# 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 3 December.

## 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 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 09:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 10 | 3 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 1:42.35 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 5 | Cristian Quintero | Venezuela | 1:42.40 | Q |
| 3 | 10 | 4 | Danila Izotov | Russia | 1:42.45 | Q |
| 4 | 10 | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:42.66 | Q |
| 5 | 10 | 6 | Daniel Smith | Australia | 1:42.67 | Q |
| 6 | 9 | 2 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:42.84 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | 2 | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 1:42.85 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 5 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:42.97 | Q |
| 9 | 9 | 3 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 1:43.01 | |
| 10 | 10 | 8 | James Guy | Great Britain | 1:43.28 | |
| 11 | 8 | 1 | Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo | Italy | 1:43.31 | |
| 12 | 9 | 9 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 1:43.35 | |
| 13 | 9 | 5 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 1:43.37 | |
| 14 | 9 | 4 | Conor Dwyer | United States | 1:43.38 | |
| 15 | 9 | 6 | Mikhail Polischuk | Russia | 1:43.48 | |
| 16 | 8 | 3 | Adam Barrett | Great Britain | 1:43.51 | |
| 17 | 8 | 6 | Myles Brown | South Africa | 1:43.65 | |
| 18 | 10 | 2 | Clément Mignon | France | 1:43.79 | |
| 19 | 8 | 5 | João de Lucca | Brazil | 1:44.00 | |
| 20 | 9 | 7 | Clemens Rapp | Germany | 1:44.22 | |
| 21 | 8 | 4 | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 1:44.24 | |
| 22 | 10 | 7 | Ben Hockin | Paraguay | 1:44.36 | |
| 23 | 10 | 1 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 1:44.41 | |
| 24 | 8 | 8 | Anders Lie | Denmark | 1:44.79 | |
| 25 | 8 | 7 | Yuki Kobori | Japan | 1:45.08 | |
| 26 | 7 | 6 | Reo Sakata | Japan | 1:45.14 | |
| 27 | 10 | 0 | Alexandre Haldemann | Switzerland | 1:45.55 | |
| 28 | 10 | 9 | David Brandl | Austria | 1:45.76 | |
| 29 | 9 | 8 | Gustavo Godoy | Brazil | 1:46.05 | |
| 30 | 7 | 9 | Felix Auböck | Austria | 1:46.29 | |
| 31 | 7 | 7 | Henrik Christiansen | Norway | 1:46.58 | |
| 32 | 9 | 1 | Lin Yongqing | China | 1:46.59 | |
| 33 | 8 | 9 | Frederik Siem Pedersen | Denmark | 1:46.64 | |
| 34 | 6 | 0 | Jérémy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1:47.03 | |
| 35 | 9 | 0 | Federico Grabich | Argentina | 1:47.23 | |
| 36 | 7 | 8 | Pavel Janeček | Czech Republic | 1:47.24 | |
| 37 | 7 | 2 | David Kunčar | Czech Republic | 1:47.47 | |
| 37 | 7 | 1 | Martin Bau | Slovenia | 1:47.47 | |
| 39 | 7 | 3 | Povilas Strazdas | Lithuania | 1:47.63 | |
| 40 | 8 | 0 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 1:48.25 | |
| 41 | 7 | 4 | Filip Zaborowski | Poland | 1:48.33 | |
| 42 | 7 | 0 | Nezır Karap | Turkey | 1:48.37 | |
| 43 | 6 | 4 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 1:49.20 | |
| 44 | 5 | 5 | Khurshidjon Tursunov | Uzbekistan | 1:49.40 | |
| 45 | 6 | 3 | Andrés Olvera | Mexico | 1:49.57 | |
| 46 | 5 | 8 | Pedro Pinotes | Angola | 1:49.60 | |
| 47 | 4 | 1 | Nico Campbell | Jamaica | 1:49.63 | |
| 48 | 4 | 2 | Marko Blaževski | Macedonia | 1:49.80 | |
| 49 | 1 | 9 | Alpkan Örnek | Turkey | 1:49.82 | |
| 50 | 6 | 1 | Wang Yu-lian | Chinese Taipei | 1:49.86 | |
