2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 200m IM
Competition:	2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates:	17 December 2010
Competitors:	57
Win Value:	1:50.08 WR
Gold:	Ryan Lochte
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Markus Rogan
Silvernoc:	AUT
Bronze:	Tyler Clary
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

See main article: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).

The Men's 200 Individual Medley (or "I.M.") at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum on 17 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 57 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning,^[1] from which the top-8 finishers advanced to swim again in the Final that evening.^[2]

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Darian Townsend		align=left	1:51.55	Berlin	15 December 2009
CR			align=left	1:51.56		11 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	8	4	1:53.39	Q
2	7	4	1:53.66	Q
3	7	3	1:53.96	Q
4	8	5	1:54.69	Q
5	8	3	1:54.80	Q
6	8	1	1:54.88	Q
7	6	5	1:55.14	Q
8	6	2	1:55.41	Q
9	8	6	1:55.43
10	7	5	1:55.47
11	7	6	1:55.87
12	6	8	1:56.00
13	7	1	1:56.11
14	5	6	1:56.17
15	4	5	1:56.21
16	8	2	1:56.29
17	7	7	1:56.35	NR
18	8	7	1:56.36
19	6	7	1:56.59
20	6	6	1:57.27
21	7	2	1:57.39
22	6	3	1:57.44
23	5	2	1:57.98
24	5	4	1:58.01
25	8	8	1:58.36
26	6	1	1:58.54
27	4	3	1:58.69
28	7	8	1:59.13
29	1	5	1:59.23
30	1	3	1:59.76
31	5	3	2:00.61
32	5	8	2:01.94	NR
33	5	7	2:02.74
34	3	4	2:02.82
35	3	3	2:03.17
36	5	1	2:03.31
37	4	2	2:03.64
38	4	1	2:04.44
39	5	5	2:05.20
40	2	5	2:06.93
41	3	5	2:07.13
42	3	1	2:07.60
43	4	6	2:07.88
44	4	7	2:08.64
45	4	4	2:08.68
46	3	2	2:09.77
47	3	7	2:11.50
48	3	6	2:12.57
49	3	8	2:13.32
50	2	4	2:15.03
51	4	8	2:15.31
52	2	3	2:20.53
53	2	7	2:25.29
54	2	2	2:25.44
–	1	4	DNS
–	2	6	DNS
–	6	4	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	4	1:50.08	WR
	5	1:52.90
	6	1:53.56
4	3	1:54.20
5	2	1:54.79
6	7	1:55.64
7	1	1:56.51
8	8	1:57.12

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley (heats). Omega Timing. 2010-12-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20110125004403/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_23_Heats_Men_200_Medley.pdf. 25 January 2011. dead.
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Men's 200 metre individual medley (final) . https://web.archive.org/web/20110125011238/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_123_Finals_1_Men_200_Medley.pdf . dead . 2011-01-25 . Omega Timing . 2010-12-17 .