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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	WFCU Centre
Dates	7 December (heats and final)
Competitors	106 from 80 nations
Winning time	1:41.03 CR
Medalists
Park Tae-hwan    South Korea   Chad le Clos    South Africa   Aleksandr Krasnykh    Russia
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2016 FINA World Swimming Championships
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×50 m	men	women
4×100 m	men	women
Mixed relay
4×50 m	freestyle	medley
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The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:39.37	Berlin	15 November 2009
Championship record	Ryan Lochte	United States	1:41.08	Dubai	15 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
7 December	Final	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	1:41.03	CR

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	0	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	1:42.90	Q, NR
2	11	4	Aleksandr Krasnykh	Russia	1:43.08	Q
3	11	5	Myles Brown	South Africa	1:43.50	Q
4	7	4	Matias Koski	Finland	1:43.68	Q
5	1	0	Anders Lie	Denmark	1:43.98	Q
	10	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa		Q
7	9	8	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	1:44.09	Q
8	10	5	Daniel Smith	Australia	1:44.20	Q
9	11	7	Luca Dotto	Italy	1:44.27
10	9	4	Pieter Timmers	Belgium	1:44.29
11	10	6	Maarten Brzoskowski	Netherlands	1:44.34
12	10	1	Péter Bernek	Hungary	1:44.44
13	9	7	Zane Grothe	United States	1:44.53
14	11	6	Jordan Pothain	France	1:44.83
15	9	6	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:44.93
16	10	3	Mikhail Dovgalyuk	Russia	1:45.02
17	8	0	Jordan Sloan	Ireland	1:45.16
18	8	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.19
19	9	3	Stephen Milne	Great Britain	1:45.22
20	9	5	Yuki Kobori	Japan	1:45.32
21	8	7	Qian Zhiyong	China	1:45.34
22	9	9	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	1:45.36
23	8	1	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	1:45.53
	11	2	Kyle Stolk	Netherlands
25	11	3	Fernando Scheffer	Brazil	1:45.54
26	11	1	Jack Gerrard	Australia	1:45.63
27	8	3	Shang Keyuan	China	1:45.69
28	1	2	Simonas Bilis	Lithuania	1:45.81
29	8	2	Daniel Skaaning	Denmark	1:46.04
30	10	8	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:46.16
31	8	8	Ádám Telegdy	Hungary	1:46.19
32	10	9	Markus Lie	Norway	1:46.38
33	8	4	Daniel Hunter	New Zealand	1:46.51
34	7	2	Jeremy Bagshaw	Canada	1:46.54
35	11	0	Reed Malone	United States	1:46.58
36	11	9	Adam Paulsson	Sweden	1:46.79
37	9	1	David Gamburg	Israel	1:46.88
38	8	9	Cheung Kin Tat Kent	Hong Kong	1:46.93
	10	0	Poul Zellmann	Germany
40	10	2	Khader Baqlah	Jordan	1:47.07
41	7	5	Yeo Kai Quan	Singapore	1:47.08
42	3	8	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal	1:47.31
	8	6	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal
44	9	2	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	1:47.41
45	11	8	Daniel Wallace	Great Britain	1:47.70
46	6	3	Uvis Kalniņš	Latvia	1:47.73
47	6	2	Mokhtar Al-Yamani	Yemen	1:47.78
48	7	6	Pang Sheng Jun	Singapore	1:47.88
49	7	3	Martin Bau	Slovenia	1:48.17
50	1	7	Jean Dencausse	France	1:48.29
