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

Men's 200m I.M.
at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates27 July (prelims and semifinals)
28 July (final)
Competitors61 from 50 nations
Winning time1 minute 56.68 seconds
Medalists
gold medal Michael Phelps   United States
silver medal László Cseh   Hungary
bronze medal Ryan Lochte   United States
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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 Michael Phelps  USA 1:56.68
2 László Cseh  Hungary 1:57.61
3 Ryan Lochte  USA 1:57.79
4 Alessio Boggiatto  Italy 2:00.28
5 Hidemasa Sano  Japan 2:00.70
6 Vytautas Janušaitis  Lithuania 2:00.78
7 Igor Berezutsky  Russia 2:01.43
8 Dean Kent  New Zealand 2:01.81

Semifinals

Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 S1 L5 Ryan Lochte  USA 1:58.06 q
2 S2 L5 Michael Phelps  USA 1:58.36 q
3 S1 L3 Vytautas Janušaitis  Lithuania 1:59.72 q
4 S2 L4 László Cseh  Hungary 2:00.12 q
5 S2 L3 Hidemasa Sano  Japan 2:00.45 q
6 S1 L4 Alessio Boggiatto  Italy 2:00.52 q
7 S1 L6 Igor Berezutsky  Russia 2:01.11 q
8 S2 L2 Dean Kent  New Zealand 2:01.55 q
9 S1 L2 Adam Lucas  Australia 2:01.99
10 S2 L7 Leith Brodie  Australia 2:02.28
11 S2 L8 Mihail Alexandrov  Bulgaria 2:02.32
12 S2 L6 Jiro Miki  Japan 2:02.49
13 S1 L7 Bradley Ally  Barbados 2:02.53
14 S2 L1 Robin van Aggele  Netherlands 2:02.98
15 S1 L8 Keith Beavers  Canada 2:03.27
16 S1 L1 Ioannis Kokkodis  Greece 2:04.15

Preliminary heats

Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H6 L4 László Cseh  Hungary 1:59.56 q
2 H7 L5 Alessio Boggiatto  Italy 2:00.24 q
3 H8 L4 Michael Phelps  United States 2:00.30 q
4 H7 L4 Ryan Lochte  United States 2:00.51 q
5 H6 L5 Hidemasa Sano  Japan 2:00.61 q
6 H8 L5 Vytautas Janušaitis  Lithuania 2:00.93 q
7 H8 L6 Jiro Miki  Japan 2:02.04 q
8 H8 L2 Igor Berezutsky  Russia 2:02.30 q
9 H6 L3 Dean Kent  New Zealand 2:02.35 q
10 H8 L3 Adam Lucas  Australia 2:02.45 q
11 H6 L6 Leith Brodie  Australia 2:02.73 q
12 H7 L7 Bradley Ally  Barbados 2:02.83 q
13 H8 L7 Robin van Aggele  Netherlands 2:03.48 q
14 H7 L6 Ioannis Kokkodis  Greece 2:03.77 q
15 H6 L2 Mihail Alexandrov  Bulgaria 2:04.50 q
16 H7 L2 Keith Beavers  Canada 2:04.54 q
17 H6 L8 Miguel Molina  Philippines 2:04.68
18 H5 L5 Paulius Andrijauskas  Lithuania 2:04.77
19 H5 L2 Gard Kvale  Norway 2:04.93
20 H7 L8 Jacob Carstensen  Denmark 2:04.97
21 H5 L1 Dmitriy Gordiyenko  Kazakhstan 2:05.17
22 H8 L8 Dmytro Nazarenko  Ukraine 2:05.19
23 H6 L1 Sebastian Stoss  Austria 2:05.91
24 H3 L4 Shaune Fraser  Cayman Islands 2:06.05
25 H5 L6 Hocine Haciane  Andorra 2:06.16
26 H8 L1 Nicolas Rostoucher  France 2:06.56
27 H5 L3 Dzianis Silkov  Belarus 2:06.79
28 H7 L1 Guntars Deicmans  Latvia 2:07.03
29 H5 L7 Andrei Zaharov  Moldova 2:07.84
30 H4 L4 Oleg Pukhnatiy  Uzbekistan 2:08.97
31 H4 L6 M. Akbar Nasution  Indonesia 2:09.16
32 H4 L2 Yury Zaharov  Kyrgyzstan 2:09.90
33 H7 L3 Peng Wu  China 2:10.52
34 H5 L4 Kuo-Chuan Tsai  Chinese Taipei 2:10.64
35 H5 L8 Gary Tan  Singapore 2:11.11
36 H4 L8 Vasilii Danilov  Kyrgyzstan 2:11.45
37 H3 L3 Mohamad Al-Naser  Kuwait 2:11.64
38 H4 L3 Mark Chay  Singapore 2:13.10
39 H3 L6 Francisco Montenegro  Guatemala 2:13.28
40 H2 L5 James Walsh  Philippines 2:13.52
41 H3 L7 Graham Smith  Bermuda 2:14.03
42 H4 L5 Yu-An Lin  Chinese Taipei 2:14.06
43 H2 L3 Shahin Baradaran  Iran 2:14.96
44 H2 L4 Morgan Locke  Virgin Islands 2:15.30
45 H3 L2 Youssef Hafdi  Morocco 2:15.65
46 H2 L7 Rony Bakale  Republic of the Congo 2:15.85
47 H3 L8 Khaly Ciss  Senegal 2:17.11
48 H2 L6 Johnny Castillo  Panama 2:18.02
49 H3 L1 Francois Ghattas  Lebanon 2:19.47
50 H1 L5 Reginaldo Panting  Honduras 2:20.13
51 H1 L3 Amar Shah  Kenya 2:20.15
52 H2 L2 Joel Refos  Suriname 2:21.10
53 H2 L8 Diego Foianini  Bolivia 2:21.13
54 H2 L1 Fernando Medrano  Nicaragua 2:25.05
55 H1 L4 Chisela Kanchela  Zambia 2:26.11
56 H1 L6 Joseph Kimani  Kenya 2:31.02
57 H1 L7 Hassan Shah  Maldives 2:58.27
- H4 L1 Aleksander Hetland  Norway DQ
- H1 L2 Alain Brigion-Tobe  Cameroon DNS
- H3 L5 Ahmed Salah  Egypt DNS
- H6 L7 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 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.