Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley
The men's 200 metre individual medley event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 31 July and 1 August at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:Results
Heats
The heats were held at 10:51.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | László Cseh | | 1:57.70 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Kosuke Hagino | | 1:57.73 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 2 | Wang Shun | | 1:57.83 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 7 | Simon Sjödin | | 1:58.02 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Ryan Lochte | | 1:58.46 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Thiago Pereira | | 1:58.54 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 5 | Henrique Rodrigues | | 1:58.73 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Daniel Tranter | | 1:58.76 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | Markus Deibler | | 1:58.76 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Conor Dwyer | | 1:58.78 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 2 | Kenneth To | | 1:59.21 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 6 | Daiya Seto | | 1:59.25 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | 8 | Diogo Carvalho | | 1:59.39 | Q, NR |
| 14 | 3 | 3 | Roberto Pavoni | | 1:59.41 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 1 | Mao Feilian | | 1:59.68 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 8 | Joseph Schooling | | 1:59.99 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 3 | Jérémy Stravius | | 2:00.00 | |
| 18 | 3 | 7 | Gal Nevo | | 2:00.01 | |
| 19 | 5 | 7 | Federico Turrini | | 2:00.02 | |
| 20 | 4 | 1 | Yakov-Yan Toumarkin | | 2:00.13 | |
| 21 | 5 | 0 | Albert Puig | | 2:00.49 | |
| 22 | 5 | 2 | Ieuan Lloyd | | 2:00.65 | |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | Andrew Ford | | 2:01.69 | |
| 24 | 5 | 8 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | | 2:01.71 | |
| 25 | 2 | 3 | Jakub Maly | | 2:01.92 | |
| 26 | 5 | 9 | Michael Meyer | | 2:01.96 | |
| 27 | 4 | 0 | Taki Mrabet | | 2:02.22 | |
| 28 | 3 | 6 | Philip Heintz | | 2:02.23 | |
| 29 | 2 | 0 | Mohamed Khaled | | 2:02.29 | NR |
| 30 | 3 | 9 | Jan Świtkowski | | 2:02.40 | |
| 31 | 2 | 8 | Yury Suvorau | | 2:02.60 | NR |
| 32 | 2 | 4 | Aleksey Derlyugov | | 2:02.79 | |
| 33 | 4 | 9 | Ward Bauwens | | 2:03.24 | |
| 34 | 2 | 2 | Maksym Shemberev | | 2:03.49 | |
| 35 | 1 | 6 | Irakli Bolkvadze | | 2:03.55 | |
| 36 | 2 | 5 | Im Tae-Jeong | | 2:03.61 | |
| 37 | 2 | 7 | Bogdan Knezevic | | 2:03.72 | |
| 37 | 2 | 9 | Ensar Hajder | | 2:03.72 | NR |
| 39 | 1 | 4 | Pavel Janecek | | 2:03.83 | |
| 40 | 3 | 0 | Mitchell Donaldson | | 2:03.89 | |
| 41 | 2 | 1 | Fran Krznarić | | 2:04.51 | |
| 42 | 1 | 3 | Pedro Pinotes | | 2:04.85 | |
| 43 | 1 | 2 | Christoph Meier | | 2:05.08 | NR |
| 44 | 2 | 6 | Miguel Robles | | 2:05.43 | |
| 45 | 1 | 5 | Vasilii Danilov | | 2:07.66 | |
| 46 | 1 | 1 | Marko Blaževski | | 2:07.78 | |
| 47 | 1 | 8 | Bartal Hestoy | | 2:09.46 | NR |
| 48 | 1 | 0 | Eli Ebenezer Wong | | 2:09.59 | |
| 49 | 1 | 7 | Jean Luis Gomez | | 2:10.78 | |
| 50 | 1 | 9 | Douglas Miller | | 2:14.27 | |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 19:16.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final was held at 18:13.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | Ryan Lochte | | 1:54.98 | |
| 5 | Kosuke Hagino | | 1:56.29 | |
| 6 | Thiago Pereira | | 1:56.30 | |
| 4 | 2 | Wang Shun | | 1:56.86 | NR |
| 5 | 3 | László Cseh | | 1:57.70 | |
| 6 | 1 | Daniel Tranter | | 1:57.88 | |
| 7 | 7 | Daiya Seto | | 1:58.45 | |
| 8 | 8 | Simon Sjödin | | 1:59.79 | |
