# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 25+26 July 2005 in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 95 swimmers were entered in the preliminary heats, which swam in the morning of July 25. The top-16 swimmers from the prelims advanced on to semifinal heats that evening. From the semifinals, the top 8 swimmers advanced onto the next night's final.
The existing records at the start of the event were:
* World record (WR): 1:44.06, Ian Thorpe (Australia), 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan.
* Championship record (CR): same

## Results
### Final

| Place | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Michael Phelps | USA | 1:45.20 |
| 2 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 1:46.14 |
| 3 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 1:46.63 |
| 4 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 1:46.85 |
| 5 | Nicholas Sprenger | Australia | 1:47.09 |
| 6 | Peter Vanderkaay | USA | 1:47.25 |
| 7 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 1:47.63 |
| 8 | ZHANG Lin | China | 1:49.45 |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| 1 | Michael Phelps | USA | 1:46.33 | Q |
| 2 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 1:47.37 | Q |
| 3 | Nicholas Sprenger | Australia | 1:47.57 | Q |
| 4 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 1:47.66 | Q |
| 5 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 1:48.00 | Q |
| 6 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 1:48.05 | Q |
| 7 | ZHANG Lin | China | 1:48.10 | Q |
| 8 | Peter Vanderkaay | USA | 1:48.11 | Q |
| 9 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 1:48.34 | |
| 10 | Amaury Leveaux | France | 1:48.71 | |
| 11 | Stefan Herbst | Germany | 1:48.72 | |
| 12 | David Carry | Great Britain | 1:48.79 | |
| 13 | Yoshihiro Okumura | Japan | 1:49.15 | |
| 14 | Romāns Miloslavskis | Latvia | 1:49.19 | |
| 15 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 1:49.97 | |
| 16 | Rick Say | Canada | 1:50.01 | |

