The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 27 and 28. The heats and semifinals took place July 27 and the final was held July 28.

The two main contenders for the event were the reigning World Champion and world record holder Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps, the reigning Olympic champion. The final was won by Lochte in a world record time 1:54.00, bettering his previous time of 1:54.10. Phelps finished in second place with a personal best time of 1:54.16. So emphatic was Lochte and Phelps performance, that third-place finisher László Cseh said, "The Americans are too good for me. Only Ryan can beat Michael, but I can improve myself and continue to swim faster."

Record Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship record were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld record Championship recordRyan Lochte1:54.10RomeJuly 30, 2009

The following record was established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationTimeRecord July 28, 2011 Final Ryan Lochte 1:54.00

Results

Heats 47 swimmers participated in 6 heats.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 4 Thiago Pereira 1:57.82 Q 2 4 1 Dávid Verrasztó 1:58.69 Q 3 4 7 Kenneth To 1:59.02 Q 4 6 4 Ryan Lochte 1:59.04 Q 5 4 5 Markus Rogan 1:59.22 Q 6 6 2 Yuya Horihata 1:59.25 Q 7 6 1 Vytautas Janušaitis 1:59.43 Q, NR 8 5 4 Michael Phelps 1:59.48 Q 9 4 2 Diogo Carvalho 1:59.51 Q, NR 10 4 3 Henrique Rodrigues 1:59.54 Q 11 5 5 James Goddard 1.59.68 Q 12 4 8 Marcin Cieślak 1:59.77 Q, NR 13 6 5 László Cseh 1:59.80 Q 14 5 6 Darian Townsend 1:59.97 Q 15 6 7 Gal Nevo 1:59.98 Q 16 6 6 Jan David Schepers 1:59.99 Q 17 5 8 Bradley Ally 2:00.03 18 5 2 Wang Shun 2:00.12 19 6 3 Joe Roebuck 2:00.42 20 3 1 Raphaël Stacchiotti 2:00.87 NR 21 3 2 Andrew Ford 2:00.92 22 5 3 Markus Deibler 2:00.99 23 3 4 Marcin Tarczyński 2:01.14 24 3 7 Taki Mrabet 2:01.44 25 5 7 Simon Sjödin 2:01.60 26 3 3 Martin Liivamägi 2:01.88 27 2 6 Jung Won-Yong 2:02.50 28 2 5 Aleksey Derlyugov 2:03.30 29 2 4 Pavel Sankovich 2:03.52 30 3 8 Nikša Roki 2:03.89 31 6 8 Federico Turrini 2:04.35 32 2 3 Omar Pinzón 2:04.38 33 3 6 Zhang Fenglin 2:04.49 34 4 6 Mitch Larkin 2:04.57 35 1 4 Morad Berrada 2:06.90 NR 36 1 3 Hocine Haciane 2:07.14 37 1 1 Irakli Bolkvadze 2:07.29 38 2 1 Vasilii Danilov 2:08.68 39 1 6 Rafael Ferracuti 2:09.16 40 2 8 Branden Whitehurst 2:09.58 41 2 7 Saeed Ashtiani 2:09.81 42 1 5 Pavol Jelenak 2:10.15 43 1 7 Eli Ebenezer Wong 2:10.18 44 1 2 Edwin Angjeli 2:10.27 NR 45 2 2 Ensar Hajder 2:11.99 46 1 8 Paul Elaisa 2:20.73 5 1 Alexander Tikhonov DSQ 3 5 Dinko Jukić DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 19:24.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Ryan Lochte 1:56.74 Q 2 6 Michael Phelps 1:57.26 Q 3 3 Yuya Horihata 1:59.47 Q 4 1 Darian Townsend 1:59.49 5 8 Jan David Schepers 1:59.83 6 2 Henrique Rodrigues 2:00.04 7 4 Dávid Verrasztó 2:00.05 8 7 Marcin Cieślak 2:01.65

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 László Cseh 1:57.66 Q 2 3 Markus Rogan 1:57.74 Q, NR 3 4 Thiago Pereira 1:58.27 Q 4 7 James Goddard 1:58.50 Q 5 5 Kenneth To 1:59.17 Q 6 6 Vytautas Janušaitis 1:59.51 7 8 Gal Nevo 1:59.67 8 2 Diogo Carvalho 1:59.80

Final

The final was held at 18:13.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Ryan Lochte 1:54.00 WR 5 Michael Phelps 1:54.16 3 László Cseh 1:57.69 4 7 James Goddard 1:57.79 5 6 Markus Rogan 1:58.14 6 2 Thiago Pereira 1:59.00 7 1 Kenneth To 1:59.26 8 8 Yuya Horihata 1:59.52

References

External links 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre individual medley entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23. FINA World Championships, Swimming: Ryan Lochte Sets First Long Course Post Techsuit-Era World Record, Swimming World Magazine (2011-07-28); retrieved 2011-08-11. FINA World Championships, Swimming: At Long Last, A World Record Goes Down, Swimming World Magazine (2011-07-28); retrieved 2011-08-11.