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

The men's 200 freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 25+26 July 2005 in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 95 swimmers were entered in the preliminary heats, which swam in the morning of July 25. The top-16 swimmers from the prelims advanced on to semifinal heats that evening. From the semifinals, the top 8 swimmers advanced onto the next night's final.

The existing records at the start of the event were: World record (WR): 1:44.06, Ian Thorpe (Australia), 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan. Championship record (CR): same

Results

Final Place Name Nationality Time Note 1 Michael Phelps 1:45.20 AM 2 Grant Hackett 1:46.14 3 Ryk Neethling 1:46.63 4 Brent Hayden 1:46.85 5 Nicholas Sprenger 1:47.09 6 Peter Vanderkaay 1:47.25 7 Emiliano Brembilla 1:47.63 8 ZHANG Lin 1:49.45

Semifinals Rank Name Nationality Time Note 1 Michael Phelps 1:46.33 Q 2 Emiliano Brembilla 1:47.37 Q 3 Nicholas Sprenger 1:47.57 Q 4 Grant Hackett 1:47.66 Q 5 Brent Hayden 1:48.00 Q 6 Ryk Neethling 1:48.05 Q 7 ZHANG Lin 1:48.10 Q 8 Peter Vanderkaay 1:48.11 Q 9 Filippo Magnini 1:48.34 10 Amaury Leveaux 1:48.71 11 Stefan Herbst 1:48.72 12 David Carry 1:48.79 13 Yoshihiro Okumura 1:49.15 14 Romāns Miloslavskis 1:49.19 15 Dominik Meichtry 1:49.97 16 Rick Say 1:50.01

Prelims Rank Name Nationality Time Note 1 Grant Hackett 1:47.88 Q 2 Michael Phelps 1:48.17 Q 3 Ryk Neethling 1:48.37 Q 4 Peter Vanderkaay 1:48.53 Q 5 Brent Hayden 1:48.59 Q 6 Amaury Leveaux 1:48.69 Q 7 Emiliano Brembilla 1:48.70 Q 8 Filippo Magnini 1:48.78 Q 9 Nicholas Sprenger 1:48.80 Q 10 Yoshihiro Okumura 1:48.92 Q 11 Rick Say 1:48.96 Q 12 David Carry 1:49.09 Q 13 Dominik Meichtry 1:49.13 Q 14 ZHANG Lin 1:49.19 Q 15 Stefan Herbst 1:49.32 Q 16 Romāns Miloslavskis 1:49.40 Q 17 Sho Uchida 1:49.42 18 Paul Biedermann 1:49.47 19 Olaf Wildeboer 1:49.62 20 PARK Tae-Hwan 1:49.70 21 Andreas Zisimos 1:49.75 22 Shai Livnat 1:49.81 23 Květoslav Svoboda 1:49.85 24 Jean Basson 1:49.99 25 Maxim Kuznetsov 1:50.12 26 Dominik Koll 1:50.37 27 Jacob Carstensen 1:50.74 28 Nicolas Rostoucher 1:50.76 29 Evgeny Lagunov 1:50.94 30 Adriano Niz 1:51.00 31 Michal Rokicki 1:51.01 32 CHEN Zuo 1:51.11 33 Michal Rubáček 1:51.44 34 Paulius Andrijauskas 1:51.48 35 Dmytro Vereitinov 1:51.55 36 Nabil Kebbab 1:51.64 37 Apostolos Antonopoulos 1:51.70 38 Shaune Fraser 1:51.91 39 Mihail Alexandrov 1:52.11 Tiago Venâncio 41 Gard Kvale 1:52.44 42 Mahrez Mebarek 1:52.80 43 Giancarlo Zolezzi 1:52.96 44 Thomas Felten 1:52.99 45 Igor Snitko 1:53.02 46 Saulius Binevičius 1:53.15 47 Miguel Molina 1:53.18 48 Luka Turk 1:53.19 49 Maximiliano Schnettler 1:53.20 50 Andrei Radzionov 1:53.39 51 Vitaliy Khan 1:54.31 52 Petr Vasilev 1:54.46 53 Dean Kent 1:54.66 54 Sebastian Arango Herrera 1:54.92 55 Yahor Salabutov 1:54.96 56 Timur Irgashev 1:54.98 57 Bryan Tay 1:55.01 58 Antonio Hernández 1:55.11 59 Ronald Cowen 1:55.53 60 Ki-Hyuk Sim 1:55.54 61 Muhammad Akbar Nasution 1:55.73 62 Jonas Persson 1:55.95 63 Sebastian Stoss 1:56.19 64 Jason Dunford 1:56.91 65 Evan Marcus 1:56.96 66 Matias Rementeria Perez 1:57.36 67 Jeffrey Su 1:57.49 68 Kuo-Chuan Tsai 1:57.99 69 Sheng-Chieh Tang 1:58.00 70 James Walsh 1:58.23 71 Mikayel Koloyan 1:58.26 72 Kieran Locke Virgin Islands 1:58.39 73 Emanuele Nicolini 1:58.44 74 Youssef Hafdi 1:58.63 75 Brad Hamilton 1:58.72 76 Soheil Ashtiani 1:59.01 77 Waleed Al-Qahtani 1:59.24 78 Zurab Khomasuridze 1:59.36 79 Vasilii Danilov 1:59.77 80 Andy Wibowo 2:00.15 81 Morgan Locke Virgin Islands 2:00.32 82 Jose Lobo 2:01.03 83 Aleksandr Moseshvili 2:01.23 84 Anas Hamadeh 2:01.63 85 Sean Dehere 2:01.67 86 Nguyen Thanh Hai 2:01.98 87 Steven Mangroo 2:02.38 88 Bradford Worrell 2:03.81 89 Kuan Fong Lao 2:04.21 90 Fernando Medrano 2:04.70 91 Erik Rajohnson 2:05.95 92 Miguel Navarro 2:06.37 93 Loai Tashkandi 2:07.53 94 Hassan Shah 2:35.51 -- Milinda Wickramasinghe DNS

See also Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

References

FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 200 Freestyle heats results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21. FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 200 Freestyle semifinals results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21. FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 200 Freestyle final results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.