Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre freestyle
Competition:	2007 FINA World Championships
Venue:	Rod Laver Arena
Dates:	26 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) 27 March 2007 (final)
Competitors:	118
Win Value:	1:43.86
Gold:	Michael Phelps
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Pieter v.d. Hoogenband
Silvernoc:	NED
Bronze:	Park Tae-Hwan
Bronzenoc:	KOR
Prev:	2005
Next:	2009

See main article: Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships. The men's 200 metre freestyle event was the 10th event contested on the 2007 World Aquatics Championship for Swimming.

The 15 heats began at 10:27, on 26 March 2007, at the Rod Laver Arena, in Melbourne Park.^[1]

The semifinals started on the evening of the same day at 20:17.^[2]

The final started at 19:00 on the following day, 27 March.^[3]

Records

World record
1:44.06	Fukuoka	July 25, 2001
Competition record
1:44.06	Fukuoka	July 25, 2001

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	50m	100m	150m	Time	Q
1	14	4	25.20	00:51.91	1:19.56	1:47.36	Q
2	15	4	25.39	00:53.02	1:20.82	1:47.52	Q
3	14	5	25.56	00:52.94	1:20.73	1:47.58	Q
4	14	2	25.53	00:52.90	1:20.47	1:48.00	Q
5	14	1	25.75	00:53.47	1:21.00	1:48.32	Q
6	14	6	25.48	00:53.29	1:21.02	1:48.35	Q
7	15	7	25.41	00:52.96	1:20.48	1:48.49	Q
8	14	3	25.18	00:52.49	1:20.53	1:48.62	Q
9	15	5	25.29	00:52.62	1:20.48	1:48.63	Q
10	13	7	25.49	00:53.31	1:21.28	1:48.72	Q
11	15	6	25.56	00:53.19	1:20.97	1:48.84	Q
12	13	3	26.58	00:54.47	1:22.19	1:48.88	Q
13	15	1	25.83	00:53.37	1:21.29	1:49.01	Q
14	15	3	25.65	00:53.41	1:21.26	1:49.15	Q
15	13	2	26.41		-style="display:none">00:54.07	1:22.04	1:49.20	Q
16	12	2	25.85		-style="display:none">00:53.56	1:21.78	1:49.47	Q
17	12	5	25.53		-style="display:none">00:53.89	1:22.02	1:49.55
18	13	4	26.27		-style="display:none">00:54.26	1:22.36	1:49.58
19	13	1	26.14	00:53.83	1:21.73	1:49.59
20	12	8	25.44	00:53.93	1:21.74	1:49.63
21	11	4	25.82		-style="display:none">00:53.21	1:21.35	1:49.68
22	11	3	25.40	00:53.27	1:21.53	1:49.79
23	14	7	25.90	00:53.43	1:21.36	1:49.82
24	15	8	25.82	00:53.55	1:21.72	1:50.04
25	13	5	25.71	00:54.03	1:22.55	1:50.11
26	10	4	26.42	00:54.33	1:22.33	1:50.12
27	15	2	25.67	00:53.71	1:22.04	1:50.25
28	10	1	26.54	00:54.63	1:22.66	1:50.36
29	12	3	26.24	00:53.97	1:22.01	1:50.45
30	13	6	25.80	00:53.99	1:22.05	1:50.48
31	12	6	25.78	00:53.90	1:22.35	1:50.50
32	13	8	25.18	00:52.90	1:21.71	1:50.55
33	11	5	25.20	00:52.55	1:20.79	1:50.60
34	14	8	25.90	00:54.17	1:22.43	1:50.72
35	12	1	25.91	00:54.19	1:22.48	1:50.78
36	12	7	25.99	00:53.81	1:22.08	1:50.79
37	10	6	26.40	00:54.55	1:22.85	1:51.10
38	10	3	25.93	00:53.34	1:21.85	1:51.25
39	11	1	25.75	00:53.89	1:22.79	1:51.31
40	11	6	25.65	00:54.24	1:23.04	1:51.32
41	10	7	26.37	00:54.42	1:23.14	1:51.45
42	11	8	25.70	00:54.33	1:22.98	1:51.66
43	11	7	26.03	00:54.37	1:23.20	1:51.72
44	9	6	26.31	00:54.31	1:23.10	1:51.78
45	7	1	24.95	00:53.37	1:22.66	1:51.83
