Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle
Men's 200-metre freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships | ||||||||||
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Dates | 24 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 25 July 2001 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 55 | |||||||||
Winning time | 1:44.06 WR | |||||||||
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The men's 200-metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatic Championships took place 25 July.[1] The heats[2] and semifinals[3] were on 24 July.
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
World record | Ian Thorpe (AUS) | 1:44.69 | Hobart, Australia | 27 March 2001 |
Championship record | Giorgio Lamberti (ITA) | 1:47.27 | Perth, Australia | 7 January 1991 |
The following record was established during the competition:
Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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24 July | Heat 6 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 1:47.18 | CR |
24 July | Semifinal 2 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 1:45.80 | CR |
25 July | Final | Ian Thorpe | Australia | 1:44.06 | WR |
Results
Heats
Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 1:47.18 | Q, CR |
2 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 1:47.91 | Q |
3 | Ian Thorpe | Australia | 1:47.95 | Q |
4 | Bill Kirby | Australia | 1:48.57 | Q |
5 | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 1:48.60 | Q |
6 | Scott Goldblatt | United States | 1:48.65 | Q |
7 | Klete Keller | United States | 1:49.14 | Q |
8 | Mark Johnston | Canada | 1:49.38 | Q |
9 | Paul Palmer | United Kingdom | 1:49.46 | Q |
10 | Stefan Herbst | Germany | 1:49.72 | Q |
11 | José Meolans | Argentina | 1:49.86 | Q |
12 | Athanasios Oikonomou | Greece | 1:49.90 | Q |
13 | Květoslav Svoboda | Czech Republic | 1:50.02 | Q |
14 | Rick Say | Canada | 1:50.08 | Q |
15 | Stefan Pohl | Germany | 1:50.11 | Q |
16 | Jacob Carstensen | Denmark | 1:50.16 | Q |
17 | Attila Zubor | Hungary | 1:50.33 | |
18 | Daisuke Hosokawa | Japan | 1:50.36 | |
19 | Stepan Ganzey | Russia | 1:50.45 | |
20 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 1:50.72 | |
21 | Dmitry Chernyshyov | Russia | 1:50.77 | |
22 | Rodrigo Castro | Brazil | 1:51.10 | |
23 | Hideaki Hara | Japan | 1:51.23 | |
24 | Karel Novy | Switzerland | 1:52.21 | |
25 | Saulius Binevičius | Lithuania | 1:52.56 | |
26 | Han Kyu-Chul | South Korea | 1:52.69 | |
27 | Andriy Serdinov | Ukraine | 1:53.38 | |
28 | Javier Díaz | Mexico | 1:53.81 | |
29 | Alejandro Siqueiros | Mexico | 1:53.82 | |
30 | George Gleason | United States Virgin Islands | 1:54.31 | |
31 | Gary Tan | Singapore | 1:54.93 | |
32 | Dieung Manggang | Malaysia | 1:55.30 | |
33 | Wu Nien-Pin | Chinese Taipei | 1:55.88 | |
34 | Victor Rogut | Moldova | 1:56.04 | |
35 | Mark Chay | Singapore | 1:56.43 | |
36 | Mohammad Naeem Masri | Syria | 1:56.97 | |
37 | Ronald Cowen | Bermuda | 1:57.34 | |
38 | Jiang Bing-Ru | Chinese Taipei | 1:57.72 | |
39 | Thamer Al Shamroukh | Kuwait | 1:59.11 | |
40 | Christophee Backisavs | Dominican Republic | 1:59.12 | |
41 | Fahad Al Otaibi | Kuwait | 1:59.19 | |
42 | Chon Kit Alias Joao Tang | Macau | 1:59.84 | |
43 | Vakhtang Beridze | Georgia | 1:59.88 | |
44 | Obaid Ahmed Al Jassimi | United Arab Emirates | 2:00.64 | |
45 | Ignacio Bengoechea | Chile | 2:00.65 | |
46 | Barnsley Albert | Seychelles | 2:03.68 | |
47 | Seung Gin Lee | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:05.91 | |
48 | Aleksey Bortnikov | Uzbekistan | 2:05.99 | |
49 | William Kang | Guam | 2:06.11 | |
50 | Mumtaz Ahmad | Pakistan | 2:07.85 | |
51 | Dean Palacios | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:08.71 | |
52 | Mark Unpingco | Guam | 2:08.98 | |
53 | Onan Thom | Guyana | 2:11.35 | |
54 | Rony Bakale | Republic of the Congo | 2:12.59 | |
55 | Loren Lindborg | Marshall Islands | 2:18.80 | |
– | Gustavo Borges | Brazil | DNS |
Semifinals
Rank | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 1:45.80 | Q, CR |
2 | Ian Thorpe | Australia | 1:47.26 | Q |
3 | Klete Keller | United States | 1:47.77 | Q |
4 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 1:47.84 | Q |
5 | Scott Goldblatt | United States | 1:48.50 | Q |
6 | Bill Kirby | Australia | 1:48.88 | Q |
7 | Mark Johnston | Canada | 1:48.90 | Q |
8 | Jacob Carstensen | Denmark | 1:49.26 | Q |
9 | Květoslav Svoboda | Czech Republic | 1:49.30 | |
10 | Paul Palmer | United Kingdom | 1:49.32 | |
11 | José Meolans | Argentina | 1:49.34 | |
12 | Daisuke Hosokawa | Japan | 1:49.73 | |
13 | Stefan Herbst | Germany | 1:49.75 | |
14 | Stefan Pohl | Germany | 1:49.78 | |
15 | Rick Say | Canada | 1:49.80 | |
16 | Athanasios Oikonomou | Greece | 1:50.28 |
Final
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Ian Thorpe | Australia | 1:44.06 | WR | |
Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 1:45.81 | ||
Klete Keller | United States | 1:47.10 | ||
4 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 1:47.58 | |
5 | William Kirby | Australia | 1:48.11 | |
6 | Jacob Carstensen | Denmark | 1:48.86 | |
7 | Mark Johnston | Canada | 1:49.39 | |
8 | Scott Goldblatt | United States | 1:49.54 |
Key: WR = World record