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200 metres Freestyle, Men

Date	17 – 18 September 2000
Status	Olympic
Location	Sydney International Aquatic Centre, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	51 from 44 countries

Ian Thorpe was world record holder at the distance and had just thrilled the Australian nation by firstly winning the 400 metre freestyle and then anchoring the home team to a thrilling relay victory. In the eyes of the home crowd he seemed unbeatable but in the semi-final his record was broken by Pieter van den Hoogenband, the Dutchman who been the star of the 1999 European Championships In the next race Thorpe responded with a time just 0.02 seconds off the new mark and the stage was set for a titanic struggle between the two men.

In the early stages of the final the two were joined at the front of the race by American Josh Davis and the three pulled away from the rest. Thorpe led at 50 metres but “Hoogie”, as he became known to the Australian public, came back to lead at halfway and while Thorpe tried mightily to close on the Dutchman, he could not do so and van den Hoogenband took the Olympic title. Davis paid for his attempt to stay with the pace and was overtaken for bronze by Massimiliano Rosolino. For his performances in Sydney Pieter van den Hoogenband was named the Dutch Sportsman of the Year for 2000.

Pos	Swimmer	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	Pieter van den Hoogenband	NED	1:46.71 (1 h6)	1:45.35 (1 h1)	1:45.35 (1)	Gold
2	Ian Thorpe	AUS	1:46.56 (1 h7)	1:45.37 (1 h2)	1:45.83 (2)	Silver
3	Massi Rosolino	ITA	1:47.37 (2 h7)	1:46.60 (2 h2)	1:46.65 (3)	Bronze
4	Josh Davis	USA	1:48.43 (1 h5)	1:47.06 (2 h1)	1:46.73 (4)
5	Paul Palmer	GBR	1:49.83 (4 h5)	1:48.79 (5 h2)	1:47.95 (5)
6	Jamie Salter	GBR	1:48.77 (2 h5)	1:48.64 (3 h1)	1:48.74 (6)
7	Rick Say	CAN	1:48.62 (3 h7)	1:48.50 (3 h2)	1:48.76 (7)
8	Grant Hackett	AUS	1:49.23 (3 h6)	1:48.76 (4 h2)	1:49.46 (8)
9	Scott Goldblatt	USA	1:49.05 (4 h7)	1:48.83 (4 h1)	–
10	Andrey Kapralov	RUS	1:49.92 (5 h7)	1:49.04 (6 h2)	–
11	Béla Szabados	HUN	1:50.10 (5 h6)	1:49.36 (7 h2)	–
12	Ihar Kaliada	BLR	1:49.01 (2 h6)	1:49.52 (8 h2)	–
13	Stefan Herbst	GER	1:49.84 (5 h5)	1:49.72 (5 h1)	–
14	Attila Zubor	HUN	1:50.11 (6 h5)	1:49.87 (6 h1)	–
15	Örn Arnarson	ISL	1:49.78 (3 h5)	1:50.41 (7 h1)	–
16	Stefan Pohl	GER	1:50.07 (4 h6)	1:50.56 (8 h1)	–
17	Dragoș Coman	ROU	1:50.20 (6 h7)	–	–
18	Květoslav Svoboda	CZE	1:50.29 (7 h7)	–	–
19	Martijn Zuijdweg	NED	1:50.37 (6 h6)	–	–
20	Jacob Carstensen	DEN	1:50.41 (7 h5)	–	–
21	Mark Johnston	CAN	1:50.92 (8 h5)	–	–
22	Arūnas Savickas	LTU	1:52.02 (1 h4)	–	–
23	Mark Chay	SGP	1:52.22 (1 h2)	–	–
24	Rostyslav Svanidze	UKR	1:52.35 (2 h4)	–	–
25	Ricardo Pedroso	POR	1:52.60 (3 h4)	–	–
26	Mark Kwok	HKG	1:52.71 (4 h4)	–	–
27	Damian Alleyne	BAR	1:52.75 (1 h3)	–	–
28	Dmitry Kuzmin	KGZ	1:52.93 (5 h4)	–	–
29	U Cheol	KOR	1:53.02 (2 h3)	–	–
30	Javier Díaz	MEX	1:53.20 (3 h3)	–	–
31	Andrei Cecan	MDA	1:53.23 (6 h4)	–	–
32	Jonathan Duncan	NZL	1:53.27 (4 h3)	–	–
33	Rodrigo Castro	BRA	1:53.65 (7 h4)	–	–
34	Fernando Jácome	COL	1:54.17 (5 h3)	–	–
35	Francisco Páez	VEN	1:54.32 (6 h3)	–	–
36	Dimitrios Manganas	GRE	1:54.36 (7 h6)	–	–
37	Allen Ong	MAS	1:54.53 (2 h2)	–	–
38	Wu Nien-Pin	TPE	1:54.58 (7 h3)	–	–
39	George Gleason	ISV	1:54.64 (3 h2)	–	–
40	Glen Walshaw	ZIM	1:54.70 (8 h4)	–	–
41	Nikola Kalabić	SCG	1:54.75 (4 h2)	–	–
42	Aytekin Mindan	TUR	1:54.86 (5 h2)	–	–
43	Vicha Ratanachote	THA	1:54.91 (8 h3)	–	–
44	Oleg Tsvetkovsky	UZB	1:54.93 (1 h1)	–	–
45	Carl Probert	FIJ	1:54.98 (6 h2)	–	–
46	Mahmoud El-Wani	EGY	1:55.19 (2 h1)	–	–
47	Sebastien Paddington	TTO	1:55.40 (3 h1)	–	–
48	Andrey Kvasov	KAZ	1:55.72 (7 h2)	–	–
49	Alexandros Aresti	CYP	1:57.54 (8 h2)	–	–
50	Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla	IND	1:58.35 (4 h1)	–	–
51	Santiago Deu	AND	1:59.31 (5 h1)	–	–
DNS	Ryk Neethling	RSA	– (DNS h6)	–	–
DNS	Dmitry Chernyshov	RUS	– (DNS h7)	–	–

