Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The heats for the men's 200 metre freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 27 July and the final took place in the evening session of 28 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2009 FINA World Championships
VenueForo Italico
Dates27 July 2009 (heats, semifinals)
28 July 2009 (final)
Competitors147
Winning time1:42.00 WR
Medalists
gold medal    Germany
silver medal    United States
bronze medal    Russia
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Records edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record   Michael Phelps (USA) 1:42.96 Beijing, China 12 August 2008
Championship record   Michael Phelps (USA) 1:43.86 Melbourne, Australia 27 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
27 July Semifinal 2 Paul Biedermann   Germany 1:43.65 CR
28 July Final Paul Biedermann   Germany 1:42.00 WR

Results edit

Heats edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes
1 Paul Biedermann   Germany 1:45.30 14 4
2 Michael Phelps   United States 1:45.60 15 4
3 Danila Izotov   Russia 1:45.86 14 3 NR
4 Jean Basson   South Africa 1:45.88 15 3
5 Sebastiaan Verschuren   Netherlands 1:46.25 13 8
6 Sho Uchida   Japan 1:46.30 14 6 NR
7 Nikita Lobintsev   Russia 1:46.32 13 3
8 Park Tae-Hwan   South Korea 1:46.53 13 4
9 Kenrick Monk   Australia 1:46.56 15 1
10 Patrick Murphy   Australia 1:46.61 13 5
11 Shaune Fraser   Cayman Islands 1:46.89 12 2
12 Andrew Hunter   Great Britain 1:46.96 13 2
13 Emiliano Brembilla   Italy 1:46.99 14 1
14 Dominik Meichtry    Switzerland 1:47.10 14 5
15 David Walters   United States 1:47.15 15 5
16 Ross Davenport   Great Britain 1:47.21 15 6
17 Shogo Hihara   Japan 1:47.25 13 7
18 Nicolas Oliveira   Brazil 1:47.55 13 6
19 Gianluca Maglia   Italy 1:47.64 14 7
20 Dominik Koll   Austria 1:47.83 13 1
21 Ahmed Mathlouthi   Tunisia 1:47.88 14 2
22 Ryan Harrison   Ireland 1:47.94 11 3 NR
23 Blake Worsley   Canada 1:48.17 12 7
24 Brett Fraser   Cayman Islands 1:48.18 7 0
25 Péter Bernek   Hungary 1:48.24 12 8
26 Colin Russell   Canada 1:48.25 15 7
27 Andrew Mcmillan   New Zealand 1:48.30 15 9
28 Daniele Tirabassi   Venezuela 1:48.51 10 2 NR
29 Gard Kvale   Norway 1:48.57 12 1 NR
30 Rodrigo Castro   Brazil 1:48.62 14 8
31 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or   Israel 1:48.63 15 8
32 Jon Raahauge Rud   Denmark 1:48.69 12 9
33 Konrad Czerniak   Poland 1:48.73 15 0
34 Clemens Rapp   Germany 1:48.75 14 9
35 Douglas Lennox-Silva   Puerto Rico 1:48.81 6 2 NR
36 David Brandl   Austria 1:48.89 12 3
37 Andreas Zisimos   Greece 1:48.96 12 5
38 David Karasek    Switzerland 1:48.97 11 6
39 Pholien Systermans   Belgium 1:49.03 11 5
40 Michael Jack   New Zealand 1:49.11 13 9
41 Djordje Markovic   Serbia 1:49.21 12 6
42 Romāns Miloslavskis   Latvia 1:49.34 12 4
43 Jan Venter   South Africa 1:49.41 13 0
44 Cesar Faria   Portugal 1:49.53 10 4
45 Raphaël Stacchiotti   Luxembourg 1:49.61 11 2 NR
46 Květoslav Svoboda   Czech Republic 1:49.74 11 4
47 Glenn Surgeloose   Belgium 1:50.03 12 0
48 Crox Acuna   Venezuela 1:50.08 10 6
48 Zoltan Povazsay   Hungary 1:50.08 14 0
50 Bae Joonmo   South Korea 1:50.48 10 8
51 Gal Nevo   Israel 1:50.52 9 8
52 Martín Kutscher   Uruguay 1:50.69 11 9
53 Kemal Arda Gurdal   Turkey 1:50.79 9 6
53 Jorge Maia   Portugal 1:50.79 10 5
55 Shi Tengfei   China 1:50.88 10 1
56 Conor Leaney   Ireland 1:50.98 10 0
57 Raúl Martínez Colomer   Puerto Rico 1:51.09 9 3
58 Xin Tong   China 1:51.18 11 8
59 Sebastian Jahnsen Madico   Peru 1:51.21 8 3
60 Vladimir Sidorkin   Estonia 1:51.24 11 1
61 Mario Montoya   Costa Rica 1:51.30 10 9 NR
62 Oleg Rabota   Kazakhstan 1:51.56 8 7
