Records

Heat 1

1. Jorge Oliver, Puerto Rico
   Puerto Rico
   Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
   
    2:08.84
2. Georgios Dimitriadis, Cyprus
   Cyprus
   Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
   
    2:12.27
3. Yevgeniy Ryzhkov
   Yevgeniy Ryzhkov
   Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Ryzhkov is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who won the bronze medal over 200 m breaststroke at the 2006 Short Course World Championships.-Achievements:*2006 FINA Short Course World Championships - bronze medal...
   
   , Kazakhstan
   Kazakhstan
   Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
   
    Disqualified or excluded

Heat 2

1. Raouf Benabid, Algeria
   Algeria
   Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
   
    2:06.34
2. Hocine Haciane
   Hocine Haciane
   Hocine Haciane is a swimmer who represented Andorra at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, then in Beijing in 2008. He was also the flag bearer for Andorra.-References:***...
   
   , Andorra
   Andorra
   Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, , is a small landlocked country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of...
   
    2:06.48
3. Aleksandar Miladinovski, Macedonia
   Republic of Macedonia
   Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
   
    2:07.39
4. Andrew Mackay
   Andrew Mackay (swimmer)
   Andrew Mackay is an Olympic-swimmer from the Cayman Islands. He swam for the Cayman Islands at the 2004 Olympics and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games...
   
   , Cayman Islands
   Cayman Islands
   The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...
   
    2:07.65
5. Oleg Pukhnatiy, Uzbekistan
   Uzbekistan
   Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
   
    2:08.24
6. Nien Pin Wu, Chinese Taipei
   Chinese Taipei
   Chinese Taipei is the designated name used by the Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, such as the Olympics, Paralympics, Asian Games and Asian Para Games...
   
    2:08.72
7. Oguz Orel Oral, Turkey
   Turkey
   Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
   
    2:08.84

Heat 3

1. Jacob Carstensen
   Jacob Carstensen
   Jacob Carstensen is a former freestyle swimmer from Denmark, who competed in three consequentive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996. He won the world title in the 400m Freestyle at the 1997 FINA Short Course World Championships in Gothenburg.-References:*...
   
   , Denmark
   Denmark
   Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
   
    2:04.80
2. Bang-Hyun Kim, Korea
   Korea
   Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
   
    2:05.06
3. Miguel Molina
   Miguel Molina (swimmer)
   Miguel Molina is a swimmer from the Philippines. He represented the country in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Attended St. Mary's International School in Tokyo.-References:*...
   
   , Philippines
   Philippines
   The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
   
    2:05.28
4. Krešimir Čač
   Krešimir Cac
   Krešimir Čač is a butterfly and medley swimmer from Croatia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996. He retired from swimming in 2008....
   
   , Croatia
   Croatia
   Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
   
    2:05.33
5. Andrei Zaharov, Republic of Moldova 2:07.40
6. Albert Sutanto, Indonesia
   Indonesia
   Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
   
    2:07.55
7. Gary Tan, Singapore
   Singapore
   Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
   
    2:08.44
8. Malick Fall
   Malick Fall
   Malick Fall is a former Senegal international football forward.-Career:Born in Matam, Fall moved to France as a youth and played for several clubs in Ligue 2, including Amiens SC, SC Abbeville and Angers SCO....
   
   , Senegal
   Senegal
   Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...
   
    2:12.13

Heat 4

1. Ioannis Kokkodis,  Greece — 2:02.11 -Q
2. Mihail Alexandrov,  Bulgaria — 2:02.39
3. Sergiy Sergeyev,  Ukraine — 2:03.26
4. Bradley Ally
   Bradley Ally
   Bradley Kevin Ally is a two-time Olympic swimmer from Barbados. He represented Barbados at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. He was the bronze medalist in the 200-metre individual medley at the Pan-American Games in Brazil 2007...
   
