# Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 20–21 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.
Massimiliano Rosolino blasted a new Olympic record to add Italy's third gold medal in swimming at these Games. He edged out U.S. swimmer Tom Dolan with a fastest split (33.52) on the breaststroke leg to take over the lead at the final turn, and hit the wall first in a sterling time of 1:58.98, clipping 0.93 seconds off a record set by Hungary's Attila Czene in Atlanta. Dolan, the defending champion in the 400 m individual medley four days earlier, became the first American to break a two-minute barrier, taking home the silver in a new national record of 1:59.77. Meanwhile, Tom Wilkens earned a bronze in 2:00.87, handing an entire medal haul for the U.S. team with a two–three finish.
Czene, the defending Olympic champion, finished outside the podium in fourth place with a time of 2:01.16. Netherlands' Marcel Wouda came up with a spectacular swim on the breaststroke leg, but fell short to fifth spot in 2:01.48. Wouda was followed in sixth by Germany's Christian Keller (2:02.02), and in seventh by France's Xavier Marchand (2:02.23). Finland's world record holder Jani Sievinen closed out the field with an eighth-place finish in 2:02.49.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Jani Sievinen (FIN) | 1:58.16 | Rome, Italy | 11 September 1994 |
| Olympic record | Attila Czene (HUN) | 1:59.91 | Atlanta, United States | 25 July 1996 |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 21 September | Final | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 1:58.98 | OR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 2:00.92 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Tom Dolan | United States | 2:01.55 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Marcel Wouda | Netherlands | 2:01.89 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 5 | Curtis Myden | Canada | 2:01.95 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | 6 | Jani Sievinen | Finland | 2:02.00 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Christian Keller | Germany | 2:02.09 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 4 | Tom Wilkens | United States | 2:02.21 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 5 | Matthew Dunn | Australia | 2:02.44 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Cezar Bădiţă | Romania | 2:02.48 | Q, NR |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Attila Czene | Hungary | 2:02.66 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 3 | Robert van der Zant | Australia | 2:02.77 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 6 | Xavier Marchand | France | 2:02.86 | Q |
| 13 | 7 | 2 | Jordi Carrasco | Spain | 2:02.89 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Jens Kruppa | Germany | 2:03.08 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | 7 | Brian Johns | Canada | 2:03.12 | Q |
| 16 | 6 | 7 | Jiro Miki | Japan | 2:03.33 | Q |
| 16 | 7 | 6 | Terence Parkin | South Africa | 2:03.33 | |
| 18 | 6 | 8 | Peter Mankoč | Slovenia | 2:03.45 | |
| 19 | 7 | 1 | István Batházi | Hungary | 2:03.63 | |
| 20 | 5 | 1 | Theo Verster | South Africa | 2:03.64 | |
| 21 | 7 | 8 | Jan Vítazka | Czech Republic | 2:03.66 | NR |
| 22 | 5 | 8 | Ioannis Kokkodis | Greece | 2:04.04 | |
| 23 | 4 | 4 | Dean Kent | New Zealand | 2:04.07 | |
| 24 | 4 | 2 | Valērijs Kalmikovs | Latvia | 2:04.18 | |
