Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley explained

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Event:	Men's 200 metre individual medley
Games:	2018 Mediterranean Games
Dates:	23 June
Venue:	Campclar Aquatic Center
Location:	Tarragona, Spain
Competitors:	17
Nations:	11
Win Value:	1:59.40
Gold:	Andreas Vazaios
Gold Nation:	GRE
Silver:	Hugo González
Silver Nation:	ESP
Bronze:	Alexis Santos
Bronze Nation:	POR
Prev:	2013
Next:	2022

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 23 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

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

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

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:25.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Andreas Vazaios		2:00.84	Q
2	2	4	Hugo González		2:02.26	Q
3	3	5	Federico Turrini		2:02.27	Q
4	3	3	Albert Puig		2:02.56	Q
5	1	4	Alexis Santos		2:02.92	Q
6	1	5	Georgios Spanoudakis		2:03.08	Q
7	2	5	Gabriel José Lopes		2:03.10	Q
8	2	3	Pier Andrea Matteazzi		2:03.65	Q
9	1	6	Samet Alkan		2:04.42
10	1	3	Guillaume Laure		2:04.55
11	2	6	Alpkan Örnek		2:04.89
12	3	6	Samy Helmbacher		2:05.00
13	2	2	Anže Ferš Eržen		2:06.30
14	3	2	Thomas Tsiopanis		2:06.30
15	1	2	Ramzi Chouchar		2:07.22
16	2	7	Said Saber		2:11.70
17	3	7	Omar Eltonbary		2:12.54

Final

The final was held at 18:40.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Andreas Vazaios		1:59.40
	5	Hugo González		2:00.53
	2	Alexis Santos		2:00.83
4	3	Federico Turrini		2:01.14
5	7	Georgios Spanoudakis		2:01.85
6	1	Gabriel José Lopes		2:02.46
7	8	Pier Andrea Matteazzi		2:03.30
8	6	Albert Puig		2:03.89

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2018 Mediterranean Games – Swimming schedule. tarragona2018.cat. 23 June 2018.
2. https://tarragona2018-reports.s3.amazonaws.com/SWM/MED18_SWMM200MIM------------------------_C76_v1.pdf Final results