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

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
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
	← 2022 2024 →

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	DNS

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

^ "Schedule" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
^ 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.
^ "Start list" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2023.
^ "Records book" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 21 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 January 2024.
^ "Heats results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 January 2024.
^ "Semifinals results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2023.
^ "Swim-off results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 24 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2023.
^ "Final results" (PDF). omegatiming.com. 25 July 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2023.

[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.

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