2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre freestyle
The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships were held on 12 December 2018.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Paul Biedermann | | 1:39.37 | Berlin | 15 November 2009 |
| Championship record | Park Tae-hwan | | 1:41.03 | Windsor | 7 December 2016 |
Results
Heats
The heats were started at 09:37.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 6 | Alexander Graham | | 1:41.83 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | Luiz Altamir Melo | | 1:42.13 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 4 | Danas Rapšys | | 1:42.39 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 3 | Breno Correia | | 1:42.64 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 5 | Ji Xinjie | | 1:42.70 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | Martin Malyutin | | 1:42.76 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 5 | Mikhail Vekovishchev | | 1:42.77 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 4 | Blake Pieroni | | 1:42.90 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 6 | Filippo Megli | | 1:43.16 | |
| 10 | 5 | 4 | Chad le Clos | | 1:43.19 | |
| 11 | 5 | 3 | Velimir Stjepanović | | 1:43.40 | |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Dylan Carter | | 1:43.74 | |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Miguel Nascimento | | 1:43.76 | |
| 14 | 6 | 7 | Jack Gerrard | | 1:44.60 | |
| 15 | 4 | 5 | Jan Świtkowski | | 1:44.62 | |
| 16 | 6 | 2 | Markus Lie | | 1:44.88 | |
| 17 | 7 | 2 | Matteo Ciampi | | 1:44.89 | |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Erge Gezmis | | 1:45.20 | |
| 19 | 4 | 7 | Cristian Quintero | | 1:45.24 | |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | Gustaf Dahlman | | 1:45.24 | |
| 21 | 4 | 0 | Mark Szanarek | | 1:45.39 | |
| 22 | 7 | 8 | Nils Liess | | 1:45.47 | |
| 23 | 7 | 6 | Kregor Zirk | | 1:45.51 | |
| 24 | 7 | 1 | Marc Sánchez | | 1:45.39 | |
| 25 | 7 | 0 | Daniel Hunter | | 1:45.83 | |
| 26 | 4 | 3 | Marwan Elkamash | | 1:46.21 | |
| 27 | 5 | 8 | Alexander Trampitsch | | 1:46.25 | |
| 28 | 5 | 7 | Shang Keyuan | | 1:46.36 | |
| 29 | 4 | 8 | Marcelo Acosta | | 1:47.00 | NR |
| 30 | 6 | 8 | Fuyu Yoshida | | 1:47.07 | |
| 31 | 6 | 9 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | | 1:47.38 | |
| 32 | 4 | 9 | Alex Sobers | | 1:47.55 | NR |
| 33 | 4 | 6 | Sajan Prakash | | 1:47.66 | NR |
| 34 | 6 | 1 | Daniel Dudas | | 1:47.84 | |
| 35 | 5 | 9 | Andrew Digby | | 1:48.05 | |
| 36 | 4 | 4 | Ben Hockin | | 1:48.11 | |
| 37 | 3 | 4 | Yordan Yanchev | | 1:48.28 | |
| 38 | 5 | 0 | An Ting-Yao | | 1:48.53 | |
| 39 | 7 | 9 | Igor Mogne | | 1:48.67 | |
| 40 | 4 | 1 | Cheuk Ming Ho | | 1:48.82 | |
| 41 | 4 | 2 | Mathieu Marquet | | 1:50.19 | NR |
| 42 | 3 | 0 | Mohammed Bedour | | 1:50.29 | |
| 43 | 3 | 6 | Irakli Revishvili | | 1:50.52 | |
| 44 | 2 | 4 | Yeziel Miranda | | 1:50.73 | |
| 45 | 3 | 2 | Noah Mascoll-Gomes | | 1:51.60 | NR |
| 46 | 3 | 1 | Pedro Chiancone | | 1:52.07 | |
| 47 | 3 | 5 | Lin Sizhuang | | 1:53.32 | |
| 48 | 2 | 9 | Cristian Santi | | 1:53.77 | |
| 49 | 3 | 3 | Matt Galea | | 1:53.91 | |
| 50 | 2 | 0 | Dean Hoffman | | 1:54.15 | NR |
| 51 | 3 | 7 | Andrej Stojanoski | | 1:54.93 | |
| 52 | 3 | 8 | Amadou Ndiaye | | 1:55.25 | |
| 53 | 3 | 9 | Azman Mohamed | | 1:55.73 | |
| 54 | 2 | 5 | Kohen Kerr | | 1:56.62 | |
| 55 | 2 | 2 | Noel Keane | | 1:56.72 | |
| 56 | 2 | 3 | Firas Saidi | | 1:57.14 | |
| 57 | 2 | 6 | Spiro Goga | | 1:57.86 | |
| 58 | 1 | 4 | Dren Ukimeraj | | 1:58.44 | |
| 59 | 1 | 6 | Cruz Halbich | | 2:00.09 | |
| 60 | 1 | 3 | Daniel Scott | | 2:00.84 | |
| 61 | 2 | 7 | Fadhil Saleh | | 2:03.49 | |
| 62 | 2 | 8 | Aamir Motiwala | | 2:04.69 | |
| 63 | 2 | 1 | Lennosuke Suzuki | | 2:06.54 | |
| 64 | 1 | 5 | Mubal Ibrahim | | 2:09.57 | |
Final
The final was held at 19:53.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 8 | Blake Pieroni | | 1:41.49 | |
| 3 | Danas Rapšys | | 1:41.78 | |
| 4 | Alexander Graham | | 1:42.28 | |
| 4 | 2 | Ji Xinjie | | 1:42.31 | |
| 5 | 6 | Breno Correia | | 1:42.36 | |
| 6 | 7 | Martin Malyutin | | 1:42.46 | |
| 7 | 1 | Mikhail Vekovishchev | | 1:42.67 | |
| 8 | 5 | Luiz Altamir Melo | | 1:42.72 | |
