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Men's 200m freestyle at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	25 July (prelims, semifinals) 26 July (final)
Competitors	95
Winning time	1:45.20
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   Grant Hackett    Australia   Ryk Neethling    South Africa
← 2003 2007 →

The men's 200 freestyle at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 25+26 July 2005 in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 95 swimmers were entered in the preliminary heats, which swam in the morning of July 25. The top-16 swimmers from the prelims advanced on to semifinal heats that evening. From the semifinals, the top 8 swimmers advanced onto the next night's final.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR): 1:44.06, Ian Thorpe (Australia), 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan.
• Championship record (CR): same

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Michael Phelps	USA	1:45.20
2	Grant Hackett	Australia	1:46.14
3	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	1:46.63
4	Brent Hayden	Canada	1:46.85
5	Nicholas Sprenger	Australia	1:47.09
6	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	1:47.25
7	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	1:47.63
8	ZHANG Lin	China	1:49.45

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Michael Phelps	USA	1:46.33	Q
2	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	1:47.37	Q
3	Nicholas Sprenger	Australia	1:47.57	Q
4	Grant Hackett	Australia	1:47.66	Q
5	Brent Hayden	Canada	1:48.00	Q
6	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	1:48.05	Q
7	ZHANG Lin	China	1:48.10	Q
8	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	1:48.11	Q
9	Filippo Magnini	Italy	1:48.34
10	Amaury Leveaux	France	1:48.71
11	Stefan Herbst	Germany	1:48.72
12	David Carry	Great Britain	1:48.79
13	Yoshihiro Okumura	Japan	1:49.15
14	Romāns Miloslavskis	Latvia	1:49.19
15	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	1:49.97
16	Rick Say	Canada	1:50.01

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	Grant Hackett	Australia	1:47.88	Q
2	Michael Phelps	USA	1:48.17	Q
3	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	1:48.37	Q
4	Peter Vanderkaay	USA	1:48.53	Q
5	Brent Hayden	Canada	1:48.59	Q
6	Amaury Leveaux	France	1:48.69	Q
7	Emiliano Brembilla	Italy	1:48.70	Q
8	Filippo Magnini	Italy	1:48.78	Q
9	Nicholas Sprenger	Australia	1:48.80	Q
10	Yoshihiro Okumura	Japan	1:48.92	Q
11	Rick Say	Canada	1:48.96	Q
12	David Carry	Great Britain	1:49.09	Q
13	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	1:49.13	Q
14	ZHANG Lin	China	1:49.19	Q
15	Stefan Herbst	Germany	1:49.32	Q
16	Romāns Miloslavskis	Latvia	1:49.40	Q
17	Sho Uchida	Japan	1:49.42
18	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:49.47
19	Olaf Wildeboer	Spain	1:49.62
20	PARK Tae-Hwan	South Korea	1:49.70
21	Andreas Zisimos	Greece	1:49.75
22	Shai Livnat	Israel	1:49.81
23	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	1:49.85
24	Jean Basson	South Africa	1:49.99
25	Maxim Kuznetsov	Russia	1:50.12
26	Dominik Koll	Austria	1:50.37
27	Jacob Carstensen	Denmark	1:50.74
28	Nicolas Rostoucher	France	1:50.76
29	Evgeny Lagunov	Russia	1:50.94
30	Adriano Niz	Portugal	1:51.00
31	Michal Rokicki	Poland	1:51.01
32	CHEN Zuo	China	1:51.11
33	Michal Rubáček	Czech Republic	1:51.44
34	Paulius Andrijauskas	Lithuania	1:51.48
35	Dmytro Vereitinov	Ukraine	1:51.55
36	Nabil Kebbab	Algeria	1:51.64
37	Apostolos Antonopoulos	Greece	1:51.70
38	Shaune Fraser	Cayman Islands	1:51.91
39	Mihail Alexandrov	Bulgaria	1:52.11
	Tiago Venâncio	Portugal
41	Gard Kvale	Norway	1:52.44
42	Mahrez Mebarek	Algeria	1:52.80
43	Giancarlo Zolezzi	Chile	1:52.96
44	Thomas Felten	Netherlands	1:52.99
45	Igor Snitko	Ukraine	1:53.02
46	Saulius Binevičius	Lithuania	1:53.15
47	Miguel Molina	Philippines	1:53.18
48	Luka Turk	Slovenia	1:53.19
49	Maximiliano Schnettler	Chile	1:53.20
50	Andrei Radzionov	Belarus	1:53.39
51	Vitaliy Khan	Kazakhstan	1:54.31
52	Petr Vasilev	Uzbekistan	1:54.46
53	Dean Kent	New Zealand	1:54.66
54	Sebastian Arango Herrera	Colombia	1:54.92
55	Yahor Salabutov	Belarus	1:54.96
56	Timur Irgashev	Uzbekistan	1:54.98
57	Bryan Tay	Singapore	1:55.01
58	Antonio Hernández	Cuba	1:55.11
59	Ronald Cowen	Bermuda	1:55.53
60	Ki-Hyuk Sim	South Korea	1:55.54
61	Muhammad Akbar Nasution	Indonesia	1:55.73
62	Jonas Persson	Sweden	1:55.95
63	Sebastian Stoss	Austria	1:56.19
64	Jason Dunford	Kenya	1:56.91
65	Evan Marcus	Guatemala	1:56.96
66	Matias Rementeria Perez	Uruguay	1:57.36
67	Jeffrey Su	Singapore	1:57.49
68	Kuo-Chuan Tsai	Chinese Taipei	1:57.99
69	Sheng-Chieh Tang	Chinese Taipei	1:58.00
70	James Walsh	Philippines	1:58.23
71	Mikayel Koloyan	Armenia	1:58.26
72	Kieran Locke	Virgin Islands	1:58.39
73	Emanuele Nicolini	San Marino	1:58.44
74	Youssef Hafdi	Morocco	1:58.63
75	Brad Hamilton	Jamaica	1:58.72
76	Soheil Ashtiani	Iran	1:59.01
77	Waleed Al-Qahtani	Kuwait	1:59.24
78	Zurab Khomasuridze	Georgia	1:59.36
79	Vasilii Danilov	Kyrgyzstan	1:59.77
80	Andy Wibowo	Indonesia	2:00.15
81	Morgan Locke	Virgin Islands	2:00.32
82	Jose Lobo	Paraguay	2:01.03
83	Aleksandr Moseshvili	Georgia	2:01.23
84	Anas Hamadeh	Jordan	2:01.63
85	Sean Dehere	Barbados	2:01.67
86	Nguyen Thanh Hai	Vietnam	2:01.98
87	Steven Mangroo	Seychelles	2:02.38
88	Bradford Worrell	Saint Lucia	2:03.81
89	Kuan Fong Lao	Macao	2:04.21
90	Fernando Medrano	Nicaragua	2:04.70
91	Erik Rajohnson	Madagascar	2:05.95
92	Miguel Navarro	Bolivia	2:06.37
93	Loai Tashkandi	Saudi Arabia	2:07.53
94	Hassan Shah	Maldives	2:35.51
--	Milinda Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka	DNS

• Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle

• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 200 Freestyle heats results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.
• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 200 Freestyle semifinals results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.
• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 200 Freestyle final results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-30, retrieved 2009-08-21.