2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) were held on 12 December 2018.

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	12 December (heats and final)
Competitors	64
Winning time	1:41.49
Medalists
Blake Pieroni   United States   Danas Rapšys   Lithuania   Alexander Graham   Australia

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:39.37	Berlin	15 November 2009
Championship record	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	1:41.03	Windsor	7 December 2016

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 09:37.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	6	Alexander Graham	Australia	1:41.83	Q
2	5	5	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	1:42.13	Q
3	7	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:42.39	Q
4	6	3	Breno Correia	Brazil	1:42.64	Q
5	7	5	Ji Xinjie	China	1:42.70	Q
6	7	3	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:42.76	Q
7	6	5	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	1:42.77	Q
8	6	4	Blake Pieroni	United States	1:42.90	Q
9	6	6	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:43.16
10	5	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:43.19
11	5	3	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:43.40
12	5	2	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	1:43.74
13	6	0	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:43.76
14	6	7	Jack Gerrard	Australia	1:44.60
15	4	5	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:44.62
16	6	2	Markus Lie	Norway	1:44.88
17	7	2	Matteo Ciampi	Italy	1:44.89
18	5	1	Erge Gezmis	Turkey	1:45.20
19	4	7	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	1:45.24
19	7	7	Gustaf Dahlman	Sweden	1:45.24
21	4	0	Mark Szanarek	United Kingdom	1:45.39
22	7	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:45.47
23	7	6	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:45.51
24	7	1	Marc Sánchez	Spain	1:45.39
25	7	0	Daniel Hunter	New Zealand	1:45.83
26	4	3	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	1:46.21
27	5	8	Alexander Trampitsch	Austria	1:46.25
28	5	7	Shang Keyuan	China	1:46.36
29	4	8	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	1:47.00	NR
30	6	8	Fuyu Yoshida	Japan	1:47.07
31	6	9	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	1:47.38
32	4	9	Alex Sobers	Barbados	1:47.55	NR
33	4	6	Sajan Prakash	India	1:47.66	NR
34	6	1	Daniel Dudas	Hungary	1:47.84
35	5	9	Andrew Digby	Thailand	1:48.05
36	4	4	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	1:48.11
37	3	4	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	1:48.28
38	5	0	An Ting-Yao	Chinese Taipei	1:48.53
39	7	9	Igor Mogne	Mozambique	1:48.67
40	4	1	Cheuk Ming Ho	Hong Kong	1:48.82
41	4	2	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	1:50.19	NR
42	3	0	Mohammed Bedour	Jordan	1:50.29
43	3	6	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	1:50.52
44	2	4	Yeziel Miranda	Puerto Rico	1:50.73
45	3	2	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda	1:51.60	NR
46	3	1	Pedro Chiancone	Uruguay	1:52.07
47	3	5	Lin Sizhuang	Macau	1:53.32
48	2	9	Cristian Santi	San Marino	1:53.77
49	3	3	Matt Galea	Malta	1:53.91
50	2	0	Dean Hoffman	Seychelles	1:54.15	NR
51	3	7	Andrej Stojanoski	Macedonia	1:54.93
52	3	8	Amadou Ndiaye	Senegal	1:55.25
53	3	9	Azman Mohamed	Singapore	1:55.73
54	2	5	Kohen Kerr	Bahamas	1:56.62
55	2	2	Noel Keane	Palau	1:56.72
56	2	3	Firas Saidi	Qatar	1:57.14
57	2	6	Spiro Goga	Albania	1:57.86
58	1	4	Dren Ukimeraj	Kosovo	1:58.44
59	1	6	Cruz Halbich	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2:00.09
60	1	3	Daniel Scott	Guyana	2:00.84
61	2	7	Fadhil Saleh	Uganda	2:03.49
62	2	8	Aamir Motiwala	Pakistan	2:04.69
63	2	1	Lennosuke Suzuki	Northern Mariana Islands	2:06.54
64	1	5	Mubal Ibrahim	Maldives	2:09.57

Final

The final was held at 19:53.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8	Blake Pieroni	United States	1:41.49
	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:41.78
	4	Alexander Graham	Australia	1:42.28
4	2	Ji Xinjie	China	1:42.31
5	6	Breno Correia	Brazil	1:42.36
6	7	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:42.46
7	1	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	1:42.67
8	5	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	1:42.72