| 51 | 6 | 2 | Marcelo Acosta | El Salvador | 1:49.93 | |
| 52 | 6 | 7 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 1:49.97 | |
| 53 | 6 | 6 | Kristofer Sigurðsson | Iceland | 1:50.04 | |
| 54 | 5 | 1 | Henri Reinsalu | Estonia | 1:50.36 | |
| 55 | 4 | 5 | Esteban Enderica | Ecuador | 1:50.46 | |
| 56 | 5 | 2 | Matías Pinto | Chile | 1:50.47 | |
| 57 | 6 | 8 | Jessie Lacuna | Philippines | 1:50.64 | |
| 58 | 6 | 9 | Badis Djendouci | Algeria | 1:50.65 | |
| 59 | 5 | 6 | Sven Saemundsson | Croatia | 1:50.94 | |
| 60 | 4 | 3 | Oli Mortensen | Faroe Islands | 1:51.65 | |
| 61 | 5 | 4 | Khader Baqlah | Jordan | 1:51.78 | |
| 62 | 5 | 3 | Stanislav Karnaukhov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:51.80 | |
| 63 | 4 | 4 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 1:51.96 | |
| 64 | 5 | 9 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 1:52.93 | |
| 65 | 3 | 4 | Patrick Groters | Aruba | 1:53.00 | |
| 66 | 4 | 0 | Isaac Beitia | Panama | 1:53.16 | |
| 67 | 4 | 6 | Jethro Chua | Philippines | 1:53.19 | |
| 68 | 5 | 7 | Sooud Al-Tayyar | Kuwait | 1:53.37 | |
| 69 | 3 | 5 | Jevon Atkinson | Jamaica | 1:53.60 | |
| 70 | 3 | 8 | Winter Heaven | Samoa | 1:53.71 | |
| 71 | 4 | 8 | Mark Burnley | Curaçao | 1:54.07 | |
| 72 | 4 | 7 | Jesús Monge | Peru | 1:54.16 | |
| 73 | 3 | 7 | Noah Mascoll-Gomes | Antigua and Barbuda | 1:54.93 | |
| 74 | 3 | 3 | Geoffrey Butler | Cayman Islands | 1:55.57 | |
| 75 | 2 | 3 | Aldo Castillo | Bolivia | 1:55.72 | |
| 76 | 2 | 4 | Mahmoud Daaboul | Lebanon | 1:56.27 | |
| 77 | 4 | 9 | Alex Sobers | Barbados | 1:56.55 | |
| 78 | 3 | 6 | Klavio Meça | Albania | 1:57.18 | |
| 79 | 3 | 0 | Miguel Mena | Nicaragua | 1:59.45 | |
| 80 | 5 | 0 | Abdalla Al-Bader | Kuwait | 1:59.65 | |
| 81 | 3 | 2 | Farhan Saleh | Bahrain | 2:00.01 | |
| 82 | 2 | 5 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 2:00.09 | |
| 83 | 2 | 0 | González Leonardo | Honduras | 2:00.24 | |
| 84 | 2 | 7 | Zandanbal Gunsennorov | Mongolia | 2:00.38 | |
| 85 | 3 | 9 | Franci Aleksi | Albania | 2:01.15 | |
| 86 | 2 | 6 | Karl Pardo | Gibraltar | 2:02.09 | |
| 87 | 3 | 1 | Guillermo López | Nicaragua | 2:03.19 | |
| 88 | 2 | 2 | Yacop Al-Khulaifi | Qatar | 2:04.29 | |
| 89 | 1 | 3 | Kitso Matija | Botswana | 2:04.96 | |
| 90 | 2 | 9 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 2:05.09 | |
| 91 | 1 | 5 | Syed Javaid | Pakistan | 2:05.22 | |
| 92 | 1 | 7 | Sirish Gurung | Nepal | 2:06.35 | |
| 93 | 2 | 1 | Tommy Imazu | Guam | 2:07.35 | |
| 94 | 1 | 1 | Bobby Akunaii | Papua New Guinea | 2:07.46 | |
| 95 | 1 | 6 | Tanner Poppe | Guam | 2:09.55 | |
| 96 | 1 | 8 | Livingston Aika | Papua New Guinea | 2:09.76 | |
| 97 | 2 | 8 | Tongli Panuve | Tonga | 2:10.68 | |
| 98 | 1 | 4 | Omar Adams | Guyana | 2:12.56 | |
| 99 | 1 | 0 | Shawn Dingilius | Palau | 2:12.62 | |
| 100 | 1 | 2 | Mamadou Soumaré | Mali | 2:13.26 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:00.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 7 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:41.45 | |
| | 3 | Danila Izotov | Russia | 1:41.67 | |
| | 8 | Ryan Lochte | United States | 1:42.09 | |
| 4 | 4 | Dominik Kozma | Hungary | 1:42.25 | |
| 5 | 1 | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 1:42.44 | |
| 6 | 6 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 1:42.48 | NR |
| 7 | 2 | Daniel Smith | Australia | 1:42.81 | |
| 8 | 5 | Cristian Quintero | Venezuela | 1:43.45 | |