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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Hamad Aquatic Centre
Date	3 December 2006
Competitors	35 from 21 nations
Medalists
gold medal  Park Tae-hwan   File:Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg South Korea silver medal  Zhang Lin   File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China bronze medal  Daisuke Hosokawa   File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan

Main article: Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games

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.

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	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liu Yu (CHN)	1:49.29	Busan, South Korea	1 October 2002

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	5	File:Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:49.75
2	5	File:Flag of Japan.svg Daisuke Hosokawa (JPN)	1:50.14
3	3	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Enjian (CHN)	1:50.71
4	4	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:50.96
5	3	File:Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg Lim Nam-gyun (KOR)	1:51.07
6	4	File:Flag of Japan.svg Takamitsu Kojima (JPN)	1:51.47
7	4	File:Flag of Singapore.svg Bryan Tay (SIN)	1:53.04
8	5	File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Daniel Bego (MAS)	1:54.37
9	3	File:Flag of India.svg Virdhawal Khade (IND)	1:54.44
10	3	File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Miguel Molina (PHI)	1:54.62
11	4	File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Tang Sheng-chieh (TPE)	1:55.32
12	4	File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Cheung Siu Hang (HKG)	1:55.57
13	4	File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Timur Irgashev (UZB)	1:55.73
14	5	File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Mohammad Madwa (KUW)	1:55.86
15	4	File:Flag of Singapore.svg Marcus Cheah (SIN)	1:55.99
16	3	File:Flag of Thailand.svg Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (THA)	1:56.23
17	1	File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Vyacheslav Titarenko (KAZ)	1:56.39
18	5	File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Petr Vasiliev (UZB)	1:56.66
19	3	File:Flag of Iran.svg Mohammad Bidarian (IRI)	1:56.84
20	3	File:Flag of Kuwait.svg Waleed Al-Qahtani (KUW)	1:56.99
21	5	File:Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chen Te-tung (TPE)	1:57.96
22	5	File:Flag of Iran.svg Soheil Maleka Ashtiani (IRI)	1:58.17
23	5	File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Chung Kwok Ting (HKG)	1:58.55
24	3	File:Flag of Qatar.svg Anas Abu Yousuf (QAT)	1:58.87
25	2	File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Daniel Lee (SRI)	2:01.02
26	2	File:Flag of Qatar.svg Moyssara El-Aarag (QAT)	2:01.03
27	2	File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Heshan Unamboowe (SRI)	2:01.60
28	2	File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Jamil Yamout (LIB)	2:01.89
29	2	File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan (1992–2023).svg Rashid Iunusov (KGZ)	2:02.48
30	2	File:Flag of Macau.svg Antonio Tong (MAC)	2:03.19
31	4	File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Kendrick Uy (PHI)	2:04.80
32	2	File:Flag of Macau.svg Lao Kuan Fong (MAC)	2:06.72
33	2	File:Flag of Iraq (2004-2008).svg Ali Adel (IRQ)	2:10.87
34	1	File:Flag of Iraq (2004-2008).svg Ali Majeed (IRQ)	2:17.00
35	1	File:Flag of Maldives.svg Ali Mohamed Raaidh (MDV)	2:30.12

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)	File:Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:47.12	AR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:47.85
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	File:Flag of Japan.svg Daisuke Hosokawa (JPN)	1:49.62
4	File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Enjian (CHN)	1:49.92
5	File:Flag of Japan.svg Takamitsu Kojima (JPN)	1:50.37
6	File:Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg Lim Nam-gyun (KOR)	1:51.67
7	File:Flag of Singapore.svg Bryan Tay (SIN)	1:52.09
8	File:Flag of Malaysia.svg Daniel Bego (MAS)	1:56.25

References

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