Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	29 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 30 July 2009 (final)
Competitors	102
Winning time	1 minute 54.10 seconds
Medalists
Ryan Lochte    United States   László Cseh    Hungary   Eric Shanteau    United States

The heats for the Men's 200 metre Individual Medley race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 29 July and the final took place in the evening session of 30 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The order of swimming in the medley was butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.

Records

World Record (WR)
1:54.23	Michael Phelps	Beijing	15 August 2008
Championship Record (CR)
1:54.98	Michael Phelps	Melbourne	29 March 2007

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.34	ER
2	10	4	Eric Shanteau	USA	1:57.65
3	10	7	Leith Brodie	Australia	1:57.66	OC
3	11	3	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:57.66	SA
5	11	4	Ryan Lochte	USA	1:57.94
6	9	5	James Goddard	Great Britain	1:58.40
7	9	3	Gergő Kis	Hungary	1:58.48
8	11	7	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:58.55	NR
9	11	5	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	1:58.60
10	11	6	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	1:58.81
11	11	0	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1:58.94	NR
12	10	5	Darian Townsend	South Africa	1:58.96
13	11	2	Henrique Rodrigues	Brazil	1:59.21
14	10	6	Takuro Fujii	Japan	1:59.26
15	9	8	Joseph Roebuck	Great Britain	1:59.65
16	7	3	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	1:59.95	NR
17	11	1	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:00.05
18	10	9	Tommaso D'Orsogna	Australia	2:00.31
19	9	2	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	2:00.32
20	10	3	Bradley Ally	Barbados	2:00.44
21	10	2	Fabien Horth	France	2:00.47
22	8	7	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	2:00.56	NR
23	11	9	Lukasz Wojt	Poland	2:00.72
24	11	8	Alan Cabello	Spain	2:00.73
25	9	1	Brenton Cabello	Spain	2:01.00
26	9	6	Romanos Alyfantis	Greece	2:01.06
27	8	1	Liu Weijia	China	2:01.11
28	10	8	Miguel Molina	Philippines	2:01.19
29	7	7	Martti Aljand	Estonia	2:01.26
30	9	7	Riaan Schoeman	South Africa	2:01.31
31	8	4	Saša Imprić	Croatia	2:01.41
32	10	0	Andrey Krylov	Russia	2:01.43
33	8	2	Chris Christensen	Denmark	2:01.62	NR
34	9	0	Mateusz Matczak	Poland	2:01.65
35	8	3	Jordan Hartney	Canada	2:01.69
36	7	6	Carlos Almeida	Portugal	2:01.78
37	8	6	Taki Mrabet	Tunisia	2:01.81
38	6	1	Niksa Roki	Croatia	2:01.86
39	8	9	Dmitriy Gordiyenko	Kazakhstan	2:02.20
40	9	9	Gard Kvale	Norway	2:02.29
41	8	8	Tomas Fucik	Czech Republic	2:02.60
41	10	1	Dinko Jukić	Austria	2:02.60
43	7	5	Dominik Dur	Austria	2:03.59
44	7	4	Sun Han	China	2:03.95
45	6	2	Anders McIntyre	Canada	2:04.67
46	7	1	Mehdi Hamama	Algeria	2:04.86
47	7	2	Raphael Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2:05.51
48	6	9	Pedro Pinotes	Angola	2:05.57
49	5	8	Saeid Maleka Ashtiani	Iran	2:05.96
50	4	4	Branden Whitehurst	Virgin Islands	2:06.05	NR
51	7	9	Serkan Atasay	Turkey	2:06.27
52	5	4	Rehan Poncha	India	2:06.29	NR
53	7	0	Ezequiel Trujillo	Mexico	2:06.30
54	4	7	Mindaugas Margis	Lithuania	2:06.99
55	5	7	Hocine Haciane	Andorra	2:07.46
56	6	8	Benjamin Guzman Blanco	Chile	2:07.50
57	5	6	Raul Lopez	Mexico	2:07.92
58	6	3	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	2:08.01
59	6	7	Robert Walsh	Philippines	2:08.37
60	5	3	Chien Jui-Ting	Chinese Taipei	2:08.87