63 Branden Whitehurst   Virgin Islands 1:51.59 6 6 NR
64 Lukasz Giminski   Poland 1:51.62 11 0
65 Aleksandar Nikolov   Bulgaria 1:51.77 9 5
66 Taki M'rabet   Tunisia 1:51.88 9 2
67 Virdhawal Khade   India 1:52.01 11 7
68 Mateo de Angulo   Colombia 1:52.37 9 9
69 Vadym Lepskyy   Ukraine 1:52.50 8 0
70 Irakli Revishvili   Georgia 1:52.87 8 5
71 Lim Wen Hao Joshua   Singapore 1:52.99 8 2
72 Saeid Maleka Ashtiani   Iran 1:53.32 6 3
73 Ensar Hajder   Bosnia and Herzegovina 1:53.62 7 1
74 Mikael Koloyan   Armenia 1:53.76 7 5 NR
75 Artur Dilman   Kazakhstan 1:53.88 9 1
76 Miguel Molina   Philippines 1:54.02 10 3
77 Sebastian Arispe Silva   Peru 1:54.04 7 4
78 Petr Romashkin   Uzbekistan 1:54.09 9 7
79 Charles William Walker   Philippines 1:54.72 7 6
80 Zane Jordan   Zambia 1:54.87 7 9
81 Mohamed Farhoud   Egypt 1:55.03 9 4
82 Emin Noshadi   Iran 1:55.52 5 6
83 Berrada Morad   Morocco 1:55.69 8 1
84 José Alberto Montoya   Costa Rica 1:55.77 6 7
85 Chien Jui-Ting   Chinese Taipei 1:55.91 7 7
86 Sobitjon Amilov   Uzbekistan 1:56.25 7 3
87 Julio Galofre   Colombia 1:56.40 10 7
88 Grant Beahan   Zimbabwe 1:56.52 7 2
89 Mohammed Madouh   Kuwait 1:56.64 6 4
90 Pan Kai-Wen   Chinese Taipei 1:56.77 9 0
91 Gary Pineda   Guatemala 1:56.95 4 2
92 Cheah Mingzhe Marcus   Singapore 1:57.01 8 6
93 Endi Babi   Albania 1:57.15 6 0 NR
94 Bojan Jovanov   Macedonia 1:57.48 1 0
95 Radhames Kalaf   Dominican Republic 1:57.51 6 8
96 Loai Abdulwahid Tashkandi   Saudi Arabia 1:57.94 8 9
97 Diego Castillo   Panama 1:58.03 5 8
98 Jonathan Wong   Jamaica 1:58.27 4 1
99 Ashwin Menon   India 1:58.62 5 7
100 Oriol Cunat   Andorra 1:58.74 5 3
101 Rashid Iunusov   Kyrgyzstan 1:58.86 8 8
102 Marzouq Alsalem   Kuwait 1:59.37 6 5
103 Allan Gabriel Gutierrez Castro   Honduras 1:59.57 5 4
104 Neil Agius   Malta 1:59.61 4 3
105 Ahmed Jebrel   Palestine 1:59.71 4 0
106 Kareem Ennab   Jordan 1:59.80 4 4
107 Christopher Duenas   Guam 1:59.88 6 9
108 Vaughn Forsythe   Barbados 1:59.94 5 1
109 Giorgi Mtvralashvili   Georgia 2:00.03 5 2
110 Colin Bensadon   Gibraltar 2:00.19 5 0
111 Sidni Hoxha   Albania 2:01.30 4 8
112 Aleksandr Slepchenko   Kyrgyzstan 2:01.41 6 1
113 Ignacio Ivan Quevedo Bubba   Bolivia 2:01.84 3 5
114 Omar Núñez   Nicaragua 2:02.23 4 7
115 Fernando Medrano   Nicaragua 2:02.45 3 4
116 Armando Esteban Zayas Claure   Bolivia 2:02.87 4 9
117 Edward Caruana Dingli   Malta 2:03.43 3 2
118 Heimanu Sichan   French Polynesia 2:03.65 4 6
119 Esau Simpson   Grenada 2:03.93 3 9
120 Luis Andres Martorell Name   Honduras 2:04.06 3 7
121 Jean Marie Froget   Mauritius 2:05.47 3 0
122 Mathieu Marquet   Mauritius 2:06.44 3 1
123 Douglas Miller   Fiji 2:06.47 3 8
124 Paul Elaisa   Fiji 2:06.72 2 4
125 Saeed Al Jesmi   United Arab Emirates 2:06.77 3 6
126 Vincent Perry   French Polynesia 2:06.92 5 9
127 Sergey Pevnev   Armenia 2:07.73 3 3
128 Ahmed Majeed Ali Tayawi   Iraq 2:08.55 2 0
129 Al Khaduri Musallam   Oman 2:09.44 5 5
130 Shane Mangroo   Seychelles 2:09.87 2 6
131 Sergey Krovyakov   Turkmenistan 2:11.39 2 7
132 Henk Aloysius Lowe   Guyana 2:11.56 2 8
133 Adam Viktora   Seychelles 2:12.13 2 1
134 Cooper Graf   Northern Mariana Islands 2:12.17 2 3
135 Shin Kimura   Northern Mariana Islands 2:13.02 2 2
136 Jesse Nilon   Samoa 2:13.15 2 5
137 Fahad Alqooz   Bahrain 2:17.04 1 3
138 Ahmet Halliyev   Turkmenistan 2:17.22 1 4
139 Inayath Hassan   Maldives 2:18.63 1 6
140 Ali Mohamed Raaidh   Maldives 2:22.16 1 5
141 Christopher Symonds   Ghana 2:32.84 1 2
Alexander Dale Oen   Norway DNS 1 7
Aleksandar Jeremic   Macedonia DNS 1 8
Lin Kuan-Ting   Chinese Taipei DNS 7 8
Mads Glæsner   Denmark DNS 15 2
Obaid Al-Jasmi   United Arab Emirates DQ 4 5
Salvador Mallat Arcaya   Chile DQ 8 4

