Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Aspire Dome
Location	Doha, Qatar
Dates	12 February (heats and semifinals) 13 February (final)
Competitors	67 from 60 nations
Winning time	1:44.75
Medalists
Hwang Sun-woo    South Korea   Danas Rapšys    Lithuania   Luke Hobson    United States

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 12 and 13 February 2024.^[1][2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[3]

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009
Competition record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 12 February at 10:21.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:45.74	Q
2	5	3	Rafael Miroslaw	Germany	1:45.89	Q
3	7	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.95	Q
4	6	5	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:46.09	Q
5	5	4	Luke Hobson	United States	1:46.54	Q
6	6	1	Elijah Winnington	Australia	1:46.69	Q
7	6	3	Kai James Taylor	Australia	1:46.81	Q
8	7	5	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:46.84	Q
9	6	2	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	1:46.93	Q
10	5	5	Lee Ho-joon	South Korea	1:46.97	Q
11	7	4	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:46.99	Q
12	7	7	Ji Xinjie	China	1:47.13	Q
13	6	0	Kamil Sieradzki	Poland	1:47.25	Q
14	7	1	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	1:47.28	Q
15	7	6	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:47.30	Q
16	5	6	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:47.37	Q
17	5	0	César Castro	Spain	1:47.40
18	7	2	Fernando Scheffer	Brazil	1:47.42
19	7	0	Nándor Németh	Hungary	1:47.52
20	4	4	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:47.54
21	6	8	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.55
22	5	1	Jorge Iga	Mexico	1:47.56
22	5	8	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:47.56
24	7	8	Matteo Ciampi	Italy	1:47.65
25	5	2	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:47.67
26	5	7	Jack McMillan	Great Britain	1:47.85
27	6	9	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:47.98
28	4	6	Niko Janković	Croatia	1:48.39
29	6	6	Marco De Tullio	Italy	1:48.46
30	7	9	Alfonso Mestre	Venezuela	1:48.74
31	4	5	Javier Acevedo	Canada	1:48.89
32	4	3	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	1:49.14
33	5	9	Sašo Boškan	Slovenia	1:49.66
34	4	2	Glen Lim Jun Wei	Singapore	1:49.71
35	3	4	Ondrej Gemov	Czech Republic	1:49.78
35	4	1	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	1:49.78
37	3	5	František Jablcnik	Slovakia	1:50.88
38	6	7	Pan Zhanle	China	1:51.03
39	3	7	Tanish Mathew	India	1:51.68
40	2	5	Reds Rullis	Latvia	1:52.42
41	4	0	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	1:52.43
42	3	1	Rafael Ponce	Peru	1:52.75
43	4	8	Max Mannes	Luxembourg	1:52.76
44	2	3	Enkhtamir Batbayar	Mongolia	1:52.96
45	4	7	Dulyawat Kaewsriyong	Thailand	1:53.01
46	4	9	Ngô Đình Chuyền	Vietnam	1:53.64
47	1	2	Alex Sobers	Barbados	1:53.93
48	3	9	Matthieu Seye	Senegal	1:54.16
49	1	3	Oliver Durand	Namibia	1:54.22
50	3	2	Omar Abbass	Syria	1:54.28
51	3	8	Egor Covaliov	Moldova	1:54.43
52	2	6	Henrique Mascarenhas	Angola	1:54.82
53	2	4	Anthony Piñeiro	Dominican Republic	1:55.85
54	2	2	Monyo Maina	Kenya	1:56.15
55	3	3	James Richard Allison	Cayman Islands	1:56.18
56	2	7	Isaac Beitia	Panama	1:56.31
57	2	8	Nasir Hussain	Nepal	1:56.39	NR
58	1	7	Zaid Al-Sarraj	Saudi Arabia	1:57.85
59	2	0	Khaled Al-Otaibi	Kuwait	1:58.02
60	3	6	Ryan Barbe	Morocco	1:58.07
61	2	1	Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh	Palestine	1:58.24
62	3	0	Luka Kukhalashvili	Georgia	1:58.79
63	2	9	Kaeden Gleason	U.S. Virgin Islands	1:59.66
64	1	4	Israel Poppe	Guam	2:02.60
65	1	5	Sangay Tenzin	Bhutan	2:04.13
66	1	6	Mohamed Shiham	Maldives	2:06.32
67	1	1	Ali Abdulla Al-Nuaimi	Qatar	2:07.82

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 12 February at 20:11.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:44.96	Q
2	2	7	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:45.15	Q
3	2	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:45.21	Q
4	2	3	Luke Hobson	United States	1:45.53	Q
5	1	3	Elijah Winnington	Australia	1:45.90	Q
6	1	4	Rafael Miroslaw	Germany	1:45.95	Q
7	1	1	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	1:46.06	Q
8	1	5	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:46.24	Q
9	2	6	Kai James Taylor	Australia	1:46.37
10	1	6	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:46.53
11	2	2	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	1:46.75
12	1	7	Ji Xinjie	China	1:46.92
13	1	8	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:47.11
14	2	1	Kamil Sieradzki	Poland	1:47.33
15	1	2	Lee Ho-joon	South Korea	1:47.38
16	2	8	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:48.03

Final

The final was held on 13 February at 19:02.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:44.75
	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.05
	6	Luke Hobson	United States	1:45.26
4	3	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:45.33
5	7	Rafael Miroslaw	Germany	1:45.84
6	8	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:45.86
7	2	Elijah Winnington	Australia	1:46.20
8	1	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	1:46.87

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 November 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
2. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 9 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
3. "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 9 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
4. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
5. "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 12 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
6. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 13 February 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2024.