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

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 1:56.68 2 László Cseh 1:57.61 3 Ryan Lochte 1:57.79 4 Alessio Boggiatto 2:00.28 5 Hidemasa Sano 2:00.70 6 Vytautas Janušaitis 2:00.78 7 Igor Berezutsky 2:01.43 8 Dean Kent 2:01.81

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

Preliminary heats Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation 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.