46	9	4	26.46	00:54.93	1:23.51	1:51.95
47	1	6	26.04	00:53.98	1:22.82	1:52.22
48	9	7	25.92	00:54.11	1:22.77	1:52.40
49	8	6	26.38	00:54.75	1:23.67	1:52.41
50	11	2	25.74	00:53.62	1:22.12	1:52.44
51	10	5	26.29	00:55.01	1:24.12	1:52.46
52	9	1	25.95	00:54.38	1:23.56	1:52.57
53	9	8	26.70	00:55.04	1:23.71	1:52.67
54	9	3	25.73	00:54.63	1:23.47	1:52.70
55	10	2	26.57	00:54.91	1:23.75	1:53.01
56	8	1	25.14	00:53.38	1:22.80	1:53.09
57	7	5	25.85	00:54.69	1:23.79	1:53.27
58	9	5	26.86	00:55.84	1:25.14	1:53.32
59	8	3	26.03	00:54.12	1:22.51	1:53.37
60	9	2	26.48	00:55.15	1:24.30	1:53.90
61	8	7	26.15	00:55.41	1:25.11	1:54.25
62	8	2	25.81	00:54.97	1:24.98	1:54.70
63	8	5	26.88	00:55.86	1:25.23	1:54.71
64	7	3	26.76	00:56.16	1:26.77	1:55.04
65	10	8	27.28	00:56.66	1:26.89	1:55.70
66	8	4	26.13	00:54.96	1:24.79	1:55.99
67	7	2	26.76	00:56.52	1:26.78	1:56.39
68	5	2	27.29	00:57.13	1:26.83	1:56.61
69	6	6	27.43	00:57.44	1:28.25	1:56.65
70	6	3	26.78	00:56.17	1:26.90	1:56.68
71	7	7	27.18		-style="display:none">00:57.07	1:27.19	1:56.74
72	6	4	27.27	00:56.54	1:26.70	1:57.03
73	7	4	26.60	00:55.63	1:25.35	1:57.38
74	6	8	27.51	00:57.52	1:27.41	1:58.10
75	6	5	28.24	00:58.38	1:28.21	1:58.29
76	4	8	27.45	00:57.66	1:28.56	1:58.64
77	5	5	26.53	00:55.86	1:26.51	1:58.76
78	5	6	27.44	00:58.04	1:28.38	1:58.88
79	4	2	27.78	00:57.51	1:28.46	1:58.99
80	6	2	27.41		-style="display:none">00:57.68	1:28.62	1:59.04
81	8	8	26.88	00:56.95	1:28.51	1:59.22
82	6	1	28.11	00:58.51	1:29.20	1:59.32
83	4	6	28.07		-style="display:none">00:58.50	1:28.68	1:59.42
84	6	7	27.13	00:56.78	1:27.65	1:59.44
85	7	8	28.02	00:58.15	1:28.81	1:59.70
86	5	8	27.24	00:57.18	1:28.29	1:59.82
87	4	5	27.54	00:57.73	1:29.04	2:00.09
88	4	7	28.08	00:58.47	1:29.12	2:00.48
89	5	3	27.44	00:57.43	1:28.83	2:00.66
90	5	1	27.81	00:58.43	1:29.57	2:00.76
91	4	3	27.49	00:57.75	1:29.01	2:01.20
92	5	4	27.70	00:58.21	1:29.69	2:01.40
93	3	4	28.20		-style="display:none">00:59.97	1:30.57	2:01.49
94	3	5	28.08	00:59.70	1:31.22	2:02.85
95	3	3	28.40	00:59.64	1:31.21	2:03.21
96	3	2	28.07	00:59.53	1:32.04	2:03.31
97	3	6	28.01	00:59.68	1:32.24	2:03.65
98	4	1	27.92	00:58.77	1:31.17	2:03.76
99	7	6	26.19	00:56.00	1:29.06	2:03.82
100	4	4	27.37	00:58.21	1:31.38	2:05.37
101	2	1	28.06	00:59.71	1:32.62	2:05.80
102	3	7	28.80	1:00.51	1:33.34	2:05.95
103	5	7	27.79	00:58.74	1:32.50	2:06.59
104	2	3	28.77	1:00.56	1:33.42	2:06.81
105	1	5	27.98		-style="display:none">00:59.61	1:32.78	2:07.28
106	3	1	27.96	1:00.12	1:33.80	2:07.51
107	3	8	28.32	1:00.36	1:34.05	2:09.74
108	2	5	29.31	1:02.79	1:36.91	2:10.75
109	2	4	29.62	1:03.94	1:38.95	2:12.32
110	2	6	29.50	1:03.95	1:41.04	2:16.87
111	1	7	28.95	1:02.56	1:40.36	2:18.73
112	2	7	29.20	1:03.94	1:40.48	2:19.06
113	2	2	32.78	1:09.61	1:46.31	2:22.69
114	1	4	30.36	1:06.07	1:46.16	2:28.81
115	2	8	31.91	1:09.98	1:51.67	2:32.36
116	1	3	33.19	1:14.79	2:00.78	2:48.43
117	1	2	34.17	1:15.45	2:01.44	2:51.98
999	12	4	999DNS	999	999	999

