2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200m Freestyle
at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Men's 200m Freestyle ; at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates	12 December (heats and final)
Winning time	1:41.92
Medalists
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The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 12 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

Prior to this 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	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:41.08	Dubai	15 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

88 swimmers participated in 10 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	9	6	Ryan Lochte (USA)	1:42.41	Q
2	9	5	Viatcheslav Andrusenko (RUS)	1:43.98	Q
3	10	4	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:44.05	Q
4	10	6	Matthew Stanley (NZL)	1:44.13	Q
5	9	4	Jarrod Killey (AUS)	1:44.33	Q
6	10	3	Conor Dwyer (USA)	1:44.61	Q
7	10	5	Dimitri Colupaev (GER)	1:44.84	Q
7	10	7	Ben Hockin (PAR)	1:44.84	Q, NR
9	8	0	Devon Myles Brown (RSA)	1:44.89
10	10	9	Leith Shankland (RSA)	1:44.91
11	9	3	Dominik Meichtry (SUI)	1:44.92
12	10	1	Dominik Kozma (HUN)	1:44.97
13	8	5	Fernando Santos (BRA)	1:45.11
14	2	7	Hao Yun (CHN)	1:45.13
15	10	2	Andrea D'Arrigo (ITA)	1:45.15
16	7	3	Ahmed Mathlouthi (TUN)	1:45.19
17	9	8	Anders Lie Nielsen (DEN)	1:45.45
18	9	1	Daniel Skaaning (DEN)	1:45.56
19	8	9	Velimir Stjepanović (SRB)	1:45.60
20	8	4	Artem Lobuzov (RUS)	1:45.67
20	8	1	Ieuan Lloyd (GBR)	1:45.67
22	8	2	Yuki Kobori (JPN)	1:45.86
23	8	6	Alex di Giorgio (ITA)	1:45.87
24	9	2	Kemal Arda Gürdal (TUR)	1:46.09
25	8	8	Lorys Bourelly (FRA)	1:46.90
26	7	5	Coleman Allen (CAN)	1:46.92
27	9	0	Serhiy Frolov (UKR)	1:47.02
28	8	3	Robert Renwick (GBR)	1:47.24
29	9	9	Doğa Çelik (TUR)	1:47.27
30	7	4	Kenta Hirai (JPN)	1:47.35
31	10	8	Ewan Jackson (NZL)	1:47.54
32	9	7	Vinicius Waked (BRA)	1:47.95
33	7	6	Arseni Kukharau (BLR)	1:48.68
34	7	7	Anton Goncharov (UKR)	1:48.86
35	7	1	Filip Zaborowski (POL)	1:48.87
36	6	5	Esteban Enderica (ECU)	1:49.10
37	6	3	Irakli Revishvili (GEO)	1:49.11
38	1	4	Shi Tengfei (CHN)	1:49.37
39	10	0	Thomas Gossland (CAN)	1:49.43
40	5	6	Jemal Le Grand (ARU)	1:50.93
41	7	0	Hoàng Quý Phước (VIE)	1:50.94
42	4	4	Pang Sheng Jun (SIN)	1:51.24	NR
43	7	2	Matthew Abeysinghe (SRI)	1:51.44
44	6	2	David Sikharulidze (GEO)	1:51.55
45	8	7	Gal Nevo (ISR)	1:51.80
46	6	1	Radhames Kalaf (DOM)	1:51.88	NR
47	6	8	Christoph Meier (LIE)	1:52.22
48	7	8	Arturo Pérez Vertti (MEX)	1:52.36
49	6	6	Khurshidjon Tursunov (UZB)	1:52.64
50	7	9	Stanislav Karnaukhov (KGZ)	1:52.70
51	6	7	Sobitjon Amilov (UZB)	1:52.86
52	2	0	Andrew Rutherfurd (BOL)	1:53.33	NR
53	5	5	José Montoya (CRC)	1:53.34
54	6	9	Andrew Chetcuti (MLT)	1:53.46	NR
55	2	8	Mohammed Madouh (KUW)	1:53.57	NR
56	2	1	Jessie Lacuna (PHI)	1:54.18
57	5	4	Welliam Maksi (SYR)	1:54.55
58	6	0	Jesús Monge (PER)	1:54.84
59	4	7	Sean Gunn (ZIM)	1:54.89
60	5	3	Quinton Delie (NAM)	1:55.46
61	5	9	Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou (CYP)	1:55.48
62	6	4	Aleksander Slepchenko (KGZ)	1:55.70
63	5	8	Edward Caruana Dingli (MLT)	1:55.82
64	4	3	Christian Selby (BAR)	1:56.01
65	4	5	Mathieu Marquet (MRI)	1:57.07
66	5	0	Fernando Medrano (NCA)	1:57.20
67	4	6	Ahmed Salam Al-Dulaimi (IRQ)	1:57.30
68	4	8	Paul Elaisa (FIJ)	1:57.54
69	3	5	Khader Baqleh (JOR)	1:58.41
70	3	4	Adam Viktora (SEY)	1:58.95
71	5	2	Jaywant Arcot Vijaykumar (IND)	1:59.36
72	5	7	Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane (SEN)	1:59.89
73	5	1	Johnny Rivera (GUM)	2:00.16
74	4	0	Anderson Lim (BRU)	2:00.74
75	4	1	Bakr Salam Ali (IRQ)	2.00.15
76	4	9	Michael Hitchcock (GIB)	2:00.82
77	3	6	Israr Hussain (PAK)	2:04.42
78	4	2	Oliver Quick (GIB)	2:04.72
79	3	3	Zachary Payne (COK)	2:05.34
80	3	7	Noah Al-Khulaifi (QAT)	2:07.02
81	3	0	Azim Azimov (TKM)	2:09.02
82	3	1	Franc Aleksi (ALB)	2:09.36
83	3	9	Sirish Gurung (NEP)	2:10.11
84	2	5	Brandon Schuster (SAM)	2:10.19
85	3	2	Farhan Farhan (BHR)	2:10.26
86	1	5	Mamadou Soumaré (MLI)	2:10.52
87	2	6	Shawn Wallace (PLW)	2:21.27
88	2	4	Naser Hassan (QAT)	2:24.20
	1	3	Daniele Tirabassi (VEN)	DNS
	2	2	Yousef Al-Askari (KUW)	DNS
	2	3	Nikolas Sylvester (VIN)	DNS
	3	8	Tano Pierre Claver Atta (CIV)	DNS

Final

The final was held at 19:00.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:41.92
	3	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:42.07
	7	Conor Dwyer	United States	1:43.78
4	2	Jarrod Killey	Australia	1:44.04
5	8	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	1:44.24	NR
6	6	Matthew Stanley	New Zealand	1:44.55
7	5	Viatcheslav Andrusenko	Russia	1:44.68
8	1	Dimitri Colupaev	Germany	1:45.38