Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	24 July (heats and semifinals) 25 July (final)
Competitors	72 from 64 nations
Winning time	1:44.30
Medalists
Matt Richards    Great Britain   Tom Dean    Great Britain   Hwang Sun-woo    South Korea
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The men's 200 metre freestyle competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 24 and 25 July 2023. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. ^[4]

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 24 July at 11:27. ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	3	Luke Hobson	United States	1:45.69	Q
2	8	5	Matt Richards	Great Britain	1:45.82	Q
3	8	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:45.86	Q
4	7	5	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:46.02	Q
5	7	2	Lee Ho-joon	South Korea	1:46.21	Q
6	6	3	Kieran Smith	United States	1:46.38	Q
7	7	1	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	1:46.40	Q
8	6	5	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:46.44	Q
9	6	6	Fernando Scheffer	Brazil	1:46.45	Q
10	8	3	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:46.48	Q
11	6	4	Pan Zhanle	China	1:46.49	Q
12	6	8	Alexander Graham	Australia	1:46.58	Q
13	6	2	Marco De Tullio	Italy	1:46.69	Q
13	7	4	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:46.69	Q
13	8	7	Rafael Miroslaw	Germany	1:46.69	Q
16	8	6	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:46.70	Q
17	8	2	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:46.87
17	8	8	Hadrien Salvan	France	1:46.87
19	6	0	Jorge Iga	Mexico	1:46.89
20	6	7	Kai Taylor	Australia	1:46.94
21	7	7	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:47.08
22	8	9	Robin Hanson	Sweden	1:47.09
23	8	1	Nándor Németh	Hungary	1:47.11
24	6	1	Stefano di Cola	Italy	1:47.27
25	5	3	Kamil Sieradzki	Poland	1:47.34
26	5	6	Alfonso Mestre	Venezuela	1:47.36
27	5	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:47.93
28	7	9	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:48.00
29	8	0	Roman Fuchs	France	1:48.13
30	5	4	Khiew Hoe Yean	Malaysia	1:48.18
31	7	0	Dimitrios Markos	Greece	1:48.84
32	7	8	Hong Jinquan	China	1:48.93
33	5	1	Glen Lim Jun Wei	Singapore	1:49.13
34	6	9	Luis Domínguez	Spain	1:49.28
35	5	2	Jovan Lekić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:49.54
36	4	5	Joaquín Vargas	Peru	1:49.85
37	4	1	František Jablčník	Slovakia	1:50.61
38	4	3	Santiago Corredor	Colombia	1:50.68
39	4	2	Pit Brandenburger	Luxembourg	1:51.27
39	4	4	Wesley Roberts	Cook Islands	1:51.27
41	5	7	Zac Reid	New Zealand	1:51.66
42	4	8	Omar Abbass	Syria	1:52.11
43	5	8	Dulyawat Kaewsriyong	Thailand	1:52.24
44	4	6	Righardt Muller	South Africa	1:52.25
45	3	2	Loris Bianchi	San Marino	1:53.10	NR
46	5	0	Hoàng Quý Phước	Vietnam	1:53.67
47	4	0	Pavel Alovatki	Moldova	1:54.19
48	5	9	Baturalp Ünlü	Turkey	1:54.56
49	3	4	Matheo Mateos	Paraguay	1:54.67
50	3	3	Sauod Alshamroukh	Kuwait	1:54.77
51	4	9	Alberto Vega	Costa Rica	1:55.07
52	3	6	Henrique Mascarenhas	Angola	1:55.09
53	3	0	Monyo Maina	Suspended Member Federation	1:55.28
54	1	3	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia	1:55.69
55	2	0	Lin Sizhuang	Macau	1:55.87
56	3	1	Mauricio Arias	Dominican Republic	1:55.90
57	4	7	Simon Doueihy	Lebanon	1:55.96
58	2	8	Mahmoud Abu Garbieh	Palestine	1:56.37	NR
59	2	4	Nasir Yahya Hussain	Nepal	1:57.26
60	3	7	Ado Gargovic	Montenegro	1:57.81
61	3	8	Clinton Opute	Nigeria	1:57.92
62	2	6	Justino Pale	Mozambique	1:58.32
63	2	2	Muhammad Siddiqui	Pakistan	1:58.36
64	3	3	Mohammed Al Zaki	Saudi Arabia	1:58.96
65	1	1	Ali Sadeq Alawi	Bahrain	1:59.08	NR
66	2	2	Mal Gashi	Kosovo	1:59.20
67	1	1	Hussein Suwaed	Iraq	1:59.69
68	2	5	Issa Al-Adawi	Oman	2:00.09
69	2	7	Israel Poppe	Guam	2:02.57
70	2	9	Diego Aranda	Uruguay	2:02.84
71	2	1	Sangay Tenzin	Bhutan	2:06.93
72	1	4	Kyler Anthony Kihleng	Micronesia	2:07.89
	3	5	Mark Ducaj	Albania	DNS
	7	6	Lukas Martens	Germany

Semifinals

The semifinals was started on 24 July at 21:11. ^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	David Popovici	Romania	1:44.70	Q
2	2	4	Luke Hobson	United States	1:44.87	Q
3	1	1	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:45.07	Q
4	1	5	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:45.29	Q
5	1	4	Matt Richards	Great Britain	1:45.40	Q
6	2	3	Lee Ho-joon	South Korea	1:45.93	Q
7	1	3	Kieran Smith	United States	1:45.96	Q
8	1	2	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:45.97
8	1	6	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:45.97
10	2	1	Marco De Tullio	Italy	1:46.05
10	2	7	Pan Zhanle	China	1:46.05
12	2	8	Rafael Miroslaw	Germany	1:46.30
13	1	7	Alexander Graham	Australia	1:46.61
14	1	8	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:46.66
15	2	6	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	1:46.77
16	2	2	Fernando Scheffer	Brazil	1:47.35

Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 24 July at 22:00. ^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:46.30	Q
2	5	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:46.37

Final

The final was held on 25 July at 20:02. ^[8]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Matt Richards	Great Britain	1:44.30
	6	Tom Dean	Great Britain	1:44.32
	3	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:44.42	NR
4	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:44.90
5	5	Luke Hobson	United States	1:45.09
6	7	Lee Ho-joon	South Korea	1:46.04
7	1	Kieran Smith	United States	1:46.10
8	8	Felix Auböck	Austria	1:46.40

References

1. "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
2. Sutherland, James (13 January 2023). "World Aquatics Announces Competition Schedule For 2023 World Championships In Fukuoka". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
3. "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2023.
4. "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
5. "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 January 2024.
6. "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2023.
7. "Swim-off results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2023.
8. "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 25 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2023.