Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley
Introduction The '''Men's 200 Individual Medley''' (or I.M.) event at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum 27 – 28 July 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were 27 July; the Final 28 July. The top-16 swimmers from the Prelims in the morning advanced to the 1 of 2 Seminfinal in the evening; the top-8 swimmers from the Semifinals then advanced to the Final the next evening.As the Swimming portion of the World Championships are swum in a long course (50m) pool, this race consisted of 4 lengths. As it was an IM event, each length was a different stroke, swum in the order of: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and then freestyle.At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships (CR) records were:* WR: 1:55.94, Michael Phelps (USA), swum 9 August 2003 in College Park, USA;* CR: 1:56.04, Michael Phelps (USA), swum 25 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.No new world or competition records were set during this competition.
Results ===Final=== Place  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  Michael Phelps    1:56.68  2  László Cseh    1:57.61  3  Ryan Lochte    1:57.79  4  Alessio Boggiatto    2:00.28  5  Hidemasa Sano    2:00.70  6  Vytautas Janušaitis    2:00.78  7  Igor Berezutsky    2:01.43  8  Dean Kent    2:01.81 ===Semifinals=== Rank  Heat+Lane  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  S1 L5  Ryan Lochte    1:58.06  q 2  S2 L5  Michael Phelps    1:58.36  q 3  S1 L3  Vytautas Janušaitis    1:59.72  q 4  S2 L4  László Cseh    2:00.12  q 5  S2 L3  Hidemasa Sano    2:00.45  q 6  S1 L4  Alessio Boggiatto    2:00.52  q 7  S1 L6  Igor Berezutsky    2:01.11  q 8  S2 L2  Dean Kent    2:01.55  q 9  S1 L2  Adam Lucas    2:01.99   10  S2 L7  Leith Brodie    2:02.28   11  S2 L8  Mihail Alexandrov    2:02.32   12  S2 L6  Jiro Miki    2:02.49   13  S1 L7  Bradley Ally    2:02.53   14  S2 L1  Robin van Aggele    2:02.98   15  S1 L8  Keith Beavers    2:03.27   16  S1 L1  Ioannis Kokkodis    2:04.15  ===Preliminary heats=== Rank  Heat+Lane  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Notes 1  H6 L4  László Cseh   1:59.56  q 2  H7 L5  Alessio Boggiatto   2:00.24  q  3  H8 L4  Michael Phelps   2:00.30  q  4  H7 L4  Ryan Lochte   2:00.51  q  5  H6 L5  Hidemasa Sano   2:00.61  q  6  H8 L5  Vytautas Janušaitis   2:00.93  q  7  H8 L6  Jiro Miki   2:02.04  q  8  H8 L2  Igor Berezutsky   2:02.30  q  9  H6 L3  Dean Kent   2:02.35  q  10  H8 L3  Adam Lucas   2:02.45  q  11  H6 L6  Leith Brodie   2:02.73  q  12  H7 L7  Bradley Ally   2:02.83  q  13  H8 L7  Robin van Aggele   2:03.48  q  14  H7 L6  Ioannis Kokkodis   2:03.77  q  15  H6 L2  Mihail Alexandrov   2:04.50  q  16  H7 L2  Keith Beavers   2:04.54  q 17  H6 L8  Miguel Molina   2:04.68   18  H5 L5  Paulius Andrijauskas   2:04.77   19  H5 L2  Gard Kvale   2:04.93   20  H7 L8  Jacob Carstensen   2:04.97   21  H5 L1  Dmitriy Gordiyenko   2:05.17   22  H8 L8  Dmytro Nazarenko   2:05.19   23  H6 L1  Sebastian Stoss   2:05.91   24  H3 L4  Shaune Fraser   2:06.05   25  H5 L6  Hocine Haciane   2:06.16   26  H8 L1  Nicolas Rostoucher   2:06.56   27  H5 L3  Dzianis Silkov   2:06.79   28  H7 L1  Guntars Deicmans   2:07.03   29  H5 L7  Andrei Zaharov   2:07.84   30  H4 L4  Oleg Pukhnatiy   2:08.97   31  H4 L6  M. Akbar Nasution   2:09.16   32  H4 L2  Yury Zaharov   2:09.90   33  H7 L3  Peng Wu   2:10.52   34  H5 L4  Kuo-Chuan Tsai   2:10.64   35  H5 L8  Gary Tan   2:11.11   36  H4 L8  Vasilii Danilov   2:11.45   37  H3 L3  Mohamad Al-Naser   2:11.64   38  H4 L3  Mark Chay   2:13.10   39  H3 L6  Francisco Montenegro   2:13.28   40  H2 L5  James Walsh   2:13.52   41  H3 L7  Graham Smith   2:14.03   42  H4 L5  Yu-An Lin   2:14.06   43  H2 L3  Shahin Baradaran   2:14.96   44  H2 L4  Morgan Locke   2:15.30   45  H3 L2  Youssef Hafdi   2:15.65   46  H2 L7  Rony Bakale   2:15.85   47  H3 L8  Khaly Ciss   2:17.11   48  H2 L6  Johnny Castillo   2:18.02   49  H3 L1  Francois Ghattas   2:19.47   50  H1 L5  Reginaldo Panting   2:20.13   51  H1 L3  Amar Shah   2:20.15   52  H2 L2  Joel Refos   2:21.10   53  H2 L8  Diego Foianini   2:21.13   54  H2 L1  Fernando Medrano   2:25.05   55  H1 L4  Chisela Kanchela   2:26.11   56  H1 L6  Joseph Kimani   2:31.02   57  H1 L7  Hassan Shah   2:58.27   -  H4 L1  Aleksander Hetland   DQ   -  H1 L2  Alain Brigion-Tobe   DNS   -  H3 L5  Ahmed Salah   DNS   -  H6 L7  Ioannis Drymonakos   DNS
References * Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley '''Prelims''', from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-24. * Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley '''Semifinals''', from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-24. * Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Individual Medley '''Finals''', from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-01-24.