Swimming at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2010 Asian Games

Venue

Aoti Aquatics Centre

Date

14 November 2010

Competitors

29 from 17 nations

Medalists

	Park Tae-hwan	South Korea
	Sun Yang	China
	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan

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The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2010 Asian Games took place on 17 November 2010 at Guangzhou Aoti Aquatics Centre.

There were 29 competitors from 17 countries who took part in this event. Four heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top eight times from the entire field qualified for the finals.

Defending champion Park Tae-hwan from South Korea won the gold medal with 1 minute 44.80 seconds, which also broke the Asian record.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 14 November 2010	09:30	Heats
Sunday, 14 November 2010	18:25	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009
Asian Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:44.85	Beijing, China	12 August 2008
Games Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:47.12	Doha, Qatar	3 December 2006

Results

Legend

DNS — Did not start

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time
1	1	Sun Yang (CHN)	1:47.85
2	2	Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:48.86
3	4	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:49.15
4	4	Yuki Kobori (JPN)	1:49.61
5	3	Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)	1:50.20
6	3	Lee Hyun-seung (KOR)	1:50.45
7	4	Danny Yeo (SIN)	1:51.70
8	2	Clement Lim (SIN)	1:51.91
9	2	Oleg Rabota (KAZ)	1:52.60
10	2	Sarit Tiewong (THA)	1:53.33
11	4	Petr Romashkin (UZB)	1:53.42
12	4	Jessie Lacuna (PHI)	1:53.50
13	3	Aaron D'Souza (IND)	1:53.93
14	2	Sobitjon Amilov (UZB)	1:54.02
15	4	Triady Fauzi Sidiq (INA)	1:54.51
16	3	Abdullah Al-Thuwaini (IOC)	1:54.72
17	3	Alexandr Ivanov (KAZ)	1:54.98
18	3	Kent Cheung (HKG)	1:55.03
19	2	Saeid Maleka Ashtiani (IRI)	1:55.04
20	1	Rohit Halvaldar (IND)	1:55.48
21	3	Kong Chun Yin (HKG)	1:56.51
22	4	Loai Tashkandi (KSA)	1:57.67
23	1	Antonio Tong (MAC)	1:58.05
24	4	Punyawee Sontana (THA)	1:58.73
25	3	Mohammad Madwa (IOC)	1:58.92
26	2	Hazem Tashkandi (KSA)	2:03.90
27	1	Abdulrahman Al-Ollan (QAT)	2:06.64
28	1	Hussain Al-Lanjawi (QAT)	2:23.84
—	2	Rami Anis (SYR)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:44.80	AR
	Sun Yang (CHN)	1:46.25
	Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)	1:47.73
4	Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:48.10
5	Yuki Kobori (JPN)	1:48.15
6	Lee Hyun-seung (KOR)	1:50.42
7	Danny Yeo (SIN)	1:51.07
8	Clement Lim (SIN)	1:52.25