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200 metres Freestyle, Men

Date	10 – 12 August 2008
Status	Olympic
Location	Beijing Guojia Youyong Zhongxin, Beijing Aolinpike Gongyuan, Beijing
Participants	57 from 49 countries

Already having won the 400 individual medley and the 4×100 freestyle relay as part of the US team, Michael Phelps entered the 200 metre freestyle as an overwhelming favourite. Phelps, the world record holder in the event, had been beaten into third in this race in 2004 and, when he failed to win either his heat or semi-final, a little seed of doubt was sown. The final proved that Phelps had simply been careful not to exert himself too much early in his competition schedule as he powered clear by halfway and then kept up his scintillating pace to take 0.90 seconds off his own world record and win the race by nearly two seconds. Behind Phelps was the newly crowned 400 metre freestyle champion Park Tae-Hwan of Korea who held off the challenge of Phelps’ training partner at Team Wolverine, Peter Vanderkaay.

Pos	Swimmer	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	Michael Phelps	USA	1:46.48 (2 h8)	1:46.28 (3 h2)	1:42.96 (1)	Gold
2	Park Tae-Hwan	KOR	1:46.73 (3 h8)	1:45.99 (2 h2)	1:44.85 (2)	Silver
3	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	1:47.39 (2 h7)	1:45.76 (1 h2)	1:45.14 (3)	Bronze
4	Jean Basson	RSA	1:46.31 (1 h6)	1:46.13 (1 h1)	1:45.97 (4)
5	Paul Biedermann	GER	1:47.09 (1 h7)	1:46.41 (4 h2)	1:46.00 (5)
6	Dominik Meichtry	SUI	1:45.80 (1 h8)	1:46.54 (6 h2)	1:46.95 (6)
7	Yoshihiro Okumura	JPN	1:46.89 (5 h8)	1:46.44 (5 h2)	1:47.14 (7)
8	Robbie Renwick	GBR	1:47.82 (3 h7)	1:47.07 (7 h2)	1:47.47 (8)
9	Dan Izotov	RUS	1:46.80 (4 h8)	1:47.24 (2 h1)	–
10	Ross Davenport	GBR	1:47.13 (6 h8)	1:47.35 (3 h1)	–
11	Emiliano Brembilla	ITA	1:47.04 (4 h6)	1:47.70 (4 h1)	–
12	Nicholas Sprenger	AUS	1:47.64 (6 h6)	1:47.80 (5 h1)	–
13	Dominik Koll	AUT	1:47.81 (7 h8)	1:47.87 (6 h1)	–
14	Colin Russell	CAN	1:46.58 (3 h6)	1:48.13 (7 h1)	–
15	Nimrod Shapira	ISR	1:47.78 (1 h5)	1:48.16 (8 h2)	–
16	Rodrigo Castro	BRA	1:47.87 (7 h6)	1:48.71 (8 h1)	–
17	Brent Hayden	CAN	1:46.40 (2 h6)	–	–		1
18	Amaury Leveaux	FRA	1:47.44 (5 h6)	–	–		2
=19	Oussama Mellouli	TUN	1:47.97 (8 h6)	–	–
=19	Aleksandr Sukhorukov	RUS	1:47.97 (4 h7)	–	–
21	Darian Townsend	RSA	1:48.08 (2 h5)	–	–
22	Kenrick Monk	AUS	1:48.17 (5 h7)	–	–
23	Serhiy Advena	UKR	1:48.18 (3 h5)	–	–
24	Sho Uchida	JPN	1:48.34 (4 h5)	–	–
25	Romāns Miloslavskis	LAT	1:48.41 (6 h7)	–	–
26	Shaune Fraser	CAY	1:48.60 (5 h5)	–	–
27	Gard Kvale	NOR	1:48.73 (1 h4)	–	–
28	Massi Rosolino	ITA	1:48.76 (7 h7)	–	–
29	Andreas Zisimos	GRE	1:48.82 (6 h5)	–	–
30	Glenn Surgeloose	BEL	1:48.92 (7 h5)	–	–
31	Jon Rud	DEN	1:48.96 (2 h4)	–	–
32	Ryan Pini	PNG	1:49.04 (1 h3)	–	–
33	Zhang Enjian	CHN	1:49.15 (8 h7)	–	–
34	Łukasz Gąsior	POL	1:49.25 (8 h8)	–	–
35	Norbert Kovács	HUN	1:49.34 (3 h4)	–	–
36	Martín Kutscher	URU	1:49.61 (4 h4)	–	–
37	Dominik Straga	CRO	1:49.63 (2 h3)	–	–
38	Christoffer Wikström	SWE	1:49.84 (5 h4)	–	–
39	Tiago Venâncio	POR	1:50.24 (8 h5)	–	–
40	Radovan Siljevski	SRB	1:50.25 (3 h3)	–	–
41	Bryan Tay	SGP	1:50.41 (1 h2)	–	–
42	Crox Acuña	VEN	1:50.52 (4 h3)	–	–
43	Julio César Galofre	COL	1:50.62 (5 h3)	–	–
44	Daniel Bego	MAS	1:50.92 (6 h3)	–	–
45	Vladimir Sidorkin	EST	1:51.27 (2 h2)	–	–
46	Květoslav Svoboda	CZE	1:51.67 (6 h4)	–	–
47	Saulius Binevičius	LTU	1:51.80 (7 h3)	–	–
48	Virdhawal Khade	IND	1:51.86 (7 h4)	–	–
49	Raphaël Stacchiotti	LUX	1:52.01 (8 h4)	–	–
50	Mario Montoya	CRC	1:52.19 (3 h2)	–	–
51	Mahrez Mebarek	ALG	1:52.66 (4 h2)	–	–
52	Artur Dilman	KAZ	1:52.90 (5 h2)	–	–
53	Irak'li Revishvili	GEO	1:53.60 (1 h1)	–	–
54	Ibragim Nazarov	UZB	1:56.27 (6 h2)	–	–
55	Mihajlo Ristovski	MKD	1:57.45 (2 h1)	–	–
56	Andrei Zaharov	MDA	1:58.62 (7 h2)	–	–
57	Emanuele Nicolini	SMR	1:59.47 (3 h1)	–	–
DNS	Luka Turk	SLO	– (DNS h3)	–	–

