The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events

Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming portion of the 2011 FINA World Championships was held July 24–31 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. Swimming is one of five aquatic disciplines at the championships.-Qualifying criteria:...

 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

Ryan Lochte

Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...

 and Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...

, 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

László Cseh

László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes...

 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	Date
World record Championship record	Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...		1:54.10	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...	July 30, 2009

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	WR	CR
July 28, 2011	Final	Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...		1:54.00	WR	CR

Heats

47 swimmers participated in 6 heats.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Thiago Pereira Thiago Pereira Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira is an international competition swimmer from Brazil. He became known in his native country after winning the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2003.Pereira's biggest success came one year...		1:57.82	Q
2	4	1	Dávid Verrasztó Dávid Verrasztó Dávid Verrasztó is a Hungarian swimmer.His father and coach, Zoltán Verrasztó, and his sister, Evelyn Verrasztó are also swimmers.-References:* http://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=athleteDetail&athleteId=1546744...		1:58.69	Q
3	4	7	Kenneth To Kenneth To Kenneth To is an Australian swimmer who has represented Australia at a number of International Youth and Open Swimming events....		1:59.02	Q
4	6	4	Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...		1:59.04	Q
5	4	5	Markus Rogan Markus Rogan Markus Antonius Rogan is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester...		1:59.22	Q
6	6	2	Yuya Horihata Yuya Horihata -References:*...		1:59.25	Q
7	6	1	Vytautas Janušaitis Vytautas Janušaitis Vytautas Janušaitis is an Olympic swimmer from Lithuania, who represented his home country at the 2004 and 2008 Games.He has swam at every edition of the SC Europeans from 2004-'08....		1:59.43	Q, NR
8	5	4	Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...		1:59.48	Q
9	4	2	Diogo Carvalho Diogo Carvalho Diogo Carvalho is a Portuguese swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the discipline 200 metre individual medley. He currently holds 9 individual national records, 7 short course and 3 long course...		1:59.51	Q, NR
10	4	3	Henrique Rodrigues		1:59.54	Q
11	5	5	James Goddard James Goddard James Francis Goddard is a British backstroke swimmer.Goddard represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley swimming events...		1.59.68	Q
12	4	8	Marcin Cieslak		1:59.77	Q, NR
13	6	5	László Cseh László Cseh László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes...		1:59.80	Q
14	5	6	Darian Townsend Darian Townsend Darian Roy Townsend is a college and international swimmer from South Africa who is an Olympic gold medalist.Townsend was born in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....		1:59.97	Q
15	6	7	Gal Nevo Gal Nevo Gal Nevo is an Israeli swimmer who holds three Israeli records in the 200m IM, 400m IM and 200m butterfly. He represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Nevo is Jewish....		1:59.98	Q
16	6	6	Jan David Schepers		1:59.99	Q
17	5	8	Bradley Ally Bradley Ally Bradley Kevin Ally is a two-time Olympic swimmer from Barbados. He represented Barbados at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. He was the bronze medalist in the 200-metre individual medley at the Pan-American Games in Brazil 2007...		2:00.03
18	5	2	Wang Shun		2:00.12
19	6	3	Yuya Roebuck		2:00.42
20	3	1	Raphael 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 Tarczynski		2:01.14
24	3	7	Taki M'Rabet		2:01.44
25	5	7	Simon Sjödin Simon Sjödin Simon Sjödin is a Swedish Olympic swimmer of the SK Neptun, represented Sweden at the 2008 Olympic Games.-Biography:Simon Sjödin was born 4 October 1986 in, to parents Kristina and Omar....		2:01.60
26	3	3	Martin Liivamägi Martin Liivamägi Martin Liivamägi is an Estonian individual medley swimmer. Liivamägi is representing 2008 Estonia Olympics Team in Men's 200 metre individual medley swimming event.-External links:*...		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	Niksa Roki		2:03.89
31	6	8	Federico Turrini		2:04.35
32	2	3	Omar Pinzón Omar Pinzón Omar Andrés Pinzón García is a Colombian international swimmer. He competed at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece and 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Pinzón attended college in the United States, where he swam for the University of Florida.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pinzón finished...		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 Hocine Haciane Hocine Haciane is a swimmer who represented Andorra at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, then in Beijing in 2008. He was also the flag bearer for Andorra.-References:***...		2:07.14
37	1	1	Irakli Bolkvadze		2:07.29
38	2	1	Vasilii Danilov Vasilii Danilov Vasilii Danilov is an Olympic swimmer from Kyrgyzstan. He swam for the country at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.He also swam at the 2007 World Championships.-References:...		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
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 Dinko Jukic Dinko Jukić is a male medley and butterfly swimmer from Austria of Croatian origin. He competed for Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in tenth place in the men's 200 m butterfly event. He is the younger brother of swimmer Mirna Jukić.-References:*...			DNS