   ,  Barbados — 2:03.29
5. Guntars Deicmans,  Latvia — 2:03.68
6. Jeremy Knowles
   Jeremy Knowles (swimmer)
   Jeremy Daniel Knowles is a 3-time Olympic and Bahamian-Record-holding swimmer from The Bahamas.He was the Bahamas flag-bearer at the 2007 Pan American Games.-International tournaments:*1997 Short Course Worlds...
   
   ,  The Bahamas — 2:04.22
7. Darian Townsend
   Darian Townsend
   Darian Roy Townsend is a college and international swimmer from South Africa who is an Olympic gold medalist.Townsend was born in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....
   
   ,  South Africa — 2:07.04
8. Peter Mankoč
   Peter Mankoc
   Peter Mankoč is one of the best Slovenian swimmers of all time and one of the most successful short course European Championship swimmers in the history of the event.- Personal :...
   
   ,  Slovenia — Did not swim

Heat 5

1. George Bovell
   George Bovell
   George Bovell III is a three-time Olympic swimmer from Trinidad and Tobago. He represented the country at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the 2004 Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200 IM:the 9th medalist in the country's history and 12th medal overall...
   
   , Trinidad and Tobago
   Trinidad and Tobago
   Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
   
    2:00.65 -Q
2. Oussama Mellouli
   Oussama Mellouli
   Oussama "Ous" Mellouli is a Tunisian swimmer who competes in the freestyle and medley events. He currently is an African Record holder, and trains with the USA club based at the University of Southern California, where he went to school and swam, collegiately....
   
   , Tunisia
   Tunisia
   Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
   
    2:01.94 -Q African Record
3. Jani Sievinen
   Jani Sievinen
   Jani Nikanor Sievinen is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...
   
   , Finland
   Finland
   Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
   
    2:02.79
4. Christian Keller
   Christian Keller
   Christian Keller . is a former medley and freestyle swimmer from Germany, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1992. Four years later the three-time European Junior Champion won the bronze medal with the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay...
   
   , Germany
   Germany
   Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
   
    2:02.93
5. Wu Peng
   Wu Peng
   Wu Peng is a Chinese swimmer. His height is 1.80 m and he weights approximately 72 kg. His father died when he was only 16 years old. He has concentrated on the butterfly since the 10th National Games in 2005.-Early life and career:...
   
   , China
   People's Republic of China
   China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
   
    2:03.60
6. Diogo Yabe, Brazil
   Brazil
   Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
   
    2:03.86
7. Justin Norris
   Justin Norris
   Justin Neville Norris is an Australian butterfly and individual medley swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Sydney Olympics....
   
   , Australia
   Australia
   Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
   
    2:03.87
8. Brian Johns
   Brian Johns
   Brian Johns is an Olympic swimmer from Canada. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, he grew up in Richmond, British Columbia and trained with the Aquanauts and Racers swim clubs. He started swimming at age five. He is currently attending the University of British Columbia and is on the varsity swimming...
   
   , Canada
   Canada
   Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
   
    2:03.95

Heat 6

1. László Cseh
   László Cseh
   László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes...
   
   , Hungary
   Hungary
   Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
   
    1:59.50 -Q
2. Alessio Boggiatto
   Alessio Boggiatto
   Alessio Boggiatto is an Italian medley swimmer.Born at Moncalieri, Boggiatto is specialized in 400 m medley, he won several European Championship and one World Championship medals...
   
   , Italy
   Italy
   Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
   
    2:01.30 -Q
3. Dean Kent
   Dean Kent
   Dean Kent is a 3-time Olympic swimmer from New Zealand. He represented New Zealand at the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympics.At the 2004 Olympics, he set the New Zealand Records in the 200 and 400 IMs...
   
   , New Zealand
   New Zealand
   New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
   
    2:01.31 -Q
4. Vytautas Janušaitis
   Vytautas Janušaitis
   Vytautas Janušaitis is an Olympic swimmer from Lithuania, who represented his home country at the 2004 and 2008 Games.He has swam at every edition of the SC Europeans from 2004-'08....
   