Round One (10 August 2008)

Fastest 16 swimmers advanced to semi-finals

Heat One (18:54)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Irak'li Revishvili	GEO	26.50 (1) 28.51 (1)	55.01 (1) 29.20 (1)	1:24.21 (1) 29.39 (1)	1:53.60	0.77
2	3	Mihajlo Ristovski	MKD	27.73 (2) 29.64 (3)	57.37 (3) 30.25 (2)	1:27.62 (2) 29.83 (2)	1:57.45	0.84
3	5	Emanuele Nicolini	SMR	27.99 (3) 29.05 (2)	57.04 (2) 30.78 (3)	1:27.82 (3) 31.65 (3)	1:59.47	0.72

Heat Two (18:58)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	6	Bryan Tay	SGP	25.86 (1) 28.08 (2)	53.94 (2) 28.36 (1)	1:22.30 (1) 28.11 (1)	1:50.41	0.62
2	5	Vladimir Sidorkin	EST	25.97 (2) 27.93 (1)	53.90 (1) 28.82 (2)	1:22.72 (2) 28.55 (3)	1:51.27	0.76
3	3	Mario Montoya	CRC	26.12 (3) 28.67 (4)	54.79 (4) 28.97 (3)	1:23.76 (4) 28.43 (2)	1:52.19	0.99
4	4	Mahrez Mebarek	ALG	26.15 (4) 28.71 (5)	54.86 (5) 29.12 (5)	1:23.98 (5) 28.68 (4)	1:52.66	0.77
5	2	Artur Dilman	KAZ	26.27 (5) 28.31 (3)	54.58 (3) 29.06 (4)	1:23.64 (3) 29.26 (5)	1:52.90	0.86
6	1	Ibragim Nazarov	UZB	26.60 (6) 28.73 (6)	55.33 (6) 29.78 (6)	1:25.11 (6) 31.16 (6)	1:56.27	0.90
7	7	Andrei Zaharov	MDA	27.03 (7) 28.87 (7)	55.90 (7) 30.57 (7)	1:26.47 (7) 32.15 (7)	1:58.62	0.86

