# Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle event was the 10th event contested on the 2007 World Aquatics Championship for Swimming.
The 15 heats began at 10:27, on 26 March 2007, at the Rod Laver Arena, in Melbourne Park.
The semifinals started on the evening of the same day at 20:17.
The final started at 19:00 on the following day, 27 March.

## Records

World record :
| 1:44.06 | Ian Thorpe | Australia | Fukuoka | July 25, 2001 |
| Competition record |||||
| 1:44.06 | Ian Thorpe | Australia | Fukuoka | July 25, 2001 |

## Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | 50m | 100m | 150m | Time | Q |
| 1 | 14 | 4 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 25.20 | 00:51.91 | 1:19.56 | 1:47.36 | Q |
| 2 | 15 | 4 | Michael Phelps | USA | 25.39 | 00:53.02 | 1:20.82 | 1:47.52 | Q |
| 3 | 14 | 5 | Park Tae-hwan | South Korea | 25.56 | 00:52.94 | 1:20.73 | 1:47.58 | Q |
| 4 | 14 | 2 | Kenrick Monk | Australia | 25.53 | 00:52.90 | 1:20.47 | 1:48.00 | Q |
| 5 | 14 | 1 | Nicola Cassio | Italy | 25.75 | 00:53.47 | 1:21.00 | 1:48.32 | Q |
| 6 | 14 | 6 | Amaury Leveaux | France | 25.48 | 00:53.29 | 1:21.02 | 1:48.35 | Q |
| 7 | 15 | 7 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 25.41 | 00:52.96 | 1:20.48 | 1:48.49 | Q |
| 8 | 14 | 3 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 25.18 | 00:52.49 | 1:20.53 | 1:48.62 | Q |
| 9 | 15 | 5 | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 25.29 | 00:52.62 | 1:20.48 | 1:48.63 | Q |
| 10 | 13 | 7 | Brian Johns | Canada | 25.49 | 00:53.31 | 1:21.28 | 1:48.72 | Q |
| 11 | 15 | 6 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 25.56 | 00:53.19 | 1:20.97 | 1:48.84 | Q |
| 12 | 13 | 3 | Zhang Lin | China | 26.58 | 00:54.47 | 1:22.19 | 1:48.88 | Q |
| 13 | 15 | 1 | Patrick Murphy | Australia | 25.83 | 00:53.37 | 1:21.29 | 1:49.01 | Q |
| 14 | 15 | 3 | David Carry | Great Britain | 25.65 | 00:53.41 | 1:21.26 | 1:49.15 | Q |
| 15 | 13 | 2 | Dominik Koll | Austria | 26.41 | 00:54.07 | 1:22.04 | 1:49.20 | Q |
| 16 | 12 | 2 | László Cseh | Hungary | 25.85 | 00:53.56 | 1:21.78 | 1:49.47 | Q |
| 17 | 12 | 5 | Nicolas Oliveira | Brazil | 25.53 | 00:53.89 | 1:22.02 | 1:49.55 | |
| 18 | 13 | 4 | Klete Keller | USA | 26.27 | 00:54.26 | 1:22.36 | 1:49.58 | |
| 19 | 13 | 1 | Fabien Gilot | France | 26.14 | 00:53.83 | 1:21.73 | 1:49.59 | |
| 20 | 12 | 8 | Tiago Venâncio | Portugal | 25.44 | 00:53.93 | 1:21.74 | 1:49.63 | |
| 21 | 11 | 4 | David Brandl | Austria | 25.82 | 00:53.21 | 1:21.35 | 1:49.68 | |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Daisuke Hosokawa | Japan | 25.40 | 00:53.27 | 1:21.53 | 1:49.79 | |
| 23 | 14 | 7 | Jean Basson | South Africa | 25.90 | 00:53.43 | 1:21.36 | 1:49.82 | |
