Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

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	Yoshihiro Okumura (JPN)	1:49.23	Tokyo, Japan	28 August 2001
Games Record	Shunichi Fujita (JPN)	1:50.14	Busan, South Korea	30 September 2002

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	1	Yoshihiro Okumura (JPN)	1:50.48
2	1	Koh Yun-ho (KOR)	1:52.58
3	3	Yosuke Ichikawa (JPN)	1:52.93
4	2	Liu Yu (CHN)	1:53.49
5	3	Miguel Molina (PHI)	1:53.51
6	3	Gary Tan (SIN)	1:53.84
7	2	Yu Cheng (CHN)	1:53.88
8	3	Han Kyu-chul (KOR)	1:54.18
9	3	Mark Kwok (HKG)	1:54.22
10	2	Wu Nien-pin (TPE)	1:54.32
11	1	Mark Chay (SIN)	1:54.44
12	1	Petr Vasiliev (UZB)	1:55.86
13	2	Dulyarit Phuangthong (THA)	1:58.17
14	2	Naeem Al-Masri (SYR)	1:58.33
15	3	Fung Hok Him (HKG)	1:58.78
16	1	Wong Tuck Kar (MAS)	2:02.02
17	1	Anas Abu-Yousuf (QAT)	2:08.13
18	3	Omar Daaboul (LIB)	2:09.26
19	2	Muhammad Khan (PAK)	2:09.93
20	1	Imran Abdul Rahman (MDV)	2:33.65
—	2	Maher Al-Motar (KSA)	DNS

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Wu Nien-pin (TPE)	1:53.60
2	Petr Vasiliev (UZB)	1:55.85
3	Mark Chay (SIN)	1:55.93
4	Dulyarit Phuangthong (THA)	1:56.33
5	Naeem Al-Masri (SYR)	1:57.87
6	Fung Hok Him (HKG)	1:58.37
7	Anas Abu-Yousuf (QAT)	2:05.58
8	Omar Daaboul (LIB)	2:08.87

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Liu Yu (CHN)	1:49.29	GR
	Yoshihiro Okumura (JPN)	1:49.36
	Yosuke Ichikawa (JPN)	1:50.66
4	Han Kyu-chul (KOR)	1:50.97
5	Miguel Molina (PHI)	1:52.99
6	Koh Yun-ho (KOR)	1:53.24
7	Yu Cheng (CHN)	1:53.91
8	Gary Tan (SIN)	1:54.25

• 2002 Asian Games Report, Pages 178–179
• Results