Swimming at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue
Date	14 November
Competitors	29 from 17 nations
Medalists
Park Tae-hwan    South Korea   Sun Yang    China   Takeshi Matsuda    Japan
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Swimming at the 2010 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 200 metre freestyle event at the 2010 Asian Games took place on 17 November 2010 at Guangzhou Aoti Aquatics Centre.

There were 29 competitors from 17 countries who took part in this event. Four heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top eight times from the entire field qualified for the finals.

Defending champion Park Tae-hwan from South Korea won the gold medal with 1 minute 44.80 seconds, which also broke the Asian record.

Schedule[]

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Records[]

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

World Record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009
Asian Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:44.85	Beijing, China	12 August 2008
Games Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:47.12	Doha, Qatar	3 December 2006

Results[]

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Heats[]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	1	Sun Yang (CHN)	1:47.85
2	2	Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:48.86
3	4	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:49.15
4	4	Yuki Kobori (JPN)	1:49.61
5	3	Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)	1:50.20
6	3	(KOR)	1:50.45
7	4	Danny Yeo (SIN)	1:51.70
8	2	Clement Lim (SIN)	1:51.91
9	2	Oleg Rabota (KAZ)	1:52.60
10	2	(THA)	1:53.33
11	4	Petr Romashkin (UZB)	1:53.42
12	4	Jessie Lacuna (PHI)	1:53.50
13	3	(IND)	1:53.93
14	2	(UZB)	1:54.02
15	4	Triady Fauzi Sidiq (INA)	1:54.51
16	3	(IOC)	1:54.72
17	3	(KAZ)	1:54.98
18	3	Kent Cheung (HKG)	1:55.03
19	2	(IRI)	1:55.04
20	1	(IND)	1:55.48
21	3	(HKG)	1:56.51
22	4	(KSA)	1:57.67
23	1	(MAC)	1:58.05
24	4	(THA)	1:58.73
25	3	Mohammad Madwa (IOC)	1:58.92
26	2	(KSA)	2:03.90
27	1	(QAT)	2:06.64
28	1	(QAT)	2:23.84
—	2	Rami Anis (SYR)	DNS

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:44.80	AR
	Sun Yang (CHN)	1:46.25
	Takeshi Matsuda (JPN)	1:47.73
4	Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:48.10
5	Yuki Kobori (JPN)	1:48.15
6	(KOR)	1:50.42
7	Danny Yeo (SIN)	1:51.07
8	Clement Lim (SIN)	1:52.25

References[]

• 16th Asian Games Results

External links[]

• Men's 200m Freestyle Heats Official Website
• Men's 100m Freestyle Ev.No.9 Final Official Website