2025 World Para Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

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The men's 200 metre individual medley events at the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships will be held at the Singapore Aquatic Centre between 21 and 27 September 2025 ^[1] . There are nine events over this distance, covering ten classifications.

Schedule

The 200 metre individual medley events for men will be held across the following schedule ^[1] :

men's 200 metre individual medley

Day	Date	Classifications
Day 1	21 Sept [2]	SM7
Day 2	22 Sept [3]	SM9; SM10
Day 3	23 Sept	SM6
Day 4	24 Spt	SM5; SM11
Day 5	25 Sept	SM14
Day 6	26 Sept	SM8
Day 7	27 Sept	SM13

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
SM5
SM6
SM7	Iñaki Basiloff   Argentina	Christian Sadie   South Africa	Aleksei Ganiuk   Individual Neutral Athletes
SM8
SM9	Timothy Hodge   Australia	Hector Denayer   France	Ugo Didier   France
SM10	Stefano Raimondi   Italy	Koehn Boyd   United States	Ihor Nimchenko   Ukraine
SM11
SM13
SM14

Race summaries

SM5

The men's 200 metre individual medley SM 5 event was held on 24 September. Fourteen swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows ^[4] :

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Guo Jincheng  (CHN)	2:46.55	2023-08-03	Manchester	Great Britain
Championship	Guo Jincheng  (CHN)	2:46.55	2023-08-03	Manchester	Great Britain
Americas	Daniel de Faria Dias  (BRA)	2:48.92	2011-04-29	Berlin	Germany
Asian	Guo Jincheng  (CHN)	2:46.55	2023-08-03	Manchester	Great Britain
European	Antoni Ponce Bertran  (ESP)	2:48.02	2020-12-06	Castellon	Spain

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes	Qtime
			Phuchit Aingchaiyaphum  (THA)	SM5			3:42.83
			Dmitrii Cherniaev  (AIN)	SM5			2:59.47
			Samuel Da Silva de Oliveira  (BRA)	SM5			3:05.39
			Tiago de Oliveira Ferreira  (BRA)	SM5			3:15.13
			Guo Jincheng  (CHN)	SM5			2:48.56
			Luis Huerta Poza  (ESP)	SM5			3:24.29
			Noam Katav  (ISR)	SM5			3:31.14
			Koral Berkin Kutlu  (TUR)	SM5			3:19.33
			Sebastian Massabie  (CAN)	SM5			3:37.12
			Artem Oliinyk  (UKR)	SM5			2:59.25
			Hubert Podgorski  (POL)	SM5			3:37.15
			Antoni Ponce Bertran  (ESP)	SM5			2:50.30
			Eigo Tanaka  (JPN)	SM5			3:11.87
			Ismail Zulfic  (BIH)	SM5			3:22.39

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes

SM6

The men's 200 metre individual medley SM6 event was held on 26 September. Twelve swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows ^[4] :

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Yang Hong  (CHN)	2:37.31	2024-08-30	Paris	France
Championship	Nelson Crispin Corzo  (COL)	2:39.96	2023-08-02	Manchester	Great Britain
African	Ahmed Ali  (EGY)	3:12.79	2021-06-20	Berlin	Germany
Americas	Nelson Crispin Corzo  (COL)	2:38.04	2024-08-30	Paris	France
Asian	Yang Hong  (CHN)	2:37.31	2024-08-30	Paris	France
European	Sascha Kindred  (GBR)	2:38.47	2016-09-12	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
Oceania	Hamish McLean  (NZL)	2:53.06	2019-09-11	London	Great Britain

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes	Qtime
			Nelson Crispin Corzo  (COL)	SM6			2:38.04
			Bruce Dee  (GBR)	SM6			2:43.40
			Talisson Henrique Glock  (BRA)	SM6			2:39.30
			Andrei Granichka  (AIN)	SM6			2:42.85
			Jesus Alberto Gutierrez  (MEX)	SM6			2:44.20
			Raul Gutierrez  (MEX)	SM6			2:48.23
			Bence Ivan  (HUN)	SM6			2:55.42
			Luo Yanbo  (CHN)	SM6			2:52.90
			Morgan Ray  (USA)	SM6			2:51.60
			Josue Rodrigo  (ESA)	SM6			3:13.21
			David Sanchez Sierra  (ESP)	SM6			2:52.57
			Yang Hong  (CHN)	SM6			2:37.31

