# Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The heats for the men's 200 metre freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on the morning of 27 July and the final took place in the evening session of 28 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:
| World record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 1:42.96 | Beijing, China | 12 August 2008 |
| Championship record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 1:43.86 | Melbourne, Australia | 27 March 2007 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 27 July | Semifinal 2 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:43.65 | CR |
| 28 July | Final | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:42.00 | WR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
| 1 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:45.30 | 14 | 4 | |
| 2 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:45.60 | 15 | 4 | |
| 3 | Danila Izotov | Russia | 1:45.86 | 14 | 3 | NR |
| 4 | Jean Basson | South Africa | 1:45.88 | 15 | 3 | |
| 5 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 1:46.25 | 13 | 8 | |
| 6 | Sho Uchida | Japan | 1:46.30 | 14 | 6 | NR |
| 7 | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 1:46.32 | 13 | 3 | |
| 8 | Park Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 1:46.53 | 13 | 4 | |
| 9 | Kenrick Monk | Australia | 1:46.56 | 15 | 1 | |
| 10 | Patrick Murphy | Australia | 1:46.61 | 13 | 5 | |
| 11 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 1:46.89 | 12 | 2 | |
| 12 | Andrew Hunter | Great Britain | 1:46.96 | 13 | 2 | |
| 13 | Emiliano Brembilla | Italy | 1:46.99 | 14 | 1 | |
| 14 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 1:47.10 | 14 | 5 | |
| 15 | David Walters | United States | 1:47.15 | 15 | 5 | |
| 16 | Ross Davenport | Great Britain | 1:47.21 | 15 | 6 | |
| 17 | Shogo Hihara | Japan | 1:47.25 | 13 | 7 | |
| 18 | Nicolas Oliveira | Brazil | 1:47.55 | 13 | 6 | |
| 19 | Gianluca Maglia | Italy | 1:47.64 | 14 | 7 | |
| 20 | Dominik Koll | Austria | 1:47.83 | 13 | 1 | |
| 21 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 1:47.88 | 14 | 2 | |
| 22 | Ryan Harrison | Ireland | 1:47.94 | 11 | 3 | NR |
| 23 | Blake Worsley | Canada | 1:48.17 | 12 | 7 | |
| 24 | Brett Fraser | Cayman Islands | 1:48.18 | 7 | 0 | |
| 25 | Péter Bernek | Hungary | 1:48.24 | 12 | 8 | |
| 26 | Colin Russell | Canada | 1:48.25 | 15 | 7 | |
| 27 | Andrew Mcmillan | New Zealand | 1:48.30 | 15 | 9 | |
| 28 | Daniele Tirabassi | Venezuela | 1:48.51 | 10 | 2 | NR |
| 29 | Gard Kvale | Norway | 1:48.57 | 12 | 1 | NR |
| 30 | Rodrigo Castro | Brazil | 1:48.62 | 14 | 8 | |
| 31 | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or | Israel | 1:48.63 | 15 | 8 | |
| 32 | Jon Raahauge Rud | Denmark | 1:48.69 | 12 | 9 | |
