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	November 14, 2010
Competitors	29 from 17 nations
Medalists
Park Tae-hwan   South Korea   Sun Yang   China   Takeshi Matsuda   Japan
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Swimming at the 2010 Asian Games
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

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
	18:25	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Asian 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	Notes
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

References

• 16th Asian Games Results

External links

• Men's 200m Freestyle Heats Official Website
• Men's 100m Freestyle Ev.No.9 Final Official Website