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes

SM7

The men's 200 metre individual medley SM7 event was held on 21 September. Nine swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows ^[4] :

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Andrii Trusov  (UKR)	2:28.19	2023-07-31	Manchester	Great Britain
Championship	Andrii Trusov  (UKR)	2:28.19	2023-07-31	Manchester	Great Britain
African	Christian Sadie  (RSA)	2:35.02	2024-08-31	Paris	France
Americas	Carlos Daniel Serrano Zarate  (COL)	2:29.62	2023-07-31	Manchester	Great Britain
Asian	Wang Jingang  (CHN)	2:38.30	2016-09-13	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
European	Andrii Trusov  (UKR)	2:28.19	2023-07-31	Manchester	Great Britain
Oceania	Matthew Levy  (AUS)	2:36.99	2016-09-13	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Time	Note
1	1		Christian Sadie  (RSA)	2:36.36	Q
2	1		Inaki Basiloff  (ARG)	2:38.95	Q
3	1		Aleksei Ganiuk  (AIN)	2:44.64	Q
4	1		Riccardo Magrassi  (ITA)	2:48.85	Q
5	1		Xianquan Huang  (CHN)	2:49.68	Q
6	1		Federico Bicelli  (ITA)	2:56.87	Q
7	1		Jurijs Semjonovs  (LAT)	2:57.47	Q
8	1		Ernie Gawilan  (PHI)	3:02.17	Q
-	1		Egor Efrosinin  (AIN)	DSQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time	Note
		Inaki Basiloff  (ARG)	2:30.65
		Christian Sadie  (RSA)	2:34.03
		Aleksei Ganiuk  (AIN)	2:41.66
4		Federico Bicelli  (ITA)	2:42.80
5		Riccardo Magrassi  (ITA)	2:45.70
6		Xianquan Huang  (CHN)	2:48.32
7		Ernie Gawilan  (PHI)	3:00.60
8		Jurijs Semjonovs  (LAT)	3:01.45

SM8

The men's 200 metre individual medley SM 8 event was held on 26 September. Fourteen swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows ^[4] :

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Oliver Hynd  (GBR)	2:20.01	2016-09-17	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
Championship	Peter Leek  (AUS)	2:21.84	2010-08-15	Eindhoven	Netherlands
African	Jean-Jacques Terblanche  (RSA)	2:40.83	1996-08-17	Atlanta	United States of America
Americas	Robert Griswold  (USA)	2:22.72	2019-09-14	London	Great Britain
Asian	Xu Haijiao  (CHN)	2:20.19	2018-10-06	Jakarta	Indonesia
European	Oliver Hynd  (GBR)	2:20.01	2016-09-17	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
Oceania	Peter Leek  (AUS)	2:20.92	2008-09-11	Beijing	China

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes	Qtime
			Maksim Baskakov  (AIN)	SM8			2:38.85
			Azizbek Boynazarov  (UZB)	SM8			2:35.14
			Michal Golus  (POL)	SM8			2:38.41
			Noah Jaffe  (USA)	SM8			2:29.25
			Li Teng  (CHN)	SM8			2:34.90
			Liu Fengqi  (CHN)	SM8			2:30.39
			Carlos Martinez Fernandez  (ESP)	SM8			2:31.04
			Reid Maxwell  (CAN)	SM8			2:30.12
			Dimosthenis Michalentzakis  (GRE)	SM8			2:25.97
			Kotaro Ogiwara  (JPN)	SM8			2:28.90
			Andreas Onea  (AUT)	SM8			2:31.22
			Callum Simpson  (AUS)	SM8			2:32.09
			Evgenii Stepanov  (AIN)	SM8			2:36.02
			Turgut Aslan Yaraman  (TUR)	SM8			2:32.28

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes

SM9

The men's 200 metre individual medley SM 9 event was held on 22 September. Fifteen swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows ^[4] :

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Timothy Hodge  (AUS)	2:12.03	2024-06-12	Brisbane	Australia
Championship	Timothy Hodge  (AUS)	2:12.74	2023-08-01	Manchester	Great Britain
African	Matthew Moss  (RSA)	2:34.69	2023-11-10	Cairo	Egypt
Americas	Cody Bureau  (USA)	2:20.13	2014-08-09	Pasadena	United States
Asian	Guo Zhi  (CHN)	2:19.35	2010-08-16	Eindhoven	Netherlands
European	Andrei Kalina  (RUS)	2:14.90	2021-09-01	Tokyo	Japan
Oceania	Timothy Hodge  (AUS)	2:12.06	2023-04-20	Southport	Australia

