Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

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.

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Hamad Aquatic Centre
Date	3 December
Competitors	35 from 21 nations
Medalists
Park Tae-hwan    South Korea   Zhang Lin    China   Daisuke Hosokawa    Japan

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 3 December 2006	10:28	Heats
	18:13	Final

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 (SIN)	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 (SIN)	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 (LIB)	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 (SIN)	1:52.09
8	Daniel Bego (MAS)	1:56.25

References

• Results