Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle Heats Heats

| Heat | Lane | Name_ | Nationality | Time_ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | Jonathan Duncan | New Zealand | 1:53.27 |
| 4 | 2 | Rodrigo Castro | Brazil | 1:53.65 |
| 3 | 4 | Fernando Jácome | Colombia | 1:54.17 |
| 3 | 7 | Francisco Paez | Venezuela | 1:54.32 |
| 6 | 3 | Dimitrios Manganas | Greece | 1:54.36 |
| 2 | 2 | Allen Ong | Malaysia | 1:54.53 |
| 3 | 8 | Wu Nien-Pin | Chinese Taipei | 1:54.58 |
| 2 | 7 | George Gleason | Virgin Islands | 1:54.64 |
| 4 | 8 | Glen Walshaw | Zimbabwe | 1:54.70 |
| 2 | 3 | Nikola Kalabić | Yugoslavia | 1:54.75 |
| 2 | 8 | Aytekin Mindan | Turkey | 1:54.86 |
| 3 | 6 | Vicha Ratanachote | Thailand | 1:54.91 |
| 1 | 3 | Oleg Tsvetkovskiy | Uzbekistan | 1:54.93 |
| 2 | 1 | Carl Probert | Fiji | 1:54.98 |
| 1 | 5 | Mahmoud El-Wany | Egypt | 1:55.19 |
| 1 | 4 | Sebastien Paddington | Trinidad and Tobago | 1:55.40 |
| 2 | 4 | Andrey Kvassov | Kazakhstan | 1:55.72 |