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

Men's 200m Individual Medley at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates	14 December 2012 (heats and final)
Winning time	1:49.63 WR
Medalists
Ryan Lochte    United States   Daiya Seto    Japan   László Cseh    Hungary
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2012 FINA World Swimming Championships
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 14 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome. The event was won by American Ryan Lochte. In the final, Lochte broke his own world record of 1:50.08 set in 2010 with a time of 1:49.63, thus becoming the first individual under 1:50 in the event.

Records[]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:50.08	Dubai	17 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
14 December	Final	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:49.63	WR

Results[]

Heats[]

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Ryan Lochte (USA)	1:53.31	Q
2	6	5	Kenneth To (AUS)	1:53.57	Q
3	6	4	Daiya Seto (JPN)	1:54.41	Q
4	5	4	László Cseh (HUN)	1:54.50	Q
5	4	3	Conor Dwyer (USA)	1:54.67	Q
6	5	2	Simon Sjödin (SWE)	1:54.90	Q, NR
7	6	6	Diogo Carvalho (POR)	1:55.14	Q
8	5	5	Kosuke Hagino (JPN)	1:55.41	Q
9	4	5	Gal Nevo (ISR)	1:55.72
10	6	3	Travis Mahoney (AUS)	1:55.98
11	4	1	Jan Świtkowski (POL)	1:56.16
12	4	6	Dávid Verrasztó (HUN)	1:56.22
13	4	0	Liu Weijia (CHN)	1:56.64
14	5	1	(UZB)	1:57.51
15	5	8	Andreas Vazaios (GRE)	1:57.90
16	4	7	(AUT)	1:57.98
17	6	7	Daniel Skaaning (DEN)	1:58.07
18	3	5	(SUI)	1:58.09	NR
19	4	2	Pavel Sankovich (BLR)	1:58.21
20	6	2	(RUS)	1:58.24
21	5	0	Roberto Pavoni (GBR)	1:58.36
22	6	0	(POL)	1:58.38
23	5	7	Yury Suvorau (BLR)	1:58.43
24	3	2	Jake Tapp (CAN)	1:58.45
25	5	6	Viatcheslav Andrusenko (RUS)	1:58.69
26	4	8	Michael Meyer (RSA)	1:59.45
27	5	3	Thiago Simon (BRA)	1:59.68
28	6	9	Ieuan Lloyd (GBR)	1:59.90
29	6	8	Taki M'Rabet (TUN)	1:59.92
30	6	1	(DEN)	1:59.95
31	3	4	Christoph Meier (LIE)	2:01.25	NR
32	3	1	Quah Zheng Wen (SIN)	2:02.43	NR
33	5	9	Vasilii Danilov (KGZ)	2:03.26
34	3	6	Ayman Klzie (SYR)	2:03.89
35	3	7	(DOM)	2:04.18
36	3	3	Pang Sheng Jun (SIN)	2:04.30
37	3	8	(IND)	2:05.62
38	2	5	(NMI)	2:05.84
39	4	9	(HKG)	2:06.05
40	1	8	Wu Peng (CHN)	2:06.99
41	1	2	(PAN)	2:07.30
42	2	4	Colin Bensadon (GIB)	2:07.88
43	2	3	(IND)	2:08.77
44	2	9	(JOR)	2:09.34
45	2	2	(CHI)	2:09.35
46	3	0	(NAM)	2:10.05
47	2	6	(IRQ)	2:14.07
48	3	9	Obaid Al-Jasmi (UAE)	2:14.14
49	2	8	(NMI)	2:16.17
50	1	4	(MGL)	2:18.00
51	1	5	(QAT)	2:19.96
52	2	0	(IRQ)	2:21.56
53	1	3	(ALB)	2:30.34
54	1	6	(SAM)	2:39.65
	2	1	Mathieu Marquet (MRI)	DSQ
	1	1	(VEN)	DNS
	1	7	(EST)	DNS
	2	7	Jordan Augier (LCA)	DNS

Final[]

The final was held at 21:04.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:49.63	WR
	3	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:52.80
	6	László Cseh	Hungary	1:52.89
4	5	Kenneth To	Australia	1:53.42
5	2	Conor Dwyer	United States	1:53.99
6	8	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:54.08
7	1	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	1:55.63
8	7	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	1:56.31

References[]

External links[]

• 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m): Men's 200 metre medley entry list Archived 2012-12-18 at the Wayback Machine, from OmegaTiming.com.