Heat Three (19:01)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Ryan Pini	PNG	25.07 (1) 28.10 (6)	53.17 (1) 28.16 (2)	1:21.33 (1) 27.71 (1)	1:49.04	0.76
2	1	Dominik Straga	CRO	25.60 (2) 28.06 (=4)	53.66 (2) 27.96 (1)	1:21.62 (2) 28.01 (2)	1:49.63	0.81
3	7	Radovan Siljevski	SRB	26.09 (6) 27.79 (1)	53.88 (4) 28.33 (5)	1:22.21 (4) 28.04 (3)	1:50.25	0.75
4	3	Crox Acuña	VEN	25.79 (3) 27.96 (2)	53.75 (3) 28.17 (3)	1:21.92 (3) 28.60 (6)	1:50.52	0.78
5	2	Julio César Galofre	COL	26.02 (=4) 27.98 (3)	54.00 (5) 28.44 (7)	1:22.44 (5) 28.18 (4)	1:50.62	0.72
6	6	Daniel Bego	MAS	26.02 (=4) 28.12 (7)	54.14 (6) 28.40 (6)	1:22.54 (6) 28.38 (5)	1:50.92	0.65
7	8	Saulius Binevičius	LTU	26.31 (7) 28.06 (=4)	54.37 (7) 28.18 (4)	1:22.55 (7) 29.25 (7)	1:51.80	0.84
DNS	4	Luka Turk	SLO	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–	–

Heat Four (19:05)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Gard Kvale	NOR	26.13 (=7) 27.51 (2)	53.64 (4) 27.82 (1)	1:21.46 (2) 27.27 (1)	1:48.73	0.85
2	7	Jon Rud	DEN	25.78 (5) 27.26 (1)	53.04 (1) 27.89 (2)	1:20.93 (1) 28.03 (4)	1:48.96	0.74
3	5	Norbert Kovács	HUN	25.49 (1) 27.60 (4)	53.09 (2) 28.63 (6)	1:21.72 (4) 27.62 (2)	1:49.34	0.64
4	6	Martín Kutscher	URU	25.52 (2) 27.86 (5)	53.38 (3) 28.18 (5)	1:21.56 (3) 28.05 (5)	1:49.61	0.76
5	3	Christoffer Wikström	SWE	26.13 (=7) 27.52 (3)	53.65 (5) 28.17 (4)	1:21.82 (5) 28.02 (3)	1:49.84	0.91
6	2	Květoslav Svoboda	CZE	25.94 (6) 28.28 (7)	54.22 (8) 28.03 (3)	1:22.25 (6) 29.42 (8)	1:51.67	0.78
7	8	Virdhawal Khade	IND	25.76 (4) 28.19 (6)	53.95 (6) 28.81 (7)	1:22.76 (7) 29.10 (7)	1:51.86	0.75
8	1	Raphaël Stacchiotti	LUX	25.54 (3) 28.56 (8)	54.10 (7) 28.88 (8)	1:22.98 (8) 29.03 (6)	1:52.01	0.68

Heat Five (19:09)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	6	Nimrod Shapira	ISR	26.06 (8) 27.39 (3)	53.45 (8) 27.33 (1)	1:20.78 (4) 27.00 (1)	1:47.78	0.78	Q
2	5	Darian Townsend	RSA	25.29 (=2) 27.50 (5)	52.79 (=2) 27.63 (2)	1:20.42 (2) 27.66 (3)	1:48.08	0.69
3	1	Serhiy Advena	UKR	25.29 (=2) 27.35 (2)	52.64 (1) 27.70 (3)	1:20.34 (1) 27.84 (5)	1:48.18	0.84
4	4	Sho Uchida	JPN	25.70 (7) 27.25 (1)	52.95 (4) 27.77 (4)	1:20.72 (3) 27.62 (2)	1:48.34	0.73
5	2	Shaune Fraser	CAY	25.13 (1) 27.66 (8)	52.79 (=2) 28.07 (7)	1:20.86 (6) 27.74 (4)	1:48.60	0.71
6	3	Andreas Zisimos	GRE	25.51 (6) 27.48 (4)	52.99 (5) 27.82 (5)	1:20.81 (5) 28.01 (7)	1:48.82	0.82
7	8	Glenn Surgeloose	BEL	25.50 (5) 27.64 (7)	53.14 (7) 27.85 (6)	1:20.99 (7) 27.93 (6)	1:48.92	0.74
8	7	Tiago Venâncio	POR	25.42 (4) 27.63 (6)	53.05 (6) 28.22 (8)	1:21.27 (8) 28.97 (8)	1:50.24	0.77

