The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 18 December 2022.

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

The following new records were set during this competition: Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 18 December Final Hwang Sun-woo 1:39.72 CR

Results Heats The heats were started at 11:23.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 7 Tom Dean 1:40.98 Q 2 5 5 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:41.29 Q, NR 3 5 3 Maxime Grousset 1:41.79 Q 4 6 3 Drew Kibler 1:41.88 Q 5 6 5 Danas Rapšys 1:42.21 Q 6 4 3 David Popovici 1:42.31 Q 7 4 6 Thomas Neill 1:42.38 Q 8 4 4 Hwang Sun-woo 1:42.44 Q 9 4 5 Kieran Smith 1:42.54 10 5 6 Antonio Djakovic 1:43.04 11 5 1 Kregor Zirk 1:43.16 12 6 7 Roman Fuchs 1:43.17 13 6 4 Matthew Sates 1:43.22 14 4 1 Petar Mitsin 1:43.48 NR 14 4 2 Breno Correia 1:43.48 14 6 2 Pan Zhanle 1:43.48 17 5 2 Matteo Ciampi 1:43.51 18 6 6 Luc Kroon 1:43.86 19 4 7 Hidenari Mano 1:44.20 20 3 4 Luis Domínguez 1:44.25 21 6 1 Velimir Stjepanović 1:44.73 22 4 8 Carter Swift 1:44.88 23 2 5 Ruslan Gaziev 1:44.97 24 6 8 Josha Salchow 1:45.01 25 5 8 Isak Eliasson 1:45.17 26 3 6 Ronny Brännkärr 1:45.42 27 3 5 Joaquín Vargas 1:45.69 28 3 1 Ksawery Masiuk 1:46.51 29 2 4 Wesley Roberts 1:46.67 NR 30 3 7 Cheuk Ming Ho 1:47.30 31 2 6 Max Mannes 1:47.41 32 2 2 Santiago Corredor 1:47.47 33 3 3 Jakub Poliačik 1:47.48 34 3 8 Illia Linnyk 1:47.72 35 3 2 Mikel Schreuders 1:47.74 36 2 1 Omar Abbass 1:48.73 NR 37 2 3 Luka Kukhalashvili 1:49.38 38 2 7 Mark Ducaj 1:50.38 39 2 8 James Freeman 1:51.02 NR 40 1 5 Luke Thompson 1:51.31 NR 41 1 4 Pavel Alovațki 1:51.42 42 1 6 Matt Savitz 1:54.02 NR 43 1 3 Jinnosuke Suzuki 1:56.27 44 1 2 Israel Poppe 1:57.67 45 1 7 Sangay Tenzin 2:03.80 46 1 1 Ervin Shrestha 2:05.03 1 8 Jeancarlo Calderon 5 4 Kyle Chalmers

Final The final was held at 20:50.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 8 Hwang Sun-woo 1:39.72 CR, AS 7 David Popovici 1:40.79 NR 4 Tom Dean 1:40.86 4 6 Drew Kibler 1:41.44 5 1 Thomas Neill 1:41.55 6 3 Maxime Grousset 1:41.56 7 2 Danas Rapšys 1:41.74 8 5 Katsuhiro Matsumoto 1:41.91

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