Semifinals edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes
1 Paul Biedermann   Germany 1:43.65 2 4 CR, ER
2 Danila Izotov   Russia 1:45.09 2 5 NR
3 Michael Phelps   United States 1:45.23 1 4
4 Nikita Lobintsev   Russia 1:45.31 2 6
5 Sho Uchida   Japan 1:45.45 1 3 NR
6 Sebastiaan Verschuren   Netherlands 1:45.69 2 3
7 Kenrick Monk   Australia 1:45.77 2 2
8 Jean Basson   South Africa 1:45.82 1 5 AF
9 Dominik Meichtry    Switzerland 1:46.13 1 1
10 Shaune Fraser   Cayman Islands 1:46.44 2 7
11 Ross Davenport   Great Britain 1:46.46 2 8 NR
12 David Walters   United States 1:46.61 1 1
13 Park Tae-Hwan   South Korea 1:46.68 1 6
14 Patrick Murphy   Australia 1:46.70 1 2
15 Andrew Hunter   Great Britain 1:46.90 1 7
16 Shogo Hihara   Japan 1:47.36 1 8

Final edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes
  Paul Biedermann   Germany 1:42.00 4 WR
  Michael Phelps   United States 1:43.22 3
  Danila Izotov   Russia 1:43.90 5 NR
4 Sho Uchida   Japan 1:45.24 2 NR
5 Kenrick Monk   Australia 1:45.46 1
6 Jean Basson   South Africa 1:45.67 8 AF
7 Sebastiaan Verschuren   Netherlands 1:46.05 7
8 Nikita Lobintsev   Russia 1:46.33 6

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