Round One (17 September 2000)

Fastest 16 advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One (10:25)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	3	Oleg Tsvetkovsky	UZB	26.88 (1) 29.21 (3)	56.09 (2) 29.32 (2)	1:25.41 (2) 29.52 (1)	1:54.93	0.79
2	5	Mahmoud El-Wani	EGY	26.90 (2) 28.60 (1)	55.50 (1) 29.78 (3)	1:25.28 (1) 29.91 (2)	1:55.19	0.84
3	4	Sebastien Paddington	TTO	27.63 (4) 28.75 (2)	56.38 (3) 29.04 (1)	1:25.42 (3) 29.98 (3)	1:55.40	0.78
4	6	Hakimuddin Shabbir Habibulla	IND	27.54 (3) 29.36 (4)	56.90 (4) 30.52 (5)	1:27.42 (4) 30.93 (4)	1:58.35	0.80
5	2	Santiago Deu	AND	27.78 (5) 29.92 (5)	57.70 (5) 30.31 (4)	1:28.01 (5) 31.30 (5)	1:59.31	0.89

Heat Two (10:30)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Mark Chay	SGP	26.84 (5) 29.22 (6)	56.06 (5) 27.37 (1)	1:23.43 (1) 28.79 (1)	1:52.22	0.78
2	2	Allen Ong	MAS	26.32 (3) 30.34 (8)	56.66 (8) 28.48 (2)	1:25.14 (5) 29.39 (4)	1:54.53	0.63
3	7	George Gleason	ISV	27.14 (7) 28.86 (3)	56.00 (4) 29.37 (6)	1:25.37 (6) 29.27 (3)	1:54.64	0.78
4	3	Nikola Kalabić	SCG	25.99 (1) 28.57 (1)	54.56 (1) 28.94 (4)	1:23.50 (2) 31.25 (8)	1:54.75	0.78
5	8	Aytekin Mindan	TUR	27.10 (6) 29.37 (7)	56.47 (7) 29.59 (7)	1:26.06 (7) 28.80 (2)	1:54.86	0.81
6	1	Carl Probert	FIJ	26.29 (2) 28.88 (4)	55.17 (2) 28.90 (3)	1:24.07 (3) 30.91 (5)	1:54.98	0.85
7	4	Andrey Kvasov	KAZ	26.66 (4) 28.74 (2)	55.40 (3) 29.35 (5)	1:24.75 (4) 30.97 (6)	1:55.72	0.80
8	6	Alexandros Aresti	CYP	27.36 (8) 28.94 (5)	56.30 (6) 30.23 (8)	1:26.53 (8) 31.01 (7)	1:57.54	0.88