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	50m	100m	150m	Time	Q
1	2	4	24.52	51.16	1:18.66	1:46.33	Q
2	1	4	25.29	52.48	1:20.10	1:46.75	Q
3	2	2	24.96	52.13	1:19.48	1:47.44	Q
4	1	5	25.38	52.96	1:20.64	1:47.45	Q
5	2	5	25.47	52.91	1:20.58	1:47.83	Q
6	1	7	25.61	53.25	1:21.26	1:48.29	Q
7	2	7	25.82	53.28	1:20.97	1:48.43	Q
8	2	3	25.65	53.24	1:20.83	1:48.47	Q
9	2	8	25.28	52.66	1:20.50	1:48.50
10	1	2	25.47	53.28	1:21.22	1:48.51
11	2	6	25.57	52.87	1:20.48	1:48.54
12	1	1	25.41	52.87	1:20.94	1:48.71
13	2	1	25.54	52.92	1:20.89	1:48.75
14	1	3	25.34	53.28	1:21.45	1:48.81
15	1	8	25.18	52.92	1:20.95	1:48.89
16	1	6	25.43	53.03	1:20.99	1:48.92

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	50m	100m	150m	Time
		5		24.47	51.00	1:17.73	1:43.86 WR
		4		24.53	51.17	1:18.16	1:46.28
		2		25.41	52.74	1:19.51	1:46.73
4	6		25.09	52.52	1:19.88	1:47.12
5	3		25.03	52.02	1:19.15	1:47.18
6	7		25.46	53.22	1:20.89	1:47.53
7	1		25.86	53.17	1:20.60	1:48.09
8	8		25.67	53.37	1:21.00	1:49.13

References

Web site: FINA World Championships Men's 200m Freestyle Heats Official Results. FINA. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070701032125/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2007/melbourne2007/F74_ResSummary_10_Heats_Men_200_Free.pdf. 2007-07-01.
Web site: FINA World Championships Men's 200m Freestyle Semifinals Official Results. FINA.
Web site: FINA World Championships Men's 200m Freestyle Final Official Results. FINA. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110928232843/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2007/melbourne2007/F73_ResByHeat_110_Finals_Men_200_Free.pdf. 2011-09-28.