   , Lithuania
   Lithuania
   Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
   
    2:01.32 -Q
5. Ryan Lochte
   Ryan Lochte
   Ryan Steven Lochte is an American swimmer and a six-time Olympic medalist . As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay...
   
   , United States
   United States
   The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
   
    2:01.41 -Q
6. Massimiliano Rosolino
   Massimiliano Rosolino
   -Biography:Born in Naples of an Italian father, Salvatore, and Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer:...
   
   , Italy 2:01.56 -Q
7. Adrian Turner
   Adrian Turner
   Adrian Turner is an actor and former British Olympic swimmer, known also for winning silver and bronze medals representing England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games....
   
   , Great Britain
   United Kingdom
   The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
   
    2:01.73 -Q
8. Tao Zhao, China 2:02.41

Heat 7

1. Michael Phelps
   Michael Phelps
   Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...
   
   , United States 2:00.01 -Q
2. Jiro Miki, Japan
   Japan
   Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
   
    2:00.93 -Q
3. Thiago Pereira
   Thiago Pereira
   Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira is an international competition swimmer from Brazil. He became known in his native country after winning the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2003.Pereira's biggest success came one year...
   
   , Brazil 2:01.12 -Q
4. Takahiro Mori
   Takahiro Mori
   is a retired male medley swimmer from Japan. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He is best known for winning three gold medals at the Summer Universiade.-References:*...
   
   , Japan 2:01.33 -Q
5. Robin Francis
   Robin Francis
   Robin Francis is a former British International Swimmer. He was born on the 20th of April 1982 in Durban, South Africa.Francis is a two time European Championship Silver Medallist in the 400 m Individual Medley from 2001 and 2003. He also won the Silver medal at the 2004 World Championships in...
   
   , Great Britain 2:01.57 -Q
6. Tamas Kerekjarto
   Tamás Kerékjártó
   Tamás Kerékjártó is a Hungarian swimmer. He represented his home country at the 1996, 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.-References:...
   
   , Hungary 2:01.75 -Q
7. Adam Lucas, Australia 2:02.12
8. Alexei Zatsepine, Russia
   Russia
   Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
   
   2:04.11

Heats ranking

1. László Cseh, Hungary 1:59.50 -Q
2. Michael Phelps, United States 2:00.01 -Q
3. George Bovell, Trinidad and Tobago 2:00.65 -Q
4. Jiro Miki, Japan 2:00.93 -Q
5. Thiago Pereira, Brazil 2:01.12 -Q
6. Alessio Boggiatto, Italy 2:01.30 -Q
7. Dean Kent, New Zealand 2:01.31 -Q
8. Vytautas Janušaitis, Lithuania 2:01.32 -Q
9. Takahiro Mori, Japan 2:01.33 -Q
10. Ryan Lochte, United States 2:01.41 -Q
11. Massimiliano Rosolino, Italy 2:01.56 -Q
12. Robin Francis, Great Britain 2:01.57 -Q
13. Adrian Turner, Great Britain 2:01.73 -Q
14. Tamas Kerekjarto, Hungary 2:01.75 -Q
15. Oussama Mellouli, Tunisia 2:01.94 -Q
16. Ioannis Kokkodis, Greece 2:02.11 -Q
17. Adam Lucas, Australia 2:02.12
18. Mihail Alexandrov, Bulgaria 2:02.39
19. Tao Zhao, China 2:02.41
20. Jani Sievinen, Finland 2:02.79
21. Christian Keller, Germany 2:02.93
22. Sergiy Sergeyev, Ukraine 2:03.26
23. Bradley Ally, Barbados 2:03.29
24. Wu Peng, China 2:03.60
25. Guntars Deicmans, Latvia 2:03.68
26. Diogo Yabe, Brazil 2:03.86
27. Justin Norris, Australia 2:03.87
28. Brian Johns, Canada 2:03.95
29. Alexei Zatsepine, Russia 2:04.11
30. Jeremy Daniel Knowles, Bahamas 2:04.22
31. Jacob Carstensen, Denmark 2:04.80
32. Bang-Hyun Kim, Korea 2:05.06
33. Miguel Molina, Philippines 2:05.28
34. Krešimir Čač, Croatia 2:05.33
35. Raouf Benabid, Algeria 2:06.34
36. Hocine Haciane, Andorra 2:06.48
37. Darian Townsend, South Africa 2:07.04
38. Aleksandar Miladinovski, Macedonia 2:07.39
39. Andrei Zaharov, Republic of Moldova 2:07.40
40. Albert Sutanto, Indonesia 2:07.55
41. Andrew Mackay, Cayman Islands 2:07.65
42. Oleg Pukhnatiy, Uzbekistan 2:08.24
43. Gary Tan, Singapore 2:08.44
44. Nien Pin Wu, Chinese Taipei 2:08.72
45. Jorge Oliver, Puerto Rico 2:08.84
46. Oguz Orel Oral, Turkey 2:08.84
47. Malick Fall, Senegal 2:12.13
48. Georgios Dimitriadis, Cyprus 2:12.27
49. Peter Mankoč, Slovenia Did not start
50. Yevgeniy Ryzhkov, Kazakhstan Disqualified or excluded