Heat Three (10:35)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Damian Alleyne	BAR	27.04 (5) 28.48 (1)	55.52 (3) 28.81 (5)	1:24.33 (2) 28.42 (2)	1:52.75	0.76
2	2	U Cheol	KOR	27.09 (7) 28.65 (2)	55.74 (4) 28.65 (2)	1:24.39 (3) 28.63 (4)	1:53.02	0.70
3	3	Javier Díaz	MEX	26.60 (3) 28.73 (3)	55.33 (1) 28.77 (4)	1:24.10 (1) 29.10 (6)	1:53.20	0.77
4	4	Jonathan Duncan	NZL	26.56 (1) 28.89 (4)	55.45 (2) 29.25 (6)	1:24.70 (5) 28.57 (3)	1:53.27	0.88
5	1	Fernando Jácome	COL	26.91 (4) 28.94 (5)	55.85 (5) 28.72 (3)	1:24.57 (4) 29.60 (8)	1:54.17	0.82
6	7	Francisco Páez	VEN	27.42 (8) 30.20 (8)	57.62 (8) 28.64 (1)	1:26.26 (8) 28.06 (1)	1:54.32	0.89
7	8	Wu Nien-Pin	TPE	26.59 (2) 29.39 (7)	55.98 (6) 29.77 (8)	1:25.75 (7) 28.83 (5)	1:54.58	0.70
8	6	Vicha Ratanachote	THA	27.08 (6) 29.11 (6)	56.19 (7) 29.48 (7)	1:25.67 (6) 29.24 (7)	1:54.91	0.75

Heat Four (10:40)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Arūnas Savickas	LTU	26.52 (3) 28.51 (6)	55.03 (6) 28.31 (2)	1:23.34 (2) 28.68 (1)	1:52.02	0.82
2	7	Rostyslav Svanidze	UKR	26.65 (6) 28.19 (4)	54.84 (5) 28.65 (4)	1:23.49 (=3) 28.86 (=2)	1:52.35	0.86
3	6	Ricardo Pedroso	POR	26.53 (4) 27.96 (2)	54.49 (2) 29.25 (8)	1:23.74 (5) 28.86 (=2)	1:52.60	0.83
4	1	Mark Kwok	HKG	26.68 (7) 28.80 (8)	55.48 (8) 28.27 (1)	1:23.75 (6) 28.96 (4)	1:52.71	0.64
5	4	Dmitry Kuzmin	KGZ	26.22 (1) 27.90 (1)	54.12 (1) 28.63 (3)	1:22.75 (1) 30.18 (8)	1:52.93	0.87
6	3	Andrei Cecan	MDA	26.56 (5) 28.04 (3)	54.60 (3) 28.89 (5)	1:23.49 (=3) 29.74 (5)	1:53.23	0.80
7	2	Rodrigo Castro	BRA	26.37 (2) 28.42 (5)	54.79 (4) 29.03 (6)	1:23.82 (7) 29.83 (6)	1:53.65	0.71
8	8	Glen Walshaw	ZIM	26.85 (8) 28.57 (7)	55.42 (7) 29.21 (7)	1:24.63 (8) 30.07 (7)	1:54.70	0.75

Heat Five (10:45)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Josh Davis	USA	24.96 (1) 27.30 (1)	52.26 (1) 27.96 (2)	1:20.22 (1) 28.21 (5)	1:48.43	0.73	Q
2	3	Jamie Salter	GBR	25.51 (3) 27.54 (4)	53.05 (3) 28.11 (=3)	1:21.16 (2) 27.61 (1)	1:48.77	0.82	Q
3	8	Örn Arnarson	ISL	25.59 (6) 27.37 (2)	52.96 (2) 28.24 (6)	1:21.20 (3) 28.58 (6)	1:49.78	0.90	Q
4	5	Paul Palmer	GBR	25.92 (7) 27.95 (7)	53.87 (8) 27.81 (1)	1:21.68 (7) 28.15 (=2)	1:49.83	0.88	Q
5	7	Stefan Herbst	GER	25.54 (4) 27.97 (8)	53.51 (6) 28.14 (5)	1:21.65 (6) 28.19 (4)	1:49.84	0.85	Q
6	1	Attila Zubor	HUN	25.55 (5) 27.82 (6)	53.37 (5) 28.59 (8)	1:21.96 (8) 28.15 (=2)	1:50.11	0.82	Q
7	6	Jacob Carstensen	DEN	26.00 (8) 27.52 (3)	53.52 (7) 28.11 (=3)	1:21.63 (5) 28.78 (7)	1:50.41	0.75
8	2	Mark Johnston	CAN	25.46 (2) 27.75 (5)	53.21 (4) 28.38 (7)	1:21.59 (4) 29.33 (8)	1:50.92	0.81

