Swimming at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley

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Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
DatesJune 21, 2013
Competitors12 from 9 nations
Winning time1:59.35
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
  2009
2018  

The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2013 Mediterranean Games took place on June 21 at the Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool in Mersin, Turkey. [1] Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia is the defending champion from 2009 Mediterranean Games.

Contents

The race consisted of four lengths of the pool in four different styles.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record Flag of the United States.svg  Ryan Lochte  (USA)1:54.00 Shanghai, China July 28, 2011
Mediterranean Games record Flag of Tunisia.svg  Oussama Mellouli  (TUN)1:58.38 Pescara, Italy June 27, 2009

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

[2] [3]

RankHeatLaneAthleteTimeNotes
114Flag of Italy.svg  Federico Turrini  (ITA)2:03.37Q
215Flag of Tunisia.svg  Taki Mrabet  (TUN)2:03.39Q
313Flag of France.svg  Ganesh Pedurand  (FRA)2:03.96Q
424Flag of Tunisia.svg  Oussama Mellouli  (TUN)2:04.83Q
523Flag of Greece.svg  Andreas Vazaios  (GRE)2:05.11Q
622Flag of Turkey.svg  Alpkan Ornek  (TUR)2:05.22Q
726Flag of Spain.svg  Alejandro Garcia  (ESP)2:06.21Q
816Flag of Turkey.svg  Timur Dellaloglu  (TUR)2:06.24Q
927Flag of Serbia.svg  Nikola Trajković  (SRB)2:07.83
1012Flag of Algeria.svg  Mohamed Gadallh  (ALG)2:08.40
1125Flag of Italy.svg  Fabio Scozzoli  (ITA)2:08.65
1217Flag of Libya.svg  Yousef Abdusalam  (LBA)2:56.73

Final

[4]

RankLaneAthleteTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4Flag of Italy.svg  Federico Turrini  (ITA)1:59.35
Silver medal icon.svg6Flag of Tunisia.svg  Oussama Mellouli  (TUN)2:00.09
Bronze medal icon.svg2Flag of Greece.svg  Andreas Vazaios  (GRE)2:00.74
45Flag of Tunisia.svg  Taki Mrabet  (TUN)2:01.85
53Flag of France.svg  Ganesh Pedurand  (FRA)2:02.18
67Flag of Turkey.svg  Alpkan Ornek  (TUR)2:04.61
71Flag of Spain.svg  Alejandro Garcia  (ESP)2:07.23
88Flag of Turkey.svg  Timur Dellaloglu  (TUR)2:07.59

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References

  1. "Sessions". Mersin 2013. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  2. Swimming - Men's 200m I. M. Heat 1 (Result) Archived 2013-06-24 at archive.today
  3. Swimming - Men's 200m I. M. Heat 2 (Result) Archived 2013-06-24 at archive.today
  4. Swimming - Men's 200m Individual Medley Final (Official) Archived 2013-06-26 at the Wayback Machine