Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	12 December (heats and final)
Competitors	64
Winning time	1:41.49
Medalists
Blake Pieroni    United States   Danas Rapšys    Lithuania   Alexander Graham    Australia
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2018 FINA World Swimming Championships
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×50 m	freestyle	medley
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The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) were held on 12 December 2018.^[1]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:39.37	Berlin	15 November 2009
Championship record	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	1:41.03	Windsor	7 December 2016

The heats were started at 09:37.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	6	Alexander Graham	Australia	1:41.83	Q
2	5	5	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	1:42.13	Q
3	7	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:42.39	Q
4	6	3	Breno Correia	Brazil	1:42.64	Q
5	7	5	Ji Xinjie	China	1:42.70	Q
6	7	3	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:42.76	Q
7	6	5	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	1:42.77	Q
8	6	4	Blake Pieroni	United States	1:42.90	Q
9	6	6	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:43.16
10	5	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:43.19
11	5	3	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:43.40
12	5	2	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	1:43.74
13	6	0	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:43.76
14	6	7	Jack Gerrard	Australia	1:44.60
15	4	5	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:44.62
16	6	2	Markus Lie	Norway	1:44.88
17	7	2	Matteo Ciampi	Italy	1:44.89
18	5	1	Erge Gezmis	Turkey	1:45.20
19	4	7	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	1:45.24
19	7	7	Gustaf Dahlman	Sweden	1:45.24
21	4	0	Mark Szanarek	United Kingdom	1:45.39
22	7	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:45.47
23	7	6	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:45.51
24	7	1	Marc Sánchez	Spain	1:45.39
25	7	0	Daniel Hunter	New Zealand	1:45.83
26	4	3	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	1:46.21
27	5	8	Alexander Trampitsch	Austria	1:46.25
28	5	7	Shang Keyuan	China	1:46.36
29	4	8	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	1:47.00	NR
30	6	8	Fuyu Yoshida	Japan	1:47.07
31	6	9	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	1:47.38
32	4	9	Alex Sobers	Barbados	1:47.55	NR
33	4	6	Sajan Prakash	India	1:47.66	NR
34	6	1	Daniel Dudas	Hungary	1:47.84
35	5	9	Andrew Digby	Thailand	1:48.05
36	4	4	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	1:48.11
37	3	4	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	1:48.28
38	5	0	An Ting-Yao	Chinese Taipei	1:48.53
39	7	9	Igor Mogne	Mozambique	1:48.67
40	4	1	Cheuk Ming Ho	Hong Kong	1:48.82
41	4	2	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	1:50.19	NR
42	3	0	Mohammed Bedour	Jordan	1:50.29
43	3	6	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	1:50.52
44	2	4	Yeziel Miranda	Puerto Rico	1:50.73
45	3	2	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda	1:51.60	NR
46	3	1	Pedro Chiancone	Uruguay	1:52.07
47	3	5	Lin Sizhuang	Macau	1:53.32
48	2	9	Cristian Santi	San Marino	1:53.77
49	3	3	Matt Galea	Malta	1:53.91
50	2	0	Dean Hoffman	Seychelles	1:54.15	NR
51	3	7	Andrej Stojanoski	Macedonia	1:54.93
52	3	8	Amadou Ndiaye	Senegal	1:55.25
53	3	9	Azman Mohamed	Singapore	1:55.73
54	2	5	Kohen Kerr	Bahamas	1:56.62
55	2	2	Noel Keane	Palau	1:56.72
56	2	3	Firas Saidi	Qatar	1:57.14
57	2	6	Spiro Goga	Albania	1:57.86
58	1	4	Dren Ukimeraj	Kosovo	1:58.44
59	1	6	Cruz Halbich	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2:00.09
60	1	3	Daniel Scott	Guyana	2:00.84
61	2	7	Fadhil Saleh	Uganda	2:03.49
62	2	8	Aamir Motiwala	Pakistan	2:04.69
63	2	1	Lennosuke Suzuki	Northern Mariana Islands	2:06.54
64	1	5	Mubal Ibrahim	Maldives	2:09.57

The final was held at 19:53.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	8	Blake Pieroni	United States	1:41.49
	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:41.78
	4	Alexander Graham	Australia	1:42.28
4	2	Ji Xinjie	China	1:42.31
5	6	Breno Correia	Brazil	1:42.36
6	7	Martin Malyutin	Russia	1:42.46
7	1	Mikhail Vekovishchev	Russia	1:42.67
8	5	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	1:42.72