| 25 | 6 | 1 | Xie Xufeng | China | 2:04.67 | |
| 26 | 3 | 4 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 2:04.68 | |
| 27 | 4 | 1 | Michael Windisch | Austria | 2:05.15 | |
| 28 | 4 | 8 | Yves Platel | Switzerland | 2:05.19 | |
| 29 | 2 | 3 | Grigoriy Matuzkov | Kazakhstan | 2:05.45 | |
| 30 | 7 | 7 | Susumu Tabuchi | Japan | 2:05.68 | |
| 31 | 4 | 5 | Artem Goncharenko | Ukraine | 2:05.98 | |
| 32 | 3 | 5 | Oleg Pukhnatiy | Uzbekistan | 2:06.01 | |
| 33 | 3 | 3 | Han Kyu-chul | South Korea | 2:06.42 | |
| 34 | 3 | 2 | Arsenio López | Puerto Rico | 2:06.49 | |
| 35 | 2 | 6 | Jeremy Knowles | Bahamas | 2:06.85 | |
| 36 | 4 | 3 | Krešimir Čač | Croatia | 2:07.04 | |
| 37 | 2 | 5 | Javier Díaz | Mexico | 2:07.28 | |
| 38 | 2 | 2 | Aleksandar Miladinovski | Macedonia | 2:07.45 | |
| 39 | 4 | 6 | Michael Halika | Israel | 2:07.53 | |
| 40 | 1 | 7 | Andrei Pakin | Kyrgyzstan | 2:07.88 | |
| 41 | 3 | 1 | Stephen Fahy | Bermuda | 2:07.92 | |
| 42 | 1 | 5 | George Gleason | Virgin Islands | 2:08.25 | |
| 43 | 4 | 7 | Pathunyu Yimsomruay | Thailand | 2:08.38 | |
| 44 | 3 | 6 | Wu Nien-pin | Chinese Taipei | 2:08.85 | |
| 45 | 2 | 4 | Walter Dario Arciprete | Argentina | 2:08.89 | |
| 46 | 2 | 7 | Alex Fong | Hong Kong | 2:09.00 | |
| 47 | 3 | 7 | Andrei Zaharov | Moldova | 2:09.13 | |
| 48 | 1 | 3 | Đorđe Filipović | FR Yugoslavia | 2:09.28 | |
| 49 | 2 | 1 | Orel Oral | Turkey | 2:09.51 | |
| 50 | 1 | 4 | Felix Christiadi Sutanto | Indonesia | 2:09.77 | |
| 51 | 3 | 8 | Haitham Hassan | Egypt | 2:09.92 | |
| 52 | 2 | 8 | Francisco Picasso | Uruguay | 2:10.97 | |
| 53 | 1 | 6 | Georgios Dimitriadis | Cyprus | 2:12.76 | |
| 54 | 1 | 1 | Saad Khalloqi | Morocco | 2:13.22 | |
| 55 | 1 | 2 | Sultan Al-Otaibi | Kuwait | 2:16.23 | |
| 56 | 1 | 8 | Omar Abu Fares | Jordan | 2:21.22 | |

### Semifinals
#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Tom Dolan | United States | 2:00.38 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Christian Keller | Germany | 2:01.23 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Attila Czene | Hungary | 2:01.56 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Xavier Marchand | France | 2:01.81 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Matthew Dunn | Australia | 2:01.95 | |
| 6 | 5 | Curtis Myden | Canada | 2:01.99 | |
| 7 | 1 | Jens Kruppa | Germany | 2:02.55 | |
| 8 | 8 | Jiro Miki | Japan | 2:03.90 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 2:01.14 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Marcel Wouda | Netherlands | 2:01.40 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Jani Sievinen | Finland | 2:01.46 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Tom Wilkens | United States | 2:01.51 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Cezar Bădiţă | Romania | 2:02.02 | |
| 6 | 1 | Jordi Carrasco | Spain | 2:02.90 | |
| 7 | 7 | Robert van der Zant | Australia | 2:02.91 | |
| 8 | 8 | Brian Johns | Canada | 2:02.92 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Massimiliano Rosolino | Italy | 1:58.98 | OR |
| | 4 | Tom Dolan | United States | 1:59.77 | AM |
| | 7 | Tom Wilkens | United States | 2:00.87 | |
| 4 | 1 | Attila Czene | Hungary | 2:01.16 | |
| 5 | 6 | Marcel Wouda | Netherlands | 2:01.48 | |
| 6 | 3 | Christian Keller | Germany | 2:02.02 | |
| 7 | 8 | Xavier Marchand | France | 2:02.23 | |
| 8 | 2 | Jani Sievinen | Finland | 2:02.49 | |