Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

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Men's 200-metre freestyle
at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates24 July 2001 (heats, semifinals)
25 July 2001 (final)
Competitors55
Winning time1:44.06 WR
Medalists
gold medal    Australia
silver medal    Netherlands
bronze medal    United States
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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[edit]

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
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[edit]

Heats[edit]

Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes
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[edit]

Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes
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[edit]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ian Thorpe  Australia 1:44.06 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands 1:45.81
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Final Results". FINA. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Heats Results". FINA. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Semifinals Results". FINA. Retrieved 6 August 2023.