Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley


The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 20–21 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.
Massimiliano Rosolino blasted a new Olympic record to add Italy's third gold medal in swimming at these Games. He edged out U.S. swimmer Tom Dolan with a fastest split on the breaststroke leg to take over the lead at the final turn, and hit the wall first in a sterling time of 1:58.98, clipping 0.93 seconds off a record set by Hungary's Attila Czene in Atlanta. Dolan, the defending champion in the 400 m individual medley four days earlier, became the first American to break a two-minute barrier, taking home the silver in a new national record of 1:59.77. Meanwhile, Tom Wilkens earned a bronze in 2:00.87, handing an entire medal haul for the U.S. team with a two–three finish.
Czene, the defending Olympic champion, finished outside the podium in fourth place with a time of 2:01.16. Netherlands' Marcel Wouda came up with a spectacular swim on the breaststroke leg, but fell short to fifth spot in 2:01.48. Wouda was followed in sixth by Germany's Christian Keller, and in seventh by France's Xavier Marchand. Finland's world record holder Jani Sievinen closed out the field with an eighth-place finish in 2:02.49.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
21 SeptemberFinalMassimiliano Rosolino1:58.98

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
174Massimiliano Rosolino2:00.92Q, NR
254Tom Dolan2:01.55Q
355Marcel Wouda2:01.89Q
475Curtis Myden2:01.95Q
556Jani Sievinen2:02.00Q
653Christian Keller2:02.09Q
764Tom Wilkens2:02.21Q
865Matthew Dunn2:02.44Q
962Cezar Bădiţă2:02.48Q, NR
1052Attila Czene2:02.66Q
1173Robert van der Zant2:02.77Q
1266Xavier Marchand2:02.86Q
1372Jordi Carrasco2:02.89Q
1463Jens Kruppa2:03.08Q
1557Brian Johns2:03.12Q
1667Jiro Miki2:03.33Q
1676Terence Parkin2:03.33
1868Peter Mankoč2:03.45
1971István Batházi2:03.63
2051Theo Verster2:03.64
2178Jan Vítazka2:03.66NR
2258Ioannis Kokkodis2:04.04
2344Dean Kent2:04.07
2442Valērijs Kalmikovs2:04.18
2561Xie Xufeng2:04.67
2634George Bovell2:04.68
2741Michael Windisch2:05.15
2848Yves Platel2:05.19
2923Grigoriy Matuzkov2:05.45
3077Susumu Tabuchi2:05.68
3145Artem Goncharenko2:05.98
3235Oleg Pukhnatiy2:06.01
3333Han Kyu-chul2:06.42
3432Arsenio López2:06.49
3526Jeremy Knowles2:06.85
3643Krešimir Čač2:07.04
3725Javier Díaz2:07.28
3822Aleksandar Miladinovski2:07.45
3946Michael Halika2:07.53
4017Andrei Pakin2:07.88
4131Stephen Fahy2:07.92
4215George Gleason2:08.25
4347Pathunyu Yimsomruay2:08.38
4436Wu Nien-pin2:08.85
4524Walter Dario Arciprete2:08.89
4627Alex Fong2:09.00
4737Andrei Zaharov2:09.13
4813Đorđe Filipović2:09.28
4921Orel Oral2:09.51
5014Felix Christiadi Sutanto2:09.77
5138Haitham Hassan2:09.92
5228Francisco Picasso2:10.97
5316Georgios Dimitriadis2:12.76
5411Saad Khalloqi2:13.22
5512Sultan Al-Otaibi2:16.23
5618Omar Abu Fares2:21.22

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final