Semi-final heat 1

1. Michael Phelps, United States 1:58.52 -Q Olympic Record
2. Ryan Lochte, United States 1:59.58 -Q
3. Vytautas Janušaitis, Lithuania 2:00.57 -Q
4. Jiro Miki, Japan 2:01.09 -Q
5. Alessio Boggiatto, Italy 2:01.27
6. Ioannis Kokkodis, Greece 2:01.57
7. Tamas Kerekjarto, Hungary 2:01.89
8. Robin Francis, Great Britain 2:03.85

Semi-final heat 2

1. László Cseh, Hungary 1:59.65 -Q
2. Thiago Pereira, Brazil 2:00.07 -Q
3. George Bovell, Trinidad and Tobago 2:00.31 -Q
4. Takahiro Mori, Japan 2:00.57 -Q
5. Oussama Mellouli, Tunisia 2:01.11 African Record
6. Massimiliano Rosolino, Italy 2:01.29
7. Dean Kent, New Zealand 2:01.94
8. Adrian Turner, Great Britain 2:02.06

Semi-final ranking

1. Michael Phelps, United States 1:58.52 -Q
2. Ryan Lochte, United States 1:59.58 -Q
3. László Cseh, Hungary 1:59.65 -Q
4. Thiago Pereira, Brazil 2:00.07 -Q
5. George Bovell, Trinidad and Tobago 2:00.31 -Q
6. Vytautas Janušaitis, Lithuania 2:00.57 -Q
7. Takahiro Mori, Japan 2:00.57 -Q
8. Jiro Miki, Japan 2:01.09 -Q
9. Oussama Mellouli, Tunisia 2:01.11
10. Alessio Boggiatto, Italy 2:01.27
11. Massimiliano Rosolino, Italy 2:01.29
12. Ioannis Kokkodis, Greece 2:01.57
13. Tamas Kerekjarto, Hungary 2:01.89
14. Dean Kent, New Zealand 2:01.94
15. Adrian Turner, Great Britain 2:02.06
16. Robin Francis, Great Britain 2:03.85

Final

1. Michael Phelps, United States 1:57.14 Olympic Record
2. Ryan Lochte, United States 1:58.78
3. George Bovell, Trinidad and Tobago 1:58.80
4. László Cseh, Hungary 1:58.84
5. Thiago Pereira, Brazil 2:00.11
6. Takahiro Mori, Japan 2:00.60
7. Vytautas Janušaitis, Lithuania 2:01.28
8. Jiro Miki, Japan 2:02.16