### Prelims

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| 1 | Grant Hackett | Australia | 1:47.88 | Q |
| 2 | Michael Phelps | USA | 1:48.17 | Q |
| 3 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 1:48.37 | Q |
| 4 | Peter Vanderkaay | USA | 1:48.53 | Q |
| 5 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 1:48.59 | Q |
| 6 | Amaury Leveaux | France | 1:48.69 | Q |
| 7 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 1:48.70 | Q |
| 8 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 1:48.78 | Q |
| 9 | Nicholas Sprenger | Australia | 1:48.80 | Q |
| 10 | Yoshihiro Okumura | Japan | 1:48.92 | Q |
| 11 | Rick Say | Canada | 1:48.96 | Q |
| 12 | David Carry | Great Britain | 1:49.09 | Q |
| 13 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 1:49.13 | Q |
| 14 | ZHANG Lin | China | 1:49.19 | Q |
| 15 | Stefan Herbst | Germany | 1:49.32 | Q |
| 16 | Romāns Miloslavskis | Latvia | 1:49.40 | Q |
| 17 | Sho Uchida | Japan | 1:49.42 | |
| 18 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:49.47 | |
| 19 | Olaf Wildeboer | Spain | 1:49.62 | |
| 20 | PARK Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 1:49.70 | |
| 21 | Andreas Zisimos | Greece | 1:49.75 | |
| 22 | Shai Livnat | Israel | 1:49.81 | |
| 23 | Květoslav Svoboda | Czech Republic | 1:49.85 | |
| 24 | Jean Basson | South Africa | 1:49.99 | |
| 25 | Maxim Kuznetsov | Russia | 1:50.12 | |
| 26 | Dominik Koll | Austria | 1:50.37 | |
| 27 | Jacob Carstensen | Denmark | 1:50.74 | |
| 28 | Nicolas Rostoucher | France | 1:50.76 | |
| 29 | Evgeny Lagunov | Russia | 1:50.94 | |
| 30 | Adriano Niz | Portugal | 1:51.00 | |
| 31 | Michal Rokicki | Poland | 1:51.01 | |
| 32 | CHEN Zuo | China | 1:51.11 | |
| 33 | Michal Rubáček | Czech Republic | 1:51.44 | |
| 34 | Paulius Andrijauskas | Lithuania | 1:51.48 | |
| 35 | Dmytro Vereitinov | Ukraine | 1:51.55 | |
| 36 | Nabil Kebbab | Algeria | 1:51.64 | |
| 37 | Apostolos Antonopoulos | Greece | 1:51.70 | |
| 38 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 1:51.91 | |
| 39 | Mihail Alexandrov | Bulgaria | 1:52.11 | |
| 39 | Tiago Venâncio | Portugal | 1:52.11 | |
| 41 | Gard Kvale | Norway | 1:52.44 | |
| 42 | Mahrez Mebarek | Algeria | 1:52.80 | |
| 43 | Giancarlo Zolezzi | Chile | 1:52.96 | |
| 44 | Thomas Felten | Netherlands | 1:52.99 | |
| 45 | Igor Snitko | Ukraine | 1:53.02 | |
| 46 | Saulius Binevičius | Lithuania | 1:53.15 | |
| 47 | Miguel Molina | Philippines | 1:53.18 | |
| 48 | Luka Turk | Slovenia | 1:53.19 | |
| 49 | Maximiliano Schnettler | Chile | 1:53.20 | |
| 50 | Andrei Radzionov | Belarus | 1:53.39 | |
| 51 | Vitaliy Khan | Kazakhstan | 1:54.31 | |
| 52 | Petr Vasilev | Uzbekistan | 1:54.46 | |
| 53 | Dean Kent | New Zealand | 1:54.66 | |
| 54 | Sebastian Arango Herrera | Colombia | 1:54.92 | |
| 55 | Yahor Salabutov | Belarus | 1:54.96 | |
| 56 | Timur Irgashev | Uzbekistan | 1:54.98 | |
| 57 | Bryan Tay | Singapore | 1:55.01 | |
| 58 | Antonio Hernández | Cuba | 1:55.11 | |
| 59 | Ronald Cowen | Bermuda | 1:55.53 | |
| 60 | Ki-Hyuk Sim | South Korea | 1:55.54 | |
| 61 | Muhammad Akbar Nasution | Indonesia | 1:55.73 | |
| 62 | Jonas Persson | Sweden | 1:55.95 | |
| 63 | Sebastian Stoss | Austria | 1:56.19 | |
| 64 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 1:56.91 | |
| 65 | Evan Marcus | Guatemala | 1:56.96 | |
| 66 | Matias Rementeria Perez | Uruguay | 1:57.36 | |
| 67 | Jeffrey Su | Singapore | 1:57.49 | |
| 68 | Kuo-Chuan Tsai | Chinese Taipei | 1:57.99 | |
| 69 | Sheng-Chieh Tang | Chinese Taipei | 1:58.00 | |
| 70 | James Walsh | Philippines | 1:58.23 | |
| 71 | Mikayel Koloyan | Armenia | 1:58.26 | |
| 72 | Kieran Locke | Virgin Islands | 1:58.39 | |
| 73 | Emanuele Nicolini | San Marino | 1:58.44 | |
| 74 | Youssef Hafdi | Morocco | 1:58.63 | |
| 75 | Brad Hamilton | Jamaica | 1:58.72 | |
| 76 | Soheil Ashtiani | Iran | 1:59.01 | |
| 77 | Waleed Al-Qahtani | Kuwait | 1:59.24 | |
| 78 | Zurab Khomasuridze | Georgia | 1:59.36 | |
| 79 | Vasilii Danilov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:59.77 | |
| 80 | Andy Wibowo | Indonesia | 2:00.15 | |
| 81 | Morgan Locke | Virgin Islands | 2:00.32 | |
| 82 | Jose Lobo | Paraguay | 2:01.03 | |
| 83 | Aleksandr Moseshvili | Georgia | 2:01.23 | |
| 84 | Anas Hamadeh | Jordan | 2:01.63 | |
| 85 | Sean Dehere | Barbados | 2:01.67 | |
| 86 | Nguyen Thanh Hai | Vietnam | 2:01.98 | |
| 87 | Steven Mangroo | Seychelles | 2:02.38 | |
| 88 | Bradford Worrell | Saint Lucia | 2:03.81 | |
| 89 | Kuan Fong Lao | Macao | 2:04.21 | |
| 90 | Fernando Medrano | Nicaragua | 2:04.70 | |
| 91 | Erik Rajohnson | Madagascar | 2:05.95 | |
| 92 | Miguel Navarro | Bolivia | 2:06.37 | |
| 93 | Loai Tashkandi | Saudi Arabia | 2:07.53 | |
| 94 | Hassan Shah | Maldives | 2:35.51 | |
| -- | Milinda Wickramasinghe | Sri Lanka | DNS | |