# Swimming at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2022 Asian Games took place on 27 September 2023 at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Expo Center.

## Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
| Monday, 27 September 2023 | 10:42 | Heats |
| Monday, 27 September 2023 | 19:48 | Final |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.
| World Record | Paul Biedermann (GER) | 1:42.00 | Rome, Italy | 28 July 2009 |
| Asian Record | Sun Yang (CHN) | 1:44.39 | Budapest, Hungary | 25 July 2017 |
| Games Record | Park Tae-hwan (KOR) | 1:44.80 | Guangzhou, China | 14 November 2010 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 27 September 2023 | Final | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:44.40 | GR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Swimmer | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 4 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:47.08 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | 5 | Hidenari Mano | Japan | 1:47.79 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Lee Ho-joon | South Korea | 1:48.13 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Pan Zhanle | China | 1:48.42 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:48.44 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 5 | Hong Jinquan | China | 1:48.46 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Glen Lim | Singapore | 1:48.76 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | Ardi Zulhilmi Bma | Singapore | 1:48.86 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Khiew Hoe Yean | Malaysia | 1:48.97 | |
| 10 | 3 | 6 | Srihari Nataraj | India | 1:49.05 | NR |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Lim Yin Chuen | Malaysia | 1:51.18 | |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Cheuk Ming Ho | Hong Kong | 1:51.40 | |
| 13 | 4 | 1 | Tonnam Kanteemool | Thailand | 1:51.42 | |
| 14 | 4 | 2 | Ngo Dinh Chuyen | Vietnam | 1:51.74 | |
| 15 | 5 | 7 | Nicholas Subagyo | Indonesia | 1:51.99 | |
| 15 | 5 | 6 | Dulyawat Daewsriyong | Thailand | 1:51.99 | |
| 17 | 2 | 5 | Egor Petryakov | Uzbekistan | 1:52.00 | |
| 18 | 3 | 2 | Do Ngoc Vinh | Vietnam | 1:52.29 | |
| 19 | 4 | 7 | Tanish George Mathew | India | 1:52.39 | |
| 20 | 3 | 7 | Matin Sohran | Iran | 1:53.57 | |
| 21 | 5 | 8 | Sauod Alshamroukh | Kuwait | 1:54.21 | |
| 22 | 4 | 8 | Batbayar Enkhtamir | Mongolia | 1:54.38 | |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | He Shing Ip | Hong Kong | 1:55.12 | |
| 24 | 3 | 8 | Issa Samir Al Adawi | Oman | 1:56.52 | |
| 25 | 2 | 7 | Musa Zhalayev | Turkmenistan | 1:56.78 | |
| 26 | 1 | 6 | Mahmoud Abugharbia | Palestine | 1:58.40 | |
| 27 | 2 | 1 | Ng Chi Hin | Macau | 1:59.07 | |
| 28 | 2 | 4 | Ahmed Diab | Qatar | 1:59.09 | |
| 29 | 2 | 6 | Muhammad Ahmed Durrani | Pakistan | 1:59.29 | |
| 30 | 5 | 1 | Abdalla Elghamry | Qatar | 1:59.38 | |
| 31 | 2 | 2 | Muhammad Amaan Siddiqui | Pakistan | 1:59.77 | |
| 32 | 2 | 3 | Nasir Yaha Hussian | Nepal | 2:00.14 | |
| 33 | 1 | 3 | Ardasher Gadoev | Tajikistan | 2:02.84 | |
| 34 | 1 | 5 | Ninjin Enkhbaatar | Mongolia | 2:03.29 | |
| 35 | 1 | 4 | Sangay Tenzin | Bhutan | 2:07.61 | |
| 36 | 2 | 8 | Mubal Azzam Ibrahim | Maldives | 2:08.33 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Swimmer | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 1:44.40 | GR, NR |
| | 6 | Pan Zhanle | China | 1:45.28 | |
| | 3 | Lee Ho-joon | South Korea | 1:45.56 | |
| 4 | 5 | Hidenari Mano | Japan | 1:46.15 | |
| 5 | 7 | Hong Jinquan | China | 1:47.70 | |
| 6 | 2 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 1:48.95 | |
| 7 | 1 | Glen Lim | Singapore | 1:49.00 | |
| 8 | 8 | Ardi Zulhilmi Bma | Singapore | 1:49.22 | |