| 33 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 1:48.73 | 15 | 0 | |
| 34 | Clemens Rapp | Germany | 1:48.75 | 14 | 9 | |
| 35 | Douglas Lennox-Silva | Puerto Rico | 1:48.81 | 6 | 2 | NR |
| 36 | David Brandl | Austria | 1:48.89 | 12 | 3 | |
| 37 | Andreas Zisimos | Greece | 1:48.96 | 12 | 5 | |
| 38 | David Karasek | Switzerland | 1:48.97 | 11 | 6 | |
| 39 | Pholien Systermans | Belgium | 1:49.03 | 11 | 5 | |
| 40 | Michael Jack | New Zealand | 1:49.11 | 13 | 9 | |
| 41 | Djordje Markovic | Serbia | 1:49.21 | 12 | 6 | |
| 42 | Romāns Miloslavskis | Latvia | 1:49.34 | 12 | 4 | |
| 43 | Jan Venter | South Africa | 1:49.41 | 13 | 0 | |
| 44 | Cesar Faria | Portugal | 1:49.53 | 10 | 4 | |
| 45 | Raphaël Stacchiotti | Luxembourg | 1:49.61 | 11 | 2 | NR |
| 46 | Květoslav Svoboda | Czech Republic | 1:49.74 | 11 | 4 | |
| 47 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 1:50.03 | 12 | 0 | |
| 48 | Crox Acuna | Venezuela | 1:50.08 | 10 | 6 | |
| 48 | Zoltan Povazsay | Hungary | 1:50.08 | 14 | 0 | |
| 50 | Bae Joonmo | South Korea | 1:50.48 | 10 | 8 | |
| 51 | Gal Nevo | Israel | 1:50.52 | 9 | 8 | |
| 52 | Martín Kutscher | Uruguay | 1:50.69 | 11 | 9 | |
| 53 | Kemal Arda Gurdal | Turkey | 1:50.79 | 9 | 6 | |
| 53 | Jorge Maia | Portugal | 1:50.79 | 10 | 5 | |
| 55 | Shi Tengfei | China | 1:50.88 | 10 | 1 | |
| 56 | Conor Leaney | Ireland | 1:50.98 | 10 | 0 | |
| 57 | Raúl Martínez Colomer | Puerto Rico | 1:51.09 | 9 | 3 | |
| 58 | Xin Tong | China | 1:51.18 | 11 | 8 | |
| 59 | Sebastian Jahnsen Madico | Peru | 1:51.21 | 8 | 3 | |
| 60 | Vladimir Sidorkin | Estonia | 1:51.24 | 11 | 1 | |
| 61 | Mario Montoya | Costa Rica | 1:51.30 | 10 | 9 | NR |
| 62 | Oleg Rabota | Kazakhstan | 1:51.56 | 8 | 7 | |
| 63 | Branden Whitehurst | Virgin Islands | 1:51.59 | 6 | 6 | NR |
| 64 | Lukasz Giminski | Poland | 1:51.62 | 11 | 0 | |
| 65 | Aleksandar Nikolov | Bulgaria | 1:51.77 | 9 | 5 | |
| 66 | Taki M'rabet | Tunisia | 1:51.88 | 9 | 2 | |
| 67 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 1:52.01 | 11 | 7 | |
| 68 | Mateo de Angulo | Colombia | 1:52.37 | 9 | 9 | |
| 69 | Vadym Lepskyy | Ukraine | 1:52.50 | 8 | 0 | |
| 70 | Irakli Revishvili | Georgia | 1:52.87 | 8 | 5 | |
| 71 | Lim Wen Hao Joshua | Singapore | 1:52.99 | 8 | 2 | |
| 72 | Saeid Maleka Ashtiani | Iran | 1:53.32 | 6 | 3 | |
| 73 | Ensar Hajder | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:53.62 | 7 | 1 | |
| 74 | Mikael Koloyan | Armenia | 1:53.76 | 7 | 5 | NR |
| 75 | Artur Dilman | Kazakhstan | 1:53.88 | 9 | 1 | |
| 76 | Miguel Molina | Philippines | 1:54.02 | 10 | 3 | |
| 77 | Sebastian Arispe Silva | Peru | 1:54.04 | 7 | 4 | |
| 78 | Petr Romashkin | Uzbekistan | 1:54.09 | 9 | 7 | |
| 79 | Charles William Walker | Philippines | 1:54.72 | 7 | 6 | |
| 80 | Zane Jordan | Zambia | 1:54.87 | 7 | 9 | |
