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200 metres Breaststroke, Men

Date	19 – 20 September 2000
Status	Olympic
Location	Sydney International Aquatic Centre, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	47 from 41 countries

Domenico Fioravanti of Italy entered the Sydney Olympic with a season’s best time that would not have been enough to absolutely guarantee him a place in the semi-finals of the 200 metres breaststroke. However, a few days earlier, he had become the first Italian ever to win an Olympic swimming title when he secured a shock victory in the 100 metres breaststroke.

The momentum of his victory carried on to the 200 and his winning time of 2:10.67 was the second fastest time in history behind Mike Barrowman’s gold medal winning swim at the 1992 Olympic Games. By winning the 200 Fioravanti became the first man ever to complete the double of taking both breaststroke gold medals at the same Olympics.

The silver medallist was Terence Parkin of South Africa, who had completely deaf since birth. Since he was unable to react to a starting gun, a strobe light was installed as a replacement. Unusually only one of the men who contested the most recent World Championship also reached the Olympic final and he, Ryan Mitchell finished last in Sydney.

Pos	Swimmer	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	Domenico Fioravanti	ITA	2:15.04 (2 h6)	2:12.37 (1 h2)	2:10.87 (1)	Gold
2	Terence Parkin	RSA	2:15.06 (3 h6)	2:13.57 (4 h1)	2:12.50 (2)	Silver
3	Davide Rummolo	ITA	2:12.75 (1 h6)	2:13.23 (2 h2)	2:12.73 (3)	Bronze
4	Regan Harrison	AUS	2:14.85 (4 h7)	2:13.75 (3 h2)	2:12.88 (4)
5	Daniel Málek	CZE	2:14.10 (1 h4)	2:13.46 (2 h1)	2:13.20 (5)
6	Kyle Salyards	USA	2:15.57 (6 h6)	2:13.38 (1 h1)	2:13.27 (6)
7	Yohan Bernard	FRA	2:15.35 (5 h6)	2:13.48 (3 h1)	2:13.31 (7)
8	Ryan Mitchell	AUS	2:14.69 (1 h5)	2:13.87 (4 h2)	2:14.00 (8)
9	Dmitry Komornikov	RUS	2:15.70 (5 h7)	2:13.95 (5 h1)	–
10	Morgan Knabe	CAN	2:14.18 (1 h7)	2:14.01 (5 h2)	–
11	Maxim Podoprigora	AUT	2:14.37 (2 h7)	2:14.20 (6 h1)	–
12	Stéphan Perrot	FRA	2:14.79 (3 h7)	2:14.59 (7 h1)	–
13	Norbert Rózsa	HUN	2:15.27 (4 h6)	2:14.67 (6 h2)	–
14	Akira Hayashi	JPN	2:15.54 (3 h5)	2:15.16 (7 h2)	–
15	Martin Gustavsson	SWE	2:15.02 (2 h5)	2:15.23 (8 h1)	–
16	Aleksandr Tkachev	KGZ	2:15.63 (1 h2)	2:16.90 (8 h2)	–
17	Kosuke Kitajima	JPN	2:15.71 (6 h7)	–	–
18	Marek Krawczyk	POL	2:16.08 (2 h4)	–	–
19	Valērijs Kalmikovs	LAT	2:16.21 (3 h4)	–	–
20	Roman Sludnov	RUS	2:16.26 (4 h5)	–	–
21	Tom Wilkens	USA	2:16.30 (5 h5)	–	–
22	Aliaksandr Hukau	BLR	2:16.93 (6 h5)	–	–
23	Benno Kuipers	NED	2:17.03 (7 h5)	–	–
24	Adam Whitehead	GBR	2:17.16 (7 h6)	–	–
25	Jakob Sveinsson	ISL	2:17.86 (4 h4)	–	–
26	José Couto	POR	2:18.08 (7 h7)	–	–
27	Andrew Bree	IRL	2:18.14 (5 h4)	–	–
28	Oleh Lisohor	UKR	2:18.28 (2 h2)	–	–
29	Jo Gyeong-Hwan	KOR	2:19.16 (1 h3)	–	–
30	Li Tsung-Chueh	TPE	2:19.30 (2 h3)	–	–
31	Steven Ferguson	NZL	2:19.31 (6 h4)	–	–
32	Tal Stricker	ISR	2:19.33 (7 h4)	–	–
33	Raiko Pachel	EST	2:19.71 (3 h3)	–	–
34	Jarno Pihlava	FIN	2:19.76 (3 h2)	–	–
35	Francisco Suriano	ESA	2:20.10 (4 h3)	–	–
36	Jeremy Knowles	BAH	2:20.31 (4 h2)	–	–
37	Andrés Bicocca	ARG	2:20.98 (1 h1)	–	–
38	Zhu Yi	CHN	2:21.60 (8 h5)	–	–
39	Álvaro Fortuny	GUA	2:21.78 (5 h3)	–	–
40	Muhammad Akbar Nasution	INA	2:23.81 (6 h3)	–	–
41	Ratapong Sirisanont	THA	2:23.95 (8 h4)	–	–
42	Tam Chi Kin	HKG	2:24.04 (7 h3)	–	–
43	Juan José Madrigal	CRC	2:24.49 (8 h3)	–	–
44	Elvin Chia	MAS	2:26.84 (8 h7)	–	–
45	Nguyễn Ngọc Anh	VIE	2:29.54 (2 h1)	–	–
46	Sergey Voytsekhovich	UZB	2:30.23 (5 h2)	–	–
47	Leonard Ngoma	ZAM	2:32.90 (3 h1)	–	–
DNS	Jens Kruppa	GER	– (DNS h6)	–	–
DNS	Vadim Tatarov	MDA	– (DNS h2)	–	–

