The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 June 2022.

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

Results Heats The heats were started on 19 June at 09:51.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 5 David Popovici 1:45.18 2 7 2 Hwang Sun-woo 1:45.79 3 7 6 Felix Auböck 1:45.84 4 7 4 Tom Dean 1:45.99 5 7 3 Drew Kibler 1:46.13 6 5 3 Elijah Winnington 1:46.19 7 6 3 Lukas Märtens 1:46.45 8 5 5 Danas Rapšys 1:46.70 9 5 4 Fernando Scheffer 1:46.71 10 6 4 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:46.72 11 6 5 Kieran Smith 1:46.73 12 6 6 Antonio Djakovic 1:47.00 13 7 1 Marco De Tullio 1:47.27 14 7 7 Matthew Sates 1:47.28 15 5 0 Roman Mityukov 1:47.44 16 7 0 Jordan Pothain 1:47.51 17 5 1 Robin Hanson 1:47.54 18 7 8 Denis Loktev 1:47.63 19 6 0 Hadrien Salvan 1:47.71 19 6 1 Ji Xinjie 1:47.71 19 6 7 Nándor Németh 1:47.71 22 5 8 Breno Correia 1:47.79 23 5 7 Velimir Stjepanović 1:47.94 24 6 8 Stefano Di Cola 1:48.09 25 6 9 Ruslan Gaziev 1:48.10 26 5 2 Rafael Miroslaw 1:48.28 27 4 4 Khiew Hoe Yean 1:48.37 28 4 5 Marwan Elkamash 1:48.48 29 4 3 Dimitrios Markos 1:48.72 30 5 6 Matt Richards 1:48.74 31 7 9 Jorge Iga 1:48.96 32 6 2 Zac Incerti 1:49.12 33 3 4 Mikel Schreuders 1:49.39 34 3 3 Aleksey Tarasenko 1:49.87 35 4 1 Glen Jun Wei Lim 1:49.94 36 4 7 Sergio de Celis 1:50.03 37 4 6 Wesley Roberts 1:50.24 38 4 9 Santiago Corredor 1:50.44 39 4 2 Cameron Gray 1:50.64 40 3 5 Max Mannes 1:51.06 41 3 2 František Jablčník 1:51.25 42 5 9 Cheuk Ming Ho 1:51.60 43 3 7 Pavel Alovatki 1:51.64 44 4 8 Hoàng Quý Phước 1:52.47 45 4 0 Yordan Yanchev 1:52.62 46 3 1 Omar Abbass 1:52.78 47 3 6 Luka Kukhalashvili 1:53.08 48 3 8 Noah Mascoll-Gomes 1:53.30 49 3 0 Pedro Chiancone 1:54.08 50 3 9 José Campo 1:55.74 51 2 6 Ramazan Omarov 1:56.22 52 2 1 Salem Sabt 1:56.40 53 2 3 Bartal Eidesgaard 1:57.08 54 2 4 Ado Gargović 1:57.74 55 2 5 Henrique Mascarenhas 1:58.03 56 1 4 Adnan Al-Abdallat 1:59.70 57 1 3 Nasir Hussain 2:00.99 58 2 2 Haziq Samil 2:04.14 59 2 8 Israel Poppe 2:05.00 60 1 5 Eminguly Ballykov 2:05.06 61 2 7 Sangay Tenzin 2:08.36

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 19 June at 19:14.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 David Popovici 1:44.40 WJ, NR 2 2 5 Felix Auböck 1:45.17 NR 3 1 4 Hwang Sun-woo 1:45.46 4 1 5 Tom Dean 1:45.48 5 1 3 Elijah Winnington 1:45.53 6 2 3 Drew Kibler 1:45.54 7 2 6 Lukas Märtens 1:45.94 8 2 7 Kieran Smith 1:46.06 9 2 2 Fernando Scheffer 1:46.11 10 2 1 Marco De Tullio 1:46.29 11 1 7 Antonio Djakovic 1:46.61 12 1 1 Matthew Sates 1:46.63 12 1 2 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:46.63 14 1 6 Danas Rapšys 1:46.82 15 1 8 Jordan Pothain 1:47.66 16 2 8 Roman Mityukov 1:47.78

Final The final was held on 20 June at 18:02.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 David Popovici 1:43.21 WJ, NR 3 Hwang Sun-woo 1:44.47 NR 6 Tom Dean 1:44.98 4 7 Drew Kibler 1:45.01 5 5 Felix Auböck 1:45.11 NR 6 8 Kieran Smith 1:45.16 7 1 Lukas Märtens 1:45.73 8 2 Elijah Winnington 1:45.82

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