The men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 25 and 26. The heats and semifinals took place July 25 and the final was held July 26.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld record Championship recordPaul Biedermann1:42.00RomeJuly 28, 2009
Results
Heats
60 swimmers participated in 8 heats, qualified swimmers are listed: Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes1 7 4 Ryan Lochte 1:46.34 Q2 7 3 Sebastiaan Verschuren 1:46.53 Q3 8 5 Paul Biedermann 1:46.56 Q 4 8 4 Park Tae-Hwan 1:46.63 Q 5 7 5 Michael Phelps 1:46.98 Q 6 6 4 Yannick Agnel 1:47.11 Q 7 7 7 Dominik Meichtry 1:47.38 Q 8 8 1 Ross Davenport 1:47.59 Q 9 8 3 Danila Izotov 1:47.72 Q 10 7 8 Shaune Fraser 1:47.73 Q11 6 6 Robert Renwick 1:47.88 Q 12 5 3 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 1:48.11 Q13 7 1 Yuki Kobori 1:48.19 Q 14 6 5 Nikita Lobintsev 1:48.28 Q15 5 8 Nicolas Oliveira 1:48.33 Q 16 8 6 Kenrick Monk 1:48.42 Q 17 8 2 Tim Wallburger 1:48.43 18 6 7 Gianluca Maglia 1:48.54 19 6 1 Sho Uchida 1:48.64 20 6 8 Marco Belotti 1:48.66 21 5 5 Markus Rogan 1:48.82 22 6 3 Thomas Fraser-Holmes 1:48.86 23 4 3 Matthew Stanley 1:48.93 24 7 2 Li Yunqi 1:48.94 25 7 6 Jean Basson 1:48.95 26 8 8 Glenn Surgeloose 1:48.96 27 5 6 Chad Bobrosky 1:49.01 28 5 7 Cristian Quintero 1:49.27 29 6 2 Jiang Haiqi 1:49.43 30 8 7 Joost Reijns 1:49.56 31 3 5 Wong Kai Wai David 1:49.58 32 5 2 Mads Glæsner 1:49.59 33 5 1 Benjamin Hockin 1:49.85 34 4 5 Dominik Straga 1:51.35 35 4 4 Radovan Siljevski 1:51.42 36 3 2 Uvis Kalnins 1:52.20 37 4 2 Robin Andreasson 1:52.21 38 5 4 Ryan Pini 1:52.23 39 4 6 Mateo de Angulo 1:52.25 40 4 7 Jessie Lacuna 1:52.27 41 3 4 Martín Kutscher 1:52.49 42 4 1 Danny Yeo 1:52.54 43 3 7 Mario Montoya 1:52.64 44 4 8 Raúl Martínez 1:52.93 45 3 1 Sebastián Jahnsen Madico 1:53.68 46 3 6 Irakli Revishvili 1:54.02 47 2 4 Nicholas Schwab 1:54.95 48 2 5 Matthew Abeysinghe 1:55.33 NR48 3 3 Phạm Thành Nguyện 1:55.33 50 2 2 Allan Gutierrez 1:56.74 51 2 3 Emanuele Nicolini 1:57.23 52 2 7 Quinton Delie 1:57.47 53 3 8 Mohamed Madouh 1:57.64 54 2 6 Jemal Le Grand 1:58.24 55 1 4 Obaid Al Jasmi 1:58.49 56 2 1 Gebrel Ahmed 2:02.27 57 2 8 Mathieu Marquet 2:02.41 58 1 5 Paul Elaisa 2:03.95 59 1 3 Anderson Lim 2:06.40 60 1 6 Ryan Givinden 2:18.07
Semifinals The semifinal were held at 18:57.
Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Yannick Agnel 1:45.62 Q 2 5 Park Tae-Hwan 1:46.23 Q 3 1 Nikita Lobintsev 1:47.34 Q 4 4 Sebastiaan Verschuren 1:47.52 5 6 Ross Davenport 1:47.76 6 8 Kenrick Monk 1:47.86 7 2 Shaune Fraser 1:48.46 8 7 Nimrod Shapira Bar Or 1:48.59
Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Paul Biedermann 1:45.93 Q 2 4 Ryan Lochte 1:46.11 Q 3 3 Michael Phelps 1:46.91 Q 4 6 Dominik Meichtry 1:47.30 Q 5 2 Danila Izotov 1:47.39 Q 6 7 Robert Renwick 1:47.89 7 8 Nicolas Oliveira 1:48.18 8 1 Yuki Kobori 1:48.65
Final The final was held at 18:02.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Ryan Lochte 1:44.44 2 Michael Phelps 1:44.79 5 Paul Biedermann 1:44.88 6 Park Tae-Hwan 1:44.92 4 Yannick Agnel 1:44.99 NR 1 Nikita Lobintsev 1:46.57 7 Dominik Meichtry 1:47.02 8 Danila Izotov 1:47.46
References
External links 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre freestyle entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23. FINA World Championships, Swimming: Ryan Lochte Bests Michael Phelps For 200 Free Gold, Swimming World Magazine (2011-07-26); retrieved 2011-08-11.