Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Dates	26 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) 27 March 2007 (final)
Competitors	118
Winning time	1:43.86 WR
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   Pieter v.d. Hoogenband    Netherlands   Park Tae-Hwan    South Korea

Main article: Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships

The men's 200 metre freestyle event was the 10th event contested on the 2007 World Aquatics Championship for Swimming.

The 15 heats began at 10:27, on 26 March 2007, at the Rod Laver Arena, in Melbourne Park.^[1]

The semifinals started on the evening of the same day at 20:17.^[2]

The final started at 19:00 on the following day, 27 March.^[3]

Records

World record
1:44.06	Ian Thorpe	Australia	Fukuoka	July 25, 2001
Competition record
1:44.06	Ian Thorpe	Australia	Fukuoka	July 25, 2001

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	50m	100m	150m	Time	Q
1	14	4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	25.20	00:51.91	1:19.56	1:47.36	Q
2	15	4	Michael Phelps	USA	25.39	00:53.02	1:20.82	1:47.52	Q
3	14	5	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	25.56	00:52.94	1:20.73	1:47.58	Q
4	14	2	Kenrick Monk	Australia	25.53	00:52.90	1:20.47	1:48.00	Q
5	14	1	Nicola Cassio	Italy	25.75	00:53.47	1:21.00	1:48.32	Q
6	14	6	Amaury Leveaux	France	25.48	00:53.29	1:21.02	1:48.35	Q
7	15	7	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	25.41	00:52.96	1:20.48	1:48.49	Q
8	14	3	Brent Hayden	Canada	25.18	00:52.49	1:20.53	1:48.62	Q
9	15	5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	25.29	00:52.62	1:20.48	1:48.63	Q
10	13	7	Brian Johns	Canada	25.49	00:53.31	1:21.28	1:48.72	Q
11	15	6	Paul Biedermann	Germany	25.56	00:53.19	1:20.97	1:48.84	Q
12	13	3	Zhang Lin	China	26.58	00:54.47	1:22.19	1:48.88	Q
13	15	1	Patrick Murphy	Australia	25.83	00:53.37	1:21.29	1:49.01	Q
14	15	3	David Carry	Great Britain	25.65	00:53.41	1:21.26	1:49.15	Q
15	13	2	Dominik Koll	Austria	26.41	00:54.07	1:22.04	1:49.20	Q
16	12	2	László Cseh	Hungary	25.85	00:53.56	1:21.78	1:49.47	Q
17	12	5	Nicolas Oliveira	Brazil	25.53	00:53.89	1:22.02	1:49.55
18	13	4	Klete Keller	USA	26.27	00:54.26	1:22.36	1:49.58
19	13	1	Fabien Gilot	France	26.14	00:53.83	1:21.73	1:49.59
20	12	8	Tiago Venâncio	Portugal	25.44	00:53.93	1:21.74	1:49.63
21	11	4	David Brandl	Austria	25.82	00:53.21	1:21.35	1:49.68
22	11	3	Daisuke Hosokawa	Japan	25.40	00:53.27	1:21.53	1:49.79
23	14	7	Jean Basson	South Africa	25.90	00:53.43	1:21.36	1:49.82
24	15	8	Nikolaos Xylouris	Greece	25.82	00:53.55	1:21.72	1:50.04
25	13	5	Simon Burnett	Great Britain	25.71	00:54.03	1:22.55	1:50.11
26	10	4	Michał Rokicki	Poland	26.42	00:54.33	1:22.33	1:50.12
27	15	2	Stefan Herbst	Germany	25.67	00:53.71	1:22.04	1:50.25
28	10	1	Luka Turk	Slovenia	26.54	00:54.63	1:22.66	1:50.36
29	12	3	Zhang Enjian	China	26.24	00:53.97	1:22.01	1:50.45
30	13	6	Andreas Zisimos	Greece	25.80	00:53.99	1:22.05	1:50.48