| 24 | 15 | 8 | Nikolaos Xylouris | Greece | 25.82 | 00:53.55 | 1:21.72 | 1:50.04 | |
| 25 | 13 | 5 | Simon Burnett | Great Britain | 25.71 | 00:54.03 | 1:22.55 | 1:50.11 | |
| 26 | 10 | 4 | Michał Rokicki | Poland | 26.42 | 00:54.33 | 1:22.33 | 1:50.12 | |
| 27 | 15 | 2 | Stefan Herbst | Germany | 25.67 | 00:53.71 | 1:22.04 | 1:50.25 | |
| 28 | 10 | 1 | Luka Turk | Slovenia | 26.54 | 00:54.63 | 1:22.66 | 1:50.36 | |
| 29 | 12 | 3 | Zhang Enjian | China | 26.24 | 00:53.97 | 1:22.01 | 1:50.45 | |
| 30 | 13 | 6 | Andreas Zisimos | Greece | 25.80 | 00:53.99 | 1:22.05 | 1:50.48 | |
| 31 | 12 | 6 | Květoslav Svoboda | Czech Republic | 25.78 | 00:53.90 | 1:22.35 | 1:50.50 | |
| 32 | 13 | 8 | Andrey Kapralov | Russia | 25.18 | 00:52.90 | 1:21.71 | 1:50.55 | |
| 33 | 11 | 5 | Shai Livnat | Israel | 25.20 | 00:52.55 | 1:20.79 | 1:50.60 | |
| 34 | 14 | 8 | Olaf Wildeboer | Netherlands | 25.90 | 00:54.17 | 1:22.43 | 1:50.72 | |
| 35 | 12 | 1 | Sergey Perunin | Russia | 25.91 | 00:54.19 | 1:22.48 | 1:50.78 | |
| 36 | 12 | 7 | Rodrigo Castro | Brazil | 25.99 | 00:53.81 | 1:22.08 | 1:50.79 | |
| 37 | 10 | 6 | Andrew McMillan | New Zealand | 26.40 | 00:54.55 | 1:22.85 | 1:51.10 | |
| 38 | 10 | 3 | Christoffer Vikström | Sweden | 25.93 | 00:53.34 | 1:21.85 | 1:51.25 | |
| 39 | 11 | 1 | Michal Rubáček | Czech Republic | 25.75 | 00:53.89 | 1:22.79 | 1:51.31 | |
| 40 | 11 | 6 | Takamitsu Kojima | Japan | 25.65 | 00:54.24 | 1:23.04 | 1:51.32 | |
| 41 | 10 | 7 | Michael Jack | New Zealand | 26.37 | 00:54.42 | 1:23.14 | 1:51.45 | |
| 42 | 11 | 8 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 25.70 | 00:54.33 | 1:22.98 | 1:51.66 | |
| 43 | 11 | 7 | Lukasz Giminski | Poland | 26.03 | 00:54.37 | 1:23.20 | 1:51.72 | |
| 44 | 9 | 6 | Gard Kvale | Norway | 26.31 | 00:54.31 | 1:23.10 | 1:51.78 | |
| 45 | 7 | 1 | Oleksandr Tsepukh | Ukraine | 24.95 | 00:53.37 | 1:22.66 | 1:51.83 | |
| 46 | 9 | 4 | Nabil Kebbab | Algeria | 26.46 | 00:54.93 | 1:23.51 | 1:51.95 | |
| 47 | 1 | 6 | Saulius Binevičius | Lithuania | 26.04 | 00:53.98 | 1:22.82 | 1:52.22 | |
| 48 | 9 | 7 | Dominik Straga | Croatia | 25.92 | 00:54.11 | 1:22.77 | 1:52.40 | |
| 49 | 8 | 6 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 26.38 | 00:54.75 | 1:23.67 | 1:52.41 | |
| 50 | 11 | 2 | Romāns Miloslavskis | Latvia | 25.74 | 00:53.62 | 1:22.12 | 1:52.44 | |
| 51 | 10 | 5 | Adriano Niz | Portugal | 26.29 | 00:55.01 | 1:24.12 | 1:52.46 | |
| 52 | 9 | 1 | Martín Kutscher | Uruguay | 25.95 | 00:54.38 | 1:23.56 | 1:52.57 | |
| 53 | 9 | 8 | Miguel Molina | Philippines | 26.70 | 00:55.04 | 1:23.71 | 1:52.67 | |
| 54 | 9 | 3 | Crox Acuña | Venezuela | 25.73 | 00:54.63 | 1:23.47 | 1:52.70 | |