Round One (19 September 2000)

Fastest 16 advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One (11:04)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Andrés Bicocca	ARG	32.73 (1) 35.65 (1)	1:08.38 (1) 35.74 (1)	1:44.12 (1) 36.86 (1)	2:20.98	0.77
2	3	Nguyễn Ngọc Anh	VIE	32.94 (2) 36.79 (2)	1:09.73 (2) 38.83 (2)	1:48.56 (2) 40.98 (2)	2:29.54	0.87
3	5	Leonard Ngoma	ZAM	33.48 (3) 37.17 (3)	1:10.65 (3) 39.92 (3)	1:50.57 (3) 42.33 (3)	2:32.90	0.84

Heat Two (11:08)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	2	Aleksandr Tkachev	KGZ	30.78 (3) 34.14 (1)	1:04.92 (2) 34.72 (1)	1:39.64 (1) 35.99 (1)	2:15.63	0.85	Q
2	6	Oleh Lisohor	UKR	30.74 (2) 34.57 (2)	1:05.31 (3) 36.11 (3)	1:41.42 (3) 36.86 (3)	2:18.28	0.75
3	3	Jarno Pihlava	FIN	30.09 (1) 34.77 (3)	1:04.86 (1) 36.37 (4)	1:41.23 (2) 38.53 (4)	2:19.76	0.74
4	5	Jeremy Knowles	BAH	32.74 (4) 35.28 (4)	1:08.02 (4) 35.73 (2)	1:43.75 (4) 36.56 (2)	2:20.31	0.84
5	7	Sergey Voytsekhovich	UZB	34.48 (5) 37.74 (5)	1:12.22 (5) 38.73 (5)	1:50.95 (5) 39.28 (5)	2:30.23	0.91
DNS	4	Vadim Tatarov	MDA	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–	–