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...		1:56.74	Q
2	6	Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...		1:57.26	Q
3	3	Yuya Horihata Yuya Horihata -References:*...		1:59.47	Q
4	1	Darian Townsend Darian Townsend Darian Roy Townsend is a college and international swimmer from South Africa who is an Olympic gold medalist.Townsend was born in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....		1:59.49
5	8	Jan David Schepers		1:59.83
6	2	Henrique Rodrigues		2:00.04
7	4	Dávid Verrasztó Dávid Verrasztó Dávid Verrasztó is a Hungarian swimmer.His father and coach, Zoltán Verrasztó, and his sister, Evelyn Verrasztó are also swimmers.-References:* http://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=athleteDetail&athleteId=1546744...		2:00.05
8	7	Marcin Cieslak		2:01.65

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	László Cseh László Cseh László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes...		1:57.66	Q
2	3	Markus Rogan Markus Rogan Markus Antonius Rogan is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester...		1:57.74	Q, NR
3	4	Thiago Pereira Thiago Pereira Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira is an international competition swimmer from Brazil. He became known in his native country after winning the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2003.Pereira's biggest success came one year...		1:58.27	Q
4	7	James Goddard James Goddard James Francis Goddard is a British backstroke swimmer.Goddard represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley swimming events...		1:58.50	Q
5	5	Kenneth To Kenneth To Kenneth To is an Australian swimmer who has represented Australia at a number of International Youth and Open Swimming events....		1:59.17	Q
6	6	Vytautas Janušaitis Vytautas Janušaitis Vytautas Janušaitis is an Olympic swimmer from Lithuania, who represented his home country at the 2004 and 2008 Games.He has swam at every edition of the SC Europeans from 2004-'08....		1:59.51
7	8	Gal Nevo Gal Nevo Gal Nevo is an Israeli swimmer who holds three Israeli records in the 200m IM, 400m IM and 200m butterfly. He represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Nevo is Jewish....		1:59.67
8	2	Diogo Carvalho Diogo Carvalho Diogo Carvalho is a Portuguese swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the discipline 200 metre individual medley. He currently holds 9 individual national records, 7 short course and 3 long course...		1:59.80

Final

The final was held at 18:13.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ryan Lochte Ryan Lochte Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...		1:54.00	WR
	5	Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...		1:54.16
	3	László Cseh László Cseh László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes...		1:57.69
4	7	James Goddard James Goddard James Francis Goddard is a British backstroke swimmer.Goddard represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200 m backstroke and 200 m individual medley swimming events...		1:57.79
5	6	Markus Rogan Markus Rogan Markus Antonius Rogan is an Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Championships in Manchester...		1:58.14
6	2	Thiago Pereira Thiago Pereira Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira is an international competition swimmer from Brazil. He became known in his native country after winning the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2003.Pereira's biggest success came one year...		1:59.00
7	1	Kenneth To Kenneth To Kenneth To is an Australian swimmer who has represented Australia at a number of International Youth and Open Swimming events....		1:59.26
8	8	Yuya Horihata Yuya Horihata -References:*...		1:59.52

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.