| 55 | 10 | 2 | Namgyun Lim | South Korea | 26.57 | 00:54.91 | 1:23.75 | 1:53.01 | |
| 56 | 8 | 1 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 25.14 | 00:53.38 | 1:22.80 | 1:53.09 | |
| 57 | 7 | 5 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 25.85 | 00:54.69 | 1:23.79 | 1:53.27 | |
| 58 | 9 | 5 | Daniel Bego | Malaysia | 26.86 | 00:55.84 | 1:25.14 | 1:53.32 | |
| 59 | 8 | 3 | Vitaliy Khan | Kazakhstan | 26.03 | 00:54.12 | 1:22.51 | 1:53.37 | |
| 60 | 9 | 2 | Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane | Chile | 26.48 | 00:55.15 | 1:24.30 | 1:53.90 | |
| 61 | 8 | 7 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | Cyprus | 26.15 | 00:55.41 | 1:25.11 | 1:54.25 | |
| 62 | 8 | 2 | Mario Montoya | Costa Rica | 25.81 | 00:54.97 | 1:24.98 | 1:54.70 | |
| 63 | 8 | 5 | Salvador Mallat Arcaya | Chile | 26.88 | 00:55.86 | 1:25.23 | 1:54.71 | |
| 64 | 7 | 3 | Igor Čerenšek | Croatia | 26.76 | 00:56.16 | 1:26.77 | 1:55.04 | |
| 65 | 10 | 8 | Zhirong Bryan Tay | Singapore | 27.28 | 00:56.66 | 1:26.89 | 1:55.70 | |
| 66 | 8 | 4 | Mikael Koloyan | Armenia | 26.13 | 00:54.96 | 1:24.79 | 1:55.99 | |
| 67 | 7 | 2 | Timur Irgashev | Uzbekistan | 26.76 | 00:56.52 | 1:26.78 | 1:56.39 | |
| 68 | 5 | 2 | Emanuele Nicolini | San Marino | 27.29 | 00:57.13 | 1:26.83 | 1:56.61 | |
| 69 | 6 | 6 | Kevin Soow Choy Yeap | Malaysia | 27.43 | 00:57.44 | 1:28.25 | 1:56.65 | |
| 70 | 6 | 3 | Mohammad Bidarian | Iran | 26.78 | 00:56.17 | 1:26.90 | 1:56.68 | |
| 71 | 7 | 7 | Vyacheslav Titarenko | Kazakhstan | 27.18 | 00:57.07 | 1:27.19 | 1:56.74 | |
| 72 | 6 | 4 | Kieran Locke | Virgin Islands | 27.27 | 00:56.54 | 1:26.70 | 1:57.03 | |
| 73 | 7 | 4 | Vasilii Danilov | Kyrgyzstan | 26.60 | 00:55.63 | 1:25.35 | 1:57.38 | |
| 74 | 6 | 8 | Youssef Hafdi | Morocco | 27.51 | 00:57.52 | 1:27.41 | 1:58.10 | |
| 75 | 6 | 5 | Ju Wei Sng | Singapore | 28.24 | 00:58.38 | 1:28.21 | 1:58.29 | |
| 76 | 4 | 8 | Diego Castillo Granados | Panama | 27.45 | 00:57.66 | 1:28.56 | 1:58.64 | |
| 77 | 5 | 5 | Ibrahim Nazarov | Uzbekistan | 26.53 | 00:55.86 | 1:26.51 | 1:58.76 | |
| 78 | 5 | 6 | Wing Cheung Victor Wong | Macau | 27.44 | 00:58.04 | 1:28.38 | 1:58.88 | |
| 79 | 4 | 2 | Christopher Duenas | Guam | 27.78 | 00:57.51 | 1:28.46 | 1:58.99 | |
| 80 | 6 | 2 | Sebastián Jahnsen | Peru | 27.41 | 00:57.68 | 1:28.62 | 1:59.04 | |
| 81 | 8 | 8 | Oscar Jahnsen | Peru | 26.88 | 00:56.95 | 1:28.51 | 1:59.22 | |
| 82 | 6 | 1 | Albert Cristiadi Sutanto | Indonesia | 28.11 | 00:58.51 | 1:29.20 | 1:59.32 | |
| 83 | 4 | 6 | Morgan Locke | Virgin Islands | 28.07 | 00:58.50 | 1:28.68 | 1:59.42 | |
| 84 | 6 | 7 | Srdjan Vujasin | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 27.13 | 00:56.78 | 1:27.65 | 1:59.44 | |
