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

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

The heats were held on 24 July at 10:50.^[3]

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
	4	8	Thomas Ceccon	Italy
	5	1	Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas	Norway
	6	0	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria

The semifinals were held on 24 July at 21:31.^[4]

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

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

The final was held on 25 July at 21:05.^[5]

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