Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	28 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 29 July 2024 (Final)
Competitors	28 from 21 nations
Winning time	1:44.72
Medalists
David Popovici  Romania Matthew Richards  Great Britain Luke Hobson  United States
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m	men		women
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
800 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Breaststroke
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m	men		women
200 m	men		women
Individual medley
200 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men		women
4 × 200 m	men		women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	mixed	women
Marathon
10 km	men		women
v t e

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 28 and 29 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.^[1]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009	[2][3]
Olympic record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:42.96	Beijing, China	12 August 2008	[4]

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) may enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them have attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event can potentially enter if they meet the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), or if the total quota of 852 athletes has not been targeted. NOCs may also permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under a Universality place since they have no swimmers attaining either of the standard entry times (OQT/OCT).^[5][6]

Following the end of the qualification window, World Aquatics will assess the number of swimmers who have achieved the OQT, the number of relay-only swimmers, and the number of Universality places, before inviting those with OCT to fulfill the total quota of 852. Additionally, OCT places will be distributed by event according to the position of the World Aquatics Rankings during the qualifying deadline.^[5]

The qualifying time standards must be obtained at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships and selection trials, and various international meets approved by World Aquatics in the period between 1 March 2023 and 23 June 2024.^[7]

The following table outlines the qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for this event:

* OQTs correspond to the time achieved by a fourteenth-place swimmer in his or her respective preliminary heat of each event at the previous Games.

ª Because the fourteenth-place swimmer achieved a standard slower than the OQT in Tokyo 2020, the OQT used at the previous Games will remain constant.

^ OCTs are derived by adding 0.5% of the OQT standard.

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The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:45.65	Q
2	3	3	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.91	Q
3	4	8	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	1:46.04	Q, NR
4	4	5	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:46.13	Q
5	2	5	Maximillian Giuliani	Australia	1:46.15	Q
6	2	4	Matthew Richards	Great Britain	1:46.19	Q
7	2	3	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:46.23	Q
7	4	3	Luke Hobson	United States	1:46.23	Q
9	4	2	Thomas Neill	Australia	1:46.27	Q
10	3	4	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:46.33	Q
11	3	5	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:46.34	Q
12	2	6	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	1:46.64	Q
13	2	2	Rafael Miroslaw	Germany	1:46.81	Q
14	2	1	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:47.01	Q
15	3	2	Alessandro Ragaini	Italy	1:47.31	Q
16	3	7	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:47.39	Q
17	2	8	Antonio Djakovic	Switzerland	1:47.46
18	1	4	Velimir Stjepanovic	Serbia	1:47.56
19	3	6	Chris Guiliano	United States	1:47.60
20	3	8	Jorge Iga	Mexico	1:48.38
21	1	5	Saso Boskan	Slovenia	1:48.75
22	4	6	Pan Zhanle	China	1:49.47
23	4	7	Ji Xinjie	China	1:49.88
24	1	3	Omar Abbass	Syria	1:53.01
25	1	6	Muhammad Ahmed Durrani	Pakistan	1:58.67
	4	1	Guilherme Costa	Brazil	DNS
	3	1	Nandor Nemeth	Hungary	DNS
	2	7	Felix Auböck	Austria	DNS

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The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:44.53	Q
2	2	7	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:44.94	Q
3	1	6	Luke Hobson	United States	1:45.19	Q
4	1	2	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:45.36	Q
5	2	3	Maximillian Giuliani	Australia	1:45.37	Q
6	1	4	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.48	Q
7	1	3	Matthew Richards	Great Britain	1:45.63	Q
8	2	6	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:45.88	Q
9	1	5	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	1:45.92
10	2	2	Thomas Neill	Australia	1:46.18
11	2	5	Lucas Henveaux	Belgium	1:46.20
12	1	7	Kim Woo-min	South Korea	1:46.58
13	1	8	Filippo Megli	Italy	1:46.87
14	2	8	Alessandro Ragaini	Italy	1:47.08
15	2	1	Rafael Miroslaw	Germany	1:47.34
16	1	1	Denis Loktev	Israel	1:47.93

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Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	David Popovici	Romania	1:44.72
	1	Matthew Richards	Great Britain	1:44.74
	3	Luke Hobson	United States	1:44.79
4	5	Duncan Scott	Great Britain	1:44.87
5	6	Lukas Märtens	Germany	1:45.46
5	7	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	1:45.46
7	2	Maximillian Giuliani	Australia	1:45.57
8	8	Katsuhiro Matsumoto	Japan	1:46.26

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