Heat Six (10:50)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	NED	24.56 (1) 26.70 (1)	51.26 (1) 27.69 (1)	1:18.95 (1) 27.76 (2)	1:46.71	0.93	Q
2	2	Ihar Kaliada	BLR	25.44 (4) 27.88 (6)	53.32 (4) 27.77 (2)	1:21.09 (4) 27.92 (3)	1:49.01	0.69	Q
3	5	Grant Hackett	AUS	25.93 (6) 27.75 (5)	53.68 (6) 28.42 (6)	1:22.10 (6) 27.13 (1)	1:49.23	0.77	Q
4	7	Stefan Pohl	GER	25.82 (5) 27.72 (4)	53.54 (5) 28.22 (4)	1:21.76 (5) 28.31 (4)	1:50.07	0.86	Q
5	6	Béla Szabados	HUN	25.36 (=2) 26.95 (2)	52.31 (2) 28.37 (5)	1:20.68 (2) 29.42 (5)	1:50.10	0.68	Q
6	1	Martijn Zuijdweg	NED	25.36 (=2) 27.32 (3)	52.68 (3) 28.02 (3)	1:20.70 (3) 29.67 (6)	1:50.37	0.83
7	8	Dimitrios Manganas	GRE	26.39 (7) 28.70 (7)	55.09 (7) 29.18 (7)	1:24.27 (7) 30.09 (7)	1:54.36	0.81
DNS	3	Ryk Neethling	RSA	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–	–

Heat Seven (10:56)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Ian Thorpe	AUS	24.74 (1) 27.41 (2)	52.15 (1) 27.47 (1)	1:19.62 (1) 26.94 (1)	1:46.56	0.82	QOR
2	5	Massi Rosolino	ITA	25.34 (2) 27.01 (1)	52.35 (2) 27.62 (3)	1:19.97 (2) 27.40 (2)	1:47.37	0.84	Q
3	6	Rick Say	CAN	25.42 (4) 27.67 (4)	53.09 (4) 27.76 (4)	1:20.85 (3) 27.77 (3)	1:48.62	0.77	Q
4	3	Scott Goldblatt	USA	25.85 (6) 27.70 (5)	53.55 (5) 27.50 (2)	1:21.05 (4) 28.00 (4)	1:49.05	0.80	Q
5	2	Andrey Kapralov	RUS	25.78 (5) 28.08 (6)	53.86 (6) 27.92 (5)	1:21.78 (6) 28.14 (5)	1:49.92	0.82	Q
6	8	Dragoș Coman	ROU	25.41 (3) 27.63 (3)	53.04 (3) 28.62 (7)	1:21.66 (5) 28.54 (7)	1:50.20	0.90
7	1	Květoslav Svoboda	CZE	26.00 (7) 28.13 (7)	54.13 (7) 27.98 (6)	1:22.11 (7) 28.18 (6)	1:50.29	0.85
DNS	7	Dmitry Chernyshov	RUS	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–	–

Semi-Finals (17 September 2000)

Fastest eight advanced to the final.

