2023 World Para Swimming Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

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The men's 200m freestyle events at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships were held at the Manchester Aquatics Centre between 31 July and 6 August. ^[1]

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
S1	Anton Kol   Ukraine	Francesco Bettella   Italy	Iyad Shalabi   Israel
S2	Gabriel Araújo   Brazil	Jacek Czech   Poland	Alberto Abarza   Chile
S3	Denys Ostapchenko   Ukraine	Vincenzo Boni   Italy	Diego López Díaz   Mexico
S4	Ami Omer Dadaon   Israel	Angel de Jesus Camacho Ramirez   Mexico	Cameron Leslie   New Zealand
S5	Francesco Bocciardo   Italy	Antoni Ponce Bertran   Spain	Luis Huerta Poza   Spain
S14 [1]	Nicholas Bennett   Canada	William Ellard   Great Britain	Jack Ireland   Australia

Results

S1

Five swimmers entered this event, which proceeded straight to final on 3 August. ^[2]

Before the event, the relevant records were as follows.

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Itzhak Mamistvalov  (ISR)	4:57.79
Championship record	Itzhak Mamistvalov  (ISR)	5:04.21

Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	Anton Kol	Ukraine	4:57.31	WR
	Francesco Bettella	Italy	5:16.14
	Iyad Shalabi	Israel	5:16.81
4	Kamil Otowski	Poland	5:38.13
5	Dimitrios Karypidis	Greece	6:20.74

S2

Eight swimmers entered this event, which proceeded straight to final on 3 August. ^[3]

Before the event, the relevant records were as follows.

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Liu Benying  (CHN)	3:41.54
Championship record	Gabriel Araújo  (BRA)	3:59.06

Final

Rank	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	Gabriel Araújo	Brazil	4:01.51
	Jacek Czech	Poland	4:22.96
	Alberto Abarza	Chile	4:31.55
4	Roman Bondarenko	Ukraine	4:39.11
5	Rodrigo Santillan	Peru	4:47.20
6	Jesus Rey Lopez Cervantes	Mexico	4:57.87
7	Bruno Becker	Brazil	4:58.16
8	Cristopher Tronco Sánchez	Mexico	5:00.14

S3

11 swimmers entered the competition.

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Huang Wenpan	3:09.04
Championships record	Huang Wenpan	3:17.77

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Denys Ostapchenko	Ukraine	3:22.01	Q
2	1	4	Vincenzo Boni	Italy	3:37.18	Q
3	2	5	Serhii Palamarchuk	Ukraine	3:41.90	Q
4	2	7	Umut Ünlü	Turkey	3:43.53	Q
5	1	5	Diego López Díaz	Mexico	3:47.41	Q
6	2	6	Krzysztof Lechniak	Poland	3:54.30	Q
7	2	3	Daniel Ferrer Robles	Turkey	4:06.55	Q
8	1	3	Marcos Zarate Rodriguez	Mexico	4:07.98	Q
9	1	6	Ioannis Kostakis	Greece	4:21.75
10	1	2	Patricio Larenas	Chile	4:30.64
11	2	2	Youssef Elsayed	Egypt	4:44.99	AF

Final ^[4]

Rank	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	Denys Ostapchenko	Ukraine	3:19.43
	Vincenzo Boni	Italy	3:37.30
	Diego López Díaz	Mexico	3:42.30
4	Umut Ünlü	Turkey	3:42.46
5	Serhii Palamarchuk	Ukraine	3:48.58
6	Krzysztof Lechniak	Poland	3:51.64
7	Daniel Ferrer Robles	Spain	3:56.89
8	Marcos Zarate Rodriguez	Mexico	4:03.73

S4

7 swimmers entered the competition. ^[5]

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Ami Omer Dadaon	2:44.84
Championships record	Ami Omer Dadaon	2:50.91

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Ami Omer Dadaon	Israel	2:58.34	Q
2	1	4	Cameron Leslie	New Zealand	3:10.05	Q
3	2	5	Angel de Jesus Camacho Ramirez	Mexico	3:10.25	Q
4	2	3	Luigi Beggiato	Italy	3:10.46	Q
5	1	5	Gustavo Sánchez Martínez	Mexico	3:12.48	Q
6	1	6	Andreas Ernhofer	Austria	3:35.49	Q
7	2	6	Ariel Malyar	Israel	3:32.23	Q

