Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Hamad Aquatic Centre
Date	3 December
Competitors	35 from 21 nations
Medalists
Park Tae-hwan    South Korea   Zhang Lin    China   Daisuke Hosokawa    Japan
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Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The men's 200m freestyle swimming event at the 2006 Asian Games was held on December 3, 2006 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar.

Schedule[]

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	1:44.06	Fukuoka, Japan	25 July 2001
Asian Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:47.51	Victoria, Canada	17 August 2006
Games Record	Liu Yu (CHN)	1:49.29	Busan, South Korea	1 October 2002

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	5	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:49.75
2	5	Daisuke Hosokawa (JPN)	1:50.14
3	3	Zhang Enjian (CHN)	1:50.71
4	4	Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:50.96
5	3	Lim Nam-gyun (KOR)	1:51.07
6	4	(JPN)	1:51.47
7	4	Bryan Tay (SIN)	1:53.04
8	5	Daniel Bego (MAS)	1:54.37
9	3	Virdhawal Khade (IND)	1:54.44
10	3	Miguel Molina (PHI)	1:54.62
11	4	(TPE)	1:55.32
12	4	(HKG)	1:55.57
13	4	(UZB)	1:55.73
14	5	Mohammad Madwa (KUW)	1:55.86
15	4	(SIN)	1:55.99
16	3	(THA)	1:56.23
17	1	Vyacheslav Titarenko (KAZ)	1:56.39
18	5	Petr Vasiliev (UZB)	1:56.66
19	3	Mohammad Bidarian (IRI)	1:56.84
20	3	(KUW)	1:56.99
21	5	Chen Te-tung (TPE)	1:57.96
22	5	(IRI)	1:58.17
23	5	(HKG)	1:58.55
24	3	Anas Abu-Yousuf (QAT)	1:58.87
25	2	Daniel Lee (SRI)	2:01.02
26	2	(QAT)	2:01.03
27	2	Heshan Unamboowe (SRI)	2:01.60
28	2	(LIB)	2:01.89
29	2	(KGZ)	2:02.48
30	2	(MAC)	2:03.19
31	4	(PHI)	2:04.80
32	2	(MAC)	2:06.72
33	2	(IRQ)	2:10.87
34	1	(IRQ)	2:17.00
35	1	(MDV)	2:30.12

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:47.12	AR
	Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:47.85
	Daisuke Hosokawa (JPN)	1:49.62
4	Zhang Enjian (CHN)	1:49.92
5	(JPN)	1:50.37
6	Lim Nam-gyun (KOR)	1:51.67
7	Bryan Tay (SIN)	1:52.09
8	Daniel Bego (MAS)	1:56.25

References[]

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