The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2005 Maccabiah Games took place on 11 July at the Wingate Institute

Wingate Institute

The Wingate Institute is a sports training facility located south of Netanya, Israel, established in 1957. Named after Orde Wingate, the facility serves as the host facility for numerous Israeli national teams as well as a military training base....

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 event used freestyle swimming

Freestyle swimming

Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. The front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle race, as this style is generally the fastest...

, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl

Front crawl

The front crawl, forward crawl, or freestyle is a swimming stroke usually regarded as the fastest of the four front primary strokes. As such, the front crawl stroke is nearly universally used during a freestyle swimming competition, hence the synonymously used term "freestyle". It is one of two...

 or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

200 m freestyle

Israel Shai Livnat Shai Livnat Shai Livnat is an Israeli swimmer who has represented Israel at numerous international competitions such as the 2006 LEN European Championships and holds the Israeli record for the 400m free as well as the Maccabiah record in the 200m free.- Footnotes :... Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...  (ISR)

United States Scott Goldblatt Scott Goldblatt Scott Goldblatt is an American swimmer who specializes in the freestyle.-Biography:Raised in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Goldblatt first began swimming in the children’s pool at his local swim club, Willow Grove Swim Club in Scotch Plains... United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  (USA)

United States Bryan Goldberg United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...  (USA)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing Maccabiah record was as follows.
The following new Maccabiah records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	MR	NR
July 11	Final	Shai Livnat Shai Livnat Shai Livnat is an Israeli swimmer who has represented Israel at numerous international competitions such as the 2006 LEN European Championships and holds the Israeli record for the 400m free as well as the Maccabiah record in the 200m free.- Footnotes :...	Israel	1:50.39	MR

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Bryan Goldberg	United States	1:52.89	?	?	Q
2	Shai Livnat Shai Livnat Shai Livnat is an Israeli swimmer who has represented Israel at numerous international competitions such as the 2006 LEN European Championships and holds the Israeli record for the 400m free as well as the Maccabiah record in the 200m free.- Footnotes :...	Israel	1:54.95	?	?	Q
3	Max Jaben Max Jaben Max Jaben is an American-born Israeli swimmer who made headlines when he was suspended from swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics after failing a random drug test.- Career :...	United States	1:55.23	?	?	Q
4	Scott Goldblatt Scott Goldblatt Scott Goldblatt is an American swimmer who specializes in the freestyle.-Biography:Raised in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Goldblatt first began swimming in the children’s pool at his local swim club, Willow Grove Swim Club in Scotch Plains...	United States	1:55.26	?	?	Q
5	Ofer Finkler	Israel	1:56.17	?	?	Q
6	Ofir Sorias	Israel	1:57.06	?	?	Q
7	Evan Rahaeuser	United States	2:00.03	?	?
8	David Harari	United States	2:00.25	?	?
9	Jose Eduardo Picazo	Mexico	2:01.88	?	?	Q
10	Barak Merdler	Israel	2:02.08	?	?
11	Michael Freedman Michael Freedman Michael Hartley Freedman is a mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.Freedman was born...	Israel	2:02.31	?	?
12	Matan Ratz	Israel	2:03.51	?	?
13	Nir Barnea	Israel	2:04.45	?	?
14	Ron Mitz	Israel	2:04.91	?	?
15	Daniel Rifkin	Australia	2:05.25	?	?	Q

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	?	Shai Livnat Shai Livnat Shai Livnat is an Israeli swimmer who has represented Israel at numerous international competitions such as the 2006 LEN European Championships and holds the Israeli record for the 400m free as well as the Maccabiah record in the 200m free.- Footnotes :...	Israel	1:50.39	(MR)
	?	Scott Goldblatt Scott Goldblatt Scott Goldblatt is an American swimmer who specializes in the freestyle.-Biography:Raised in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Goldblatt first began swimming in the children’s pool at his local swim club, Willow Grove Swim Club in Scotch Plains...	United States	1:50.77
	?	Bryan Goldberg	United States	1:50.93
4	?	Max Jaben Max Jaben Max Jaben is an American-born Israeli swimmer who made headlines when he was suspended from swimming in the 2008 Summer Olympics after failing a random drug test.- Career :...	United States	1:51.71
5	?	Ofer Finkler	Israel	1:54.79
6	?	Ofir Sorias	Israel	1:58.61
7	?	Jose Eduardo Picazo	Mexico	2:01.89
8	?	Daniel Rifkin	Australia	2:03.96