Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley
Introduction The heats for the '''Men's 200 metre Individual Medley''' race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 29 July and the final took place in the evening session of 30 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The order of swimming in the medley was butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:'''World record'''    '''1:54.23'''  Beijing, China  15 August 2008'''Championship record'''    '''1:54.98'''  Melbourne, Australia  29 March 2007The following records were established during the competition:DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 30 July  Final  Ryan Lochte    1:54.10  '''WR'''
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Heat  Lane  Name  Nationality  Time   Notes 1  9  4  László Cseh    1:56.34  '''ER''' 2  10  4  Eric Shanteau    1:57.65  3  10  7  Leith Brodie    1:57.66  '''OC''' 3  11  3  Thiago Pereira    1:57.66 '''SA''' 5  11  4  Ryan Lochte    1:57.94      6  9  5  James Goddard    1:58.40   7  9  3  Gergő Kis    1:58.48   8  11  7  Gal Nevo    1:58.55  '''NR''' 9  11  5  Ken Takakuwa    1:58.60   10  11  6  Alessio Boggiatto    1:58.81   11  11  0  Yannick Lebherz    1:58.94  '''NR''' 12  10  5  Darian Townsend    1:58.96   13  11  2  Henrique Rodrigues    1:59.21  14  10  6  Takuro Fujii    1:59.26  15  9  8  Joseph Roebuck    1:59.65  16  7  3  Martin Liivamägi    1:59.95  '''NR''' 17  11  1  Diogo Carvalho    2:00.05  18  10  9  Tommaso D'Orsogna    2:00.31  19  9  2  Vytautas Janušaitis    2:00.32  20  10  3  Bradley Ally    2:00.44  21  10  2  Fabien Horth    2:00.47  22  8  7  Omar Pinzón    2:00.56 '''NR''' 23  11  9  Lukasz Wojt    2:00.72  24  11  8  Alan Cabello    2:00.73  25  9  1  Brenton Cabello    2:01.00  26  9  6  Romanos Alyfantis    2:01.06  27  8  1  Liu Weijia    2:01.11  28  10  8  Miguel Molina    2:01.19  29  7  7  Martti Aljand    2:01.26  30  9  7  Riaan Schoeman    2:01.31  31  8  4  Saša Imprić    2:01.41  32  10  0  Andrey Krylov    2:01.43  33  8  2  Chris Christensen    2:01.62 '''NR''' 34  9  0  Mateusz Matczak    2:01.65  35  8  3  Jordan Hartney    2:01.69  36  7  6  Carlos Almeida    2:01.78  37  8  6  Taki Mrabet    2:01.81  38  6  1  Niksa Roki    2:01.86  39  8  9  Dmitriy Gordiyenko    2:02.20  40  9  9  Gard Kvale    2:02.29  41  8  8  Tomas Fucik    2:02.60  41  10  1  Dinko Jukić    2:02.60  43  7  5  Dominik Dur    2:03.59  44  7  4  Sun Han    2:03.95  45  6  2  Anders McIntyre    2:04.67  46  7  1  Mehdi Hamama    2:04.86  47  7  2  Raphaël Stacchiotti    2:05.51  48  6  9  Pedro Pinotes    2:05.57  49  5  8  Saeid Maleka Ashtiani    2:05.96  '''NR''' 50  4  4  Branden Whitehurst   Virgin Islands  2:06.05  '''NR''' 51  7  9  Serkan Atasay    2:06.27  52  5  4  Rehan Poncha    2:06.29  '''NR''' 53  7  0  Ezequiel Trujillo    2:06.30  54  4  7  Mindaugas Margis    2:06.99  55  5  7  Hocine Haciane    2:07.46  56  6  8  Benjamin Guzman Blanco    2:07.50  57  5  6  Raúl López    2:07.92  58  6  3  Laurent Carnol    2:08.01  59  6  7  