Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	10 August 2016 (heats & semifinals) 11 August 2016 (final)
Competitors	30 from 23 nations
Winning time	1:54.66
Medalists
Michael Phelps   United States Kosuke Hagino   Japan Wang Shun   China
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The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 10–11 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. ^[1]

Summary

As the most decorated Olympian of all-time, Michael Phelps continued to etch his name into the history records with a first Olympic four-peat in the same individual swimming event. Hanging with some of his career rivals at the final turn, Phelps established a body-length lead over the rest of the field on the freestyle leg to claim his 22nd gold medal and 26th overall in 1:54.66. ^{[2] [3] [4]} Trailing almost two seconds behind Phelps, Japan's Kosuke Hagino produced a late surge to snatch the silver with a 1:56.61. ^[5] Meanwhile, China's Wang Shun took home the bronze in 1:57.05, joining Hagino as the first Asian men to stand on the podium in this event. ^{[6] [7]}

Hagino's teammate Hiromasa Fujimori missed out of the medals with a fourth-place time in 1:57.21. Phelps' longtime rival and twelve-time medalist Ryan Lochte seized a brief lead into the halfway point with a signature backstroke swim, but faded down the home stretch to fifth, and missed out on his fourth straight medal in this event with a 1:57.47, a hundredth of a second ahead of Germany's Philip Heintz (1:57.48). ^[8] Backed by the raucous home crowd, Brazilian medal favorite Thiago Pereira, who got off to an early lead with a powerful butterfly effort, slipped to seventh with a 1:58.02. Great Britain's Daniel Wallace posted an eighth-place finish of 1:58.54 to round out the field. ^[7]

Records

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

World record	Ryan Lochte  (USA)	1:54.00	Shanghai, China	28 July 2011	[9] [10]
Olympic record	Michael Phelps  (USA)	1:54.23	Beijing, China	15 August 2008	[11]

Competition format

The competition consisted of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round. ^[1]

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:57.38	Q
2	2	6	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:57.59	Q, NR
3	4	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:58.41	Q
4	2	5	Henrique Rodrigues	Brazil	1:58.56	Q
5	4	5	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:58.63	Q
6	3	4	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:58.79	Q
7	4	3	Hiromasa Fujimori	Japan	1:58.88	Q
8	3	5	Wang Shun	China	1:58.98	Q
9	3	6	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:59.33	Q
10	4	6	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	1:59.41	Q
11	3	3	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	1:59.44	Q
12	2	1	Alexis Santos	Portugal	1:59.67	Q
	3	2	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland		Q
	4	2	Eduardo Solaeche	Spain		Q
15	4	7	Ieuan Lloyd	Great Britain	1:59.74	Q
16	4	8	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	1:59.77	Q
17	3	1	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:59.80
18	3	8	Semen Makovich	Russia	1:59.86
19	4	1	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2:00.17
20	2	2	Travis Mahoney	Australia	2:00.18
21	1	3	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2:00.21
22	1	4	Hu Yixuan	China	2:00.70
23	1	5	Emmanuel Vanluchene	Belgium	2:01.36
24	1	6	Uvis Kalniņš	Latvia	2:02.34
25	2	8	Mohamed Hussein	Egypt	2:02.36
26	1	7	Marko Blaževski	Macedonia	2:02.54
27	1	1	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	2:04.95
	2	3	Thomas Fraser-Holmes	Australia	DNS
	2	7	Federico Turrini	Italy	DNS
	3	7	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:57.38	Q
2	6	Wang Shun	China	1:58.12	Q
3	4	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:58.85	Q
4	5	Henrique Rodrigues	Brazil	1:59.23
5	7	Alexis Santos	Portugal	2:00.08
6	8	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	2:00.45
7	1	Eduardo Solaeche	Spain	2:00.47
8	2	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	2:00.81

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Michael Phelps	United States	1:55.78	Q
2	4	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:56.28	Q
3	3	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:57.11	Q
4	7	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	1:57.97	Q
5	6	Hiromasa Fujimori	Japan	1:58.20	Q
6	8	Ieuan Lloyd	Great Britain	1:59.49
7	2	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:59.54
8	1	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland	2:00.38

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:54.66
	6	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1:56.61
	7	Wang Shun	China	1:57.05
4	1	Hiromasa Fujimori	Japan	1:57.21
5	5	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:57.47
6	8	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:57.48	NR
7	3	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1:58.02
8	2	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	1:58.54

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