Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	21 June (heats and semifinals) 22 June (final)
Competitors	45 from 38 nations
Winning time	1:55.22
Medalists
Léon Marchand   France   Carson Foster   United States   Daiya Seto   Japan

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 21 and 22 June 2022.

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 started on 21 June at 09:40.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Carson Foster	United States	1:57.94	Q
2	3	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	1:58.25	Q
3	4	4	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:58.29	Q
3	5	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:58.29	Q
5	3	7	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:58.31	Q
6	4	3	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:58.47	Q
7	5	2	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:58.61	Q
8	3	3	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:58.70	Q
8	5	3	Léon Marchand	France	1:58.70	Q
10	4	6	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:58.76	Q
11	4	1	Gal Cohen Groumi	Israel	1:59.34	Q
12	3	1	Se-Bom Lee	Australia	1:59.37	Q
13	5	1	Dominik Török	Hungary	1:59.41	Q
14	5	6	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:59.44	Q
15	5	4	Wang Shun	China	1:59.51	Q
16	4	5	Hugo González	Spain	1:59.53	Q
17	3	6	Finlay Knox	Canada	1:59.60
18	5	7	Qin Haiyang	China	1:59.68
19	3	8	Enzo Tesic	France	1:59.71
20	3	0	Kim Min-suk	South Korea	2:00.88
21	3	9	Kaloyan Bratanov	Bulgaria	2:01.22
22	3	2	Brendon Smith	Australia	2:01.32
23	4	7	Vinicius Lanza	Brazil	2:01.84
24	5	9	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	2:02.00
25	4	8	Wang Hsing-hao	Chinese Taipei	2:02.27
26	2	3	Maximillian Ang	Singapore	2:02.94
27	4	9	Trần Hưng Nguyên	Vietnam	2:03.62
28	2	4	Patrick Groters	Aruba	2:04.58
29	2	7	Munzer Kabbara	Lebanon	2:04.66
30	2	1	Matheo Mateos	Paraguay	2:04.73
31	2	8	František Jablčník	Slovakia	2:05.06
32	2	9	Santiago Corredor	Colombia	2:05.87
33	4	0	Apostolos Papastamos	Greece	2:06.14
34	2	6	Tyler Christianson	Panama	2:06.47
35	2	0	Aflah Fadlan Prawira	Indonesia	2:07.23
36	2	5	Keanan Dols	Jamaica	2:08.24
37	1	5	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	2:08.95
38	1	3	Simon Bachmann	Seychelles	2:09.75
39	1	1	Omar Abouelela	Qatar	2:11.07
40	2	2	Dulyawat Kaewsriyong	Thailand	2:13.78
41	1	2	Adnan Al-Abdallat	Jordan	2:14.31
42	1	7	Nasir Hussain	Nepal	2:20.43
43	1	6	Kinley Lhendup	Bhutan	2:29.72
	1	4	Esteban Núñez del Prado	Bolivia	Disqualified
	4	2	Caio Pumputis	Brazil
	5	0	José Martínez Gómez	Mexico	Did not start
	5	8	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 21 June at 19:39.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	2	Léon Marchand	France	1:55.75	Q, NR
2	2	4	Carson Foster	United States	1:56.44	Q
3	1	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:56.74	Q
4	1	4	Chase Kalisz	United States	1:56.76	Q
5	1	3	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.23	Q
6	1	1	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:57.38	Q
7	1	2	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:57.63	Q
8	2	6	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:57.74	Q
9	2	3	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:57.99	NR
10	1	6	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:58.02
11	2	5	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	1:58.31
12	1	8	Hugo González	Spain	1:58.41
13	2	7	Gal Cohen Groumi	Israel	1:59.67
14	1	7	Se-Bom Lee	Australia	2:00.11
15	2	8	Wang Shun	China	2:00.71
16	2	1	Dominik Török	Hungary	2:01.35

Final

The final was held on 22 June at 19:06.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Léon Marchand	France	1:55.22	NR
	5	Carson Foster	United States	1:55.71
	3	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:56.22
4	6	Chase Kalisz	United States	1:56.43
5	7	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:56.77
6	2	Hubert Kós	Hungary	1:57.26
7	1	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:58.11
8	8	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:58.27