2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 16 December 2021.

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Etihad Arena
Location	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates	16 December (heats and final)
Competitors	36 from 32 nations
Winning time	1:51.15
Medalists
Daiya Seto   Japan   Carson Foster   United States   Alberto Razzetti   Italy

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:49.63	Istanbul	14 December 2012

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 12:04.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:52.38	Q
2	3	1	Carson Foster	United States	1:52.59	Q
3	3	5	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:53.19	Q
4	3	4	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:53.38	Q
5	2	4	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:53.74	Q
6	2	6	Wang Shun	China	1:53.95	Q
7	3	3	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:53.97	Q
8	2	7	Kieran Smith	United States	1:54.01	Q
9	2	5	Finlay Knox	Canada	1:54.22
10	4	3	Caio Pumputis	Brazil	1:54.57
11	2	3	Leonardo Coelho Santos	Brazil	1:54.63
12	3	6	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	1:54.81
13	4	6	Daniil Pasynkov	Russian Swimming Federation	1:55.02
14	4	2	Mohamed Samy	Egypt	1:55.74	NR
15	4	7	Berke Saka	Turkey	1:55.87
16	3	0	Mewen Tomac	France	1:55.93
17	2	0	Kaloyan Bratanov	Bulgaria	1:56.28	NR
18	2	2	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.64
19	3	2	Hugo González	Spain	1:57.00
20	4	8	Gábor Zombori	Hungary	1:57.07
21	1	4	Jack McMillan	Ireland	1:57.13
22	3	8	Vadym Naumenko	Ukraine	1:57.61
23	1	5	Mark Munzer Kabbara	Lebanon	1:57.64	NR
24	2	1	Héctor Ruvalcaba	Mexico	1:58.17
25	4	9	Miguel Cancel	Puerto Rico	1:58.86	NR
26	4	1	Qin Haiyang	China	1:59.04
27	2	9	Trần Hưng Nguyên	Vietnam	1:59.82
28	2	8	Ronens Kermans	Latvia	2:02.35
29	3	9	Keanan Dols	Jamaica	2:04.50
30	1	6	Tasi Limtiaco	Federated States of Micronesia	2:05.06
31	1	3	Thomas Wareing	Malta	2:05.12
32	1	0	Abdulrahman Al-Kulaibi	Oman	2:09.84
33	1	2	José Manuel Campo	El Salvador	2:10.12
34	1	7	Ahmed Al-Mutairy	Iraq	2:11.05
35	1	1	Nasir Yahya Hussain	Nepal	2:11.85	NR
36	1	8	Kinley Lhendup	Bhutan	2:24.08
	3	7	Maximillian Ang	Singapore	DNS
	4	0	Noè Ponti	Switzerland
	4	5	Tomoe Hvas	Norway

Final

The final was held at 19:33.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:51.15
	5	Carson Foster	United States	1:51.35
	3	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:51.54	NR
4	6	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:51.94
5	7	Wang Shun	China	1:53.41
6	8	Kieran Smith	United States	1:53.76
7	2	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:54.08
8	1	Yakov Toumarkin	Israel	1:54.61