Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley
The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August with the heats and the semifinals and 6 August with the final.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.Results
Heats
The heats were held at 10:30.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | 4 | Ryan Lochte | | 1:57.90 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | Daniel Wallace | | 1:58.28 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | Wang Shun | | 1:58.33 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | Conor Dwyer | | 1:58.63 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 2 | Andreas Vazaios | | 1:58.92 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 3 | 4 | Henrique Rodrigues | | 1:58.95 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 4 | Daiya Seto | | 1:59.11 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 5 | Thiago Pereira | | 1:59.18 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 5 | Roberto Pavoni | | 1:59.29 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | 8 | Jérémy Desplanches | | 1:59.46 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Diogo Carvalho | | 1:59.61 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Simon Sjödin | | 1:59.64 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | 3 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | | 1:59.96 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Yakov Toumarkin | | 1:59.97 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | Marcin Cieślak | | 1:59.99 | Q |
| 16 | 2 | 7 | Mohamed Hussein | | 2:00.22 | Q, NR |
| 17 | 4 | 8 | Uvis Kalniņš | | 2:00.39 | NR |
| 18 | 4 | 2 | Yang Zhixian | | 2:00.80 | |
| 19 | 5 | 7 | Federico Turrini | | 2:00.94 | |
| 20 | 3 | 1 | Semen Makovich | | 2:01.05 | |
| 21 | 3 | 8 | Jakub Maly | | 2:01.68 | |
| 22 | 5 | 0 | Pavel Janeček | | 2:02.43 | NR |
| 23 | 3 | 7 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | | 2:02.60 | |
| 24 | 4 | 0 | Omar Pinzón | | 2:02.80 | |
| 25 | 5 | 1 | Bradlee Ashby | | 2:02.96 | |
| 26 | 3 | 9 | Martin Liivamägi | | 2:03.21 | |
| 27 | 2 | 3 | Carlos Omaña | | 2:03.54 | |
| 28 | 5 | 9 | Povilas Strazdas | | 2:03.67 | |
| 29 | 2 | 9 | Alpkan Örnek | | 2:03.93 | |
| 30 | 2 | 8 | Christoph Meier | | 2:04.01 | |
| 31 | 2 | 0 | Trần Duy Khôi | | 2:04.30 | |
| 32 | 1 | 4 | Mateo González | | 2:04.77 | |
| 33 | 2 | 2 | Marko Blaževski | | 2:04.79 | |
| 34 | 1 | 5 | Pedro Pinotes | | 2:04.85 | |
| 35 | 2 | 5 | Aleksey Derlyugov | | 2:04.98 | |
| 36 | 2 | 6 | Ensar Hajder | | 2:04.99 | |
| 37 | 2 | 1 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | | 2:05.37 | |
| 38 | 4 | 9 | Rafael Alfaro | | 2:05.78 | |
| 39 | 1 | 6 | Irakli Bolkvadze | | 2:07.14 | |
| 40 | 3 | 0 | Jessie Lacuna | | 2:07.51 | |
| 41 | 1 | 7 | Esteban Araya | | 2:08.89 | |
| 42 | 1 | 8 | Alvi Hjelm | | 2:08.98 | |
| 43 | 1 | 1 | Benjamin Schulte | | 2:09.50 | |
| 44 | 1 | 2 | Luis Vega Torres | | 2:09.53 | |
| 45 | 1 | 3 | Jean Gómez | | 2:09.59 | |
| 46 | 1 | 0 | Rami Elias | | 2:20.94 | |
| 47 | 1 | 9 | Haris Bandey | | 2:22.31 | |
| 2 | 4 | Triady Fauzi Sidiq | | | |
| 4 | 1 | Kevin Wedel | | | |
| 4 | 3 | László Cseh | | | |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 18:45.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Swim-off
The swim-off was held at 19:42.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Conor Dwyer | | 1:58.18 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Roberto Pavoni | | 1:58.26 | |
Final
The final was held at 17:42.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | Ryan Lochte | | 1:55.81 | |
| 3 | Thiago Pereira | | 1:56.65 | |
| 5 | Wang Shun | | 1:56.81 | NR |
| 4 | 6 | Daniel Wallace | | 1:57.59 | |
| 5 | 8 | Conor Dwyer | | 1:57.96 | |
| 6 | 7 | Marcin Cieślak | | 1:58.14 | NR |
| 7 | 1 | Henrique Rodrigues | | 1:58.52 | |
| 8 | 2 | Simon Sjödin | | 1:59.06 | |
