3 | 2 | Ahmed Ali Al-Hazemi | Saudi Arabia | 1:53.55 | |
| 55 | 3 | 0 | Stefano Mitchell | Netherlands Antilles | 1:53.68 | |
| 56 | 1 | 2 | Adrián Navarro | Cuba | 1:53.99 | |
| 57 | 3 | 8 | Matin Balsini | Iran | 1:54.47 | |
| 58 | 2 | 6 | Batbayaryn Enkhtamir | Mongolia | 1:55.82 | |
| 59 | 2 | 4 | Christopher Gossmann | Guatemala | 1:55.84 | |
| 60 | 2 | 5 | Gerald Hernández | Nicaragua | 1:56.08 | |
| 61 | 2 | 3 | Davor Petrovski | North Macedonia | 1:56.54 | |
| 62 | 1 | 7 | Jinnosuke Suzuki | Northern Mariana Islands | 1:57.27 | |
| 63 | 2 | 1 | Nasir Yahya Hussain | Nepal | 1:58.30 | NR |
| 64 | 1 | 4 | Matt Savitz | Gibraltar | 1:58.69 | |
| 65 | 1 | 3 | Yaseen Al-Atieh | Kuwait | 2:00.68 | |
| 66 | 2 | 9 | Vladimir Mamikonyan | Armenia | 2:00.92 | |
| 67 | 2 | 0 | Israel Poppe | Guam | 2:03.89 | |
| 68 | 2 | 7 | Raekwon Noel | Guyana | 2:06.28 | |
| 69 | 1 | 5 | Solomon Beraki | Eritrea | 2:47.29 | |
| | 2 | 8 | Ailton Lima | Cape Verde | DNS | |
| | 3 | 1 | Issa Al-Adawi | Oman | DNS | |
| | 3 | 5 | Pedro Chiancone | Uruguay | DNS | |
| | 4 | 6 | Henrik Christiansen | Norway | DNS | |
| | 6 | 5 | Tom Dean | Great Britain | DNS | |
| | 6 | 7 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | DNS | |
| | 6 | 9 | Glen Lim Jun Wei | Singapore | DNS | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:55 24 Hour Time .
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:41.60 | |
| | 2 | Aleksandr Shchegolev | Russian Swimming Federation | 1:41.63 | |
| | 7 | Danas Rapšys | Lithuania | 1:41.73 | |
| 4 | 3 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:42.27 | |
| 5 | 6 | Kieran Smith | United States | 1:42.29 | |
| 6 | 1 | Antonio Djakovic | Switzerland | 1:42.47 | NR |
| 7 | 4 | Fernando Scheffer | Brazil | 1:42.69 | |
| 8 | 8 | Matteo Ciampi | Italy | 1:42.76 | |