Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley
The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 5 | Jani Sievinen | | 2:01.18 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 8 | 4 | Tamás Darnyi | | 2:01.29 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | Greg Burgess | | 2:01.35 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 4 | Ron Karnaugh | | 2:01.64 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 5 | Attila Czene | | 2:02.05 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | Christian Geßner | | 2:02.43 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 3 | Gary Anderson | | 2:02.63 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | 7 | Matthew Dunn | | 2:02.75 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 4 | Martín López-Zubero | | 2:03.07 | q |
| 10 | 8 | 2 | Tatsuya Kinugasa | | 2:03.32 | q |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | Luca Sacchi | | 2:03.54 | q, |
| 12 | 8 | 6 | Darren Ward | | 2:03.71 | q |
| 13 | 7 | 6 | Frédéric Lefevre | | 2:03.82 | q |
| 14 | 7 | 8 | Serghei Mariniuc | | 2:04.23 | q |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Lars Sørensen | | 2:04.65 | q |
| 16 | 6 | 2 | Takahiro Fujimoto | | 2:04.89 | q |
| 17 | 7 | 7 | Manuel Guzmán | | 2:04.95 | q |
| 18 | 8 | 8 | John Davey | | 2:05.07 | |
| 19 | 5 | 2 | Aleksandr Savitsky | | 2:05.09 | |
| 20 | 4 | 5 | Marcin Maliński | | 2:05.32 | |
| 21 | 5 | 4 | Petteri Lehtinen | | 2:05.65 | |
| 22 | 6 | 7 | Marcel Wouda | | 2:05.95 | |
| 23 | 6 | 1 | Joaquín Fernández | | 2:06.09 | |
| 24 | 5 | 5 | Stefaan Maene | | 2:06.16 | |
| 25 | 4 | 4 | Marian Satnoianu | | 2:06.45 | |
| 26 | 4 | 2 | Denislav Kalchev | | 2:06.51 | |
| 27 | 1 | 8 | Clifford Lyne | | 2:06.62 | AF |
| 28 | 5 | 7 | Simon Percy | | 2:06.76 | |
| 29 | 3 | 6 | Igor Łuczak | | 2:07.08 | |
| 30 | 4 | 6 | José Carlos Souza | | 2:07.09 | |
| 31 | 4 | 7 | Desmond Koh | | 2:07.16 | |
| 32 | 7 | 2 | Josef Hladký | | 2:07.18 | |
| 33 | 3 | 4 | Diogo Madeira | | 2:07.38 | |
| 34 | 5 | 6 | Gary O'Toole | | 2:07.67 | |
| 35 | 5 | 3 | Renato Ramalho | | 2:07.78 | |
| 36 | 3 | 5 | Andy Rolley | | 2:09.22 | |
| 37 | 3 | 7 | Arthur Li Kai Yien | | 2:09.32 | |
| 38 | 4 | 3 | Joseph Eric Buhain | | 2:09.33 | |
| 39 | 2 | 4 | Ratapong Sirisanont | | 2:11.02 | |
| 40 | 3 | 2 | Gary Tan | | 2:11.14 | |
| 41 | 3 | 1 | Ricardo Torres | | 2:12.01 | |
| 42 | 2 | 2 | Duncan Todd | | 2:12.29 | |
| 43 | 2 | 6 | Christophe Verdino | | 2:12.46 | |
| 44 | 4 | 1 | Sultan Al-Otaibi | | 2:13.68 | |
| 45 | 2 | 5 | Alejandro Alvizuri | | 2:15.10 | |
| 46 | 2 | 7 | Plutarco Castellanos | | 2:15.50 | |
| 47 | 2 | 1 | Émile Lahoud | | 2:22.08 | |
| 48 | 1 | 4 | Carl Probert | | 2:22.09 | |
| 49 | 1 | 3 | Mohamed Bin Abid | | 2:22.95 | |
| 50 | 1 | 1 | Mouhamed Diop | | 2:23.92 | |
| 51 | 1 | 6 | Kenny Roberts | | 2:30.35 | |
| 52 | 1 | 2 | Jean-Paul Adam | | 2:35.35 | |
| 2 | 3 | Roberto Bonilla | | | |
| 5 | 1 | Rodrigo González | | | |
| 7 | 1 | Jan Bidrman | | | |
| 8 | 1 | Martin Roberts | | | |
| 1 | 7 | Bruno N'Diaye | | | |
| 1 | 5 | Ziyad Kashmiri | | | |
| 3 | 3 | Eran Groumi | | | |
| 6 | 8 | Stefano Battistelli | | | |
Finals
Final B
Final A
