Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	19 June (heats and semifinals) 20 June (final)
Competitors	61 from 53 nations
Winning time	1:43.21
Medalists
David Popovici    Romania   Hwang Sun-woo    South Korea   Tom Dean    Great Britain
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The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 19 and 20 June 2022. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Paul Biedermann  (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009
Competition record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 19 June at 09:51. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	5	David Popovici	Romania	1:45.18
2	7	2	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:45.79
3	7	6	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:45.84
4	7	4	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:45.99
5	7	3	Drew Kibler	United States	1:46.13
6	5	3	Elijah Winnington	Australia	1:46.19
7	6	3	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:46.45
8	5	5	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:46.70
9	5	4	Fernando Scheffer	Brazil	1:46.71
10	6	4	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:46.72
11	6	5	Kieran Smith	United States	1:46.73
12	6	6	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:47.00
13	7	1	Marco De Tullio	Italy	1:47.27
14	7	7	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:47.28
15	5	0	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:47.44
16	7	0	Jordan Pothain	France	1:47.51
17	5	1	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:47.54
18	7	8	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:47.63
19	6	0	Hadrien Salvan	France	1:47.71
19	6	1	Ji Xinjie	China	1:47.71
19	6	7	Nándor Németh	Hungary	1:47.71
22	5	8	Breno Correia	Brazil	1:47.79
23	5	7	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.94
24	6	8	Stefano Di Cola	Italy	1:48.09
25	6	9	Ruslan Gaziev	Canada	1:48.10
26	5	2	Rafael Miroslaw	Germany	1:48.28
27	4	4	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	1:48.37
28	4	5	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	1:48.48
29	4	3	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	1:48.72
30	5	6	Matt Richards	Great Britain	1:48.74
31	7	9	Jorge Iga	Mexico	1:48.96
32	6	2	Zac Incerti	Australia	1:49.12
33	3	4	Mikel Schreuders	Aruba	1:49.39
34	3	3	Aleksey Tarasenko	Uzbekistan	1:49.87
35	4	1	Glen Jun Wei Lim	Singapore	1:49.94
36	4	7	Sergio de Celis	Spain	1:50.03
37	4	6	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	1:50.24
38	4	9	Santiago Corredor	Colombia	1:50.44
39	4	2	Cameron Gray	New Zealand	1:50.64
40	3	5	Max Mannes	Luxembourg	1:51.06
41	3	2	František Jablčník	Slovakia	1:51.25
42	5	9	Cheuk Ming Ho	Hong Kong	1:51.60
43	3	7	Pavel Alovatki	Moldova	1:51.64
44	4	8	Hoàng Quý Phước	Vietnam	1:52.47
45	4	0	Yordan Yanchev	Bulgaria	1:52.62
46	3	1	Omar Abbass	Syria	1:52.78
47	3	6	Luka Kukhalashvili	Georgia	1:53.08
48	3	8	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda	1:53.30
49	3	0	Pedro Chiancone	Uruguay	1:54.08
50	3	9	José Campo	El Salvador	1:55.74
51	2	6	Ramazan Omarov	Kyrgyzstan	1:56.22
52	2	1	Salem Sabt	United Arab Emirates	1:56.40
53	2	3	Bartal Eidesgaard	Faroe Islands	1:57.08
54	2	4	Ado Gargović	Montenegro	1:57.74
55	2	5	Henrique Mascarenhas	Angola	1:58.03
56	1	4	Adnan Al-Abdallat	Jordan	1:59.70
57	1	3	Nasir Hussain	Nepal	2:00.99
58	2	2	Haziq Samil	Brunei	2:04.14
59	2	8	Israel Poppe	Guam	2:05.00
60	1	5	Eminguly Ballykov	Turkmenistan	2:05.06
61	2	7	Sangay Tenzin	Bhutan	2:08.36

Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 19 June at 19:14. ^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:44.40	WJ , NR
2	2	5	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:45.17	NR
3	1	4	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:45.46
4	1	5	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:45.48
5	1	3	Elijah Winnington	Australia	1:45.53
6	2	3	Drew Kibler	United States	1:45.54
7	2	6	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:45.94
8	2	7	Kieran Smith	United States	1:46.06
9	2	2	Fernando Scheffer	Brazil	1:46.11
10	2	1	Marco De Tullio	Italy	1:46.29
11	1	7	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:46.61
12	1	1	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:46.63
12	1	2	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:46.63
14	1	6	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:46.82
15	1	8	Jordan Pothain	France	1:47.66
16	2	8	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland	1:47.78

Final

The final was held on 20 June at 18:02. ^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:43.21	WJ , NR
	3	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:44.47	NR
	6	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:44.98
4	7	Drew Kibler	United States	1:45.01
5	5	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:45.11	NR
6	8	Kieran Smith	United States	1:45.16
7	1	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:45.73
8	2	Elijah Winnington	Australia	1:45.82

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). fina.org. 15 June 2022.
2. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 16 June 2022.
3. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 19 June 2022.
4. "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 19 June 2022.
5. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 20 June 2022.