200 m Freestyle, Men

Competition 2009 World Aquatics Championships
Venue Roma ITA
Held 27 – 28 July 2009
Status Medal
Competitors 143
Countries 91
Pos Athlete(s) Country Preliminary Round Semi-Finals Final
🥇 Paul Biedermann GER 1:45.30
(1 h14)
1:43.65
(1 h2)
1:42.00
(1 F)
🥈 Michael Phelps USA 1:45.60
(2 h15)
1:45.23
(3 h1)
1:43.22
(2 F)
🥉 Dan Izotov RUS 1:45.86
(3 h14)
1:45.09
(2 h2)
1:43.90
(3 F)
4 Sho Uchida JPN 1:46.30
(6 h14)
1:45.45
(5 h1)
1:45.24
(4 F)
5 Kenrick Monk AUS 1:46.56
(9 h15)
1:45.77
(7 h2)
1:45.46
(5 F)
6 Jean Basson RSA 1:45.88
(4 h15)
1:45.82
(8 h1)
1:45.67
(6 F)
7 Sebastiaan Verschuren NED 1:46.25
(5 h13)
1:45.69
(6 h2)
1:46.05
(7 F)
8 Nikita Lobintsev RUS 1:46.32
(7 h13)
1:45.31
(4 h2)
1:46.33
(8 F)
9 Dominik Meichtry SUI 1:47.10
(14 h14)
1:46.13
(9 h2)
10 Shaune Fraser CAY 1:46.89
(11 h12)
1:46.44
(10 h2)
11 Ross Davenport GBR 1:47.21
(16 h15)
1:46.46
(11 h2)
12 Dave Walters USA 1:47.15
(15 h15)
1:46.61
(12 h1)
13 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 1:46.53
(8 h13)
1:46.68
(13 h1)
14 Patrick Murphy AUS 1:46.61
(10 h13)
1:46.70
(14 h1)
15 Andrew Hunter GBR 1:46.96
(12 h13)
1:46.90
(15 h1)
16 Shogo Hihara JPN 1:47.25
(17 h13)
1:47.36
(16 h1)
17 Emiliano Brembilla ITA 1:46.99
(13 h14)
18 Nicolas Oliveira BRA 1:47.55
(18 h13)
19 Gianluca Maglia ITA 1:47.64
(19 h14)
20 Dominik Koll AUT 1:47.83
(20 h13)
21 Ahmed Mathlouthi TUN 1:47.88
(21 h14)
22 Ryan Harrison IRL 1:47.94
(22 h11)
23 Blake Worsley CAN 1:48.17
(23 h12)
24 Brett Fraser CAY 1:48.18
(24 h7)
25 Péter Bernek HUN 1:48.24
(25 h12)
26 Colin Russell CAN 1:48.25
(26 h15)
27 Andy McMillan NZL 1:48.30
(27 h15)
28 Daniele Tirabassi VEN 1:48.51
(28 h10)
29 Gard Kvale NOR 1:48.57
(29 h12)
30 Rodrigo Castro BRA 1:48.62
(30 h14)
31 Nimrod Shapira ISR 1:48.63
(31 h15)
32 Jon Rud DEN 1:48.69
(32 h12)
33 Konrad Czerniak POL 1:48.73
(33 h15)
34 Clemens Rapp GER 1:48.75
(34 h14)
35 Douglas Lennox-Silva PUR 1:48.81
(35 h6)
36 David Brandl AUT 1:48.89
(36 h12)
37 Andreas Zisimos GRE 1:48.96
(37 h12)
38 David Karasek SUI 1:48.97
(38 h11)
39 Pholien Systermans BEL 1:49.03
(39 h11)
