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

Men's 200-metre freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	24 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 25 July 2001 (final)
Competitors	55
Winning time	1:44.06 WR
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Pieter van den Hoogenband    Netherlands   Klete Keller    United States
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Main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships

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

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

Heats

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

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

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

1. "Final Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 21 August 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
2. "Heats Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
3. "Semifinals Results". FINA. Archived from the original on 24 October 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2023.