Heat Six (19:13)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Jean Basson	RSA	25.35 (4) 27.40 (7)	52.75 (4) 26.91 (1)	1:19.66 (2) 26.65 (1)	1:46.31	0.68	Q
2	2	Brent Hayden	CAN	24.69 (1) 27.30 (3)	51.99 (1) 27.11 (2)	1:19.10 (1) 27.30 (6)	1:46.40	0.75	Q
3	3	Colin Russell	CAN	25.02 (2) 27.01 (2)	52.03 (2) 27.64 (8)	1:19.67 (3) 26.91 (3)	1:46.58	0.76	Q
4	7	Emiliano Brembilla	ITA	25.91 (8) 26.99 (1)	52.90 (6) 27.21 (=3)	1:20.11 (5) 26.93 (4)	1:47.04	0.83	Q
5	5	Amaury Leveaux	FRA	25.50 (6) 27.77 (8)	53.27 (8) 27.48 (5)	1:20.75 (8) 26.69 (2)	1:47.44	0.76	Q
6	6	Nicholas Sprenger	AUS	25.44 (5) 27.33 (4)	52.77 (5) 27.60 (6)	1:20.37 (6) 27.27 (5)	1:47.64	0.84	Q
7	1	Rodrigo Castro	BRA	25.11 (3) 27.36 (6)	52.47 (3) 27.21 (=3)	1:19.68 (4) 28.19 (8)	1:47.87	0.69	q
8	8	Oussama Mellouli	TUN	25.64 (7) 27.35 (5)	52.99 (7) 27.62 (7)	1:20.61 (7) 27.36 (7)	1:47.97	0.78

Heat Seven (19:17)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Paul Biedermann	GER	25.72 (5) 27.51 (7)	53.23 (5) 27.25 (2)	1:20.48 (=4) 26.61 (1)	1:47.09	0.86	Q
2	4	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	25.58 (=3) 27.37 (4)	52.95 (3) 27.48 (5)	1:20.43 (3) 26.96 (2)	1:47.39	0.73	Q
3	7	Robbie Renwick	GBR	25.58 (=3) 27.41 (6)	52.99 (4) 27.31 (3)	1:20.30 (2) 27.52 (4)	1:47.82	0.74	q
4	3	Aleksandr Sukhorukov	RUS	25.33 (1) 26.94 (1)	52.27 (1) 27.91 (8)	1:20.18 (1) 27.79 (6)	1:47.97	0.78
5	6	Kenrick Monk	AUS	25.45 (2) 27.38 (5)	52.83 (2) 27.65 (7)	1:20.48 (=4) 27.69 (5)	1:48.17	0.75
6	8	Romāns Miloslavskis	LAT	26.14 (6) 27.34 (3)	53.48 (7) 27.09 (1)	1:20.57 (6) 27.84 (7)	1:48.41	0.82
7	2	Massi Rosolino	ITA	26.16 (7) 27.29 (2)	53.45 (6) 27.42 (4)	1:20.87 (7) 27.89 (8)	1:48.76	0.84
8	1	Zhang Enjian	CHN	26.35 (8) 27.95 (8)	54.30 (8) 27.55 (6)	1:21.85 (8) 27.30 (3)	1:49.15	0.75

Heat Eight (19:21)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	2	Dominik Meichtry	SUI	24.70 (1) 26.52 (1)	51.22 (1) 27.04 (3)	1:18.26 (1) 27.54 (6)	1:45.80	0.68	Q
2	4	Michael Phelps	USA	25.81 (7) 26.97 (2)	52.78 (=3) 27.03 (=1)	1:19.81 (2) 26.67 (1)	1:46.48	0.73	Q
3	5	Park Tae-Hwan	KOR	25.59 (4) 27.31 (=4)	52.90 (6) 27.11 (4)	1:20.01 (3) 26.72 (3)	1:46.73	0.67	Q
4	3	Dan Izotov	RUS	25.61 (5) 27.40 (=6)	53.01 (7) 27.03 (=1)	1:20.04 (4) 26.76 (4)	1:46.80	0.78	Q
5	7	Yoshihiro Okumura	JPN	25.38 (2) 27.40 (=6)	52.78 (=3) 27.34 (=5)	1:20.12 (6) 26.77 (5)	1:46.89	0.72	Q
6	6	Ross Davenport	GBR	25.52 (3) 27.31 (=4)	52.83 (5) 27.61 (7)	1:20.44 (7) 26.69 (2)	1:47.13	0.72	Q
7	1	Dominik Koll	AUT	25.62 (6) 27.12 (3)	52.74 (2) 27.34 (=5)	1:20.08 (5) 27.73 (=7)	1:47.81	0.83	Q
8	8	Łukasz Gąsior	POL	25.98 (8) 27.72 (8)	53.70 (8) 27.82 (8)	1:21.52 (8) 27.73 (=7)	1:49.25	0.74

Semi-Finals (11 August 2008)