Final ^[6]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
	Ami Omer Dadaon	Israel	2:51.58
	Angel de Jesus Camacho Ramirez	Mexico	3:00.63
	Cameron Leslie	New Zealand	3:05.45
4	Gustavo Sánchez Martínez	Mexico	3:06.34
5	Luigi Beggiato	Italy	3:07.04
6	Andreas Ernhofer	Austria	3:21.87
7	Ariel Malyar	Israel	3:35.16

S5

11 swimmers entered the competition. ^[7]

The applicable records entering the event were as follows:

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Francesco Bocciardo	2:23.65
Championships record	Francesco Bocciardo	2:24.11

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	2	4	Francesco Bocciardo	Italy	2:33.60
2	1	4	Antoni Ponce Bertran	Spain	2:39.56
3	1	5	Andrii Drapkin	Ukraine	2:45.41
4	2	5	Luis Huerta Poza	Spain	2:45.66
5	1	3	Muhammad Nur Syaiful Zulkafli	Malaysia	2:53.75
6	2	3	Zy Kher Lee	Malaysia	2:55.98
7	2	7	Phuchit Aingchaiyaphum	Thailand	2:56.12
8	2	6	Zeyad Kahil	Egypt	2:56.69
9	1	2	Alexandros-Stylianos Lergios	Greece	3:01.80
10	1	6	Sebastián Rodríguez Veloso	Spain	3:03.14
11	2	2	Ivo Rocha	Portugal	3:04.63

Final ^[8]

Rank	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	Francesco Bocciardo	Italy	2:27.79
	Antoni Ponce Bertran	Spain	2:32.71
	Luis Huerta Poza	Spain	2:46.24
4	Andrii Drapkin	Ukraine	2:46.52
5	Muhammad Nur Syaiful Zulkafli	Malaysia	2:52.61
6	Zy Kher Lee	Malaysia	2:53.12
7	Phuchit Aingchaiyaphum	Thailand	2:56.33
8	Zeyad Kahil	Egypt	2:56.95

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S14

15 swimmers entered the competition.

The applicable records entering the event were as follows: ^[9]

Record	Swimmer	Time
World record	Reece Dunn	1:52.40
Championships record	Gabriel Bandeira	1:52.42

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	1	5	William Ellard	Great Britain	1:55.06	Q
2	1	4	Nicholas Bennett	Canada	1:55.42	Q
3	2	5	Jack Ireland	Australia	1:56.01	Q
4	1	6	Dmytro Vanzenko	Ukraine	1:57.06	Q
5	2	4	Gabriel Bandeira	Brazil	1:58.03	Q
6	1	3	Wai Lok Tang	Hong Kong	1:58.08	Q
7	2	3	Jordan Catchpole	Great Britain	1:58.32	Q
8	2	2	Alexander Hillhouse	Denmark	1:58.81	Q
9	2	6	Tsun Lok Cheung	Hong Kong	1:58.84
10	2	1	Anku Matsuda	Japan	2:01.38
11	1	2	Nader Khalili	Finland	2:01.62
12	1	1	Louis Lawlor	Great Britain	2:01.79
13	2	7	Hon Yin Wong	Hong Kong	2:02.15
14	2	8	Shunya Murakami	Japan	2:03.21
15	1	7	Inkook Lee	South Korea	2:03.70

Final

The final took place on 31 July. ^[9]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Nation	Result	Notes
	1	5	Nicholas Bennett	Canada	1:54.75
	1	4	William Ellard	Great Britain	1:54.79
	1	3	Jack Ireland	Australia	1:55.38
4	1	6	Dmytro Vanzenko	Ukraine	1:56.40
5	1	2	Gabriel Bandeira	Brazil	1:56.90
6	1	8	Alexander Hillhouse	Denmark	1:57.13
7	1	1	Jordan Catchpole	Great Britain	1:58.49
8	1	7	Wai Lok Tang	Hong Kong	2:00.14

References

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