The men's 200 metre individual medley (IM) at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28 March (heats and semifinals) and on the evening of 29 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 79 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 74 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were: World record (WR): 1:55.84, Michael Phelps (USA), 20 August 2006 in Victoria, Canada. Championship record (CR): 1:56.04, Michael Phelps (USA), Barcelona 2003 (25 July 2003)

Results

Finals Place Name Nationality Time Note 1 Michael Phelps 1:54.98 Splits: (24.96 / 53.58 / 1:27.47) 2 Ryan Lochte 1:56.19 3 László Cseh 1:56.92 4 Thiago Pereira 1:58.98 5 Brian Johns 1:59.46 6 Tamás Kerékjártó 1:59.57 7 Vytautas Janušaitis 1:59.84 8 Dean Kent 2:00.73

Semifinals Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 Michael Phelps 1:57.94 Q 2 Ryan Lochte 1:58.48 Q 3 Thiago Pereira 1:58.65 Q 4 László Cseh 1:58.66 Q 5 Tamás Kerékjártó 1:59.51 Q 6 Vytautas Janušaitis 2:00.05 Q 7 Brian Johns 2:00.25 Q 8 Dean Kent 2:00.53 Q 9 Hidemasa Sano 2:00.57 10 Leith Brodie 2:00.77 11 Ken Takakuwa 2:00.81 12 Mihail Alexandrov 2:01.83 13 Adam Lucas 2:02.33 14 Martin Liivamägi 2:02.39 15 Ioannis Kokkodis 2:02.69 16 Andrey Krylov 2:02.92

Heats Rank Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 Michael Phelps 1:58.70 Q 2 László Cseh 1:58.78 Q 3 Thiago Pereira 1:59.39 Q 4 Brian Johns 1:59.45 Q 5 Tamás Kerékjártó 1:59.67 Q 6 Ryan Lochte 1:59.92 Q 7 Vytautas Janušaitis 2:00.21 Q 8 Dean Kent 2:00.30 Q, NR 9 Ken Takakuwa 2:01.33 Q 10 Martin Liivamägi 2:01.37 Q 11 Ioannis Kokkodis 2:01.47 Q 12 Hidemasa Sano 2:01.55 Q 13 Leith Brodie 2:01.66 Q 14 Mihail Alexandrov 2:01.80 Q 15 Adam Lucas 2:02.10 Q 16 Andrey Krylov 2:02.30 Q 17 Alessio Boggiatto 2:02.41 18 Saša Imprić 2:02.52 19 Gregor Tait 2:02.60 20 Dinko Jukić 2:02.84 21 Andre Schultz 2:03.14 22 Gard Kvale 2:03.35 23 QU Jingyu 2:03.71 24 Miguel Molina 2:03.73 25 Jeremy Knowles 2:04.20 26 Duarte Mourao 2:04.27 27 Tomas Fucik 2:04.92 28 Martti Aljand 2:04.94 29 Ahmed Mathlouthi 2:05.34 30 Paulius Andrijauskas 2:05.59 31 Jens Thiele 2:05.83 32 Dmitriy Gordiyenko 2:06.59 33 Taki Mrabet 2:07.04 ZHANG Zishan 35 Carlos Almeida 2:07.14 36 Diego Bonilla 2:07.26 37 Zhi Cong Lim 2:08.60 38 Radomyos Matjiur 2:08.78 39 Vasilii Danilov 2:08.94 40 Andrei Zaharov 2:08.96 41 Francisco Picasso Risso 2:10.18 42 Malick Fall 2:10.23 43 Albert Cristiadi Sutanto 2:10.27 Rehan Poncha 45 Gianmarco Mosto 2:10.68 46 Iurii Zakharov 2:11.41 47 Juan Montenegro 2:11.98 48 Sobitjon Amilov 2:12.07 49 Youssef Hafdi 2:12.51 50 Bing Ming Thum 2:12.62 51 Morgan Locke Virgin Islands 2:12.78 52 Yu An Lin 2:13.00 53 Shahin Baradaran Nakhjavani 2:13.30 54 Arjun Muralidharan 2:13.91 55 Carlos Eduardo Gil 2:14.11 56 Shohruh Yunusov 2:14.42 57 Diego Castillo Granados 2:15.28 58 Yousuf Alyousuf 2:15.31 59 Amine Kouam 2:15.71 60 Melvin Chua 2:15.84 61 Colin Bensadon 2:16.12 62 Hong Nam Lei 2:19.07 63 Erik Rajohnson 2:20.78 64 Adil Baig 2:20.93 65 Eli Ebenezer Wong 2:20.94 66 Hazem Tashkandi 2:22.25 67 Fernando Medrano Medina 2:22.67 68 Gavin Santos 2:23.88 69 Yellow Yeiyah 2:26.31 70 Zane Jordan 2:26.34 71 Jehad Al Henidi 2:27.67 72 Eric Williams 2:28.70 73 Sadeq Damrah 2:40.08 -- Wei Wen Wang DQ -- Celestino Aguon DNS -- Amar Shah DNS -- Sohaib Kalali DNS -- Pablo Marmolejo DNS -- Romanos Alyfantis DNS

See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

References

Men's 200m IM Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 Worlds); retrieved 10 April 2018. Men's 200m IM Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 Worlds); retrieved 10 April 2018. Men's 200m IM Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 Worlds); retrieved 10 April 2018.