Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m medley (men)

sport	swim
discipline	200 meter locations
gender	Men
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	36 athletes from 27 countries
Competition phase	1./2. August 2012

The competition over 200m individual medley men at the 2012 Olympics in London was on 1 and 2 August 2012 at London Aquatics Center held. 36 athletes took part.

There were five preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals that were held on the same day. Here too, the finalists qualified by setting the eight fastest times in both semi-finals.

Abbreviations: WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record

Existing records

World record	Ryan Lochte ( United States )	1: 54.00 min	Shanghai , People's Republic of China	July 28, 2011
Olympic record	Michael Phelps ( United States )	1: 54.23 min	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 15, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Michael Phelps ( United States )	1: 54.23 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Ryan Lochte ( United States )	1: 54.00 min	Shanghai 2011
European champion	László Cseh ( Hungary )	1: 56.66 min	Debrecen 2012
German champions	Markus Deibler	1: 57.82 min	Berlin 2012

leader

Forward 1

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Jeong Won-yong	South Korea	2: 03.33 min
2	Maxim Schemberew	Ukraine	2: 03.40 min
3	Nuttapong Ketin	Thailand	2: 03.91 min
4th	Ensar Hajder	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2: 05.70 min

Forward 2

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Andrew Ford	Canada	2: 00.28 min
2	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	2: 00.38 min
3	Bradley Ally	Barbados	2: 00.85 min
4th	Alexander Tikhonov	Russia	2: 01.00 min
5	Martin Liivamägi	Estonia	2: 01.09 min
6th	Andreas Vazeos	Greece	2: 01.23 min
7th	David Karasek	Switzerland	2: 01.35 min	NO
8th	Taki M'Rabet	Tunisia	2: 01.41 min

Forward 3

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	László Cseh	Hungary	1: 57.20 min
2	James Goddard	United Kingdom	1: 58.56 min
3	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1: 59.45 min
4th	Joseph Roebuck	United Kingdom	2:00:04 min
5	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	2: 00.40 min
6th	Marcin Cieślak	Poland	2: 00.45 min
6th	Darian Townsend	South Africa	2: 00.67 min
8th	Wang Shun	People's Republic of China	2: 00.85 min

Forward 4

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1: 58.22 min
2	Michael Phelps	United States	1: 58.24 min
3	Markus Rogan	Austria	1: 58.66 min
4th	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	1: 58.82 min
5	Federico Turrini	Italy	2: 00.63 min
6th	Philip Heintz	Germany	2: 01.32 min
7th	Wu Peng	People's Republic of China	2: 01.43 min
8th	Jayden Hadler	Australia	2: 01.54 min

Forward 5

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 58.03 min
2	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1: 58.31 min
3	Markus Deibler	Germany	1: 58.61 min
4th	Henrique Rodrigues	Brazil	1: 59.37 min
5	Gal Nevo	Israel	1: 59.56 min
6th	Daniel Tranter	Australia	1: 59.70 min
7th	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	1: 59.84 min
8th	Dávid Verrasztó	Hungary	2: 04.53 min

Semifinals

Run 1

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 56.13 min
2	Michael Phelps	United States	1: 57.11 min
3	James Goddard	United Kingdom	1: 58.49 min
4th	Gal Nevo	Israel	1: 59.17 min
5	Henrique Rodrigues	Brazil	1: 59.58 min
6th	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	2:00, 13 min
7th	Andrew Ford	Canada	2: 01.58 min
-	Markus Rogan	Austria	DSQ	technical error

Rogan was disqualified because he made an illegal dolphin kick when switching from the supine position to the chest position.

Run 2

August 1, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	László Cseh	Hungary	1: 56.74 min
2	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1: 57.45 min
3	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1: 57.95 min
4th	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	1: 58.31 min
5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1: 58.49 min
6th	Markus Deibler	Germany	1: 58.88 min
7th	Joseph Roebuck	United Kingdom	1: 59.57 min
8th	Daniel Tranter	Australia	2: 00.46 min

Chad le Clos decided not to take part in the final in order to concentrate on the 100 meter butterfly, the heats and semi-finals of which take place on the day of the individual medley finals. This allowed Markus Deibler, who swam the next fastest time, to take part in the final.

final

August 2, 2012, 8:19 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Phelps	United States	1: 54.27 min
2	Ryan Lochte	United States	1: 54.90 min
3	László Cseh	Hungary	1: 56.22 min
4th	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	1: 56.74 min
5	Kosuke Hagino	Japan	1: 57.35 min
6th	Ken Takakuwa	Japan	1: 58.53 min
7th	James Goddard	United Kingdom	1: 59.05 min
8th	Markus Deibler	Germany	1: 59.10 min

Michael Phelps is the first male swimmer in Olympic history to achieve a triple victory in a row in a discipline.
Phelps, Lochte and Cseh were already on the podium in Beijing in 2008 in this discipline, but in a different order. At that time Phelps won over Cseh and Lochte. It was the first time in Olympic swimming competitions that all three medal winners came back on the podium.
For the first time, all finalists crossed the finish line in less than two minutes.

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m medley in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swimming World Magazine (Engl.) From 1 August 2012 ( Memento of the original January 28, 2013 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.