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Men's 200-metre freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	24 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 25 July 2001 (final)
Competitors	55
Winning time	1:44.06 WR
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Pieter van den Hoogenband    Netherlands   Klete Keller    United States
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The men's 200-metre freestyle event at the "2001 World Aquatic Championships took place 25 July." The heats. And semifinals were on 24 July.

Records※

Prior——to the competition, the existing world and "championship records were as follows."

World record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	1:44.69	Hobart, Australia	27 March 2001
Championship record	Giorgio Lamberti (ITA)	1:47.27	Perth, Australia	7 January 1991

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
24 July	Heat 6	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:47.18	CR
24 July	Semifinal 2	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:45.80	CR
25 July	Final	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:44.06	WR

Results※

Heats※

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:47.18	Q, CR
2	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	1:47.91	Q
3	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:47.95	Q
4	Bill Kirby	Australia	1:48.57	Q
5	Massimiliano Rosolino	Italy	1:48.60	Q
6	Scott Goldblatt	United States	1:48.65	Q
7	Klete Keller	United States	1:49.14	Q
8	Mark Johnston	Canada	1:49.38	Q
9	Paul Palmer	United Kingdom	1:49.46	Q
10	Stefan Herbst	Germany	1:49.72	Q
11	José Meolans	Argentina	1:49.86	Q
12	Athanasios Oikonomou	Greece	1:49.90	Q
13	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	1:50.02	Q
14	Rick Say	Canada	1:50.08	Q
15	Stefan Pohl	Germany	1:50.11	Q
16	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	1:50.16	Q
17	Attila Zubor	Hungary	1:50.33
18	Daisuke Hosokawa	Japan	1:50.36
19	Stepan Ganzey	Russia	1:50.45
20	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	1:50.72
21	Dmitry Chernyshyov	Russia	1:50.77
22	Rodrigo Castro	Brazil	1:51.10
23	Hideaki Hara	Japan	1:51.23
24	Karel Novy	Switzerland	1:52.21
25	Saulius Binevičius	Lithuania	1:52.56
26	Han Kyu-Chul	South Korea	1:52.69
27	Andriy Serdinov	Ukraine	1:53.38
28	Javier Díaz	Mexico	1:53.81
29	Alejandro Siqueiros	Mexico	1:53.82
30	George Gleason	United States Virgin Islands	1:54.31
31	Gary Tan	Singapore	1:54.93
32	Dieung Manggang	Malaysia	1:55.30
33	Wu Nien-Pin	Chinese Taipei	1:55.88
34	Victor Rogut	Moldova	1:56.04
35	Mark Chay	Singapore	1:56.43
36	Mohammad Naeem Masri	Syria	1:56.97
37	Ronald Cowen	Bermuda	1:57.34
38	Jiang Bing-Ru	Chinese Taipei	1:57.72
39	Thamer Al Shamroukh	Kuwait	1:59.11
40	Christophee Backisavs	Dominican Republic	1:59.12
41	Fahad Al Otaibi	Kuwait	1:59.19
42	Chon Kit Alias Joao Tang	Macau	1:59.84
43	Vakhtang Beridze	Georgia	1:59.88
44	Obaid Ahmed Al Jassimi	United Arab Emirates	2:00.64
45	Ignacio Bengoechea	Chile	2:00.65
46	Barnsley Albert	Seychelles	2:03.68
47	Seung Gin Lee	Northern Mariana Islands	2:05.91
48	Aleksey Bortnikov	Uzbekistan	2:05.99
49	William Kang	Guam	2:06.11
50	Mumtaz Ahmad	Pakistan	2:07.85
51	Dean Palacios	Northern Mariana Islands	2:08.71
52	Mark Unpingco	Guam	2:08.98
53	Onan Thom	Guyana	2:11.35
54	Rony Bakale	Republic of the Congo	2:12.59
55	Loren Lindborg	Marshall Islands	2:18.80
–	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	DNS

Semifinals※

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:45.80	Q, CR
2	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:47.26	Q
3	Klete Keller	United States	1:47.77	Q
4	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	1:47.84	Q
5	Scott Goldblatt	United States	1:48.50	Q
6	Bill Kirby	Australia	1:48.88	Q
7	Mark Johnston	Canada	1:48.90	Q
8	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	1:49.26	Q
9	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	1:49.30
10	Paul Palmer	United Kingdom	1:49.32
11	José Meolans	Argentina	1:49.34
12	Daisuke Hosokawa	Japan	1:49.73
13	Stefan Herbst	Germany	1:49.75
14	Stefan Pohl	Germany	1:49.78
15	Rick Say	Canada	1:49.80
16	Athanasios Oikonomou	Greece	1:50.28

Final※

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ian Thorpe	Australia	1:44.06	WR
	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	1:45.81
	Klete Keller	United States	1:47.10
4	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	1:47.58
5	William Kirby	Australia	1:48.11
6	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	1:48.86
7	Mark Johnston	Canada	1:49.39
8	Scott Goldblatt	United States	1:49.54

Key: WR = World record

References※