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

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2021.

## 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 started at 12:04.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:52.38 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | Carson Foster | United States | 1:52.59 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 5 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:53.19 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | 4 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:53.38 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 4 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:53.74 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Wang Shun | China | 1:53.95 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:53.97 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Kieran Smith | United States | 1:54.01 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 5 | Finlay Knox | Canada | 1:54.22 | |
| 10 | 4 | 3 | Caio Pumputis | Brazil | 1:54.57 | |
| 11 | 2 | 3 | Leonardo Coelho Santos | Brazil | 1:54.63 | |
| 12 | 3 | 6 | Max Litchfield | Great Britain | 1:54.81 | |
| 13 | 4 | 6 | Daniil Pasynkov | Russian Swimming Federation | 1:55.02 | |
| 14 | 4 | 2 | Mohamed Samy | Egypt | 1:55.74 | NR |
| 15 | 4 | 7 | Berke Saka | Turkey | 1:55.87 | |
| 16 | 3 | 0 | Mewen Tomac | France | 1:55.93 | |
| 17 | 2 | 0 | Kaloyan Bratanov | Bulgaria | 1:56.28 | NR |
| 18 | 2 | 2 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:56.64 | |
| 19 | 3 | 2 | Hugo González | Spain | 1:57.00 | |
| 20 | 4 | 8 | Gábor Zombori | Hungary | 1:57.07 | |
| 21 | 1 | 4 | Jack McMillan | Ireland | 1:57.13 | |
| 22 | 3 | 8 | Vadym Naumenko | Ukraine | 1:57.61 | |
| 23 | 1 | 5 | Mark Munzer Kabbara | Lebanon | 1:57.64 | NR |
| 24 | 2 | 1 | Héctor Ruvalcaba | Mexico | 1:58.17 | |
| 25 | 4 | 9 | Miguel Cancel | Puerto Rico | 1:58.86 | NR |
| 26 | 4 | 1 | Qin Haiyang | China | 1:59.04 | |
| 27 | 2 | 9 | Trần Hưng Nguyên | Vietnam | 1:59.82 | |
| 28 | 2 | 8 | Ronens Kermans | Latvia | 2:02.35 | |
| 29 | 3 | 9 | Keanan Dols | Jamaica | 2:04.50 | |
| 30 | 1 | 6 | Tasi Limtiaco | Federated States of Micronesia | 2:05.06 | |
| 31 | 1 | 3 | Thomas Wareing | Malta | 2:05.12 | |
| 32 | 1 | 0 | Abdulrahman Al-Kulaibi | Oman | 2:09.84 | |
| 33 | 1 | 2 | José Manuel Campo | El Salvador | 2:10.12 | |
| 34 | 1 | 7 | Ahmed Al-Mutairy | Iraq | 2:11.05 | |
| 35 | 1 | 1 | Nasir Yahya Hussain | Nepal | 2:11.85 | NR |
| 36 | 1 | 8 | Kinley Lhendup | Bhutan | 2:24.08 | |
| | 3 | 7 | Maximillian Ang | Singapore | DNS | |
| | 4 | 0 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | DNS | |
| | 4 | 5 | Tomoe Hvas | Norway | DNS | |

### Final

The final was held at 19:33.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:51.15 | |
| | 5 | Carson Foster | United States | 1:51.35 | |
| | 3 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:51.54 | NR |
| 4 | 6 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:51.94 | |
| 5 | 7 | Wang Shun | China | 1:53.41 | |
| 6 | 8 | Kieran Smith | United States | 1:53.76 | |
| 7 | 2 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:54.08 | |
| 8 | 1 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:54.61 | |