61	4	2	Jean Luis Gomez	Dominican Republic	2:09.08	NR
62	5	1	Agnishwar Jayaprakash	India	2:09.11
63	5	5	Dmitriy Shvetsov	Uzbekistan	2:09.80
64	6	6	Radomyos Matjiur	Thailand	2:09.91
65	5	0	Giorgi Mtvralashvili	Georgia	2:10.12
66	5	2	Diego Castillo	Panama	2:10.37
67	4	6	Berrada Morad	Morocco	2:10.40
68	3	5	Nicholas James	Zimbabwe	2:10.42
69	3	6	Byron Briedenhann	Namibia	2:10.92
70	6	5	Pan Kai-Wen	Chinese Taipei	2:11.35
71	4	0	Obaid Al Jasmi	United Arab Emirates	2:11.62	NR
72	3	2	Ryan Nelthropp	Virgin Islands	2:12.22
73	4	3	Dmitrii Aleksandrov	Kyrgyzstan	2:12.57
74	7	8	Yury Zaharov	Kyrgyzstan	2:12.76
75	6	0	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	2:13.96
76	4	5	Rafael Alfaro	El Salvador	2:13.99
77	4	2	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	2:14.05
78	4	8	Roy Barahona	Honduras	2:14.18
79	4	9	Eli Ebenezer Wong	Northern Mariana Islands	2:14.96
80	5	9	Marzouq Alsalem	Kuwait	2:15.38
81	3	9	Vincent Perry	French Polynesia	2:16.89
82	3	3	Diguan Pigot	Suriname	2:18.08
83	3	7	Gary Pineda	Guatemala	2:18.90
84	2	7	Benjamin Gabbard	American Samoa	2:19.88
85	2	2	Jean Marie Froget	Mauritius	2:21.32
86	2	6	Andres Castillo	Panama	2:21.44
87	2	4	Pablo Navarrete	Nicaragua	2:21.45
88	2	0	Paul Elaisa	Fiji	2:21.51
89	3	1	Kareem Ennab	Jordan	2:21.72
90	2	8	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	2:25.76
91	2	9	Anthony Clark	French Polynesia	2:31.04
92	2	1	Jon Pepaj	Albania	2:35.67
93	1	4	Mohamed Mujahid	Maldives	2:40.58
94	1	3	Ching Maou Wei	American Samoa	2:55.40
95	1	5	Hassan Mubah	Maldives	2:57.09
–	1	6	Glenn Victor Sutanto	Indonesia	DNS
–	3	4	Erik Rajohnson	Madagascar	DNS
–	3	8	Endi Babi	Albania	DNS
–	3	0	Mubarak Al Besher	United Arab Emirates	DSQ
–	6	4	Aleksey Derlyugov	Uzbekistan	DSQ
–	8	0	Vadym Lepskyy	Ukraine	DSQ
–	8	5	Denys Dubrov	Ukraine	DSQ

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	3	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:55.18
1	2	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.18	ER
3	2	5	Leith Brodie	Australia	1:56.75	OC
4	1	3	James Goddard	Great Britain	1:57.12	NR
5	1	4	Eric Shanteau	United States	1:57.16
6	1	5	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:57.35	SA
7	2	2	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	1:58.09
8	2	6	Gergő Kis	Hungary	1:58.11
9	1	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:58.25	NR
10	1	2	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	1:58.33	NR
11	1	7	Darian Townsend	South Africa	1:58.50
12	1	1	Takuro Fujii	Japan	1:59.21
13	2	7	Yannick Lebherz	Germany	1:59.54
14	2	8	Joseph Roebuck	Great Britain	1:59.82
15	2	1	Henrique Rodrigues	Brazil	2:00.25
16	1	8	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	2:01.24

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:54.10	WR
02 !	5	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.24
03 !	2	Eric Shanteau	United States	1:55.36
4	7	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:55.55	SA
5	3	Leith Brodie	Australia	1:56.69	OC
6	6	James Goddard	Great Britain	1:57.93
7	1	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	1:58.02
8	8	Gergő Kis	Hungary	1:59.32

See also

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

External links

• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m IM Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds).
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m IM Semis, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds).
• Final Results