40 Michael Jack NZL 1:49.11
(40 h13)
41 Đorđe Marković SRB 1:49.21
(41 h12)
42 Romāns Miloslavskis LAT 1:49.34
(42 h12)
43 Jan Venter RSA 1:49.41
(43 h13)
44 César Faria POR 1:49.53
(44 h10)
45 Raphaël Stacchiotti LUX 1:49.61
(45 h11)
46 Květoslav Svoboda CZE 1:49.74
(46 h11)
47 Glenn Surgeloose BEL 1:50.03
(47 h12)
=48 Crox Acuña VEN 1:50.08
(=48 h10)
=48 Zoltán Povazsai HUN 1:50.08
(=48 h14)
50 Bae Joon-Mo KOR 1:50.48
(50 h10)
51 Gal Nevo ISR 1:50.52
(51 h9)
52 Martín Kutscher URU 1:50.69
(52 h11)
=53 Jorge Maia POR 1:50.79
(=53 h10)
=53 Kemal Arda Gürdal TUR 1:50.79
(=53 h9)
55 Shi Tengfei CHN 1:50.88
(55 h10)
56 Conor Leaney IRL 1:50.98
(56 h10)
57 Raúl Martínez PUR 1:51.09
(57 h9)
58 Xin Tong CHN 1:51.18
(58 h11)
59 Sebastián Jahnsen PER 1:51.21
(59 h8)
60 Vladimir Sidorkin EST 1:51.24
(60 h11)
61 Mario Montoya CRC 1:51.30
(61 h10)
62 Oleg Rabota KAZ 1:51.56
(62 h8)
63 Branden Whitehurst ISV 1:51.59
(63 h6)
64 Łukasz Gimiński POL 1:51.62
(64 h11)
65 Aleksandar Nikolov BUL 1:51.77
(65 h9)
66 Taki M'Rabet TUN 1:51.88
(66 h9)
67 Virdhawal Khade IND 1:52.01
(67 h11)
68 Mateo de Angulo COL 1:52.37
(68 h9)
69 Vadym Lepskyi UKR 1:52.50
(69 h8)
70 Irak'li Revishvili GEO 1:52.87
(70 h8)
71 Joshua Lim SGP 1:52.99
(71 h8)
72 Saeid Maleka Ashtiani IRI 1:53.32
(72 h6)
73 Ensar Hajder BIH 1:53.62
(73 h7)
74 Mikayel Koloyan ARM 1:53.76
(74 h7)
75 Artur Dilman KAZ 1:53.88
(75 h9)
76 Miguel Molina PHI 1:54.02
(76 h10)
77 Sebastián Arispe PER 1:54.04
(77 h7)
78 Pyotr Romashkin UZB 1:54.09
(78 h9)
79 Charles Walker PHI 1:54.72
(79 h7)
80 Zane Jordan ZAM 1:54.87
(80 h7)
81 Mohamed Farhoud EGY 1:55.03
(81 h9)
82 Emin Noshadi IRI 1:55.52
(82 h5)
83 Morad Berrada MAR 1:55.69
(83 h8)
84 José Montoya CRC 1:55.77
(84 h6)
85 Chien Jui-Ting TPE 1:55.91
(85 h7)
86 Sobitjon Amilov UZB 1:56.25
(86 h7)
87 Julio César Galofre COL 1:56.40
(87 h10)
88 Grant Beahan ZIM 1:56.52
(88 h7)
89 Mohammed Madouh KUW 1:56.64
(89 h6)
90 Kevin Pan TPE 1:56.77
(90 h9)
91 Gary Pineda GUA 1:56.95
(91 h4)
92 Marcus Cheah SGP 1:57.01
(92 h8)
93 Endi Babi ALB 1:57.15
(93 h6)
94 Bojan Jovanov MKD 1:57.48
(94 h1)
