Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Medalists
Danyon Loader   New Zealand   Gustavo Borges   Brazil   Daniel Kowalski   Australia

Swimming events at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The finals of the Men's 200 metres freestyle event for the 1996 Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, United States, on July 20, 1996.

Results

Final A

RANK	FINAL A	TIME
	Danyon Loader (NZL)	1:47.63
	Gustavo Borges (BRA)	1:48.08
	Daniel Kowalski (AUS)	1:48.25
4.	Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED)	1:48.36
5.	Anders Holmertz (SWE)	1:48.42
6.	Massimiliano Rosolino (ITA)	1:48.50
7.	Josh Davis (USA)	1:48.54
8.	Paul Palmer (GBR)	1:49.39

Final B

RANK	FINAL B	TIME
9.	Aimo Heilmann (GER)	1:48.81
10.	Michael Klim (AUS)	1:49.50
11.	Vladimir Pyshnenko (RUS)	1:49.55
12.	John Piersma (USA)	1:49.90
13.	Pier Maria Siciliano (ITA)	1:50.07
14.	Jacob Carstensen (DEN)	1:50.54
15.	Andrew Clayton (GBR)	1:50.59
16.	Nicolae Butacu (ROU)	1:51.46

Swim-off

RANK	HEATS	TIME
1.	Paul Palmer (GBR)	1:48.89
	Jani Sievinen (FIN)	1:48.89
—	Antti Kasvio (FIN)	1:50.55

Palmer advanced to Final A as Sievinen scratched second swim-off

Non-Qualifiers

RANK	HEATS	TIME
19.	Miroslav Vucetic (CRO)	1:51.26
20.	Attila Czene (HUN)	1:51.59
21.	Trent Bray (NZL)	1:51.59
22.	Aleksey Yegorov (KAZ)	1:51.66
23.	Shunsuke Ito (JPN)	1:51.97
24.	Christophe Bordeau (FRA)	1:52.17
25.	Miklos Kollar (HUN)	1:52.19
26.	Ko Yun-Ho (KOR)	1:52.80
27.	Carlos Santander (VEN)	1:53.13
28.	Vyacheslav Kabanov (UZB)	1:53.36
29.	Earl McCarthy (IRL)	1:53.67
30.	Dimitrios Manganas (GRE)	1:53.84
31.	Salim Iles (ALG)	1:54.10
32.	José Isaza (PAN)	1:54.58
33.	Torlarp Sethsothorn (THA)	1:54.73
34.	Jure Bučar (SLO)	1:54.75
35.	Raymond Papa (PHI)	1:54.77
36.	Bartosz Sikora (POL)	1:55.33
37.	Sng Ju Wei (SIN)	1:55.51
38.	Dmitry Lapin (KGZ)	1:55.52
39.	Carl Probert (FIJ)	1:56.33
40.	Felipe Delgado (ECU)	1:57.10
41.	Andrei Zaharov (MDA)	1:57.47
42.	Denys Zavhorodniy (UKR)	1:58.67
43.	Thamer Al-Shamroukh (KUW)	2:13.75

See also

• 1997 Men's World Championships (SC) 200m Freestyle
• 1997 Men's European Championships (LC) 200m Freestyle

References

• USA Swimming