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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	25 from 18 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
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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.

The winning margin was 0.02 seconds, the closest win in this event at the Olympics.

Records

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
Olympic record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:42.96	Beijing, China	12 August 2008

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). For this event, the OQT was 1:46.26. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 1:46.79 for this event. In total, 21 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, four athletes qualified through universality places and three athletes qualified through achieving the OCT.

Competition format

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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.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Results

Heats

Results

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
	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

Semifinals

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

Results

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

Final

Results

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

References

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