Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Dates	28 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) 29 March 2007 (final)
Competitors	79
Winning time	1 minute 54.98 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   Ryan Lochte    United States   László Cseh    Hungary
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The men's 200 metre individual medley (IM) at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28 March (heats and semifinals) and on the evening of 29 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 79 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 74 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 1:55.84, Michael Phelps (USA), 20 August 2006 in Victoria, Canada.
• Championship record (CR): 1:56.04, Michael Phelps (USA), Barcelona 2003 (25 July 2003)

Results[]

Finals[]

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Michael Phelps	USA	1:54.98	WR Splits: (24.96 / 53.58 / 1:27.47)
2	Ryan Lochte	USA	1:56.19
3	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.92
4	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:58.98
5	Brian Johns	Canada	1:59.46
6	Tamás Kerékjártó	Hungary	1:59.57
7	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	1:59.84
8	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:00.73

Semifinals[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Michael Phelps	USA	1:57.94	Q
2	Ryan Lochte	USA	1:58.48	Q
3	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:58.65	Q
4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:58.66	Q
5	Tamás Kerékjártó	Hungary	1:59.51	Q
6	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	2:00.05	Q
7	Brian Johns	Canada	2:00.25	Q
8	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:00.53	Q
9	Hidemasa Sano	Japan	2:00.57
10	Leith Brodie	Australia	2:00.77
11	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	2:00.81
12	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	2:01.83
13	Adam Lucas	Australia	2:02.33
14	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	2:02.39
15	Ioannis Kokkodis	Greece	2:02.69
16	Andrey Krylov	Russia	2:02.92

Heats[]

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1	Michael Phelps	USA	1:58.70	Q
2	László Cseh	Hungary	1:58.78	Q
3	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:59.39	Q
4	Brian Johns	Canada	1:59.45	Q
5	Tamás Kerékjártó	Hungary	1:59.67	Q
6	Ryan Lochte	USA	1:59.92	Q
7	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	2:00.21	Q
8	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:00.30	Q, NR
9	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	2:01.33	Q
10	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	2:01.37	Q
11	Ioannis Kokkodis	Greece	2:01.47	Q
12	Hidemasa Sano	Japan	2:01.55	Q
13	Leith Brodie	Australia	2:01.66	Q
14	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	2:01.80	Q
15	Adam Lucas	Australia	2:02.10	Q
16	Andrey Krylov	Russia	2:02.30	Q
17	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	2:02.41
18	Saša Imprić	Croatia	2:02.52
19	Gregor Tait	Great Britain	2:02.60
20	Dinko Jukić	Austria	2:02.84
21	Andre Schultz	Brazil	2:03.14
22	Gard Kvale	Norway	2:03.35
23	QU Jingyu	China	2:03.71
24	Miguel Molina	Philippines	2:03.73
25	Jeremy Knowles	Bahamas	2:04.20
26		Portugal	2:04.27
27	Tomas Fucik	Czech Republic	2:04.92
28	Martti Aljand	Estonia	2:04.94
29	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	2:05.34
30	Paulius Andrijauskas	Lithuania	2:05.59
31		Germany	2:05.83
32	Dmitriy Gordiyenko	Kazakhstan	2:06.59
33	Taki M'Rabet	Tunisia	2:07.04
		China
35	Carlos Almeida	Portugal	2:07.14
36		Colombia	2:07.26
37		Singapore	2:08.60
38	Radomyos Matjiur	Thailand	2:08.78
39	Vasilii Danilov	Kyrgyzstan	2:08.94
40	Andrei Zaharov	Moldova	2:08.96
41	Francisco Picasso Risso	Uruguay	2:10.18
42	Malick Fall	Senegal	2:10.23
43	Albert Cristiadi Sutanto	Indonesia	2:10.27
	Rehan Poncha	India
45		Peru	2:10.68
46	Iurii Zakharov	Kyrgyzstan	2:11.41
47		Guatemala	2:11.98
48		Uzbekistan	2:12.07
49		Morocco	2:12.51
50		Singapore	2:12.62
51		Virgin Islands	2:12.78
52	Yu An Lin	Chinese Taipei	2:13.00
53		Iran	2:13.30
54	Arjun Muralidharan	India	2:13.91
55		Peru	2:14.11
56		Uzbekistan	2:14.42
57	Diego Castillo Granados	Panama	2:15.28
58		Saudi Arabia	2:15.31
59		Morocco	2:15.71
60		Malaysia	2:15.84
61	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	2:16.12
62		Macao	2:19.07
63	Erik Rajohnson	Madagascar	2:20.78
64	Adil Baig	Pakistan	2:20.93
65	Eli Ebenezer Wong	Northern Mariana Islands	2:20.94
66		Saudi Arabia	2:22.25
67	Fernando Medrano Medina	Nicaragua	2:22.67
68		Gibraltar	2:23.88
69	Yellow Yeiyah	Nigeria	2:26.31
70	Zane Jordan	Zambia	2:26.34
71		Jordan	2:27.67
72	Eric Williams	Nigeria	2:28.70
73		Palestine	2:40.08
--	Wei Wen Wang	Chinese Taipei	DQ
--		Guam	DNS
--	Amar Shah	Kenya	DNS
--		Syria	DNS
--		Mexico	DNS
--	Romanos Alyfantis	Greece	DNS

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

References[]

• Men's 200m IM Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 Worlds); retrieved 10 April 2018.
• Men's 200m IM Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 Worlds); retrieved 10 April 2018.
• Men's 200m IM Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2007 Worlds); retrieved 10 April 2018.