Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle
The men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 25 and 26. The heats and semifinals took place July 25 and the final was held July 26.
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |
| World record Championship record | Paul Biedermann | 1:42.00 | Rome | July 28, 2009 |
Results
Heats
60 swimmers participated in 8 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Ryan Lochte | 1:46.34 | Q | |
| 2 | 7 | 3 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | 1:46.53 | Q | |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | Paul Biedermann | 1:46.56 | Q | |
| 4 | 8 | 4 | Park Tae-Hwan | 1:46.63 | Q | |
| 5 | 7 | 5 | Michael Phelps | 1:46.98 | Q | |
| 6 | 6 | 4 | Yannick Agnel | 1:47.11 | Q | |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | Dominik Meichtry | 1:47.38 | Q | |
| 8 | 8 | 1 | Ross Davenport | 1:47.59 | Q | |
| 9 | 8 | 3 | Danila Izotov | 1:47.72 | Q | |
| 10 | 7 | 8 | Shaune Fraser | 1:47.73 | Q | |
| 11 | 6 | 6 | Robert Renwick | 1:47.88 | Q | |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or | 1:48.11 | Q | |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Yuki Kobori | 1:48.19 | Q | |
| 14 | 6 | 5 | Nikita Lobintsev | 1:48.28 | Q | |
| 15 | 5 | 8 | Nicolas Oliveira | 1:48.33 | Q | |
| 16 | 8 | 6 | Kenrick Monk | 1:48.42 | Q | |
| 17 | 8 | 2 | Tim Wallburger | 1:48.43 | ||
| 18 | 6 | 7 | Gianluca Maglia | 1:48.54 | ||
| 19 | 6 | 1 | Sho Uchida | 1:48.64 | ||
| 20 | 6 | 8 | Marco Belotti | 1:48.66 | ||
| 21 | 5 | 5 | Markus Rogan | 1:48.82 | ||
| 22 | 6 | 3 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | 1:48.86 | ||
| 23 | 4 | 3 | Matthew Stanley | 1:48.93 | ||
| 24 | 7 | 2 | Li Yunqi | 1:48.94 | ||
| 25 | 7 | 6 | Jean Basson | 1:48.95 | ||
| 26 | 8 | 8 | Glenn Surgeloose | 1:48.96 | ||
| 27 | 5 | 6 | Chad Bobrosky | 1:49.01 | ||
| 28 | 5 | 7 | Cristian Quintero | 1:49.27 | ||
| 29 | 6 | 2 | Jiang Haiqi | 1:49.43 | ||
| 30 | 8 | 7 | Joost Reijns | 1:49.56 | ||
| 31 | 3 | 5 | Wong Kai Wai David | 1:49.58 | ||
| 32 | 5 | 2 | Mads Glæsner | 1:49.59 | ||
| 33 | 5 | 1 | Benjamin Hockin | 1:49.85 | ||
| 34 | 4 | 5 | Dominik Straga | 1:51.35 | ||
| 35 | 4 | 4 | Radovan Siljevski | 1:51.42 | ||
| 36 | 3 | 2 | Uvis Kalnins | 1:52.20 | ||
| 37 | 4 | 2 | Robin Andreasson | 1:52.21 | ||
| 38 | 5 | 4 | Ryan Pini | 1:52.23 | ||
| 39 | 4 | 6 | Mateo de Angulo | 1:52.25 | ||
| 40 | 4 | 7 | Jessie Lacuna | 1:52.27 | ||
| 41 | 3 | 4 | Martín Kutscher | 1:52.49 | ||
| 42 | 4 | 1 | Danny Yeo | 1:52.54 | ||
| 43 | 3 | 7 | Mario Montoya | 1:52.64 | ||
| 44 | 4 | 8 | Raúl Martínez | 1:52.93 | ||
| 45 | 3 | 1 | Sebastian Jahnsen | 1:53.68 | ||
| 46 | 3 | 6 | Irakli Revishvili | 1:54.02 | ||
| 47 | 2 | 4 | Nicholas Schwab | 1:54.95 | ||
| 48 | 2 | 5 | Matthew Abeysinghe | 1:55.33 | NR | |
| 48 | 3 | 3 | Phạm Thành Nguyện | 1:55.33 | ||
| 50 | 2 | 2 | Allan Gutierrez | 1:56.74 | ||
| 51 | 2 | 3 | Emanuele Nicolini | 1:57.23 | ||
| 52 | 2 | 7 | Quinton Delie | 1:57.47 | ||
| 53 | 3 | 8 | Mohamed Madouh | 1:57.64 | ||
| 54 | 2 | 6 | Jemal Le Grand | 1:58.24 | ||
| 55 | 1 | 4 | Obaid Al Jasmi | 1:58.49 | ||
| 56 | 2 | 1 | Gebrel Ahmed | 2:02.27 | ||
| 57 | 2 | 8 | Mathieu Marquet | 2:02.41 | ||
| 58 | 1 | 5 | Paul Elaisa | 2:03.95 | ||
| 59 | 1 | 3 | Anderson Lim | 2:06.40 | ||
| 60 | 1 | 6 | Ryan Givinden | 2:18.07 |
Semifinals
The semifinal were held at 18:57.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final was held at 18:02.| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 3 | Ryan Lochte | 1:44.44 | |||
| 2 | Michael Phelps | 1:44.79 | |||
| 5 | Paul Biedermann | 1:44.88 | |||
| 6 | Park Tae-Hwan | 1:44.92 | |||
| 4 | Yannick Agnel | 1:44.99 | NR | ||
| 1 | Nikita Lobintsev | 1:46.57 | |||
| 7 | Dominik Meichtry | 1:47.02 | |||
| 8 | Danila Izotov | 1:47.46 |