# 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 14 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome. The event was won by American Ryan Lochte. In the final, Lochte broke his own world record of 1:50.08 set in 2010 with a time of 1:49.63, thus becoming the first individual under 1:50 in the event.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record Championship record | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:50.08 | Dubai | 17 December 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 14 December | Final | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:49.63 | WR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:53.31 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 5 | Kenneth To (AUS) | 1:53.57 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 4 | Daiya Seto (JPN) | 1:54.41 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | László Cseh (HUN) | 1:54.50 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Conor Dwyer (USA) | 1:54.67 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 2 | Simon Sjödin (SWE) | 1:54.90 | Q, NR |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | Diogo Carvalho (POR) | 1:55.14 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | Kosuke Hagino (JPN) | 1:55.41 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 5 | Gal Nevo (ISR) | 1:55.72 | |
| 10 | 6 | 3 | Travis Mahoney (AUS) | 1:55.98 | |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Jan Świtkowski (POL) | 1:56.16 | |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Dávid Verrasztó (HUN) | 1:56.22 | |
| 13 | 4 | 0 | Liu Weijia (CHN) | 1:56.64 | |
| 14 | 5 | 1 | Aleksey Derlyugov (UZB) | 1:57.51 | |
| 15 | 5 | 8 | Andreas Vazaios (GRE) | 1:57.90 | |
| 16 | 4 | 7 | Jakub Maly (AUT) | 1:57.98 | |
| 17 | 6 | 7 | Daniel Skaaning (DEN) | 1:58.07 | |
| 18 | 3 | 5 | Lukas Räuftlin (SUI) | 1:58.09 | NR |
| 19 | 4 | 2 | Pavel Sankovich (BLR) | 1:58.21 | |
| 20 | 6 | 2 | Dmitry Zhilin (RUS) | 1:58.24 | |
| 21 | 5 | 0 | Roberto Pavoni (GBR) | 1:58.36 | |
| 22 | 6 | 0 | Michal Poprawa (POL) | 1:58.38 | |
| 23 | 5 | 7 | Yury Suvorau (BLR) | 1:58.43 | |
| 24 | 3 | 2 | Jake Tapp (CAN) | 1:58.45 | |
| 25 | 5 | 6 | Viatcheslav Andrusenko (RUS) | 1:58.69 | |
| 26 | 4 | 8 | Michael Meyer (RSA) | 1:59.45 | |
| 27 | 5 | 3 | Thiago Simon (BRA) | 1:59.68 | |
| 28 | 6 | 9 | Ieuan Lloyd (GBR) | 1:59.90 | |
| 29 | 6 | 8 | Taki Mrabet (TUN) | 1:59.92 | |
| 30 | 6 | 1 | Victor Bromer (DEN) | 1:59.95 | |
| 31 | 3 | 4 | Christoph Meier (LIE) | 2:01.25 | NR |
| 32 | 3 | 1 | Quah Zheng Wen (SIN) | 2:02.43 | NR |
| 33 | 5 | 9 | Vasilii Danilov (KGZ) | 2:03.26 | |
| 34 | 3 | 6 | Ayman Klzie (SYR) | 2:03.89 | |
| 35 | 3 | 7 | Jean Luis Gómez (DOM) | 2:04.18 | |
| 36 | 3 | 3 | Pang Sheng Jun (SIN) | 2:04.30 | |
| 37 | 3 | 8 | Agnishwar Jayaprakash (IND) | 2:05.62 | |
| 38 | 2 | 5 | Eliebenezer San Jose Wong (NMI) | 2:05.84 | |
| 39 | 4 | 9 | Ng Chun Nam Derick (HKG) | 2:06.05 | |
| 40 | 1 | 8 | Wu Peng (CHN) | 2:06.99 | |
| 41 | 1 | 2 | Charles Alexander Keller (PAN) | 2:07.30 | |
| 42 | 2 | 4 | Colin Bensadon (GIB) | 2:07.88 | |
| 43 | 2 | 3 | Arvind Mani (IND) | 2:08.77 | |
| 44 | 2 | 9 | Awse Ma'aya (JOR) | 2:09.34 | |
| 45 | 2 | 2 | Joaquin Sepulveda (CHI) | 2:09.35 | |
| 46 | 3 | 0 | Quinton Delie (NAM) | 2:10.05 | |
| 47 | 2 | 6 | Ameer Adnan Ali (IRQ) | 2:14.07 | |
| 48 | 3 | 9 | Obaid Al-Jasmi (UAE) | 2:14.14 | |
| 49 | 2 | 8 | Kensuke Kimura (NMI) | 2:16.17 | |
| 50 | 1 | 4 | Erdenemunkh Demuul (MGL) | 2:18.00 | |
| 51 | 1 | 5 | Omar Omar (QAT) | 2:19.96 | |
| 52 | 2 | 0 | Bakr Salam Ali (IRQ) | 2:21.56 | |
| 53 | 1 | 3 | Franc Aleksi (ALB) | 2:30.34 | |
| 54 | 1 | 6 | Jamal Tamasese (SAM) | 2:39.65 | |
| | 2 | 1 | Mathieu Marquet (MRI) | DSQ | |
| | 1 | 1 | Luis Rafael Rojas Martinez (VEN) | DNS | |
| | 1 | 7 | Pavel Naroskin (EST) | DNS | |
| | 2 | 7 | Jordan Augier (LCA) | DNS | |

### Final

The final was held at 21:04.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:49.63 | WR |
| | 3 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:52.80 | |
| | 6 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:52.89 | |
| 4 | 5 | Kenneth To | Australia | 1:53.42 | |
| 5 | 2 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:53.99 | |
| 6 | 8 | Kosuke Hagino | Japan | 1:54.08 | |
| 7 | 1 | Diogo Carvalho | Portugal | 1:55.63 | |
| 8 | 7 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 1:56.31 | |