Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	6 December (heats and final)
Competitors	68 from 53 nations
Winning time	1:51.74
Medalists
Wang Shun    China   Philip Heintz    Germany   Daiya Seto    Japan
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2016 FINA World Swimming Championships
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×50 m	freestyle	medley

The Men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December 2016.^[1]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:49.63	Istanbul	14 December 2012

The heats were held at 12:59.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:53.49	Q
2	1	1	Mark Szaranek	Great Britain	1:53.77	Q
3	5	3	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	1:53.94	Q, NR
4	6	4	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:54.07	Q
5	7	5	Josh Prenot	United States	1:54.10	Q
6	7	4	Wang Shun	China	1:54.21	Q
7	6	1	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:54.30	Q, NR
8	7	3	Takeharu Fujimori	Japan	1:54.37	Q
9	6	3	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	1:54.47
10	5	6	Daniil Pasynkov	Russia	1:55.03
11	7	6	Clyde Lewis	Australia	1:55.13
12	6	5	Diogo Carvahlo	Portugal	1:55.26
13	5	5	Thiago Simon	Brazil	1:55.51
	6	2	Jérémy Desplanches	Switzerland
15	5	2	Alexis Santos	Portugal	1:55.77
16	1	7	Jakub Maly	Austria	1:56.69
17	4	7	Evan White	Canada	1:56.90
18	6	8	Neil Fair	South Africa	1:57.27
19	6	6	Hu Yixuan	China	1:57.30
	6	7	Kyle Stolk	Netherlands
21	5	7	Dávid Földházi	Hungary	1:57.51
22	7	0	Daniel Skaaning	Denmark	1:57.68
23	7	7	Michael Andrew	United States	1:57.87
24	7	1	Markus Lie	Norway	1:57.98
25	7	8	Tomas Peribonio	Ecuador	1:58.28	NR
26	4	2	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	1:58.43
27	6	0	Uvis Kalniņš	Latvia	1:58.47
28	7	2	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	1:58.81
29	4	8	Martti Aljand	Estonia	1:58.98
30	3	4	Frank Krznaric	Croatia	1:59.06
31	5	1	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	1:59.27
32	4	6	Márton Barta	Hungary	1:59.79
33	4	4	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	2:00.03
34	5	0	Adam Halas	Slovakia	2:00.60
35	5	9	Luke Reilly	Canada	2:00.74
36	6	9	Kristinn Þórarinsson	Iceland	2:01.36
37	5	8	Eben Vorster	South Africa	2:01.42
38	1	8	Trần Duy Khôi	Vietnam	2:01.53
39	3	8	Keanan Dols	Jamaica	2:02.06	NR
40	7	9	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	2:02.37
41	4	0	Wen Ren-hau	Chinese Taipei	2:02.63
42	4	1	Matías López	Paraguay	2:02.86
43	3	5	Sajan Prakash	India	2:03.54	NR
44	3	6	Luis Vega Torres	Cuba	2:03.58	NR
45	4	3	Lionel Khoo	Singapore	2:03.78
46	2	0	Kyle Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka	2:04.17	NR
47	3	0	Jarod Arroyo	Puerto Rico	2:04.71
48	3	3	Yeziel Morales Miranda	Puerto Rico	2:04.72
49	3	1	Esteban Araya	Costa Rica	2:04.91	NR
50	2	8	Alberto Batungbacal	Philippines	2:05.00
51	3	7	Felipe Quiroz Uteau	Chile	2:05.09	NR
52	2	5	Lin Sizhuang	Macau	2:05.58	NR
53	4	5	Mak Ho Lu Raymond	Hong Kong	2:05.67
54	3	9	Said Saber	Morocco	2:06.29
55	2	3	Brandon Vives	Dominican Republic	2:08.57
56	2	6	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	2:08.62	NR
57	2	4	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	2:09.31
58	2	2	Mathias Zacarias	Paraguay	2:10.45
59	4	9	Carlos Claverie	Venezuela	2:10.68
60	2	7	Noah Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	2:16.27
61	2	9	Kennet Libohova	Albania	2:17.62
62	2	1	Fausto Huerta	Dominican Republic	2:20.05
63	1	4	Carlos Vasquez	Honduras	2:20.68	NR
64	1	5	Stanford Kawale	Papua New Guinea	2:24.47
65	1	3	Mark Hoare	Eswatini	2:27.66
66	1	6	Christian Villacrusis	Northern Mariana Islands	2:31.79
67	1	2	Salofi Welch	Northern Mariana Islands	2:32.17
	4	0	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia		DNS

The final was held at 19:59.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Wang Shun	China	1:51.74
	6	Philip Heintz	Germany	1:52.07
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:52.89
4	2	Josh Prenot	United States	1:52.91
5	3	Kirill Prigoda	Russia	1:53.47	NR
6	5	Mark Szaranek	Great Britain	1:54.45
7	8	Takeharu Fujimori	Japan	1:55.51
8	1	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:55.80