| 81 | Mohamed Farhoud | Egypt | 1:55.03 | 9 | 4 | |
| 82 | Emin Noshadi | Iran | 1:55.52 | 5 | 6 | |
| 83 | Berrada Morad | Morocco | 1:55.69 | 8 | 1 | |
| 84 | José Alberto Montoya | Costa Rica | 1:55.77 | 6 | 7 | |
| 85 | Chien Jui-Ting | Chinese Taipei | 1:55.91 | 7 | 7 | |
| 86 | Sobitjon Amilov | Uzbekistan | 1:56.25 | 7 | 3 | |
| 87 | Julio Galofre | Colombia | 1:56.40 | 10 | 7 | |
| 88 | Grant Beahan | Zimbabwe | 1:56.52 | 7 | 2 | |
| 89 | Mohammed Madouh | Kuwait | 1:56.64 | 6 | 4 | |
| 90 | Pan Kai-Wen | Chinese Taipei | 1:56.77 | 9 | 0 | |
| 91 | Gary Pineda | Guatemala | 1:56.95 | 4 | 2 | |
| 92 | Cheah Mingzhe Marcus | Singapore | 1:57.01 | 8 | 6 | |
| 93 | Endi Babi | Albania | 1:57.15 | 6 | 0 | NR |
| 94 | Bojan Jovanov | Macedonia | 1:57.48 | 1 | 0 | |
| 95 | Radhames Kalaf | Dominican Republic | 1:57.51 | 6 | 8 | |
| 96 | Loai Abdulwahid Tashkandi | Saudi Arabia | 1:57.94 | 8 | 9 | |
| 97 | Diego Castillo | Panama | 1:58.03 | 5 | 8 | |
| 98 | Jonathan Wong | Jamaica | 1:58.27 | 4 | 1 | |
| 99 | Ashwin Menon | India | 1:58.62 | 5 | 7 | |
| 100 | Oriol Cunat | Andorra | 1:58.74 | 5 | 3 | |
| 101 | Rashid Iunusov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:58.86 | 8 | 8 | |
| 102 | Marzouq Alsalem | Kuwait | 1:59.37 | 6 | 5 | |
| 103 | Allan Gabriel Gutierrez Castro | Honduras | 1:59.57 | 5 | 4 | |
| 104 | Neil Agius | Malta | 1:59.61 | 4 | 3 | |
| 105 | Ahmed Jebrel | Palestine | 1:59.71 | 4 | 0 | |
| 106 | Kareem Ennab | Jordan | 1:59.80 | 4 | 4 | |
| 107 | Christopher Duenas | Guam | 1:59.88 | 6 | 9 | |
| 108 | Vaughn Forsythe | Barbados | 1:59.94 | 5 | 1 | |
| 109 | Giorgi Mtvralashvili | Georgia | 2:00.03 | 5 | 2 | |
| 110 | Colin Bensadon | Gibraltar | 2:00.19 | 5 | 0 | |
| 111 | Sidni Hoxha | Albania | 2:01.30 | 4 | 8 | |
| 112 | Aleksandr Slepchenko | Kyrgyzstan | 2:01.41 | 6 | 1 | |
| 113 | Ignacio Ivan Quevedo Bubba | Bolivia | 2:01.84 | 3 | 5 | |
| 114 | Omar Núñez | Nicaragua | 2:02.23 | 4 | 7 | |
| 115 | Fernando Medrano | Nicaragua | 2:02.45 | 3 | 4 | |
| 116 | Armando Esteban Zayas Claure | Bolivia | 2:02.87 | 4 | 9 | |
| 117 | Edward Caruana Dingli | Malta | 2:03.43 | 3 | 2 | |
| 118 | Heimanu Sichan | French Polynesia | 2:03.65 | 4 | 6 | |
| 119 | Esau Simpson | Grenada | 2:03.93 | 3 | 9 | |
| 120 | Luis Andres Martorell Name | Honduras | 2:04.06 | 3 | 7 | |
| 121 | Jean Marie Froget | Mauritius | 2:05.47 | 3 | 0 | |
| 122 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 2:06.44 | 3 | 1 | |
| 123 | Douglas Miller | Fiji | 2:06.47 | 3 | 8 | |
| 124 | Paul Elaisa | Fiji | 2:06.72 | 2 | 4 | |
| 125 | Saeed Al Jesmi | United Arab Emirates | 2:06.77 | 3 | 6 | |
| 126 | Vincent Perry | French Polynesia | 2:06.92 | 5 | 9 | |
| 127 | Sergey Pevnev | Armenia | 2:07.73 | 3 | 3 | |
| 128 | Ahmed Majeed Ali Tayawi | Iraq | 2:08.55 | 2 | 0 | |