| 85 | 7 | 8 | Waleed Al-Qahtani | Kuwait | 28.02 | 00:58.15 | 1:28.81 | 1:59.70 | |
| 86 | 5 | 8 | Pál Joensen | Faroe Islands | 27.24 | 00:57.18 | 1:28.29 | 1:59.82 | |
| 87 | 4 | 5 | Brian Howard Ho | Indonesia | 27.54 | 00:57.73 | 1:29.04 | 2:00.09 | |
| 88 | 4 | 7 | Fernando Medrano Medina | Nicaragua | 28.08 | 00:58.47 | 1:29.12 | 2:00.48 | |
| 89 | 5 | 3 | Amar Muralidharan | India | 27.44 | 00:57.43 | 1:28.83 | 2:00.66 | |
| 90 | 5 | 1 | Steven Mangroo | Seychelles | 27.81 | 00:58.43 | 1:29.57 | 2:00.76 | |
| 91 | 4 | 3 | Colin Bensadon | Gibraltar | 27.49 | 00:57.75 | 1:29.01 | 2:01.20 | |
| 92 | 5 | 4 | Anas Abuyousuf | Qatar | 27.70 | 00:58.21 | 1:29.69 | 2:01.40 | |
| 93 | 3 | 4 | Loai Tashkandi | Saudi Arabia | 28.20 | 00:59.97 | 1:30.57 | 2:01.49 | |
| 94 | 3 | 5 | Heshan Unamboowe | Sri Lanka | 28.08 | 00:59.70 | 1:31.22 | 2:02.85 | |
| 95 | 3 | 3 | Neil Agius | Malta | 28.40 | 00:59.64 | 1:31.21 | 2:03.21 | |
| 96 | 3 | 2 | Marcelo Alba | Bolivia | 28.07 | 00:59.53 | 1:32.04 | 2:03.31 | |
| 97 | 3 | 6 | Heimanu Sichan | Tahiti | 28.01 | 00:59.68 | 1:32.24 | 2:03.65 | |
| 98 | 4 | 1 | Daniel Lee | Sri Lanka | 27.92 | 00:58.77 | 1:31.17 | 2:03.76 | |
| 99 | 7 | 6 | Emile−Rony Bakale | Congo | 26.19 | 00:56.00 | 1:29.06 | 2:03.82 | |
| 100 | 4 | 4 | Anas Hamadeh | Jordan | 27.37 | 00:58.21 | 1:31.38 | 2:05.37 | |
| 101 | 2 | 1 | Eros Qama | Albania | 28.06 | 00:59.71 | 1:32.62 | 2:05.80 | |
| 102 | 3 | 7 | Oliver Quick | Gibraltar | 28.80 | 1:00.51 | 1:33.34 | 2:05.95 | |
| 103 | 5 | 7 | Rashid Iunusov | Kyrgyzstan | 27.79 | 00:58.74 | 1:32.50 | 2:06.59 | |
| 104 | 2 | 3 | Carlos Shimizu | Guam | 28.77 | 1:00.56 | 1:33.42 | 2:06.81 | |
| 105 | 1 | 5 | Otiko Kpliboh | Nigeria | 27.98 | 00:59.61 | 1:32.78 | 2:07.28 | |
| 106 | 3 | 1 | Malbor Oshafi | Albania | 27.96 | 1:00.12 | 1:33.80 | 2:07.51 | |
| 107 | 3 | 8 | Zane Jordan | Zambia | 28.32 | 1:00.36 | 1:34.05 | 2:09.74 | |
| 108 | 2 | 5 | Yannick Roberts | Guyana | 29.31 | 1:02.79 | 1:36.91 | 2:10.75 | |
| 109 | 2 | 4 | Eli Ebenezer Wong | Northern Mariana Islands | 29.62 | 1:03.94 | 1:38.95 | 2:12.32 | |
| 110 | 2 | 6 | Jamaal Sobers | Guyana | 29.50 | 1:03.95 | 1:41.04 | 2:16.87 | |
| 111 | 1 | 7 | Seraj Mouloud | Libya | 28.95 | 1:02.56 | 1:40.36 | 2:18.73 | |
| 112 | 2 | 7 | Sergey Krovyakov | Turkmenistan | 29.20 | 1:03.94 | 1:40.48 | 2:19.06 | |
| 113 | 2 | 2 | Cooper Theodore Graf | Northern Mariana Islands | 32.78 | 1:09.61 | 1:46.31 | 2:22.69 | |
| 114 | 1 | 4 | Isao Misech | Palau | 30.36 | 1:06.07 | 1:46.16 | 2:28.81 | |
| 115 | 2 | 8 | Ibrahim Shameel | Maldives | 31.91 | 1:09.98 | 1:51.67 | 2:32.36 | |
| 116 | 1 | 3 | Okai Opanka Adu | Ghana | 33.19 | 1:14.79 | 2:00.78 | 2:48.43 | |