95 Radamés Kalaff DOM 1:57.51
(95 h6)
96 Loai Tashkandi KSA 1:57.94
(96 h8)
97 Diego Castillo PAN 1:58.03
(97 h5)
98 Jonathon Wong JAM 1:58.27
(98 h4)
99 Ashwin Menon IND 1:58.62
(99 h5)
100 Oriol Cuñat Rodríguez AND 1:58.74
(100 h5)
101 Rashid Iunusov KGZ 1:58.86
(101 h8)
102 Marzouq Al-Salem KUW 1:59.37
(102 h6)
103 Allan Gutiérrez HON 1:59.57
(103 h5)
104 Neil Agius MLT 1:59.61
(104 h4)
105 Ahmed Gebrel PLE 1:59.71
(105 h4)
106 Kareem Ennab JOR 1:59.80
(106 h4)
107 Christopher Duenas GUM 1:59.88
(107 h6)
108 Vaughn Forsythe BAR 1:59.94
(108 h5)
109 Giorgi Mtvralashvili GEO 2:00.03
(109 h5)
110 Colin Bensadon GIB 2:00.19
(110 h5)
111 Sidni Hoxha ALB 2:01.30
(111 h4)
112 Aleksandr Slepchenko KGZ 2:01.41
(112 h6)
113 Ignacio Quevedo BOL 2:01.84
(113 h3)
114 Yasser Núñez NCA 2:02.23
(114 h4)
115 Fernando Medrano NCA 2:02.45
(115 h3)
116 Amando Zayas BOL 2:02.87
(116 h4)
117 Edward Caruana MLT 2:03.43
(117 h3)
118 Heimanu Sichan FPN 2:03.65
(118 h4)
119 Esau Simpson GRN 2:03.93
(119 h3)
120 Luis Martorell HON 2:04.06
(120 h3)
121 Emmanuel Froget MRI 2:05.47
(121 h3)
122 Mathieu Marquet MRI 2:06.44
(122 h3)
123 Douglas Miller FIJ 2:06.47
(123 h3)
124 Paul Elaisa FIJ 2:06.72
(124 h2)
125 Saeed Al-Jasmi UAE 2:06.77
(125 h3)
126 Vincent Perry FPN 2:06.92
(126 h5)
127 Sergey Pevnev ARM 2:07.73
(127 h3)
128 Ahmed Majeed Tayawi IRQ 2:08.55
(128 h2)
129 Musallam Al-Khaduri OMA 2:09.44
(129 h5)
130 Shane Mangroo SEY 2:09.87
(130 h2)
131 Sergeý Krowýakow TKM 2:11.39
(131 h2)
132 Henk Lowe GUY 2:11.56
(132 h2)
133 Adam Viktora SEY 2:12.13
(133 h2)
134 Cooper Graf NMI 2:12.17
(134 h2)
135 Shin Kimura NMI 2:13.02
(135 h2)
136 Jesse Nilon SAM 2:13.15
(136 h2)
137 Fahad Alqooz BRN 2:17.04
(137 h1)
138 Ahmet Halliyev TKM 2:17.22
(138 h1)
139 Inayath Hassan MDV 2:18.63
(139 h1)
140 Ali Mohamed Raaidh MDV 2:22.16
(140 h1)
141 Christopher Symonds GHA 2:32.84
(141 h1)
AC Salvador Mallat CHI 1:56.10
(DQ h8)
AC Obaid Al-Jasmi UAE 1:58.26
(DQ h4)
DNS Alexander Dale OenDNS NOR
(DNS h1)
DNS Aleksandar JeremicDNS MKD
(DNS h1)
DNS Lin Kuan-TingDNS TPE
(DNS h7)
DNS Mads GlæsnerDNS DEN
(DNS h15)