31	12	6	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	25.78	00:53.90	1:22.35	1:50.50
32	13	8	Andrey Kapralov	Russia	25.18	00:52.90	1:21.71	1:50.55
33	11	5	Shai Livnat	Israel	25.20	00:52.55	1:20.79	1:50.60
34	14	8	Olaf Wildeboer	Netherlands	25.90	00:54.17	1:22.43	1:50.72
35	12	1	Sergey Perunin	Russia	25.91	00:54.19	1:22.48	1:50.78
36	12	7	Rodrigo Castro	Brazil	25.99	00:53.81	1:22.08	1:50.79
37	10	6	Andrew McMillan	New Zealand	26.40	00:54.55	1:22.85	1:51.10
38	10	3	Christoffer Vikström	Sweden	25.93	00:53.34	1:21.85	1:51.25
39	11	1	Michal Rubáček	Czech Republic	25.75	00:53.89	1:22.79	1:51.31
40	11	6	Takamitsu Kojima	Japan	25.65	00:54.24	1:23.04	1:51.32
41	10	7	Michael Jack	New Zealand	26.37	00:54.42	1:23.14	1:51.45
42	11	8	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	25.70	00:54.33	1:22.98	1:51.66
43	11	7	Lukasz Giminski	Poland	26.03	00:54.37	1:23.20	1:51.72
44	9	6	Gard Kvale	Norway	26.31	00:54.31	1:23.10	1:51.78
45	7	1	Oleksandr Tsepukh	Ukraine	24.95	00:53.37	1:22.66	1:51.83
46	9	4	Nabil Kebbab	Algeria	26.46	00:54.93	1:23.51	1:51.95
47	1	6	Saulius Binevičius	Lithuania	26.04	00:53.98	1:22.82	1:52.22
48	9	7	Dominik Straga	Croatia	25.92	00:54.11	1:22.77	1:52.40
49	8	6	Virdhawal Khade	India	26.38	00:54.75	1:23.67	1:52.41
50	11	2	Romāns Miloslavskis	Latvia	25.74	00:53.62	1:22.12	1:52.44
51	10	5	Adriano Niz	Portugal	26.29	00:55.01	1:24.12	1:52.46
52	9	1	Martín Kutscher	Uruguay	25.95	00:54.38	1:23.56	1:52.57
53	9	8	Miguel Molina	Philippines	26.70	00:55.04	1:23.71	1:52.67
54	9	3	Crox Acuña	Venezuela	25.73	00:54.63	1:23.47	1:52.70
55	10	2	Namgyun Lim	South Korea	26.57	00:54.91	1:23.75	1:53.01
56	8	1	Jason Dunford	Kenya	25.14	00:53.38	1:22.80	1:53.09
57	7	5	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	25.85	00:54.69	1:23.79	1:53.27
58	9	5	Daniel Bego	Malaysia	26.86	00:55.84	1:25.14	1:53.32
59	8	3	Vitaliy Khan	Kazakhstan	26.03	00:54.12	1:22.51	1:53.37
60	9	2	Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane	Chile	26.48	00:55.15	1:24.30	1:53.90
61	8	7	Alexandre Bakhtiarov	Cyprus	26.15	00:55.41	1:25.11	1:54.25
62	8	2	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	25.81	00:54.97	1:24.98	1:54.70
63	8	5	Salvador Mallat Arcaya	Chile	26.88	00:55.86	1:25.23	1:54.71
64	7	3	Igor Čerenšek	Croatia	26.76	00:56.16	1:26.77	1:55.04
65	10	8	Zhirong Bryan Tay	Singapore	27.28	00:56.66	1:26.89	1:55.70
66	8	4	Mikael Koloyan	Armenia	26.13	00:54.96	1:24.79	1:55.99
67	7	2	Timur Irgashev	Uzbekistan	26.76	00:56.52	1:26.78	1:56.39
68	5	2	Emanuele Nicolini	San Marino	27.29	00:57.13	1:26.83	1:56.61
69	6	6	Kevin Soow Choy Yeap	Malaysia	27.43	00:57.44	1:28.25	1:56.65
70	6	3	Mohammad Bidarian	Iran	26.78	00:56.17	1:26.90	1:56.68
71	7	7	Vyacheslav Titarenko	Kazakhstan	27.18	00:57.07	1:27.19	1:56.74
72	6	4	Kieran Locke	Virgin Islands	27.27	00:56.54	1:26.70	1:57.03
73	7	4	Vasilii Danilov	Kyrgyzstan	26.60	00:55.63	1:25.35	1:57.38
