Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

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

World Record	Ian Thorpe (AUS)	1:44.06	Fukuoka, Japan	25 July 2001
Asian Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:47.51	Victoria, Canada	17 August 2006
Games Record	Liu Yu (CHN)	1:49.29	Busan, South Korea	1 October 2002

Heats edit

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	5	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:49.75
2	5	Daisuke Hosokawa (JPN)	1:50.14
3	3	Zhang Enjian (CHN)	1:50.71
4	4	Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:50.96
5	3	Lim Nam-gyun (KOR)	1:51.07
6	4	Takamitsu Kojima (JPN)	1:51.47
7	4	Bryan Tay (SIN)	1:53.04
8	5	Daniel Bego (MAS)	1:54.37
9	3	Virdhawal Khade (IND)	1:54.44
10	3	Miguel Molina (PHI)	1:54.62
11	4	Tang Sheng-chieh (TPE)	1:55.32
12	4	Cheung Siu Hang (HKG)	1:55.57
13	4	Timur Irgashev (UZB)	1:55.73
14	5	Mohammad Madwa (KUW)	1:55.86
15	4	Marcus Cheah (SIN)	1:55.99
16	3	Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart (THA)	1:56.23
17	1	Vyacheslav Titarenko (KAZ)	1:56.39
18	5	Petr Vasiliev (UZB)	1:56.66
19	3	Mohammad Bidarian (IRI)	1:56.84
20	3	Waleed Al-Qahtani (KUW)	1:56.99
21	5	Chen Te-tung (TPE)	1:57.96
22	5	Soheil Maleka Ashtiani (IRI)	1:58.17
23	5	Chung Kwok Ting (HKG)	1:58.55
24	3	Anas Abu Yousuf (QAT)	1:58.87
25	2	Daniel Lee (SRI)	2:01.02
26	2	Moyssara El-Aarag (QAT)	2:01.03
27	2	Heshan Unamboowe (SRI)	2:01.60
28	2	Jamil Yamout (LIB)	2:01.89
29	2	Rashid Iunusov (KGZ)	2:02.48
30	2	Antonio Tong (MAC)	2:03.19
31	4	Kendrick Uy (PHI)	2:04.80
32	2	Lao Kuan Fong (MAC)	2:06.72
33	2	Ali Adel (IRQ)	2:10.87
34	1	Ali Majeed (IRQ)	2:17.00
35	1	Ali Mohamed Raaidh (MDV)	2:30.12

Final edit

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:47.12	AR
	Zhang Lin (CHN)	1:47.85
	Daisuke Hosokawa (JPN)	1:49.62
4	Zhang Enjian (CHN)	1:49.92
5	Takamitsu Kojima (JPN)	1:50.37
6	Lim Nam-gyun (KOR)	1:51.67
7	Bryan Tay (SIN)	1:52.09
8	Daniel Bego (MAS)	1:56.25

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