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

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Hamad Aquatic Centre
Date	December 6, 2006 (2006-12-06)
Competitors	23 from 17 nations
Medalists
Hidemasa Sano   Japan   Ken Takakuwa   Japan   Han Kyu-chul   South Korea
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Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The men's 200m individual medley swimming event at the 2006 Asian Games was held on December 6, 2006 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar.

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Asian records were as follows.

World Record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:55.84	Victoria, Canada	20 August 2006
Asian Record	Ken Takakuwa (JPN)	1:59.81	Victoria, Canada	20 August 2006
Games Record	Takahiro Mori (JPN)	2:00.53	Busan, South Korea	30 September 2002

Results

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Hidemasa Sano (JPN)	2:04.62
2	3	4	Ken Takakuwa (JPN)	2:05.29
3	2	5	Dmitriy Gordiyenko (KAZ)	2:05.89
4	3	3	Han Kyu-chul (KOR)	2:06.37
5	2	4	Qu Jingyu (CHN)	2:07.98
6	3	5	Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:08.18
7	3	2	Vasilii Danilov (KGZ)	2:08.66
8	1	5	Park Beom-ho (KOR)	2:08.84
9	2	6	Lim Zhi Cong (SIN)	2:09.09
10	1	6	Iurii Zakharov (KGZ)	2:10.06
11	2	3	Tsai Kuo-chuan (TPE)	2:10.56
12	1	3	Hsu Chi-chieh (TPE)	2:10.66
13	2	1	Kevin Chu (HKG)	2:11.44
14	1	7	Victor Wong (MAC)	2:12.73
15	2	7	Cheung Siu Hang (HKG)	2:12.89
16	3	6	Oleg Pukhnatiy (UZB)	2:13.05
17	2	2	Rehan Poncha (IND)	2:13.14
18	3	7	Shahin Baradaran (IRI)	2:14.15
19	1	2	Marzouq Al-Salem (KUW)	2:15.56
20	1	1	Lei Hong Nam (MAC)	2:18.75
21	3	8	Ali Mohamed Raaidh (MDV)	2:53.48
22	2	8	Amir Adnan (IRQ)	2:55.32
—	3	1	Yousuf Al-Yousuf (KSA)	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Hidemasa Sano (JPN)	2:00.73
02 !	5	Ken Takakuwa (JPN)	2:01.03
03 !	6	Han Kyu-chul (KOR)	2:02.56
4	2	Qu Jingyu (CHN)	2:03.80
5	7	Miguel Molina (PHI)	2:05.18
6	8	Park Beom-ho (KOR)	2:05.28
7	3	Dmitriy Gordiyenko (KAZ)	2:05.89
8	1	Vasilii Danilov (KGZ)	2:09.19

References

• Results