The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 22 and 23 July 2019.Schedule Sun Yang was the defending champion, and defended his title. Lithuania's Danas Rapšys finished first, but was disqualified for flinching just before the start.https://beta.washingtonpost.com/sports/sun-wins-200-free-via-disqualification-at-world-swimming/2019/07/23/b70742c0-ad3c-11e9-9411-a608f9d0c2d3_story.html?outputType=amp During the medal ceremony, Great Britain's Duncan Scott refused to shake hands with China's Sun Yang, with Sun Yang calling Scott a "loser" in response.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

Results Heats The heats were held on 22 July at 10:57.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Note 1 7 2 James Guy 1:46.18 Q 2 5 4 Sun Yang 1:46.22 Q 3 7 5 Martin Malyutin 1:46.29 Q 4 5 5 Kyle Chalmers 1:46.36 Q 5 6 4 Duncan Scott 1:46.45 Q 6 6 6 Fernando Scheffer 1:46.46 Q 7 7 3 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:46.51 Q 8 5 3 Dominik Kozma 1:46.55 Q 9 7 4 Danas Rapšys 1:46.60 Q 10 6 2 Ji Xinjie 1:46.62 Q 11 5 6 Mikhail Dovgalyuk 1:46.72 Q 12 6 3 Andrew Seliskar 1:46.74 Q 13 6 5 Townley Haas 1:46.85 Q 14 7 6 Clyde Lewis 1:46.93 Q 15 7 7 Filippo Megli 1:46.95 Q 16 6 7 Maarten Brzoskowski 1:47.06 Q 17 5 7 Breno Correia 1:47.26 18 6 1 Jacob Heidtmann 1:47.38 19 5 1 Velimir Stjepanović 1:47.40 20 5 2 Naito Ehara 1:47.46 21 7 8 Poul Zellmann 1:47.65 22 7 1 Khader Baqlah 1:47.72 23 6 8 Kacper Majchrzak 1:48.05 24 4 9 Cristian Quintero 1:48.10 25 7 9 Nils Liess 1:48.29 26 4 3 Kregor Zirk 1:48.51 NR 27 2 3 Alexei Sancov 1:48.60 27 7 0 Jordan Sloan 1:48.60 29 5 8 Welson Sim 1:48.61 30 6 0 Denis Loktev 1:48.76 31 5 9 Lee Ho-joon 1:48.89 32 4 2 Mikel Schreuders 1:48.92 33 3 4 Erge Gezmis 1:49.35 34 4 5 Matthew Stanley 1:49.36 35 4 4 Alexander Pratt 1:49.56 35 4 6 Darren Chua 1:49.56 37 6 9 Miguel Nascimento 1:49.71 38 3 5 Pit Brandenburger 1:50.10 39 2 4 Mokhtar Al-Yamani 1:50.18 40 4 0 An Ting-yao 1:50.48 41 4 8 Ognjen Marić 1:50.84 42 2 5 Michael Gunning 1:51.14 43 4 1 Wesley Roberts 1:51.25 44 3 6 Eben Vorster 1:51.70 45 3 2 Marko Kovačić 1:51.78 46 3 9 Alex Sobers 1:51.89 47 3 1 Aflah Prawira 1:51.91 48 3 8 Igor Mogne 1:52.19 49 3 0 Cheuk Ming Ho 1:52.34 49 3 3 Sajan Prakash 1:52.34 51 2 1 Omar Abbas 1:52.78 52 3 7 Andrew Digby 1:53.01 53 2 2 Jorge Depassier 1:53.62 54 2 9 Audai Hassouna 1:53.74 55 1 5 Irakli Revishvili 1:54.00 56 2 8 Noah Mascoll-Gomes 1:54.20 57 1 6 Kledi Kadiu 1:55.11 58 2 6 Alireza Yavari 1:56.28 59 1 3 Jordan Crooks 1:56.33 60 1 1 Yacob Al-Khulaifi 1:56.57 61 2 0 Lin Sizhuang 1:57.37 62 1 4 Matt Galea 1:58.57 63 1 2 Noel Keane 2:02.63 64 1 7 Dren Ukimeraj 2:05.29 65 1 8 Mubal Ibrahim 2:09.06 NR 4 7 Marwan El-Kamash 5 0 Felix Auböck 2 7 James Freeman

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 22 July at 21:12.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Clyde Lewis 1:44.90 Q 2 4 Sun Yang 1:45.31 Q 3 6 Dominik Kozma 1:45.57 Q 4 3 Fernando Scheffer 1:45.83 5 2 Ji Xinjie 1:45.88 6 5 Kyle Chalmers 1:46.21 7 7 Andrew Seliskar 1:46.83 8 8 Maarten Brzoskowski 1:47.13

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Danas Rapšys 1:45.44 Q 2 3 Duncan Scott 1:45.56 Q 2 6 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:45.56 Q 4 5 Martin Malyutin 1:45.60 Q 5 8 Filippo Megli 1:45.76 Q, NR 6 4 James Guy 1:45.95 7 7 Mikhail Dovgalyuk 1:46.20 8 1 Townley Haas 1:46.37

Final The final was held on 23 July at 20:02.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Sun Yang 1:44.93 2 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:45.22 NR 1 Martin Malyutin 1:45.63 6 Duncan Scott 1:45.63 5 8 Filippo Megli 1:45.67 NR 6 4 Clyde Lewis 1:45.78 7 7 Dominik Kozma 1:45.90 3 Danas Rapšys

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