Preliminary Round

Heat 1

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
94 Bojan Jovanov MKD 1:57.48
137 Fahad Alqooz BRN 2:17.04
138 Ahmet Halliyev TKM 2:17.22
139 Inayath Hassan MDV 2:18.63
140 Ali Mohamed Raaidh MDV 2:22.16
141 Christopher Symonds GHA 2:32.84
DNS Alexander Dale OenDNS NOR
DNS Aleksandar JeremicDNS MKD

Heat 10

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
28 Daniele Tirabassi VEN 1:48.51
44 César Faria POR 1:49.53
=48 Crox Acuña VEN 1:50.08
50 Bae Joon-Mo KOR 1:50.48
=53 Jorge Maia POR 1:50.79
55 Shi Tengfei CHN 1:50.88
56 Conor Leaney IRL 1:50.98
61 Mario Montoya CRC 1:51.30
76 Miguel Molina PHI 1:54.02
87 Julio César Galofre COL 1:56.40

Heat 11

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
22 Ryan Harrison IRL 1:47.94
38 David Karasek SUI 1:48.97
39 Pholien Systermans BEL 1:49.03
45 Raphaël Stacchiotti LUX 1:49.61
46 Květoslav Svoboda CZE 1:49.74
52 Martín Kutscher URU 1:50.69
58 Xin Tong CHN 1:51.18
60 Vladimir Sidorkin EST 1:51.24
64 Łukasz Gimiński POL 1:51.62
67 Virdhawal Khade IND 1:52.01

Heat 12

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
11 Shaune Fraser CAY 1:46.89
23 Blake Worsley CAN 1:48.17
25 Péter Bernek HUN 1:48.24
29 Gard Kvale NOR 1:48.57
32 Jon Rud DEN 1:48.69
36 David Brandl AUT 1:48.89
37 Andreas Zisimos GRE 1:48.96
41 Đorđe Marković SRB 1:49.21
42 Romāns Miloslavskis LAT 1:49.34
47 Glenn Surgeloose BEL 1:50.03

Heat 13

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
5 Sebastiaan Verschuren NED 1:46.25
7 Nikita Lobintsev RUS 1:46.32
8 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 1:46.53
10 Patrick Murphy AUS 1:46.61
12 Andrew Hunter GBR 1:46.96
17 Shogo Hihara JPN 1:47.25
18 Nicolas Oliveira BRA 1:47.55
20 Dominik Koll AUT 1:47.83
40 Michael Jack NZL 1:49.11
43 Jan Venter RSA 1:49.41

Heat 14

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
1 Paul Biedermann GER 1:45.30
3 Dan Izotov RUS 1:45.86
6 Sho Uchida JPN 1:46.30
13 Emiliano Brembilla ITA 1:46.99
14 Dominik Meichtry SUI 1:47.10
19 Gianluca Maglia ITA 1:47.64
21 Ahmed Mathlouthi TUN 1:47.88
30 Rodrigo Castro BRA 1:48.62
34 Clemens Rapp GER 1:48.75
=48 Zoltán Povazsai HUN 1:50.08

Heat 15

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
2 Michael Phelps USA 1:45.60
4 Jean Basson RSA 1:45.88
9 Kenrick Monk AUS 1:46.56
15 Dave Walters USA 1:47.15
16 Ross Davenport GBR 1:47.21
26 Colin Russell CAN 1:48.25
27 Andy McMillan NZL 1:48.30
31 Nimrod Shapira ISR 1:48.63
33 Konrad Czerniak POL 1:48.73
DNS Mads GlæsnerDNS DEN

Heat 2

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
124 Paul Elaisa FIJ 2:06.72
128 Ahmed Majeed Tayawi IRQ 2:08.55
130 Shane Mangroo SEY 2:09.87
131 Sergeý Krowýakow TKM 2:11.39
132 Henk Lowe GUY 2:11.56
133 Adam Viktora SEY 2:12.13
134 Cooper Graf NMI 2:12.17
135 Shin Kimura NMI 2:13.02
136 Jesse Nilon SAM 2:13.15

Heat 3

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
113 Ignacio Quevedo BOL 2:01.84
115 Fernando Medrano NCA 2:02.45
117 Edward Caruana MLT 2:03.43
119 Esau Simpson GRN 2:03.93
120 Luis Martorell HON 2:04.06
121 Emmanuel Froget MRI 2:05.47
122 Mathieu Marquet MRI 2:06.44
123 Douglas Miller FIJ 2:06.47
125 Saeed Al-Jasmi UAE 2:06.77
127 Sergey Pevnev ARM 2:07.73

Heat 4

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
91 Gary Pineda GUA 1:56.95
98 Jonathon Wong JAM 1:58.27
104 Neil Agius MLT 1:59.61
105 Ahmed Gebrel PLE 1:59.71
106 Kareem Ennab JOR 1:59.80
111 Sidni Hoxha ALB 2:01.30
114 Yasser Núñez NCA 2:02.23
116 Amando Zayas BOL 2:02.87
118 Heimanu Sichan FPN 2:03.65
DQ Obaid Al-Jasmi UAE 1:58.26

