Swimming at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Asian Games took place on 19 August at the GBK Aquatic Stadium.[1][2][3]

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	GBK Aquatic Stadium
Date	19 August
Competitors	34 from 22 nations
Medalists
Sun Yang    China   Katsuhiro Matsumoto    Japan   Ji Xinjie    China

During the medal ceremony, the flags of the three medalists crashed to the ground due to a technical malfunction. Sun Yang, the Chinese swimmer and the gold medalist of the event, immediately got off the podium, walked to some officials and demanded the medal ceremony to be conducted once again. The flags were re-attached to the broken hoist but couldn't be raised, and the Chinese anthem was played for a second time.[4]

Schedule

All times are Western Indonesia Time (UTC+07:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 19 August 2018	09:19	Heats
	18:22	Final

Records

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

World Record	Paul Biedermann (GER)	1:42.00	Rome, Italy	28 July 2009
Asian Record	Sun Yang (CHN)	1:44.39	Budapest, Hungary	25 July 2017
Games Record	Park Tae-hwan (KOR)	1:44.80	Guangzhou, China	14 November 2010

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	5	Sun Yang (CHN)	1:47.58
2	3	Khader Baqlah (JOR)	1:47.60
3	3	Naito Ehara (JPN)	1:47.76
4	4	Katsuhiro Matsumoto (JPN)	1:47.94
5	4	Welson Sim (MAS)	1:48.47
6	3	Lee Ho-joon (KOR)	1:48.49
7	5	Ji Xinjie (CHN)	1:48.85
8	5	Hoàng Quý Phước (VIE)	1:49.68
9	3	Danny Yeo (SGP)	1:50.39
10	4	Jang Dong-hyeok (KOR)	1:50.48
11	3	Aflah Fadlan Prawira (INA)	1:50.78
12	3	Matthew Abeysinghe (SRI)	1:50.97
13	4	Mokhtar Al-Yamani (YEM)	1:51.14
14	5	Jonathan Tan (SGP)	1:51.52
15	3	Aleksey Tarasenko (UZB)	1:52.02
16	5	An Ting-yao (TPE)	1:52.38
17	1	Adil Kaskabay (KAZ)	1:53.37
18	5	Putera Muhammad Randa (INA)	1:53.88
19	4	Khurshidjon Tursunov (UZB)	1:53.93
20	5	Andrew Newling (THA)	1:54.17
21	4	Keith Lim (MAS)	1:54.22
22	4	Alireza Yavari (IRI)	1:54.28
23	4	Chan Chun Hei (HKG)	1:54.59
24	1	Saurabh Sangvekar (IND)	1:54.87
25	5	Kent Cheung (HKG)	1:54.90
26	2	Kavindra Nugawela (SRI)	1:56.01
27	3	Issa Al-Adawi (OMA)	1:58.19
28	1	Firas Saidi (QAT)	2:01.59
29	2	Youssef Hesham Mohamed (QAT)	2:06.28
30	2	Mubal Azzam Ibrahim (MDV)	2:11.26
31	2	Adam Barghouthy (PLE)	2:15.07
32	2	Boldbaataryn Batmönkh (MGL)	2:15.60
33	2	Ali Imaan (MDV)	2:17.58
34	2	Gotsbayaryn Tengis (MGL)	2:44.57

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Sun Yang (CHN)	1:45.43
	Katsuhiro Matsumoto (JPN)	1:46.50
	Ji Xinjie (CHN)	1:46.68
4	Khader Baqlah (JOR)	1:46.77
5	Naito Ehara (JPN)	1:47.66
6	Welson Sim (MAS)	1:47.99
7	Lee Ho-joon (KOR)	1:48.10
8	Hoàng Quý Phước (VIE)	1:50.57

References

1. "Asian Games 2018 Swimming Schedule". INASGOC. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
2. Heats results
3. Final results
4. Pye, John (19 August 2018). "Sun celebrates Asian Games gold medal before flags fall". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 August 2018.