Robert Walsh    2:08.37  60  5  3  Chien Jui-Ting    2:08.87  61  4  2  Jean Luis Gomez    2:09.08 '''NR''' 62  5  1  Agnishwar Jayaprakash    2:09.11  63  5  5  Dmitriy Shvetsov    2:09.80  64  6  6  Radomyos Matjiur    2:09.91  65  5  0  Giorgi Mtvralashvili    2:10.12  66  5  2  Diego Castillo    2:10.37  67  4  6  Berrada Morad    2:10.40  68  3  5  Nicholas James    2:10.42  69  3  6  Byron Briedenhann    2:10.92  70  6  5  Pan Kai-Wen    2:11.35  71  4  0  Obaid Al-Jasmi    2:11.62  '''NR''' 72  3  2  Ryan Nelthropp   Virgin Islands  2:12.22  73  4  3  Dmitrii Aleksandrov    2:12.57  74  7  8  Yury Zaharov    2:12.76  75  6  0  Pang Sheng Jun    2:13.96  76  4  5  Rafael Alfaro    2:13.99  77  4  2  Colin Bensadon    2:14.05  78  4  8  Roy Barahona    2:14.18  79  4  9  Eli Ebenezer Wong    2:14.96  80  5  9  Marzouq Alsalem    2:15.38  81  3  9  Vincent Perry    2:16.89  82  3  3  Diguan Pigot    2:18.08  83  3  7  Gary Pineda    2:18.90  84  2  7  Benjamin Gabbard    2:19.88  85  2  2  Jean Marie Froget    2:21.32  86  2  6  Andres Castillo    2:21.44  87  2  4  Pablo Navarrete    2:21.45  88  2  0  Paul Elaisa    2:21.51  89  3  1  Kareem Ennab    2:21.72  90  2  8  Mathieu Marquet    2:25.76  91  2  9  Anthony Clark    2:31.04  92  2  1  Jon Pepaj    2:35.67  93  1  4  Mohamed Mujahid    2:40.58  94  1  3  Ching Maou Wei    2:55.40  95  1  5  Hassan Mubah    2:57.09  -  1  6  Glenn Victor Sutanto    DNS  -  3  4  Erik Rajohnson    DNS  -  3  8  Endi Babi    DNS  -  3  0  Mubarak Al-Besher    DSQ  -  6  4  Aleksey Derlyugov    DSQ  -  8  0  Vadym Lepskyy    DSQ  -  8  5  Denys Dubrov    DSQ ===Semifinals=== Rank  Heat  Lane  Name  Nationality  Time   Notes 1  2  3  Ryan Lochte    1:55.18  1  2  4  László Cseh    1:55.18  '''ER''' 3  2  5  Leith Brodie    1:56.75  '''OC''' 4  1  3  James Goddard    1:57.12  '''NR''' 5  1  4  Eric Shanteau    1:57.16      6  1  5  Thiago Pereira    1:57.35 '''SA''' 7  2  2  Ken Takakuwa    1:58.09  8  2  6  Gergő Kis    1:58.11  9  1  6  Gal Nevo    1:58.25 '''NR''' 10  1  2  Alessio Boggiatto    1:58.33 '''NR''' 11  1  7  Darian Townsend    1:58.50  12  1  1  Takuro Fujii    1:59.21  13  2  7  Yannick Lebherz    1:59.54  14  2  8  Joseph Roebuck    1:59.82  15  2  1  Henrique Rodrigues    2:00.25  16  1  8  Martin Liivamägi    2:01.24 ===Final=== Rank   Lane  Name  Nationality  Time   Notes    4  Ryan Lochte    1:54.10  '''WR'''    5  László Cseh    1:55.24     2  Eric Shanteau    1:55.36    4  7  Thiago Pereira    1:55.55  '''SA''' 5  3  Leith Brodie    1:56.69  '''OC''' 6  6  James Goddard    1:57.93   7  1  Ken Takakuwa    1:58.02    8  8  Gergő Kis    1:59.32
See also *Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley*Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley
External links * Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m IM '''Heats''', from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds). * Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m IM '''Semis''', from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds). * Final Results