Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 200m I.M.
Competition:	2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	27 July (prelims and semifinals) 28 July (final)
Competitors:	61
Nations:	50
Win Value:	1 minute 56.68 seconds
Gold:	Michael Phelps
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	László Cseh
Silvernoc:	HUN
Bronze:	Ryan Lochte
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2003
Next:	2007

See main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships.

The Men's 200 Individual Medley (or I.M.) event at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 27 - 28 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were 27 July; the Final 28 July. The top-16 swimmers from the Prelims in the morning advanced to the 1 of 2 Seminfinal in the evening; the top-8 swimmers from the Semifinals then advanced to the Final the next evening.

As the Swimming portion of the World Championships are swum in a long course (50m) pool, this race consisted of 4 lengths. As it was an IM event, each length was a different stroke, swum in the order of: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and then freestyle.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:

WR: 1:55.94, Michael Phelps (USA), swum 9 August 2003 in College Park, USA;
CR: 1:56.04, Michael Phelps (USA), swum 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

Results

Final

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1			1:56.68
2			1:57.61
3			1:57.79
4			2:00.28
5			2:00.70
6			2:00.78
7			2:01.43
8			2:01.81

Semifinals

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	S1 L5	1:58.06	q
2	S2 L5	1:58.36	q
3	S1 L3	1:59.72	q
4	S2 L4	2:00.12	q
5	S2 L3	2:00.45	q
6	S1 L4	2:00.52	q
7	S1 L6	2:01.11	q
8	S2 L2	2:01.55	q

9	S1 L2	2:01.99
10	S2 L7	2:02.28
11	S2 L8	2:02.32
12	S2 L6	2:02.49
13	S1 L7	2:02.53
14	S2 L1	2:02.98
15	S1 L8	2:03.27
16	S1 L1	2:04.15

Preliminary heats

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Time	Notes
1	H6 L4	László Cseh	1:59.56	q
2	H7 L5	Alessio Boggiatto	2:00.24	q
3	H8 L4	Michael Phelps	2:00.30	q
4	H7 L4	Ryan Lochte	2:00.51	q
5	H6 L5	Hidemasa Sano	2:00.61	q
6	H8 L5	Vytautas Janušaitis	2:00.93	q
7	H8 L6	Jiro Miki	2:02.04	q
8	H8 L2	Igor Berezutsky	2:02.30	q
9	H6 L3	Dean Kent	2:02.35	q
10	H8 L3	Adam Lucas	2:02.45	q
11	H6 L6	Leith Brodie	2:02.73	q
12	H7 L7	Bradley Ally	2:02.83	q
13	H8 L7	Robin van Aggele	2:03.48	q
14	H7 L6	Ioannis Kokkodis	2:03.77	q
15	H6 L2	Mihail Alexandrov	2:04.50	q
16	H7 L2	Keith Beavers	2:04.54	q

17	H6 L8	Miguel Molina	2:04.68
18	H5 L5	Paulius Andrijauskas	2:04.77
19	H5 L2	Gard Kvale	2:04.93
20	H7 L8	Jacob Carstensen	2:04.97
21	H5 L1	Dmitriy Gordiyenko	2:05.17
22	H8 L8	Dmytro Nazarenko	2:05.19
23	H6 L1	Sebastian Stoss	2:05.91
24	H3 L4	Shaune Fraser	2:06.05
25	H5 L6	Hocine Haciane	2:06.16
26	H8 L1	Nicolas Rostoucher	2:06.56
27	H5 L3	Dzianis Silkov	2:06.79
28	H7 L1	Guntars Deicmans	2:07.03
29	H5 L7	Andrei Zaharov	2:07.84
30	H4 L4	Oleg Pukhnatiy	2:08.97
31	H4 L6	M. Akbar Nasution	2:09.16
32	H4 L2	Yury Zaharov	2:09.90
33	H7 L3	Peng Wu	2:10.52
34	H5 L4	Kuo-Chuan Tsai	2:10.64
35	H5 L8	Gary Tan	2:11.11
36	H4 L8	Vasilii Danilov	2:11.45
37	H3 L3	Mohamad Al-Naser	2:11.64
38	H4 L3	Mark Chay	2:13.10
39	H3 L6	Francisco Montenegro	2:13.28
40	H2 L5	James Walsh	2:13.52
41	H3 L7	Graham Smith	2:14.03
42	H4 L5	Yu-An Lin	2:14.06
43	H2 L3	Shahin Baradaran	2:14.96
44	H2 L4	Morgan Locke	2:15.30
45	H3 L2	Youssef Hafdi	2:15.65
46	H2 L7	Rony Bakale	2:15.85
47	H3 L8	Khaly Ciss	2:17.11
48	H2 L6	Johnny Castillo	2:18.02
49	H3 L1	Francois Ghattas	2:19.47
50	H1 L5	Reginaldo Panting	2:20.13
51	H1 L3	Amar Shah	2:20.15
52	H2 L2	Joel Refos	2:21.10
53	H2 L8	Diego Foianini	2:21.13
54	H2 L1	Fernando Medrano	2:25.05
55	H1 L4	Chisela Kanchela	2:26.11
56	H1 L6	Joseph Kimani	2:31.02
57	H1 L7	Hassan Shah	2:58.27
-	H4 L1	Aleksander Hetland	DQ
-	H1 L2	Alain Brigion-Tobe	DNS
-	H3 L5	Ahmed Salah	DNS
-	H6 L7	Ioannis Drymonakos	DNS

References

Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley Prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-24.
Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-24.
Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-24.