74	6	8	Youssef Hafdi	Morocco	27.51	00:57.52	1:27.41	1:58.10
75	6	5	Ju Wei Sng	Singapore	28.24	00:58.38	1:28.21	1:58.29
76	4	8	Diego Castillo Granados	Panama	27.45	00:57.66	1:28.56	1:58.64
77	5	5	Ibrahim Nazarov	Uzbekistan	26.53	00:55.86	1:26.51	1:58.76
78	5	6	Wing Cheung Victor Wong	Macau	27.44	00:58.04	1:28.38	1:58.88
79	4	2	Christopher Duenas	Guam	27.78	00:57.51	1:28.46	1:58.99
80	6	2	Sebastián Jahnsen	Peru	27.41	00:57.68	1:28.62	1:59.04
81	8	8	Oscar Jahnsen	Peru	26.88	00:56.95	1:28.51	1:59.22
82	6	1	Albert Cristiadi Sutanto	Indonesia	28.11	00:58.51	1:29.20	1:59.32
83	4	6	Morgan Locke	Virgin Islands	28.07	00:58.50	1:28.68	1:59.42
84	6	7	Srdjan Vujasin	Bosnia and Herzegovina	27.13	00:56.78	1:27.65	1:59.44
85	7	8	Waleed Al-Qahtani	Kuwait	28.02	00:58.15	1:28.81	1:59.70
86	5	8	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands	27.24	00:57.18	1:28.29	1:59.82
87	4	5	Brian Howard Ho	Indonesia	27.54	00:57.73	1:29.04	2:00.09
88	4	7	Fernando Medrano Medina	Nicaragua	28.08	00:58.47	1:29.12	2:00.48
89	5	3	Amar Muralidharan	India	27.44	00:57.43	1:28.83	2:00.66
90	5	1	Steven Mangroo	Seychelles	27.81	00:58.43	1:29.57	2:00.76
91	4	3	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	27.49	00:57.75	1:29.01	2:01.20
92	5	4	Anas Abuyousuf	Qatar	27.70	00:58.21	1:29.69	2:01.40
93	3	4	Loai Tashkandi	Saudi Arabia	28.20	00:59.97	1:30.57	2:01.49
94	3	5	Heshan Unamboowe	Sri Lanka	28.08	00:59.70	1:31.22	2:02.85
95	3	3	Neil Agius	Malta	28.40	00:59.64	1:31.21	2:03.21
96	3	2	Marcelo Alba	Bolivia	28.07	00:59.53	1:32.04	2:03.31
97	3	6	Heimanu Sichan	Tahiti	28.01	00:59.68	1:32.24	2:03.65
98	4	1	Daniel Lee	Sri Lanka	27.92	00:58.77	1:31.17	2:03.76
99	7	6	Emile−Rony Bakale	Congo	26.19	00:56.00	1:29.06	2:03.82
100	4	4	Anas Hamadeh	Jordan	27.37	00:58.21	1:31.38	2:05.37
101	2	1	Eros Qama	Albania	28.06	00:59.71	1:32.62	2:05.80
102	3	7	Oliver Quick	Gibraltar	28.80	1:00.51	1:33.34	2:05.95
103	5	7	Rashid Iunusov	Kyrgyzstan	27.79	00:58.74	1:32.50	2:06.59
104	2	3	Carlos Shimizu	Guam	28.77	1:00.56	1:33.42	2:06.81
105	1	5	Otiko Kpliboh	Nigeria	27.98	00:59.61	1:32.78	2:07.28
106	3	1	Malbor Oshafi	Albania	27.96	1:00.12	1:33.80	2:07.51
107	3	8	Zane Jordan	Zambia	28.32	1:00.36	1:34.05	2:09.74
108	2	5	Yannick Roberts	Guyana	29.31	1:02.79	1:36.91	2:10.75
109	2	4	Eli Ebenezer Wong	Northern Mariana Islands	29.62	1:03.94	1:38.95	2:12.32
110	2	6	Jamaal Sobers	Guyana	29.50	1:03.95	1:41.04	2:16.87
111	1	7	Seraj Mouloud	Libya	28.95	1:02.56	1:40.36	2:18.73
112	2	7	Sergey Krovyakov	Turkmenistan	29.20	1:03.94	1:40.48	2:19.06
113	2	2	Cooper Theodore Graf	Northern Mariana Islands	32.78	1:09.61	1:46.31	2:22.69
114	1	4	Isao Misech	Palau	30.36	1:06.07	1:46.16	2:28.81
115	2	8	Ibrahim Shameel	Maldives	31.91	1:09.98	1:51.67	2:32.36
116	1	3	Okai Opanka Adu	Ghana	33.19	1:14.79	2:00.78	2:48.43
117	1	2	Bernard Blewudzi	Ghana	34.17	1:15.45	2:01.44	2:51.98
999	12	4	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	999DNS	999	999	999

