Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley
The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 25 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 25 July | Final A | Attila Czene | | 1:59.91 | |
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 | 5 | 4 | Jani Sievinen | | 2:01.05 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | Marcel Wouda | | 2:01.21 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 3 | 5 | Matthew Dunn | | 2:01.44 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | Curtis Myden | | 2:01.50 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 3 | Greg Burgess | | 2:01.93 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 4 | Tom Dolan | | 2:01.99 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 4 | Attila Czene | | 2:02.10 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | Xavier Marchand | | 2:03.17 | Q |
| 9 | 5 | 6 | Luca Sacchi | | 2:03.24 | q |
| 10 | 3 | 6 | Tatsuya Kinugasa | | 2:03.42 | q |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Martin van der Spoel | | 2:03.75 | q |
| 12 | 4 | 5 | Christian Keller | | 2:03.82 | q |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | Stev Theloke | | 2:04.23 | q |
| 14 | 4 | 2 | Jo Yoshimi | | 2:04.49 | q |
| 15 | 2 | 4 | Serghei Mariniuc | | 2:04.99 | q |
| 16 | 5 | 8 | Ratapong Sirisanont | | 2:05.18 | q |
| 17 | 5 | 2 | Marcin Maliński | | 2:05.42 | |
| 18 | 2 | 5 | Josef Horký | | 2:05.45 | |
| 19 | 5 | 7 | Petteri Lehtinen | | 2:05.51 | |
| 20 | 1 | 4 | Walter Soza | | 2:06.15 | NR |
| 21 | 2 | 3 | Valērijs Kalmikovs | | 2:06.16 | |
| 22 | 3 | 7 | Attila Zubor | | 2:06.24 | |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | Sergiy Sergeyev | | 2:06.30 | |
| 24 | 2 | 2 | Oleg Pukhnatiy | | 2:06.39 | |
| 25 | 2 | 6 | Krešimir Čač | | 2:06.97 | |
| 26 | 2 | 7 | Kim Bang-hyun | | 2:06.99 | |
| 27 | 2 | 1 | Arsenio López | | 2:07.09 | |
| 28 | 4 | 3 | Simon Coombs | | 2:07.31 | |
| 29 | 2 | 8 | Mark Kwok Kin Ming | | 2:07.61 | |
| 30 | 4 | 8 | Denislav Kalchev | | 2:08.16 | |
| 31 | 1 | 7 | Aleksandr Savitsky | | 2:08.78 | |
| 32 | 5 | 1 | Desmond Koh | | 2:08.99 | |
| 33 | 1 | 2 | Armando Serrano | | 2:09.67 | |
| 34 | 4 | 1 | Gerald Koh | | 2:11.76 | |
| 35 | 1 | 5 | Kire Filipovski | | 2:11.90 | |
| 36 | 1 | 3 | Wan Azlan Abdullah | | 2:12.11 | |
| 37 | 1 | 6 | Sultan Al-Otaibi | | 2:19.77 | |
| 1 | 1 | Hem Lumphat | | | |
| 3 | 8 | Peter Mankoč | | | |
Finals
Final B
Final A