| 129 | Al Khaduri Musallam | Oman | 2:09.44 | 5 | 5 | |
| 130 | Shane Mangroo | Seychelles | 2:09.87 | 2 | 6 | |
| 131 | Sergey Krovyakov | Turkmenistan | 2:11.39 | 2 | 7 | |
| 132 | Henk Aloysius Lowe | Guyana | 2:11.56 | 2 | 8 | |
| 133 | Adam Viktora | Seychelles | 2:12.13 | 2 | 1 | |
| 134 | Cooper Graf | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:12.17 | 2 | 3 | |
| 135 | Shin Kimura | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:13.02 | 2 | 2 | |
| 136 | Jesse Nilon | Samoa | 2:13.15 | 2 | 5 | |
| 137 | Fahad Alqooz | Bahrain | 2:17.04 | 1 | 3 | |
| 138 | Ahmet Halliyev | Turkmenistan | 2:17.22 | 1 | 4 | |
| 139 | Inayath Hassan | Maldives | 2:18.63 | 1 | 6 | |
| 140 | Ali Mohamed Raaidh | Maldives | 2:22.16 | 1 | 5 | |
| 141 | Christopher Symonds | Ghana | 2:32.84 | 1 | 2 | |
| — | Alexander Dale Oen | Norway | DNS | 1 | 7 | |
| — | Aleksandar Jeremic | Macedonia | DNS | 1 | 8 | |
| — | Lin Kuan-Ting | Chinese Taipei | DNS | 7 | 8 | |
| — | Mads Glæsner | Denmark | DNS | 15 | 2 | |
| — | Obaid Al-Jasmi | United Arab Emirates | DQ | 4 | 5 | |
| — | Salvador Mallat Arcaya | Chile | DQ | 8 | 4 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
| 1 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:43.65 | 2 | 4 | CR, ER |
| 2 | Danila Izotov | Russia | 1:45.09 | 2 | 5 | NR |
| 3 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:45.23 | 1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 1:45.31 | 2 | 6 | |
| 5 | Sho Uchida | Japan | 1:45.45 | 1 | 3 | NR |
| 6 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 1:45.69 | 2 | 3 | |
| 7 | Kenrick Monk | Australia | 1:45.77 | 2 | 2 | |
| 8 | Jean Basson | South Africa | 1:45.82 | 1 | 5 | AF |
| 9 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 1:46.13 | 1 | 1 | |
| 10 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 1:46.44 | 2 | 7 | |
| 11 | Ross Davenport | Great Britain | 1:46.46 | 2 | 8 | NR |
| 12 | David Walters | United States | 1:46.61 | 1 | 1 | |
| 13 | Park Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 1:46.68 | 1 | 6 | |
| 14 | Patrick Murphy | Australia | 1:46.70 | 1 | 2 | |
| 15 | Andrew Hunter | Great Britain | 1:46.90 | 1 | 7 | |
| 16 | Shogo Hihara | Japan | 1:47.36 | 1 | 8 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Lane | Notes |
| | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:42.00 | 4 | WR |
| | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:43.22 | 3 | |
| | Danila Izotov | Russia | 1:43.90 | 5 | NR |
| 4 | Sho Uchida | Japan | 1:45.24 | 2 | NR |
| 5 | Kenrick Monk | Australia | 1:45.46 | 1 | |
| 6 | Jean Basson | South Africa | 1:45.67 | 8 | AF |
| 7 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 1:46.05 | 7 | |
| 8 | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 1:46.33 | 6 | |