Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle
The competition 's 200m Freestyle Men at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 29 and 30 July 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre. 33 athletes took part.
There were six heats. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals, which were held on the same day. Again, the finalists qualified through the eight fastest times of both semi-finals.
Abbreviations: WR = World Record, OR = Olympic Record, NR = national record ER = European record, NAR = North America record, SAR = South America record, ASR = Asian record, AFR = Africa record, OZR = Ozeanienrekord
- 4.1 Run 1
- 4.2 Run 2
Existing Records
Title holders
Leader
Flow 1
July 29, 2012
Flow 2
July 29, 2012
Forward 3
July 29, 2012
Forward 4
July 29, 2012
Forward 5
July 29, 2012
Ben Hockin, whose father is British, at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 was a member of the British 4-100 meter freestyle relay.
Supply 6
July 29, 2012
Shaune and Brett Fraser of the Cayman Islands are brothers.
Semifinal
Run 1
July 29, 2012
Run 2
July 29, 2012
Final
July 30, 2012, 19:43 CET Clock
Between Yang Tae- hwan and there was a dead heat, both struck at the same time. The silver medal was thus awarded twice, the bronze medal was omitted. Agnel scored the first French Olympic victory on this track, Yang won the first medal for China in this discipline. The Frenchman swam the third fastest time ever swum on this route. Only world record holder Biedermann and the Olympic champion from Beijing, Michael Phelps, were faster.
Gallery
Park Tae- hwan (KOR ) , silver medal winner
Ryan Lochte (USA) narrowly missed a medal and is in the final 4th place
Ricky Berens (USA) fails in the semifinals
The German champion Paul Biedermann reached the final place 5
Clemens Rapp ( GER) fails in the flow
David Brandl (AUT ) in the flow separates from