Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The Men's 200 Individual Medley (or I.M.) event at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 27 – 28 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were 27 July; the Final 28 July. The top-16 swimmers from the Prelims in the morning advanced to the 1 of 2 Seminfinal in the evening; the top-8 swimmers from the Semifinals then advanced to the Final the next evening.

Men's 200m I.M. at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	27 July (prelims and semifinals) 28 July (final)
Competitors	61 from 50 nations
Winning time	1 minute 56.68 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   László Cseh    Hungary   Ryan Lochte    United States

As the Swimming portion of the World Championships are swum in a long course (50m) pool, this race consisted of 4 lengths. As it was an IM event, each length was a different stroke, swum in the order of: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and then freestyle.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

• WR: 1:55.94, Michael Phelps (USA), swum 9 August 2003 in College Park, USA;
• CR: 1:56.04, Michael Phelps (USA), swum 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

No new world or competition records were set during this competition.