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

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Men's 200m Individual Medley
at the 2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates14 December (heats and final)
Winning time1:49.63 WR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
  2010
2014  

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.

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Records

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

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record
Championship record
Ryan Lochte Flag of the United States.svg United States1:50.08 Dubai 17 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

DateEventNameNationTimeRecord
14 DecemberFinal Ryan Lochte Flag of the United States.svg United States1:49.63WR

Results

Heats

[1]

RankHeatLaneNameTimeNotes
144Flag of the United States.svg  Ryan Lochte  (USA)1:53.31Q
265Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Kenneth To  (AUS)1:53.57Q
364Flag of Japan.svg  Daiya Seto  (JPN)1:54.41Q
454Flag of Hungary.svg  László Cseh  (HUN)1:54.50Q
543Flag of the United States.svg  Conor Dwyer  (USA)1:54.67Q
652Flag of Sweden.svg  Simon Sjödin  (SWE)1:54.90Q, NR
766Flag of Portugal.svg  Diogo Carvalho  (POR)1:55.14Q
855Flag of Japan.svg  Kosuke Hagino  (JPN)1:55.41Q
945Flag of Israel.svg  Gal Nevo  (ISR)1:55.72
1063Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Travis Mahoney  (AUS)1:55.98
1141Flag of Poland.svg  Jan Świtkowski  (POL)1:56.16
1246Flag of Hungary.svg  Dávid Verrasztó  (HUN)1:56.22
1340Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Liu Weijia  (CHN)1:56.64
1451Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Aleksey Derlyugov  (UZB)1:57.51
1558Flag of Greece.svg  Andreas Vazaios  (GRE)1:57.90
1647Flag of Austria.svg  Jakub Maly  (AUT)1:57.98
1767Flag of Denmark.svg  Daniel Skaaning  (DEN)1:58.07
1835Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Lukas Räuftlin  (SUI)1:58.09 NR
1942Flag of Belarus.svg  Pavel Sankovich  (BLR)1:58.21
2062Flag of Russia.svg  Dmitry Zhilin  (RUS)1:58.24
2150Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Roberto Pavoni  (GBR)1:58.36
2260Flag of Poland.svg  Michal Poprawa  (POL)1:58.38
2357Flag of Belarus.svg  Yury Suvorau  (BLR)1:58.43
2432Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Jake Tapp  (CAN)1:58.45
2556Flag of Russia.svg  Viatcheslav Andrusenko  (RUS)1:58.69
2648Flag of South Africa.svg  Michael Meyer  (RSA)1:59.45
2753Flag of Brazil.svg  Thiago Simon  (BRA)1:59.68
2869Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Ieuan Lloyd  (GBR)1:59.90
2968Flag of Tunisia.svg  Taki Mrabet  (TUN)1:59.92
3061Flag of Denmark.svg  Victor Bromer  (DEN)1:59.95
3134Flag of Liechtenstein.svg  Christoph Meier  (LIE)2:01.25 NR
3231Flag of Singapore.svg  Quah Zheng Wen  (SIN)2:02.43 NR
3359Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Vasilii Danilov  (KGZ)2:03.26
3436Flag of Syria.svg  Ayman Klzie  (SYR)2:03.89
3537Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Jean Luis Gómez  (DOM)2:04.18
3633Flag of Singapore.svg  Pang Sheng Jun  (SIN)2:04.30
3738Flag of India.svg  Agnishwar Jayaprakash  (IND)2:05.62
3825Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg  Eliebenezer San Jose Wong  (NMI)2:05.84
3949Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Ng Chun Nam Derick  (HKG)2:06.05
4018Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Wu Peng  (CHN)2:06.99
4112Flag of Panama.svg  Charles Alexander Keller  (PAN)2:07.30
4224Flag of Gibraltar.svg  Colin Bensadon  (GIB)2:07.88
4323Flag of India.svg  Arvind Mani  (IND)2:08.77
4429Flag of Jordan.svg  Awse Ma'aya  (JOR)2:09.34
4522Flag of Chile.svg  Joaquin Sepulveda  (CHI)2:09.35
4630Flag of Namibia.svg  Quinton Delie  (NAM)2:10.05
4726Flag of Iraq.svg  Ameer Adnan Ali  (IRQ)2:14.07
4839Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  Obaid Al-Jasmi  (UAE)2:14.14
4928Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands.svg  Kensuke Kimura  (NMI)2:16.17
5014Flag of Mongolia.svg  Erdenemunkh Demuul  (MGL)2:18.00
5115Flag of Qatar.svg  Omar Omar  (QAT)2:19.96
5220Flag of Iraq.svg  Bakr Salam Ali  (IRQ)2:21.56
5313Flag of Albania.svg  Franc Aleksi  (ALB)2:30.34
5416Flag of Samoa.svg  Jamal Tamasese  (SAM)2:39.65
21Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mathieu Marquet  (MRI)DSQ
11Flag of Venezuela.svg  Luis Rafael Rojas Martinez  (VEN)DNS
17Flag of Estonia.svg  Pavel Naroskin  (EST)DNS
27Flag of Saint Lucia.svg  Jordan Augier  (LCA)DNS

Final

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

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Ryan Lochte Flag of the United States.svg United States1:49.63 WR
Silver medal icon.svg3 Daiya Seto Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:52.80
Bronze medal icon.svg6 László Cseh Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:52.89
45 Kenneth To Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia1:53.42
52 Conor Dwyer Flag of the United States.svg United States1:53.99
68 Kosuke Hagino Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:54.08
71 Diogo Carvalho Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1:55.63
87 Simon Sjödin Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:56.31

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