Fastest eight swimmers advanced to final

Heat One (10:14)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Jean Basson	RSA	25.31 (=2) 26.51 (1)	51.82 (1) 26.78 (1)	1:18.60 (1) 27.53 (3)	1:46.13	0.71	Q
2	3	Dan Izotov	RUS	25.76 (7) 27.35 (8)	53.11 (7) 27.26 (2)	1:20.37 (5) 26.87 (2)	1:47.24	0.72
3	2	Ross Davenport	GBR	24.93 (1) 26.92 (3)	51.85 (2) 27.71 (4)	1:19.56 (2) 27.79 (=6)	1:47.35	0.71
4	6	Emiliano Brembilla	ITA	26.00 (8) 27.22 (=5)	53.22 (8) 27.75 (=5)	1:20.97 (8) 26.73 (1)	1:47.70	0.81
5	7	Nicholas Sprenger	AUS	25.31 (=2) 26.93 (4)	52.24 (3) 27.80 (7)	1:20.04 (3) 27.76 (5)	1:47.80	0.86
6	1	Dominik Koll	AUT	25.42 (4) 26.91 (2)	52.33 (4) 27.75 (=5)	1:20.08 (4) 27.79 (=6)	1:47.87	0.80
7	5	Colin Russell	CAN	25.53 (6) 27.22 (=5)	52.75 (=5) 27.84 (8)	1:20.59 (7) 27.54 (4)	1:48.13	0.72
8	8	Rodrigo Castro	BRA	25.51 (5) 27.24 (7)	52.75 (=5) 27.66 (3)	1:20.41 (6) 28.30 (8)	1:48.71	0.73

Heat Two (10:19)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	7	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	25.14 (2) 26.99 (5)	52.13 (=2) 27.10 (3)	1:19.23 (2) 26.53 (1)	1:45.76	0.75	Q
2	3	Park Tae-Hwan	KOR	25.35 (3) 26.78 (2)	52.13 (=2) 27.25 (6)	1:19.38 (3) 26.61 (3)	1:45.99	0.68	Q
3	5	Michael Phelps	USA	25.53 (6) 26.82 (3)	52.35 (4) 27.06 (2)	1:19.41 (4) 26.87 (5)	1:46.28	0.74	Q
4	2	Paul Biedermann	GER	25.77 (7) 26.83 (4)	52.60 (5) 27.24 (5)	1:19.84 (6) 26.57 (2)	1:46.41	0.88	Q
5	6	Yoshihiro Okumura	JPN	25.47 (5) 27.45 (8)	52.92 (7) 26.89 (1)	1:19.81 (5) 26.63 (4)	1:46.44	0.74	Q
6	4	Dominik Meichtry	SUI	25.08 (1) 26.56 (1)	51.64 (1) 27.19 (4)	1:18.83 (1) 27.71 (8)	1:46.54	0.65	Q
7	8	Robbie Renwick	GBR	25.39 (4) 27.27 (6)	52.66 (6) 27.30 (7)	1:19.96 (7) 27.11 (6)	1:47.07	0.76	Q
8	1	Nimrod Shapira	ISR	25.98 (8) 27.44 (7)	53.42 (8) 27.45 (8)	1:20.87 (8) 27.29 (7)	1:48.16	0.78

Final (12 August 2008 — 10:16)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	6	Michael Phelps	USA	24.31 (1) 25.98 (1)	50.29 (1) 26.55 (1)	1:16.84 (1) 26.12 (1)	1:42.96	0.73	WR
2	5	Park Tae-Hwan	KOR	24.91 (3) 26.63 (2)	51.54 (2) 27.14 (5)	1:18.68 (3) 26.17 (2)	1:44.85	0.67
3	4	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	24.97 (4) 26.70 (3)	51.67 (4) 26.94 (3)	1:18.61 (2) 26.53 (3)	1:45.14	0.75
4	3	Jean Basson	RSA	25.39 (7) 26.82 (5)	52.21 (6) 26.73 (2)	1:18.94 (4) 27.03 (5)	1:45.97	0.69
5	2	Paul Biedermann	GER	25.61 (8) 26.76 (4)	52.37 (7) 26.99 (4)	1:19.36 (6) 26.64 (4)	1:46.00	0.86
6	1	Dominik Meichtry	SUI	24.75 (2) 26.88 (6)	51.63 (3) 27.39 (6)	1:19.02 (5) 27.93 (8)	1:46.95	0.68
7	7	Yoshihiro Okumura	JPN	25.17 (6) 27.22 (8)	52.39 (8) 27.57 (7)	1:19.96 (8) 27.18 (6)	1:47.14	0.71
8	8	Robbie Renwick	GBR	25.03 (5) 27.14 (7)	52.17 (5) 27.75 (8)	1:19.92 (7) 27.55 (7)	1:47.47	0.74