Heat 5

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
82 Emin Noshadi IRI 1:55.52
97 Diego Castillo PAN 1:58.03
99 Ashwin Menon IND 1:58.62
100 Oriol Cuñat Rodríguez AND 1:58.74
103 Allan Gutiérrez HON 1:59.57
108 Vaughn Forsythe BAR 1:59.94
109 Giorgi Mtvralashvili GEO 2:00.03
110 Colin Bensadon GIB 2:00.19
126 Vincent Perry FPN 2:06.92
129 Musallam Al-Khaduri OMA 2:09.44

Heat 6

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
35 Douglas Lennox-Silva PUR 1:48.81
63 Branden Whitehurst ISV 1:51.59
72 Saeid Maleka Ashtiani IRI 1:53.32
84 José Montoya CRC 1:55.77
89 Mohammed Madouh KUW 1:56.64
93 Endi Babi ALB 1:57.15
95 Radamés Kalaff DOM 1:57.51
102 Marzouq Al-Salem KUW 1:59.37
107 Christopher Duenas GUM 1:59.88
112 Aleksandr Slepchenko KGZ 2:01.41

Heat 7

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
24 Brett Fraser CAY 1:48.18
73 Ensar Hajder BIH 1:53.62
74 Mikayel Koloyan ARM 1:53.76
77 Sebastián Arispe PER 1:54.04
79 Charles Walker PHI 1:54.72
80 Zane Jordan ZAM 1:54.87
85 Chien Jui-Ting TPE 1:55.91
86 Sobitjon Amilov UZB 1:56.25
88 Grant Beahan ZIM 1:56.52
DNS Lin Kuan-TingDNS TPE

Heat 8

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
59 Sebastián Jahnsen PER 1:51.21
62 Oleg Rabota KAZ 1:51.56
69 Vadym Lepskyi UKR 1:52.50
70 Irak'li Revishvili GEO 1:52.87
71 Joshua Lim SGP 1:52.99
83 Morad Berrada MAR 1:55.69
92 Marcus Cheah SGP 1:57.01
96 Loai Tashkandi KSA 1:57.94
101 Rashid Iunusov KGZ 1:58.86
DQ Salvador Mallat CHI 1:56.10

Heat 9

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
51 Gal Nevo ISR 1:50.52
=53 Kemal Arda Gürdal TUR 1:50.79
57 Raúl Martínez PUR 1:51.09
65 Aleksandar Nikolov BUL 1:51.77
66 Taki M'Rabet TUN 1:51.88
68 Mateo de Angulo COL 1:52.37
75 Artur Dilman KAZ 1:53.88
78 Pyotr Romashkin UZB 1:54.09
81 Mohamed Farhoud EGY 1:55.03
90 Kevin Pan TPE 1:56.77

Semi-Finals

Heat 1

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
3 Michael Phelps USA 1:45.23
5 Sho Uchida JPN 1:45.45
8 Jean Basson RSA 1:45.82
12 Dave Walters USA 1:46.61
13 Park Tae-Hwan KOR 1:46.68
14 Patrick Murphy AUS 1:46.70
15 Andrew Hunter GBR 1:46.90
16 Shogo Hihara JPN 1:47.36

Heat 2

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
1 Paul Biedermann GER 1:43.65
2 Dan Izotov RUS 1:45.09
4 Nikita Lobintsev RUS 1:45.31
6 Sebastiaan Verschuren NED 1:45.69
7 Kenrick Monk AUS 1:45.77
9 Dominik Meichtry SUI 1:46.13
10 Shaune Fraser CAY 1:46.44
11 Ross Davenport GBR 1:46.46

Final

Pos Athlete(s) Country Mark
1 Paul Biedermann GER 1:42.00
2 Michael Phelps USA 1:43.22
3 Dan Izotov RUS 1:43.90
4 Sho Uchida JPN 1:45.24
5 Kenrick Monk AUS 1:45.46
6 Jean Basson RSA 1:45.67
7 Sebastiaan Verschuren NED 1:46.05
8 Nikita Lobintsev RUS 1:46.33