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Timothy Hodge  (AUS)	SM9	2:18.59	Q
2	1	4	Ugo Didier  (FRA)	SM9	2:20.05	Q
3	1	6	Xie Zhili  (CHN)	SM9	2:20.93	Q
4	1	3	Jian Wang Escanilla Candial  (ESP)	SM9	2:20.96	Q
5	2	5	Hector Denayer  (FRA)	SM9	2:21.96	Q
6	2	6	Maurice Wetekam  (GER)	SM9	2:22.98	Q
7	2	7	Sam de Visser  (BEL)	SM9	2:23.21	Q
8	1	5	Bogdan Mozgovoi  (AIN)	SM9	2:24.45	Q
9	2	2	Jonas Kesnar  (CZE)	SM9	2:25.27
10	1	2	Taiyo Kawabuchi  (JPN)	SM9	2:26.22
11	2	1	Victor dos Santos Almeida  (BRA)	SM9	2:26.65
12	1	1	Óscar Salguero  (ESP)	SM9	2:27.41
13	2	8	Abolfazl Zarif Pouresmaeilyazdi  (IRI)	SM9	2:34.13
14	2	3	Andrei Kalina  (AIN)	SM9	2:34.83
15	1	7	Jacobo Garrido Brun  (ESP)	SM9	2:38.04

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	4	Timothy Hodge  (AUS)	SM9	2:14.49
	2	Hector Denayer  (FRA)	SM9	2:15.63
	5	Ugo Didier  (FRA)	SM9	2:15.64
4	8	Bogdan Mozgovoi  (AIN)	SM9	2:18.92
5	6	Jian Wang Escanilla Candial  (ESP)	SM9	2:19.51
6	3	Xie Zhili  (CHN)	SM9	2:20.78
7	7	Maurice Wetekam  (GER)	SM9	2:23.85
8	1	Sam de Visser  (BEL)	SM9	2:24.34

SM10

The men's 200 metre individual medley SM10 event was held on 25 September. Fifteen swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows ^[4] :

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Denys Dubrov  (UKR)	2:05.63	2018-08-18	Dublin	Ireland
Championship	Maksym Krypak  (UKR)	2:06.13	2019-09-10	London	Great Britain
African	Kevin Paul  (RSA)	2:14.97	2012-08-30	London	Great Britain
Americas	Benoit Huot  (CAN)	2:10.01	2012-08-30	London	Great Britain
Asian	Akito Minai  (JPN)	2:18.03	2024-03-10	Fuji	Japan
European	Denys Dubrov  (UKR)	2:05.63	2018-08-18	Dublin	Ireland
Oceania	Rick Pendleton  (AUS)	2:12.78	2008-09-11	Beijing	China

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
1	1	4	Koehn Boyd  (USA)	SM10	2:13.96	Q
2	2	5	Col Pearse  (AUS)	SM10	2:15.95	Q
3	2	4	Stefano Raimondi  (ITA)	SM10	2:16.72	Q
4	2	7	Fernando Lu  (CAN)	SM10	2:16.73	Q
5	1	2	Alex Saffy  (AUS)	SM10	2:17.66	Q
6	2	3	Riccardo Menciotti  (ITA)	SM10	2:18.26	Q
7	2	6	Tomas Cordeiro  (POR)	SM10	2:18.69	Q
8	1	5	Ihor Nimchenko  (UKR)	SM10	2:19.01	Q
9	1	6	Alan Ogorzalek  (POL)	SM10	2:20.25
10	2	2	Alec Elliot  (CAN)	SM10	2:22.31
11	1	3	Artem Isaev  (AIN)	SM10	2:22.70
12	1	7	Tadeas Strasik  (CZE)	SM10	2:23.07
13	2	1	Zhang Yunxiang  (CHN)	SM10	2:23.15

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes
	3	Stefano Raimondi  (ITA)	SM10	2:10.28
	4	Koehn Boyd  (USA)	SM10	2:10.85
	8	Ihor Nimchenko  (UKR)	SM10	2:12.67
4	5	Col Pearse  (AUS)	SM10	2:13.25
5	2	Alex Saffy  (AUS)	SM10	2:15.02
6	7	Riccardo Menciotti  (ITA)	SM10	2:15.46
7	6	Fernando Lu  (CAN)	SM10	2:18.05
8	1

SM13

The men's 200 metre individual medley SM13 event was held on 27 September. Eleven swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final ^[1] . The event was open to SM12 classified swimmers.

