Swimming 2020/Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley
General information
Sport	Swimming 2020
Date	28-30 July 2021
Competitors	45 athletes
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Michael Phelps
Silver	Kosuke Hagino
Bronze	Wang Shun
Conditions
Length	200 metres
Medalists
	Wang Shun
	Duncan Scott
	Jeremy Desplanches

The men's 200 metre individual medley of Swimming 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 28-30 July 2021 in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With 45 athletes competing, the event was won by Wang Shun from China, with Duncan Scott from Great Britain taking the silver medal and Jeremy Desplanches from Switzerland taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to nine athletes. In the first round, the sixteen fastest athletes qualify for the semifinals. In the semifinals, the two fastest athletes of each race, as well as the four fastest non-qualifiers advance to the final. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview

Forty-five athletes qualified for the event with plenty of medal contenders in the field. Home favorite Daiya Seto was the reigning world champion, but received strong contention from the man in form Michael Andrew and Mitch Larkin. Hugo Gonzalez was the reigning European champion, Jeremy Desplanches won silver at the European and world championships, Chase Kalisz won bronze at the world championships, and Duncan Scott and Wang Shun had also recorded fast times throughout the year. Other potential outsiders also included Philip Heintz, Hubert Kos, and the bronze medalist of the European championships Alberto Razzetti.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	28 July 2011		Ryan Lochte	1:54.00
OR	15 August 2008		Michael Phelps	1:54.23

Summary

Round 1

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Bernhard Tyler Christianson	2:02.70	NR
2		Munzer Mark Kabbara	2:03.08	NR
3		Keanan Dols	2:04.29
4		Christoph Meier	2:04.34
5		Tasi Limtiago	2:07.69

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Vinicius Lanza	1:58.92
2		Arjan Knipping	1:59.44	NR
2		Gal Cohen Groumi	1:59.44	PR
4		Apostolos Papastamos	2:00.38
5		Tomas Peribonio Avila	2:00.62
6		Angel Martinez	2:01.34
7		Jarod Arroyo	2:01.92
8		Raphael Stacchiotti	2:03.17

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Tomoe Hvas	1:57.64	Q, NR
2		Brendon Smith	1:58.57	PR
3		Jacob Heidtmann	1:58.80	PR
4		Ron Polonsky	1:58.95	PR
5		Maxim Stupin	1:59.39
6		Bernhard Reitshammer	1:59.56
7		Danas Rapsys	1:59.90
8		Wang Hsing-hao	2:00.72

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Mitch Larkin	1:57.50	Q
2		Laszlo Cseh	1:57.51	Q
3		Hugo Gonzalez	1:57.61	Q
4		Philip Heintz	1:57.72	Q
5		Matthew Sates	1:58.08	Q, PR
6		Finlay Knox	1:58.29
7		Gabriel Lopes	1:58.56	PR
8		Qin Haiyang	1:58.95

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Chase Kalisz	1:57.38	Q
2		Wang Shun	1:57.42	Q
3		Alberto Razzetti	1:57.46	Q
4		Andrey Zhilkin	1:57.94	Q
5		Daiya Seto	1:58.15	Q
6		Leon Marchand	1:58.30
7		Andreas Vazaios	1:58.84
8		Joe Litchfield	2:00.01

Heat 6 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Michael Andrew	1:56.40	Q
2		Jeremy Desplanches	1:56.89	Q
3		Lewis Clareburt	1:57.27	Q, NR
4		Kosuke Hagino	1:57.39	Q
4		Duncan Scott	1:57.39	Q
6		Caio Pumputis	1:58.36
7		Hubert Kos	1:58.47
8		Alexis Santos	1:59.32

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Duncan Scott	1:56.69	Q
2		Daiya Seto	1:56.86	Q
3		Jeremy Desplanches	1:57.38	Q
4		Laszlo Cseh	1:57.64	Q
5		Alberto Razzetti	1:57.70
6		Chase Kalisz	1:58.03
7		Andrey Zhilkin	1:59.05
8		Tomoe Hvas	2:00.21

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Wang Shun	1:56.22	Q, PR
2		Michael Andrew	1:57.08	Q
3		Kosuke Hagino	1:57.47	Q
4		Lewis Clareburt	1:57.55	Q
5		Mitch Larkin	1:57.80
6		Hugo Gonzalez	1:57.96
7		Philip Heintz	1:58.13
8		Matthew Sates	1:58.75

Final

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Wang Shun	1:55.00	AR
2		Duncan Scott	1:55.28	PR
3		Jeremy Desplanches	1:56.17	NR
4		Daiya Seto	1:56.22
5		Micheal Andrew	1:57.31
6		Kosuke Hagino	1:57.49
7		Laszlo Cseh	1:57.68
8		Lewis Clareburt	1:57.70

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Wang Shun	China
	Duncan Scott	Great Britain
	Jeremy Desplanches	Switzerland
4	Daiya Seto	Japan
5	Michael Andrew	United States
6	Kosyke Hagino	Japan
7	Laszlo Cseh	Hungary
8	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand
9	Albert Razzetti	Italy
10	Mitch Larkin	Australia
11	Hugo Gonzalez	Spain
12	Chase Kalisz	United States
13	Philip Heintz	Germany
14	Matthew Sates	South Africa
15	Andrey Zhilkin	ROC
16	Tomoe Hvas	Norway
17	Finlay Knox	Canada
18	Leon Marchand	France
19	Caio Pumputis	Brazil
20	Hubert Kos	Hungary
21	Gabriel Lopes	Portugal
22	Brendon Smith	Australia
23	Jacob Heidtmann	Germany
24	Andreas Vazaios	Greece
25	Vinicius Lanza	Brazil
26	Ron Polonsky	Israel
26	Qin Haiyang	China
28	Alexis Santos	Portugal
29	Maxim Stupin	ROC
30	Arjan Knipping	Netherlands
30	Gal Cohen Groumi	Israel
32	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria
33	Danas Rapsys	Lithuania
34	Joe Litchfield	Great Britain
35	Apostolos Papastamos	Greece
36	Tomas Peribonio Avila	Ecuador
37	Wang Hsing-hao	Chinese Taipei
38	Angel Martinez	Mexico
39	Jarod Arroyo	Puerto Rico
40	Bernhard Tyler Christianson	Panama
41	Munzer Mark Kabbara	Lebanon
42	Raphael Stacchiotti	Luxembourg
43	Keanan Dols	Jamaica
44	Chirstoph Meier	Liechtenstein
45	Tasi Limtiaco	Micronesia

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