2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre freestyle
Competition:	2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	WFCU Centre
Dates:	7 December (heats and final)
Competitors:	106
Nations:	80
Win Value:	1:41.03 CR
Gold:	Park Tae-hwan
Goldnoc:	KOR
Silver:	Chad le Clos
Silvernoc:	RSA
Bronze:	Aleksandr Krasnykh
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2014
Next:	2018

The Men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 December 2016.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann		1:39.37	Berlin	15 November 2009
Championship record	Ryan Lochte		1:41.08	Dubai	15 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

The heats were held at 09:41.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	9	0	1:42.90	Q, NR
2	11	4	1:43.08	Q
3	11	5	1:43.50	Q
4	7	4	1:43.68	Q
5	1	0	1:43.98	Q
5	10	4	1:43.98	Q
7	9	8	1:44.09	Q
8	10	5	1:44.20	Q
9	11	7	1:44.27
10	9	4	1:44.29
11	10	6	1:44.34
12	10	1	1:44.44
13	9	7	1:44.53
14	11	6	1:44.83
15	9	6	1:44.93
16	10	3	1:45.02
17	8	0	1:45.16
18	8	5	1:45.19
19	9	3	1:45.22
20	9	5	1:45.32
21	8	7	1:45.34
22	9	9	1:45.36
23	8	1	1:45.53
23	11	2	1:45.53
25	11	3	1:45.54
26	11	1	1:45.63
27	8	3	1:45.69
28	1	2	1:45.81
29	8	2	1:46.04
30	10	8	1:46.16
31	8	8	1:46.19
32	10	9	1:46.38
33	8	4	1:46.51
34	7	2	1:46.54
35	11	0	1:46.58
36	11	9	1:46.79
37	9	1	1:46.88
38	8	9	1:46.93
38	10	0	1:46.93
40	10	2	1:47.07
41	7	5	1:47.08
42	3	8	1:47.31
42	8	6	1:47.31
44	9	2	1:47.41
45	11	8	1:47.70
46	6	3	1:47.73
47	6	2	1:47.78
48	7	6	1:47.88
49	7	3	1:48.17
50	1	7	1:48.29
51	7	8	1:48.48
52	1	8	1:48.60
53	7	7	1:48.95
54	6	7	1:49.24
55	6	4	1:49.32
56	1	1	1:49.54
57	5	7	1:49.69
58	4	9	1:50.15
59	6	5	1:50.36
60	5	5	1:50.37
61	5	6	1:50.63	NR
62	7	0	1:50.69
63	4	4	1:51.08
64	5	4	1:51.12
65	6	9	1:51.20
66	4	1	1:51.26
67	3	7	1:51.39
68	3	4	1:51.40
68	4	5	1:51.40
70	4	3	1:52.08
71	4	8	1:52.22
72	5	9	1:52.23
73	7	9	1:52.43
74	6	1	1:52.44
75	4	7	1:52.62
76	5	1	1:52.87
77	5	0	1:52.98
78	4	6	1:53.23
79	6	0	1:53.37
80	5	3	1:53.47
81	3	6	1:53.50
82	3	2	1:53.72
83	5	8	1:53.79
84	3	0	1:53.90
85	3	5	1:54.82
86	6	8	1:55.01
87	2	4	1:55.55
88	2	5	1:55.71
89	6	6	1:56.23
90	4	2	1:57.13
91	3	9	1:57.32
92	2	0	1:57.95
93	2	6	1:58.03
94	3	3	1:59.64
95	2	7	2:00.53
96	2	8	2:01.05
97	3	1	2:01.26
98	2	2	2:02.27
99	2	3	2:03.30
100	2	1	2:05.12
101	1	3	2:06.04
102	1	4	2:06.36
103	1	9	2:08.83
104	1	5	2:10.87
105	2	9	2:11.82
106	1	6	2:30.15
	4	0
	5	2
	7	1
	10	7

The final was held at 19:23.^[3]

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