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

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.

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 Ian Thorpe   Australia
silver medal Pieter van den Hoogenband   Netherlands
bronze medal Klete Keller   United States
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Main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships

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
  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

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.
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