Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 4 August with the heats and the semifinals on the 3 August.[1]

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates3 August (heats and semifinals)
4 August (final)
Competitors80 from 69 nations
Winning time1:45.14
Medalists
 James Guy   Great Britain
 Sun Yang   China
 Paul Biedermann   Germany
2015 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 mmenwomen
3 mmenwomen
10 mmenwomen
3 m & 10 m mixed team
Synchronised
3 mmenwomen
3 m mixed
10 mmenwomen
10 m mixed
High diving
20 mwomen
27 mmen
Open water swimming
Single
5 kmmenwomen
10 kmmenwomen
25 kmmenwomen
Team
5 km mixed
Swimming
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
Backstroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×100 m mixed
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×100 m mixed
Synchronised swimming
Solo
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Duet
Technicalwomen
Technical mixed
Freewomen
Free mixed
Team
Technicalwomen
Freewomen
Combinationwomen
Water polo
Tournamentmenwomen

British swimmer James Guy won the gold medal in a new National Record time of 1:45.14, holding off a strong charge from Asian Record holder Sun Yang (1:45.20). By winning, Guy continued his country's outstanding success in Kazan, and improved on his second place finish in the 400 meter freestyle. Meanwhile, World Record holder Paul Biedermann picked up the bronze medal in 1:45.38. After leading throughout the beginning of the race, American Ryan Lochte ended the 200m with a fourth-place finish (1:45.83). Dutchman Sebastiaan Verschuren picked up fifth (1:45.91), while South Africa's Chad le Clos added the middle distance freestyle event to his already large repertoire, finishing sixth in 1:46.53. Russia's Aleksandr Krasnykh (1:46.88) and Australian Cameron McEvoy (1:47.26) rounded out the championship field.[2][3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record  Paul Biedermann (GER)1:42.00Rome, Italy28 July 2009
Competition record  Paul Biedermann (GER)1:42.00Rome, Italy28 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 3 August at 10:27.[4]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
184Sun Yang China1:46.00Q
265James Guy Great Britain1:46.10Q
364Paul Biedermann Germany1:46.20Q
474Cameron McEvoy Australia1:46.39Q
586Calum Jarvis Great Britain1:46.61Q
661Danila Izotov Russia1:46.65Q
763Conor Dwyer United States1:46.73Q
875Sebastiaan Verschuren Netherlands1:46.88Q
972Aleksandr Krasnykh Russia1:46.91Q
1083David McKeon Australia1:47.00Q
1185Velimir Stjepanović Serbia1:47.10Q
1279Chad le Clos South Africa1:47.17Q
1376Ryan Lochte United States1:47.18Q
1473João de Lucca Brazil1:47.47Q
1587Myles Brown South Africa1:47.48Q
1670Federico Grabich Argentina1:47.73Q
1780Marwan El-Kamash Egypt1:47.87
1881Yuki Kobori Japan1:48.09
1956Kacper Majchrzak Poland1:48.12
2062Filippo Magnini Italy1:48.18
2153Clemens Rapp Germany1:48.20
2277Nicolas Oliveira Brazil1:48.23
2351Anders Lie Denmark1:48.27
2467Jeremy Bagshaw Canada1:48.29
2566Pieter Timmers Belgium1:48.43
2655Alexandre Haldemann  Switzerland1:48.49
2789Cristian Quintero Venezuela1:48.55
2882Matthew Stanley New Zealand1:48.67
2988Felix Auböck Austria1:48.75
3069Grégory Mallet France1:48.77
3154Kyle Stolk Netherlands1:48.96
3252Miguel Durán Spain1:49.05
3341Henrik Christiansen Norway1:49.09
3468Péter Bernek Hungary1:49.25
3560Xu Qiheng China1:49.32
3659Liran Konovalov Israel1:49.56
3758Ben Hockin Paraguay1:49.60
3843Illia Teslenko Ukraine1:49.87
3946Povilas Strazdas Lithuania1:49.91
4071Tsubasa Amai Japan1:50.04
4132Alexei Sancov Moldova1:50.18
4242Doğa Çelik Turkey1:50.38
4347Ahmed Mathlouthi Tunisia1:50.61
4449Marcelo Acosta El Salvador1:50.77
4531Pavel Janeček Czech Republic1:50.95
4639Khurshidjon Tursunov Uzbekistan1:50.98
4778Matias Koski Finland1:51.00
4845Christos Katrantzis Greece1:51.01
4944Yeo Kai Quan Singapore1:51.29
5036Mateo de Angulo Colombia1:51.49
5148Sim Wee Sheng Welson Sim Malaysia1:51.65
5223Khader Baqlah Jordan1:51.67
5334Tomas Peribonio Ecuador1:51.78
5440Jessie Lacuna Philippines1:51.85
5537Ensar Hajder Bosnia and Herzegovina1:51.96
5624Aaron D'Souza India1:52.00
5726Sean Gunn Zimbabwe1:52.05
5830Pit Brandenburger Luxembourg1:52.12
5933Huang Yen-hsin Chinese Taipei1:52.43
6022Mario Montoya Costa Rica1:52.92
6127Irakli Revishvili Georgia1:53.68
6238Yousef Al-Askari Kuwait1:53.97
6350Hoàng Quý Phước Vietnam1:54.31
6435Viktar Krasochka Belarus1:54.36
6520Igor Mogne Mozambique1:55.59
6625Lorenzo Loria Mexico1:56.36
6728Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou Cyprus1:57.38
6821Christian Selby Barbados1:57.74
6914Brandon Schuster Samoa1:57.93
7013Klavio Meca Albania1:58.32
7111Sovijja Pou Cambodia1:58.41
7215Ahmed Gebrel Palestine1:58.54
7329Bakr Al-Dulaimi Iraq1:58.55
7417Ismael Kane Senegal2:00.66
7516Alexander Skinner Namibia2:01.01
7618Andre van der Merwe Botswana2:01.77
7712Yacop Al-Khulaifi Qatar2:04.38
7810Theo Chiabaut Monaco2:04.59
7919Eloi Imaniraguha Rwanda2:20.68
57Clément Mignon FranceDSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 3 August at 18.42.[5]

