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 2006 (2006-12-03)
Competitors	35 from 21 nations
Medalists
Park Tae-hwan    South Korea   Zhang Lin    China   Daisuke Hosokawa    Japan

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

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	Takamitsu Kojima (JPN)	1:51.47
7	4	Bryan Tay (SGP)	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	Tang Sheng-chieh (TPE)	1:55.32
12	4	Cheung Siu Hang (HKG)	1:55.57
13	4	Timur Irgashev (UZB)	1:55.73
14	5	Mohammad Madwa (KUW)	1:55.86
15	4	Marcus Cheah (SGP)	1:55.99
16	3	Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (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	Waleed Al-Qahtani (KUW)	1:56.99
21	5	Chen Te-tung (TPE)	1:57.96
22	5	Soheil Maleka Ashtiani (IRI)	1:58.17
23	5	Chung Kwok Ting (HKG)	1:58.55
24	3	Anas Abu-Yousuf (QAT)	1:58.87
25	2	Daniel Lee (SRI)	2:01.02
26	2	Moyssara El-Aarag (QAT)	2:01.03
27	2	Heshan Unamboowe (SRI)	2:01.60
28	2	Jamil Yamout (LBN)	2:01.89
29	2	Rashid Iunusov (KGZ)	2:02.48
30	2	Antonio Tong (MAC)	2:03.19
31	4	Kendrick Uy (PHI)	2:04.80
32	2	Lao Kuan Fong (MAC)	2:06.72
33	2	Ali Adel (IRQ)	2:10.87
34	1	Ali Majeed (IRQ)	2:17.00
35	1	Ali Mohamed Raaidh (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	Takamitsu Kojima (JPN)	1:50.37
6	Lim Nam-gyun (KOR)	1:51.67
7	Bryan Tay (SGP)	1:52.09
8	Daniel Bego (MAS)	1:56.25

References

• Results