Heat One (19:14)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	NED	24.51 (1) 26.61 (1)	51.12 (1) 27.19 (1)	1:18.31 (1) 27.04 (1)	1:45.35	0.90	QWR
2	5	Josh Davis	USA	24.73 (2) 26.81 (2)	51.54 (2) 27.59 (2)	1:19.13 (2) 27.93 (5)	1:47.06	0.70	Q
3	3	Jamie Salter	GBR	25.03 (3) 27.70 (4)	52.73 (3) 28.04 (5)	1:20.77 (3) 27.87 (4)	1:48.64	0.78	Q
4	6	Scott Goldblatt	USA	25.79 (8) 27.56 (3)	53.35 (4) 27.74 (3)	1:21.09 (4) 27.74 (3)	1:48.83	0.84
5	7	Stefan Herbst	GER	25.55 (6) 27.92 (7)	53.47 (6) 28.20 (6)	1:21.67 (5) 28.05 (6)	1:49.72	0.80
6	8	Attila Zubor	HUN	25.72 (7) 27.88 (=5)	53.60 (7) 28.57 (8)	1:22.17 (8) 27.70 (2)	1:49.87	0.85
7	2	Örn Arnarson	ISL	25.51 (5) 27.88 (=5)	53.39 (5) 28.38 (7)	1:21.77 (6) 28.64 (7)	1:50.41	0.89
8	1	Stefan Pohl	GER	25.42 (4) 28.42 (8)	53.84 (8) 28.03 (4)	1:21.87 (7) 28.69 (8)	1:50.56	0.83

Heat Two (19:20)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Ian Thorpe	AUS	24.95 (1) 27.08 (2)	52.03 (1) 26.64 (1)	1:18.67 (1) 26.70 (1)	1:45.37	0.80	Q
2	5	Massi Rosolino	ITA	25.23 (3) 26.85 (1)	52.08 (2) 27.23 (2)	1:19.31 (2) 27.29 (2)	1:46.60	0.88	Q
3	3	Rick Say	CAN	25.10 (2) 27.63 (4)	52.73 (3) 27.70 (4)	1:20.43 (3) 28.07 (8)	1:48.50	0.76	Q
4	2	Grant Hackett	AUS	25.58 (=4) 27.41 (3)	52.99 (4) 27.87 (5)	1:20.86 (4) 27.90 (7)	1:48.76	0.78	Q
5	7	Paul Palmer	GBR	25.77 (6) 28.13 (8)	53.90 (7) 27.51 (3)	1:21.41 (5) 27.38 (4)	1:48.79	0.85	Q
6	1	Andrey Kapralov	RUS	25.58 (=4) 27.88 (6)	53.46 (5) 28.04 (7)	1:21.50 (6) 27.54 (6)	1:49.04	0.85
7	8	Béla Szabados	HUN	26.06 (8) 27.81 (5)	53.87 (6) 28.14 (8)	1:22.01 (7) 27.35 (3)	1:49.36	0.68
8	5	Ihar Kaliada	BLR	25.95 (7) 28.09 (7)	54.04 (8) 28.00 (6)	1:22.04 (8) 27.48 (5)	1:49.52	0.72

Final (18 September 2000 — 19:11)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Pieter van den Hoogenband	NED	24.44 (2) 26.41 (1)	50.85 (1) 27.36 (3)	1:18.21 (=1) 27.14 (1)	1:45.35	0.84	=WR
2	5	Ian Thorpe	AUS	24.48 (3) 26.42 (2)	50.90 (2) 27.31 (2)	1:18.21 (=1) 27.62 (=3)	1:45.83	0.79
3	3	Massi Rosolino	ITA	25.08 (5) 26.97 (4)	52.05 (4) 27.29 (1)	1:19.34 (4) 27.31 (2)	1:46.65	0.81
4	6	Josh Davis	USA	24.42 (1) 26.60 (3)	51.02 (3) 27.73 (5)	1:18.75 (3) 27.98 (5)	1:46.73	0.68
5	8	Paul Palmer	GBR	25.60 (8) 27.28 (6)	52.88 (7) 27.45 (4)	1:20.33 (6) 27.62 (=3)	1:47.95	0.87
6	7	Jamie Salter	GBR	25.17 (6) 27.16 (5)	52.33 (5) 28.17 (7)	1:20.50 (7) 28.24 (7)	1:48.74	0.79
7	2	Rick Say	CAN	24.90 (4) 27.50 (7)	52.40 (6) 27.88 (6)	1:20.28 (5) 28.48 (8)	1:48.76	0.81
8	1	Grant Hackett	AUS	25.35 (7) 27.54 (8)	52.89 (8) 28.35 (8)	1:21.24 (8) 28.22 (6)	1:49.46	0.77