Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre individual medley
Competition:	2013 Mediterranean Games
Dates:	June 21, 2013
Competitors:	12
Nations:	9
Win Value:	1:59.35
Gold:	Federico Turrini
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Oussama Mellouli
Silvernoc:	TUN
Bronze:	Andreas Vazaios
Bronzenoc:	GRE

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey.^[1] Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia is the defending champion from 2009 Mediterranean Games.

The race consisted of four lengths of the pool in four different styles.

Records

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

World record		1:54.00	Shanghai, China	July 28, 2011
Mediterranean Games record		1:58.38	Pescara, Italy	June 27, 2009

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

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width=40	Rank	width=40	Heat	width=40	Lane	width=250	Athlete	width=80	Time	width=50	Notes
1	1	4		2:03.37	Q
2	1	5		2:03.39	Q
3	1	3		2:03.96	Q
4	2	4		2:04.83	Q
5	2	3		2:05.11	Q
6	2	2		2:05.22	Q
7	2	6		2:06.21	Q
8	1	6		2:06.24	Q
9	2	7		2:07.83
10	1	2		2:08.40
11	2	5		2:08.65
12	1	7		2:56.73

Final

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width=40	Rank	width=40	Lane	width=250	Athlete	width=80	Time	width=50	Notes
	4		1:59.35
	6		2:00.09
	2		2:00.74
4	5		2:01.85
5	3		2:02.18
6	7		2:04.61
7	1		2:07.23
8	8		2:07.59

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sessions. Mersin 2013. 20 June 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130622023520/http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr/disiplineDetails_SW.aspx. 22 June 2013.
2. http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr/disiplineResults_SW.aspx?match_code=SWM052101 Swimming - Men's 200m I. M. Heat 1 (Result)
3. http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr/disiplineResults_SW.aspx?match_code=SWM052102 Swimming - Men's 200m I. M. Heat 2 (Result)
4. http://info.mersin2013.gov.tr/disiplineResults_SW.aspx?match_code=SWM052301 Swimming - Men's 200m Individual Medley Final (Official)