# Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 24 and 25 July 2019.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |
| Competition record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 24 July at 10:50.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 7 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:57.79 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:57.90 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 4 | Chase Kalisz | United States | 1:58.20 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 3 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:58.43 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 5 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:58.57 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:58.71 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 6 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 1:58.73 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 1:58.75 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | Australia | 1:58.86 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | 6 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:59.01 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 4 | Wang Shun | China | 1:59.18 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Abrahm DeVine | United States | 1:59.26 | Q |
| 13 | 6 | 7 | Leonardo Coelho Santos | Brazil | 1:59.37 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 9 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 1:59.62 | Q, NR |
| 15 | 5 | 7 | Thomas Dean | Great Britain | 1:59.64 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 2 | Gabriel Lópes | Portugal | 1:59.76 | Q |
| 17 | 6 | 2 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:59.80 | |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Bradlee Ashby | New Zealand | 1:59.96 | |
| 19 | 5 | 0 | Tomas Peribonio | Ecuador | 2:00.07 | NR |
| 20 | 4 | 0 | Arjan Knipping | Netherlands | 2:00.12 | NR |
| 21 | 5 | 8 | Simon Sjödin | Sweden | 2:00.67 | |
| 22 | 6 | 8 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 2:00.97 | |
| 23 | 4 | 3 | Caio Pumputis | Brazil | 2:01.06 | |
| 24 | 3 | 1 | Wang Hsing-hao | Chinese Taipei | 2:01.54 | |
| 24 | 3 | 8 | Jarod Arroyo | Puerto Rico | 2:01.54 | NR |
| 26 | 5 | 9 | Metin Aydın | Turkey | 2:01.72 | |
| 27 | 2 | 5 | Jaouad Syoud | Algeria | 2:01.76 | NR |
| 28 | 3 | 6 | Dawid Szwedzki | Poland | 2:02.14 | |
| 29 | 4 | 9 | Kim Min-suk | South Korea | 2:02.36 | |
| 30 | 3 | 9 | Andrius Šidlauskas | Lithuania | 2:02.50 | |
| 31 | 6 | 1 | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 2:02.56 | |
| 32 | 3 | 4 | Mohamed Samy | Egypt | 2:02.57 | |
| 33 | 2 | 3 | Christoph Meier | Liechtenstein | 2:02.68 | NR |
| 34 | 6 | 6 | Hugo González | Spain | 2:03.09 | |
| 35 | 3 | 7 | Pang Sheng Jun | Singapore | 2:03.96 | |
| 36 | 3 | 5 | Cole Pratt | Canada | 2:04.26 | |
| 37 | 2 | 7 | Svetlozar Nikolov | Bulgaria | 2:04.99 | |
| 38 | 2 | 4 | Keanan Dols | Jamaica | 2:05.18 | |
| 39 | 3 | 0 | Eben Vorster | South Africa | 2:05.69 | |
| 40 | 2 | 1 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 2:06.93 | |
| 41 | 1 | 4 | Munzer Kabbara | Lebanon | 2:07.27 | |
| 42 | 2 | 8 | Alvi Hjelm | Faroe Islands | 2:07.91 | |
| 43 | 2 | 0 | Ronan Wantenaar | Namibia | 2:09.02 | |
| 44 | 2 | 9 | Christian Mayer | Peru | 2:09.69 | |
| 45 | 1 | 3 | Davor Petrovski | North Macedonia | 2:10.74 | |
| 46 | 1 | 2 | Lin Sizhuang | Macau | 2:10.87 | |
| 47 | 2 | 2 | Julio Horrego | Honduras | 2:11.10 | |
| 48 | 2 | 6 | Patrick Groters | Aruba | 2:11.38 | |
| 49 | 3 | 2 | Triady Fauzi Sidiq | Indonesia | 2:12.09 | |
| 50 | 1 | 5 | Fausto Huerta | Dominican Republic | 2:13.64 | |
| 51 | 1 | 6 | Kinley Lhendup | Bhutan | 3:00.53 | |
| | 3 | 3 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | DNS | DNS |
| | 4 | 8 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | DNS | DNS |
| | 5 | 1 | Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas | Norway | DNS | DNS |
| | 6 | 0 | Bernhard Reitshammer | Austria | DNS | DNS |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 24 July at 21:31.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:56.73 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 3 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:56.95 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:57.10 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 1:57.45 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Abrahm DeVine | United States | 1:57.91 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Alexis Santos | Portugal | 1:58.62 | |
| 7 | 8 | Gabriel Lópes | Portugal | 1:59.56 | |
| 8 | 1 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 2:00.26 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Chase Kalisz | United States | 1:57.34 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:57.83 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Wang Shun | China | 1:57.98 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Andrey Zhilkin | Russia | 1:58.16 | NR |
| 5 | 4 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:58.17 | |
| 6 | 8 | Thomas Dean | Great Britain | 1:58.34 | |
| 7 | 2 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | Australia | 1:58.86 | |
| 8 | 1 | Leonardo Coelho Santos | Brazil | 1:58.99 | |

### Final

The final was held on 25 July at 21:05.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:56.14 | |
| | 4 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:56.56 | NR |
| | 6 | Chase Kalisz | United States | 1:56.78 | |
| 4 | 5 | Philip Heintz | Germany | 1:56.86 | |
| 5 | 7 | Duncan Scott | Great Britain | 1:56.91 | |
| 6 | 8 | Wang Shun | China | 1:56.97 | |
| 7 | 2 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 1:57.32 | |
| 8 | 1 | Abrahm DeVine | United States | 1:57.66 | |