| 117 | 1 | 2 | Bernard Blewudzi | Ghana | 34.17 | 1:15.45 | 2:01.44 | 2:51.98 | |
| 999 | 12 | 4 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 999DNS | 999 | 999 | 999 | |

## Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | 50m | 100m | 150m | Time | Q |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 24.52 | 51.16 | 1:18.66 | 1:46.33 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Michael Phelps | United States | 25.29 | 52.48 | 1:20.10 | 1:46.75 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 24.96 | 52.13 | 1:19.48 | 1:47.44 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Kenrick Monk | Australia | 25.38 | 52.96 | 1:20.64 | 1:47.45 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Park Tae-Hwan | South Korea | 25.47 | 52.91 | 1:20.58 | 1:47.83 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 7 | Zhang Lin | China | 25.61 | 53.25 | 1:21.26 | 1:48.29 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 7 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 25.82 | 53.28 | 1:20.97 | 1:48.43 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | Nicola Cassio | Italy | 25.65 | 53.24 | 1:20.83 | 1:48.47 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 8 | Dominik Koll | Austria | 25.28 | 52.66 | 1:20.50 | 1:48.50 | |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | Brian Johns | Canada | 25.47 | 53.28 | 1:21.22 | 1:48.51 | |
| 11 | 2 | 6 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 25.57 | 52.87 | 1:20.48 | 1:48.54 | |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | David Carry | Great Britain | 25.41 | 52.87 | 1:20.94 | 1:48.71 | |
| 13 | 2 | 1 | Patrick Murphy | Australia | 25.54 | 52.92 | 1:20.89 | 1:48.75 | |
| 14 | 1 | 3 | Amaury Leveaux | France | 25.34 | 53.28 | 1:21.45 | 1:48.81 | |
| 15 | 1 | 8 | László Cseh | Hungary | 25.18 | 52.92 | 1:20.95 | 1:48.89 | |
| 16 | 1 | 6 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 25.43 | 53.03 | 1:20.99 | 1:48.92 | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | 50m | 100m | 150m | Time |
| | 5 | Michael Phelps | United States | 24.47 | 51.00 | 1:17.73 | 1:43.86 WR |
| | 4 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 24.53 | 51.17 | 1:18.16 | 1:46.28 |
| | 2 | Park Tae-hwan | South Korea | 25.41 | 52.74 | 1:19.51 | 1:46.73 |
| 4 | 6 | Kenrick Monk | Australia | 25.09 | 52.52 | 1:19.88 | 1:47.12 |
| 5 | 3 | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 25.03 | 52.02 | 1:19.15 | 1:47.18 |
| 6 | 7 | Zhang Lin | China | 25.46 | 53.22 | 1:20.89 | 1:47.53 |
| 7 | 1 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 25.86 | 53.17 | 1:20.60 | 1:48.09 |
| 8 | 8 | Nicola Cassio | Italy | 25.67 | 53.37 | 1:21.00 | 1:49.13 |