The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 February 2024.
Qualification
Each National Federation was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the "A" standard qualification time at approved qualifying events. For this event, the "A" standard qualification time was 1:47.06. Federations could enter one athlete into the event if they met the "B" standard qualification time. For this event, the "B" standard qualification time was 1:50.81. Athletes could also enter the event if they had met an "A" or "B" standard in a different event and their Federation had not entered anyone else. Additional considerations applied to Federations who had few swimmers enter through the standard qualification times. Federations in this category could at least enter two men and two women into the competition, all of whom could enter into up to two events.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were started on 12 February at 10:21.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 4 Lukas Märtens 1:45.74 Q 2 5 3 Rafael Miroslaw 1:45.89 Q 3 7 3 Danas Rapšys 1:45.95 Q 4 6 5 Duncan Scott 1:46.09 Q 5 5 4 Luke Hobson 1:46.54 Q 6 6 1 Elijah Winnington 1:46.69 Q 7 6 3 Kai Taylor 1:46.81 Q 8 7 5 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:46.84 Q 9 6 2 Lucas Henveaux 1:46.93 Q 10 5 5 Lee Ho-joon 1:46.97 Q 11 7 4 Hwang Sun-woo 1:46.99 Q 12 7 7 Ji Xinjie 1:47.13 Q 13 6 0 Kamil Sieradzki 1:47.25 Q 14 7 1 Guilherme Costa 1:47.28 Q 15 7 6 Felix Auböck 1:47.30 Q 16 5 6 Denis Loktev 1:47.37 Q 17 5 0 César Castro 1:47.40 18 7 2 Fernando Scheffer 1:47.42 19 7 0 Nándor Németh 1:47.52 20 4 4 Kregor Zirk 1:47.54 21 6 8 Velimir Stjepanović 1:47.55 22 5 1 Jorge Iga 1:47.56 22 5 8 Robin Hanson 1:47.56 24 7 8 Matteo Ciampi 1:47.65 25 5 2 Antonio Djakovic 1:47.67 26 5 7 Jack McMillan 1:47.85 27 6 9 Matthew Sates 1:47.98 28 4 6 Niko Janković 1:48.39 29 6 6 Marco De Tullio 1:48.46 30 7 9 Alfonso Mestre 1:48.74 31 4 5 Javier Acevedo 1:48.89 32 4 3 Khiew Hoe Yean 1:49.14 33 5 9 Sašo Boškan 1:49.66 34 4 2 Glen Lim Jun Wei 1:49.71 35 3 4 Ondrej Gemov 1:49.78 35 4 1 Wesley Roberts 1:49.78 37 3 5 František Jablcnik 1:50.88 38 6 7 Pan Zhanle 1:51.03 39 3 7 Tanish Mathew 1:51.68 40 2 5 Reds Rullis 1:52.42 41 4 0 Yordan Yanchev 1:52.43 42 3 1 Rafael Ponce 1:52.75 43 4 8 Max Mannes 1:52.76 44 2 3 Enkhtamir Batbayar 1:52.96 45 4 7 Dulyawat Kaewsriyong 1:53.01 46 4 9 Ngô Đình Chuyền 1:53.64 47 1 2 Alex Sobers 1:53.93 48 3 9 Matthieu Seye 1:54.16 49 1 3 Oliver Durand 1:54.22 50 3 2 Omar Abbass 1:54.28 51 3 8 Egor Covaliov 1:54.43 52 2 6 Henrique Mascarenhas 1:54.82 53 2 4 Anthony Piñeiro 1:55.85 54 2 2 Monyo Maina 1:56.15 55 3 3 James Richard Allison 1:56.18 56 2 7 Isaac Beitia 1:56.31 57 2 8 Nasir Hussain 1:56.39 NR 58 1 7 Zaid Al-Sarraj 1:57.85 59 2 0 Khaled Al-Otaibi 1:58.02 60 3 6 Ryan Barbe 1:58.07 61 2 1 Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh 1:58.24 62 3 0 Luka Kukhalashvili 1:58.79 63 2 9 Kaeden Gleason 1:59.66 64 1 4 Israel Poppe 2:02.60 65 1 5 Sangay Tenzin 2:04.13 66 1 6 Mohamed Shiham 2:06.32 67 1 1 Ali Abdulla Al-Nuaimi 2:07.82
Semifinals The semifinals were held on 12 February at 20:11.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Danas Rapšys 1:44.96 Q 2 2 7 Hwang Sun-woo 1:45.15 Q 3 2 4 Lukas Märtens 1:45.21 Q 4 2 3 Luke Hobson 1:45.53 Q 5 1 3 Elijah Winnington 1:45.90 Q 6 1 4 Rafael Miroslaw 1:45.95 Q 7 1 1 Guilherme Costa 1:46.06 Q 8 1 5 Duncan Scott 1:46.24 Q 9 2 6 Kai Taylor 1:46.37 10 1 6 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:46.53 11 2 2 Lucas Henveaux 1:46.75 12 1 7 Ji Xinjie 1:46.92 13 1 8 Denis Loktev 1:47.11 14 2 1 Kamil Sieradzki 1:47.33 15 1 2 Lee Ho-joon 1:47.38 16 2 8 Felix Auböck 1:48.03
Final The final was held on 13 February at 19:02.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Hwang Sun-woo 1:44.75 4 Danas Rapšys 1:45.05 6 Luke Hobson 1:45.26 4 3 Lukas Märtens 1:45.33 5 7 Rafael Miroslaw 1:45.84 6 8 Duncan Scott 1:45.86 7 2 Elijah Winnington 1:46.20 8 1 Guilherme Costa 1:46.87
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