Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	2009 FINA World Championships
Venue:	Foro Italico
Dates:	29 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 30 July 2009 (final)
Competitors:	102
Win Value:	1:54.10
Gold:	Ryan Lochte
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	László Cseh
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Eric Shanteau
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2007
Next:	2011

The heats for the Men's 200 metre Individual Medley race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 29 July and the final took place in the evening session of 30 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The order of swimming in the medley was butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.

Records

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

World record		1:54.23	Beijing, China	align=right	15 August 2008
Championship record		1:54.98	Melbourne, Australia	align=right	29 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	9	4	1:56.34	ER
2	10	4	1:57.65
3	10	7	1:57.66	OC
3	11	3	1:57.66	SA
5	11	4	1:57.94
6	9	5	1:58.40
7	9	3	1:58.48
8	11	7	1:58.55	NR
9	11	5	1:58.60
10	11	6	1:58.81
11	11	0	1:58.94	NR
12	10	5	1:58.96
13	11	2	1:59.21
14	10	6	1:59.26
15	9	8	1:59.65
16	7	3	1:59.95	NR
17	11	1	2:00.05
18	10	9	2:00.31
19	9	2	2:00.32
20	10	3	2:00.44
21	10	2	2:00.47
22	8	7	2:00.56	NR
23	11	9	2:00.72
24	11	8	2:00.73
25	9	1	2:01.00
26	9	6	2:01.06
27	8	1	2:01.11
28	10	8	2:01.19
29	7	7	2:01.26
30	9	7	2:01.31
31	8	4	2:01.41
32	10	0	2:01.43
33	8	2	2:01.62	NR
34	9	0	2:01.65
35	8	3	2:01.69
36	7	6	2:01.78
37	8	6	2:01.81
38	6	1	2:01.86
39	8	9	2:02.20
40	9	9	2:02.29
41	8	8	2:02.60
41	10	1	2:02.60
43	7	5	2:03.59
44	7	4	2:03.95
45	6	2	2:04.67
46	7	1	2:04.86
47	7	2	2:05.51
48	6	9	2:05.57
49	5	8	2:05.96	NR
50	4	4	2:06.05	NR
51	7	9	2:06.27
52	5	4	2:06.29	NR
53	7	0	2:06.30
54	4	7	2:06.99
55	5	7	2:07.46
56	6	8	2:07.50
57	5	6	2:07.92
58	6	3	2:08.01
59	6	7	2:08.37
60	5	3	2:08.87
61	4	2	2:09.08	NR
62	5	1	2:09.11
63	5	5	2:09.80
64	6	6	2:09.91
65	5	0	2:10.12
66	5	2	2:10.37
67	4	6	2:10.40
68	3	5	2:10.42
69	3	6	2:10.92
70	6	5	2:11.35
71	4	0	2:11.62	NR
72	3	2	2:12.22
73	4	3	2:12.57
74	7	8	2:12.76
75	6	0	2:13.96
76	4	5	2:13.99
77	4	2	2:14.05
78	4	8	2:14.18
79	4	9	2:14.96
80	5	9	2:15.38
81	3	9	2:16.89
82	3	3	2:18.08
83	3	7	2:18.90
84	2	7	2:19.88
85	2	2	2:21.32
86	2	6	2:21.44
87	2	4	2:21.45
88	2	0	2:21.51
89	3	1	2:21.72
90	2	8	2:25.76
91	2	9	2:31.04
92	2	1	2:35.67
93	1	4	2:40.58
94	1	3	2:55.40
95	1	5	2:57.09
-	1	6	DNS
-	3	4	DNS
-	3	8	DNS
-	3	0	DSQ
-	6	4	DSQ
-	8	0	DSQ
-	8	5	DSQ

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	3	1:55.18
1	2	4	1:55.18	ER
3	2	5	1:56.75	OC
4	1	3	1:57.12	NR
5	1	4	1:57.16
6	1	5	1:57.35	SA
7	2	2	1:58.09
8	2	6	1:58.11
9	1	6	1:58.25	NR
10	1	2	1:58.33	NR
11	1	7	1:58.50
12	1	1	1:59.21
13	2	7	1:59.54
14	2	8	1:59.82
15	2	1	2:00.25
16	1	8	2:01.24

Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m IM Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds).
Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m IM Semis, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds).
Final Results