51	7	8	Tomas Peribonio	Ecuador	1:48.48
52	1	8	Igor Mogne	Mozambique	1:48.60
53	7	7	Pit Brandenburger	Luxembourg	1:48.95
54	6	7	An Ting-Yao	Chinese Taipei	1:49.24
55	6	4	Vladimír Štefánik	Slovakia	1:49.32
56	1	1	Teimuraz Kobakhidze	Georgia	1:49.54
57	5	7	Alex Sobers	Barbados	1:49.69
58	4	9	Kyle Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka	1:50.15
59	6	5	Ilijan Malčić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:50.36
60	5	5	Angelo Šimić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:50.37
61	5	6	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	1:50.63	NR
62	7	0	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands	1:50.69
63	4	4	Christian Bayo Punter	Puerto Rico	1:51.08
64	5	4	Oli Mortensen	Faroe Islands	1:51.12
65	6	9	Matias Pinto	Chile	1:51.20
66	4	1	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	1:51.26
67	3	7	Gabriel Fleitas	Uruguay	1:51.39
68	3	4	Alex Ngui	Philippines	1:51.40
	4	5	Dioser Nunez	Dominican Republic
70	4	3	Sam Seghers	Papua New Guinea	1:52.08
71	4	8	Kevin Avila Soto	Guatemala	1:52.22
72	5	9	Irakli Revishvili	Georgia	1:52.23
73	7	9	Dominic Walter	Jamaica	1:52.43
74	6	1	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	1:52.44
75	4	7	Lin Sizhuang	Macau	1:52.62
76	5	1	Yeziel Morales Miranda	Puerto Rico	1:52.87
77	5	0	Matt Galea	Malta	1:52.98
78	4	6	Steven Maina	Kenya	1:53.23
79	6	0	Mazen Elkamash	Egypt	1:53.37
80	5	3	Xander Skinner	Namibia	1:53.47
81	3	6	Adel Elfakir	Libya	1:53.50
82	3	2	Said Saber	Morocco	1:53.72
83	5	8	Jean-Luc Zephir	Saint Lucia	1:53.79
84	3	0	Mathias Zacarias	Paraguay	1:53.90
85	3	5	Antonio Gonzalez	Costa Rica	1:54.82
86	6	8	Stanislav Karnaukhov	Kyrgyzstan	1:55.01
87	2	4	Emilio Avila	Guatemala	1:55.55
88	2	5	Jeremy Lim	Philippines	1:55.71
89	6	6	Lâm Quang Nhật	Vietnam	1:56.23
90	4	2	Constantinos Hadjittooulis	Cyprus	1:57.13
91	3	9	Walter Caballero Quilla	Bolivia	1:57.32
92	2	0	Stanford Kawale	Papua New Guinea	1:57.95
93	2	6	Zandanbal Gunsennorov	Mongolia	1:58.03
94	3	3	Eisner Barberena Espinoza	Nicaragua	1:59.64
95	2	7	David Hitchcock	Gibraltar	2:00.53
96	2	8	Dean Hoffman	Seychelles	2:01.05
97	3	1	Franci Aleksi	Albania	2:01.26
98	2	2	Stefano Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda	2:02.27
99	2	3	Nabeel Hatoum	Palau	2:03.30
100	2	1	Josue Portillo	Honduras	2:05.12
101	1	3	Temaruata Strickland	Cook Islands	2:06.04
102	1	4	Tanner Poppe	Guam	2:06.36
103	1	9	Tongli Panuve	Tonga	2:08.83
104	1	5	Salofi Welch	Northern Mariana Islands	2:10.87
105	2	9	Christian Villacrusis	Northern Mariana Islands	2:11.82
106	1	6	Joseph Sumari	Tanzania	2:30.15
	4	0	Bakr Salam Ali Al-Dulaimi	Iraq		DNS
	5	2	Joseph Macias Rubio	Ecuador		DNS
	7	1	Aleksey Tarasenko	Uzbekistan		DNS
	10	7	Christoffer Carlsen	Sweden		DNS

Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	1:41.03	CR, AS
	7	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:41.65
	5	Aleksandr Krasnykh	Russia	1:41.95
4	4	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	1:42.48	NR
5	3	Myles Brown	South Africa	1:43.22
	8	Daniel Smith	Australia
7	6	Matias Koski	Finland	1:43.51
8	2	Anders Lie	Denmark	1:43.69	NR

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