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	50m	100m	150m	Time	Q
1	2	4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	24.52	51.16	1:18.66	1:46.33	Q
2	1	4	Michael Phelps	United States	25.29	52.48	1:20.10	1:46.75	Q
3	2	2	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	24.96	52.13	1:19.48	1:47.44	Q
4	1	5	Kenrick Monk	Australia	25.38	52.96	1:20.64	1:47.45	Q
5	2	5	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	25.47	52.91	1:20.58	1:47.83	Q
6	1	7	Zhang Lin	China	25.61	53.25	1:21.26	1:48.29	Q
7	2	7	Paul Biedermann	Germany	25.82	53.28	1:20.97	1:48.43	Q
8	2	3	Nicola Cassio	Italy	25.65	53.24	1:20.83	1:48.47	Q
9	2	8	Dominik Koll	Austria	25.28	52.66	1:20.50	1:48.50
10	1	2	Brian Johns	Canada	25.47	53.28	1:21.22	1:48.51
11	2	6	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	25.57	52.87	1:20.48	1:48.54
12	1	1	David Carry	Great Britain	25.41	52.87	1:20.94	1:48.71
13	2	1	Patrick Murphy	Australia	25.54	52.92	1:20.89	1:48.75
14	1	3	Amaury Leveaux	France	25.34	53.28	1:21.45	1:48.81
15	1	8	László Cseh	Hungary	25.18	52.92	1:20.95	1:48.89
16	1	6	Brent Hayden	Canada	25.43	53.03	1:20.99	1:48.92

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	50m	100m	150m	Time
	5	Michael Phelps	United States	24.47	51.00	1:17.73	1:43.86 WR
	4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	24.53	51.17	1:18.16	1:46.28
	2	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea	25.41	52.74	1:19.51	1:46.73
4	6	Kenrick Monk	Australia	25.09	52.52	1:19.88	1:47.12
5	3	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	25.03	52.02	1:19.15	1:47.18
6	7	Zhang Lin	China	25.46	53.22	1:20.89	1:47.53
7	1	Paul Biedermann	Germany	25.86	53.17	1:20.60	1:48.09
8	8	Nicola Cassio	Italy	25.67	53.37	1:21.00	1:49.13

References

1. "FINA World Championships Men's 200m Freestyle Heats Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-01.
2. "FINA World Championships Men's 200m Freestyle Semifinals Official Results" (PDF). FINA.
3. "FINA World Championships Men's 200m Freestyle Final Official Results" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28.