Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	20 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	43 from 36 nations
Winning time	1:47.63 NR
Medalists
Danyon Loader  New Zealand Gustavo Borges  Brazil Daniel Kowalski  Australia

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 20 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.

Records

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

World record	Giorgio Lamberti (ITA)	1:46.69	Bonn, West Germany	15 August 1989
Olympic record	Yevgeny Sadovyi (EUN)	1:46.70	Barcelona, Spain	27 July 1992

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	3	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	1:48.41	Q
2	4	4	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	1:48.48	Q
3	5	4	Josh Davis	United States	1:48.63	Q
4	6	5	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:48.68	Q
5	5	2	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	1:48.80	Q
6	6	3	Daniel Kowalski	Australia	1:48.92	Q
7	4	1	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	1:49.00	Q
8	4	2	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	1:49.05	QSO
	4	5	Jani Sievinen	Finland		QSO
10	6	4	Michael Klim	Australia	1:49.17	q
11	4	7	Aimo Heilmann	Germany	1:49.57	q
12	4	6	Vladimir Pyshnenko	Russia	1:49.79	q
13	5	6	Pier Maria Siciliano	Italy	1:49.88	q
14	6	6	Antti Kasvio	Finland	1:50.55	q, WD
15	5	5	John Piersma	United States	1:50.59	q
16	6	1	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	1:50.79	q
17	4	8	Nicolae Butacu	Romania	1:50.83	q
18	6	7	Andrew Clayton	Great Britain	1:51.06	qˆ
19	3	3	Miroslav Vučetić	Croatia	1:51.26	NR
20	4	3	Attila Czene	Hungary	1:51.59
	6	2	Trent Bray	New Zealand
22	6	8	Aleksey Yegorov	Kazakhstan	1:51.66
23	5	8	Shunsuke Ito	Japan	1:51.97
24	5	1	Christophe Bordeau	France	1:52.17
25	5	7	Miklós Kollár	Hungary	1:52.19
26	3	1	Koh Yun-ho	South Korea	1:52.80	NR
27	1	4	Carlos Santander	Venezuela	1:53.13	NR
28	3	7	Vyacheslav Kabanov	Uzbekistan	1:53.36
29	3	5	Earl McCarthy	Ireland	1:53.67
30	3	4	Dimitrios Manganas	Greece	1:53.84
31	3	6	Salim Iles	Algeria	1:54.10	NR
32	2	6	José Isaza	Panama	1:54.58
33	3	8	Torlarp Sethsothorn	Thailand	1:54.73
34	2	3	Jure Bučar	Slovenia	1:54.75
35	2	1	Raymond Papa	Philippines	1:54.77
36	2	4	Bartosz Sikora	Poland	1:55.33
37	2	5	Sng Ju Wei	Singapore	1:55.51
38	2	2	Dmitry Lapin	Kyrgyzstan	1:55.52
39	1	3	Carl Probert	Fiji	1:56.33
40	2	8	Felipe Delgado	Ecuador	1:55.52
41	3	2	Andrei Zaharov	Moldova	1:57.47
42	2	7	Denys Zavhorodniy	Ukraine	1:58.67
43	1	5	Thamer Al-Shamroukh	Kuwait	2:13.75

Swim-off

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	1:48.89	QSO*
	4	Jani Sievinen	Finland		QSO

* Palmer and Sievinen tied for first place in their swimoff and are required to swim for another attempt, but the latter elected to withdraw from the race, allowing the former to advance to the final A by default.
ˆ Because Sievinen scratched out from the competition, the vacant spot was distributed to the next best-ranked swimmer, not yet qualified, in the heats.

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Aimo Heilmann	Germany	1:48.81
10	4	Michael Klim	Australia	1:49.50
11	3	Vladimir Pyshnenko	Russia	1:49.55
12	2	John Piersma	United States	1:49.90
13	6	Pier Maria Siciliano	Italy	1:50.07
14	7	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	1:50.54
15	8	Andrew Clayton	Great Britain	1:50.59
16	1	Nicolae Butacu	Romania	1:51.46

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	1:47.63	NR
	1	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	1:48.08	SA
	7	Daniel Kowalski	Australia	1:48.25
4	6	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:48.36	NR
5	4	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	1:48.42
6	2	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	1:48.50
7	3	Josh Davis	United States	1:48.54
8	8	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	1:49.39

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming