2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 December 2016.[1]

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
VenueWFCU Centre
Dates7 December (heats and final)
Competitors106 from 80 nations
Winning time1:41.03 CR
Medalists
gold medal    South Korea
silver medal    South Africa
bronze medal    Russia
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Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World recordPaul Biedermann  Germany1:39.37Berlin15 November 2009
Championship recordRyan Lochte  United States1:41.08Dubai15 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

DateEventNameNationTimeRecord
7 DecemberFinalPark Tae-hwan  South Korea1:41.03CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:41.[2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
190Dylan Carter  Trinidad and Tobago1:42.90Q, NR
2114Aleksandr Krasnykh  Russia1:43.08Q
3115Myles Brown  South Africa1:43.50Q
474Matias Koski  Finland1:43.68Q
510Anders Lie  Denmark1:43.98Q
104Chad le Clos  South AfricaQ
798Park Tae-hwan  South Korea1:44.09Q
8105Daniel Smith  Australia1:44.20Q
9117Luca Dotto  Italy1:44.27
1094Pieter Timmers  Belgium1:44.29
11106Maarten Brzoskowski  Netherlands1:44.34
12101Péter Bernek  Hungary1:44.44
1397Zane Grothe  United States1:44.53
14116Jordan Pothain  France1:44.83
1596Daiya Seto  Japan1:44.93
16103Mikhail Dovgalyuk  Russia1:45.02
1780Jordan Sloan  Ireland1:45.16
1885Danas Rapšys  Lithuania1:45.19
1993Stephen Milne  Great Britain1:45.22
2095Yuki Kobori  Japan1:45.32
2187Qian Zhiyong  China1:45.34
2299Markus Thormeyer  Canada1:45.36
2381Henrik Christiansen  Norway1:45.53
112Kyle Stolk  Netherlands
25113Fernando Scheffer  Brazil1:45.54
26111Jack Gerrard  Australia1:45.63
2783Shang Keyuan  China1:45.69
2812Simonas Bilis  Lithuania1:45.81
2982Daniel Skaaning  Denmark1:46.04
30108Felix Auböck  Austria1:46.16
3188Ádám Telegdy  Hungary1:46.19
32109Markus Lie  Norway1:46.38
3384Daniel Hunter  New Zealand1:46.51
3472Jeremy Bagshaw  Canada1:46.54
35110Reed Malone  United States1:46.58
36119Adam Paulsson  Sweden1:46.79
3791David Gamburg  Israel1:46.88
3889Cheung Kin Tat Kent  Hong Kong1:46.93
100Poul Zellmann  Germany
40102Khader Baqlah  Jordan1:47.07
4175Yeo Kai Quan  Singapore1:47.08
4238Gabriel Lopes  Portugal1:47.31
86Miguel Nascimento  Portugal
4492Ben Hockin  Paraguay1:47.41
45118Daniel Wallace  Great Britain1:47.70
4663Uvis Kalniņš  Latvia1:47.73
4762Mokhtar Al-Yamani  Yemen1:47.78
4876Pang Sheng Jun  Singapore1:47.88
4973Martin Bau  Slovenia1:48.17
5017Jean Dencausse  France1:48.29
5178Tomas Peribonio  Ecuador1:48.48
5218Igor Mogne  Mozambique1:48.60
5377Pit Brandenburger  Luxembourg1:48.95
5467An Ting-Yao  Chinese Taipei1:49.24
5564Vladimír Štefánik  Slovakia1:49.32
5611Teimuraz Kobakhidze  Georgia1:49.54
5757Alex Sobers  Barbados1:49.69
5849Kyle Abeysinghe  Sri Lanka1:50.15
5965Ilijan Malčić  Bosnia and Herzegovina1:50.36
6055Angelo Šimić  Bosnia and Herzegovina1:50.37
6156Wesley Roberts  Cook Islands1:50.63NR
6270Pál Joensen  Faroe Islands1:50.69
6344Christian Bayo Punter  Puerto Rico1:51.08
6454Oli Mortensen  Faroe Islands1:51.12
6569Matias Pinto  Chile1:51.20
6641Brandon Schuster  Samoa1:51.26
6737Gabriel Fleitas  Uruguay1:51.39
6834Alex Ngui  Philippines1:51.40
45Dioser Nunez  Dominican Republic
7043Sam Seghers  Papua New Guinea1:52.08
7148Kevin Avila Soto  Guatemala1:52.22
7259Irakli Revishvili  Georgia1:52.23
7379Dominic Walter  Jamaica1:52.43
7461Mathieu Marquet  Mauritius1:52.44
7547Lin Sizhuang  Macau1:52.62
7651Yeziel Morales Miranda  Puerto Rico1:52.87
7750Matt Galea  Malta1:52.98
7846Steven Maina  Kenya1:53.23
7960Mazen Elkamash  Egypt1:53.37
8053Xander Skinner  Namibia1:53.47
8136Adel Elfakir  Libya1:53.50
8232Said Saber  Morocco1:53.72
8358Jean-Luc Zephir  Saint Lucia1:53.79
8430Mathias Zacarias  Paraguay1:53.90
8535Antonio Gonzalez  Costa Rica1:54.82
8668Stanislav Karnaukhov  Kyrgyzstan1:55.01
8724Emilio Avila  Guatemala1:55.55
8825Jeremy Lim  Philippines1:55.71
8966Lâm Quang Nhật  Vietnam1:56.23
9042Constantinos Hadjittooulis  Cyprus1:57.13
9139Walter Caballero Quilla  Bolivia1:57.32
9220Stanford Kawale  Papua New Guinea1:57.95
9326Zandanbal Gunsennorov  Mongolia1:58.03
9433Eisner Barberena Espinoza  Nicaragua1:59.64
9527David Hitchcock  Gibraltar2:00.53
9628Dean Hoffman  Seychelles2:01.05
9731Franci Aleksi  Albania2:01.26
9822Stefano Mitchell  Antigua and Barbuda2:02.27
9923Nabeel Hatoum  Palau2:03.30
10021Josue Portillo  Honduras2:05.12
10113Temaruata Strickland  Cook Islands2:06.04
10214Tanner Poppe  Guam2:06.36
10319Tongli Panuve  Tonga2:08.83
10415Salofi Welch  Northern Mariana Islands2:10.87
10529Christian Villacrusis  Northern Mariana Islands2:11.82
10616Joseph Sumari  Tanzania2:30.15
40Bakr Salam Ali Al-Dulaimi  IraqDNS
52Joseph Macias Rubio  EcuadorDNS
71Aleksey Tarasenko  UzbekistanDNS
107Christoffer Carlsen  SwedenDNS

Final

The final was held at 19:23.[3]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Park Tae-hwan  South Korea1:41.03CR, AS
7Chad le Clos  South Africa1:41.65
5Aleksandr Krasnykh  Russia1:41.95
44Dylan Carter  Trinidad and Tobago1:42.48NR
53Myles Brown  South Africa1:43.22
8Daniel Smith  Australia
76Matias Koski  Finland1:43.51
82Anders Lie  Denmark1:43.69NR

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