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows ^[4] :

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
SM12
World	Danylo Chufarov  (UKR)	2:10.87	2013-08-14	Montreal	Canada
Championship	Danylo Chufarov  (UKR)	2:10.87	2013-08-14	Montreal	Canada
African	Hendri Herbst  (RSA)	2:52.11	2010-08-15	Eindhoven	Netherlands
Americas	Tucker Dupree  (USA)	2:18.67	2010-08-15	Eindhoven	Netherlands
Asian	Dmitriy Horlin  (UZB)	2:14.20	2018-10-08	Jakarta	Indonesia
European	Danylo Chufarov  (UKR)	2:10.87	2013-08-14	Montreal	Canada
Oceania	Braedan Jason  (AUS)	2:19.29	2019-02-17	Melbourne	Australia
SM13
World	Ihar Boki  (IPC)	2:02.03	2024-09-03	Paris	France
Championship	Ihar Boki  (BLR)	2:03.79	2013-08-12	Montreal	Canada
African	Nathan Hendricks  (RSA)	2:17.15	2024-09-03	Paris	France
Americas	David Henry Abrahams  (USA)	2:12.67	2021-08-30	Tokyo	Japan
Asian	Kirill Pankov  (UZB)	2:15.30	2015-07-14	Glasgow	Great Britain
European	Ihar Boki  (IPC)	2:02.03	2024-09-03	Paris	France
Oceania	Sean Russo  (AUS)	2:14.43	2013-08-12	Montreal	Canada

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes	Qtime
			Taliso Engel  (GER)	SM13			2:13.10
			Timofei Guk  (AIN)	SM12			2:13.17
			Philip Hebmueller  (GER)	SM13			2:17.47
			Nathan Hendricks  (RSA)	SM13			2:15.54
			Yauheni Kavalionak  (AIN)	SM13			2:22.87
			Stepan Lisitskii  (AIN)	SM13			2:20.83
			Alex Portal  (FRA)	SM13			2:06.66
			Genki Saito  (JPN)	SM13			2:16.62
			Egor Shchitkovskii  (AIN)	SM13			2:12.65
			Alex Villarejo Martin  (ESP)	SM12			2:22.30
			Nurdaulet Zhumagali  (KAZ)	SM12			2:19.12

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes

SM14

The men's 200 metre individual medley SM14 event was held on 25 September. Fifteen swimmers will take part, with the top eight progressing to the final. ^[1]

The relevant records at the beginning of the event were as follows ^[4] :

Record	Athlete	Time	Date	City	Country
World	Nicholas Bennett  (CAN)	2:05.97	2024-05-17	Toronto	Canada
Championship	Gabriel Bandeira  (BRA)	2:07.50	2022-06-16	Funchal	Portugal
African	Record Mark  (IPC)	2:12.36
Americas	Nicholas Bennett  (CAN)	2:05.97	2024-05-17	Toronto	Canada
Asian	Dai Tokairin  (JPN)	2:08.16	2019-09-14	London	Great Britain
European	Dmytro Vanzenko  (UKR)	2:07.98	2024-04-25	Funchal	Portugal
Oceania	Ricky Betar  (AUS)	2:08.69	2024-09-04	Paris	France

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes	Qtime
			Gabriel Bandeira  (BRA)	SM14			2:08.66
			Nicholas Bennett  (CAN)	SM14			2:05.97
			Rodion Berdnik  (AIN)	SM14			2:10.60
			Ricky Betar  (AUS)	SM14			2:08.69
			Dylan Broom  (GBR)	SM14			2:13.44
			Joao Brutos  (BRA)	SM14			2:15.85
			Rhys Darbey  (GBR)	SM14			2:08.49
			Nader Khalili  (FIN)	SM14			2:17.75
			Vasyl Krainyk  (UKR)	SM14			2:12.58
			Natirat Meeprom  (THA)	SM14			2:15.51
			Shunya Murakami  (JPN)	SM14			2:17.65
			Asher Smith-Franklin  (NZL)	SM14			2:16.06
			Cameron Vearncombe  (GBR)	SM14			2:08.95
			Arthur Xavier Ribeiro  (BRA)	SM14			2:15.47
			Naohide Yamaguchi  (JPN)	SM14			2:09.33

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Class	Result	Notes

References

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