2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley
# 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 December 2022.

## Records

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

| World record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:49.63 | Istanbul, Turkey | 14 December 2012 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Competition record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:49.63 | Istanbul, Turkey | 14 December 2012 |

## Results

### Heats

The heats were started at 12:51.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:51.76 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | Carson Foster | United States | 1:51.89 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | Finlay Knox | Canada | 1:52.50 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 1:52.52 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | Shaine Casas | United States | 1:52.52 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 6 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 1:52.83 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 5 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:52.98 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | So Ogata | Japan | 1:53.00 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Leonardo Coelho Santos | Brazil | 1:53.07 | |
| 10 | 3 | 4 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:53.08 | |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Tom Dean | Great Britain | 1:53.53 | |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Se-Bom Lee | Australia | 1:53.71 | |
| 13 | 3 | 2 | Carles Coll | Spain | 1:54.03 | |
| 14 | 4 | 7 | Kaloyan Bratanov | Bulgaria | 1:54.50 | NR |
| 15 | 4 | 6 | Caio Pumputis | Brazil | 1:54.65 | |
| 16 | 4 | 2 | Yakov Toumarkin | Israel | 1:54.95 | |
| 17 | 3 | 6 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | 1:54.96 | |
| 18 | 5 | 7 | Qin Haiyang | China | 1:54.98 | |
| 19 | 5 | 1 | Ronny Brännkärr | Finland | 1:55.33 | |
| 20 | 2 | 3 | Richard Nagy | Slovakia | 1:57.13 | NR |
| 21 | 4 | 8 | Hugo González | Spain | 1:57.27 | |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Tomas Peribonio | Ecuador | 1:57.32 | |
| 23 | 2 | 4 | Luan Grobbelaar | New Zealand | 1:57.38 | |
| 24 | 3 | 7 | Émilien Mattenet | France | 1:57.91 | |
| 25 | 3 | 8 | Jakub Bursa | Czech Republic | 1:58.01 | |
| 26 | 2 | 6 | Wang Hsing-hao | Chinese Taipei | 1:58.57 | |
| 27 | 2 | 7 | Erick Gordillo | Guatemala | 1:58.98 | NR |
| 28 | 3 | 1 | Maximillian Ang | Singapore | 1:59.11 | |
| 29 | 2 | 5 | Kristaps Miķelsons | Latvia | 1:59.49 | |
| 30 | 1 | 7 | Siva Sridhar | India | 1:59.80 | NR |
| 31 | 2 | 1 | Dulyawat Kaewsriyong | Thailand | 1:59.85 | NR |
| 32 | 2 | 2 | Hayden Kwan | Hong Kong | 1:59.91 | |
| 33 | 2 | 8 | Esteban Núñez | Bolivia | 2:01.44 | NR |
| 34 | 1 | 6 | Lin Sizhuang | Macau | 2:02.41 | NR |
| 35 | 1 | 5 | Liam O'Hara | Zimbabwe | 2:04.90 | |
| 36 | 1 | 3 | Mubal Azzam Ibrahim | Maldives | 2:19.77 | |
| 37 | 1 | 2 | Kinley Lhendup | Bhutan | 2:20.63 | |
| | 1 | 4 | Matheo Mateos | Paraguay | Disqualified | Disqualified |

### Final

The final was held at 20:32.

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 6 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 1:50.15 | AF |
| | 5 | Carson Foster | United States | 1:50.96 | |
| | 3 | Finlay Knox | Canada | 1:51.04 | NR |
| 4 | 2 | Shaine Casas | United States | 1:51.31 | |
| 5 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:51.39 | |
| 6 | 1 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:51.73 | |
| 7 | 7 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 1:53.19 | |
| 8 | 8 | So Ogata | Japan | 1:53.40 | |