Semifinal 1
le Clos finished third in the first semi
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14James Guy Great Britain1:45.43Q, NR
25Cameron McEvoy Australia1:46.09Q
37Chad le Clos South Africa1:46.10Q
46Sebastiaan Verschuren Netherlands1:46.43Q
58Federico Grabich Argentina1:47.43NR
62David McKeon Australia1:47.60
73Danila Izotov Russia1:47.66
81João de Lucca Brazil1:48.23

Semifinal 2
Ryan Lochte wins the second semi
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
11Ryan Lochte United States1:45.36Q
24Sun Yang China1:46.17Q
35Paul Biedermann Germany1:46.20Q
42Aleksandr Krasnykh Russia1:46.45Q
56Conor Dwyer United States1:46.64
67Velimir Stjepanović Serbia1:46.85
78Myles Brown South Africa1:47.55
83Calum Jarvis Great Britain1:47.64

Final
Guy and Lochte after finish

The final was held on 4 August at 17:32.[6]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
5James Guy Great Britain1:45.14NR
2Sun Yang China1:45.20
7Paul Biedermann Germany1:45.38
44Ryan Lochte United States1:45.83
51Sebastiaan Verschuren Netherlands1:45.91
66Chad le Clos South Africa1:46.53
78Aleksandr Krasnykh Russia1:46.88
83Cameron McEvoy Australia1:47.26

References
  1. Start list
  2. "James Guy wins World Swimming 200m freestyle gold". BBC Sport. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  3. "James Guy wins historic freestyle gold as Adam Peaty sets breaststroke record". Guardian. 4 August 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  4. Heats results
  5. Semifinal results
  6. Final results
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