Heat Three (11:12)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	2	Jo Gyeong-Hwan	KOR	31.81 (=1) 35.99 (5)	1:07.80 (3) 35.53 (2)	1:43.33 (2) 35.83 (2)	2:19.16	0.81
2	5	Li Tsung-Chueh	TPE	32.54 (8) 35.49 (3)	1:08.03 (5) 35.46 (1)	1:43.49 (3) 35.81 (1)	2:19.30	0.71
3	4	Raiko Pachel	EST	31.97 (5) 36.04 (6)	1:08.01 (4) 35.78 (3)	1:43.79 (4) 35.92 (3)	2:19.71	0.82
4	8	Francisco Suriano	ESA	31.95 (4) 34.92 (1)	1:06.87 (1) 36.15 (4)	1:43.02 (1) 37.08 (5)	2:20.10	0.76
5	6	Álvaro Fortuny	GUA	32.53 (7) 35.61 (4)	1:08.14 (6) 36.79 (5)	1:44.93 (6) 36.85 (4)	2:21.78	0.81
6	1	Muhammad Akbar Nasution	INA	32.44 (6) 36.40 (7)	1:08.84 (8) 37.36 (8)	1:46.20 (8) 37.61 (6)	2:23.81	0.81
7	7	Tam Chi Kin	HKG	31.81 (=1) 35.12 (2)	1:06.93 (2) 36.87 (6)	1:43.80 (5) 40.24 (8)	2:24.04	0.76
8	3	Juan José Madrigal	CRC	31.94 (3) 36.50 (8)	1:08.44 (7) 37.04 (7)	1:45.48 (7) 39.01 (7)	2:24.49	0.82

Heat Four (11:16)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Daniel Málek	CZE	31.07 (4) 34.73 (3)	1:05.80 (2) 35.04 (2)	1:40.84 (2) 33.26 (1)	2:14.10	0.82	Q
2	3	Marek Krawczyk	POL	31.28 (6) 34.72 (2)	1:06.00 (3) 35.07 (3)	1:41.07 (3) 35.01 (2)	2:16.08	0.76
3	4	Valērijs Kalmikovs	LAT	30.96 (2) 34.52 (1)	1:05.48 (1) 34.77 (1)	1:40.25 (1) 35.96 (4)	2:16.21	0.83
4	8	Jakob Sveinsson	ISL	31.15 (5) 35.18 (5)	1:06.33 (5) 35.60 (6)	1:41.93 (5) 35.93 (3)	2:17.86	0.82
5	1	Andrew Bree	IRL	31.06 (3) 35.35 (7)	1:06.41 (6) 35.38 (4)	1:41.79 (4) 36.35 (5)	2:18.14	0.82
6	7	Steven Ferguson	NZL	30.87 (1) 35.28 (6)	1:06.15 (4) 36.22 (7)	1:42.37 (6) 36.94 (7)	2:19.31	0.83
7	6	Tal Stricker	ISR	32.03 (7) 35.07 (4)	1:07.10 (7) 35.55 (5)	1:42.65 (7) 36.68 (6)	2:19.33	0.85
8	2	Ratapong Sirisanont	THA	32.12 (8) 35.89 (8)	1:08.01 (8) 36.86 (8)	1:44.87 (8) 39.08 (8)	2:23.95	0.80

Heat Five (11:20)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	6	Ryan Mitchell	AUS	30.69 (2) 34.07 (1)	1:04.76 (1) 34.98 (4)	1:39.74 (=1) 34.95 (2)	2:14.69	0.69	Q
2	7	Martin Gustavsson	SWE	31.01 (5) 34.17 (2)	1:05.18 (3) 34.81 (1)	1:39.99 (3) 35.03 (3)	2:15.02	0.80	Q
3	3	Akira Hayashi	JPN	30.40 (1) 34.50 (3)	1:04.90 (2) 34.84 (2)	1:39.74 (=1) 35.80 (5)	2:15.54	0.67	Q
4	4	Roman Sludnov	RUS	30.97 (3) 35.44 (7)	1:06.41 (7) 34.99 (5)	1:41.40 (7) 34.86 (1)	2:16.26	0.80
5	5	Tom Wilkens	USA	31.32 (6) 34.70 (5)	1:06.02 (5) 35.19 (7)	1:41.21 (6) 35.09 (4)	2:16.30	0.80
6	8	Aliaksandr Hukau	BLR	31.37 (7) 34.68 (4)	1:06.05 (6) 34.88 (3)	1:40.93 (5) 36.00 (6)	2:16.93	0.84
7	1	Benno Kuipers	NED	31.00 (4) 34.80 (6)	1:05.80 (4) 35.03 (6)	1:40.83 (4) 36.20 (7)	2:17.03	0.82
8	2	Zhu Yi	CHN	31.41 (8) 35.53 (8)	1:06.94 (8) 36.41 (8)	1:43.35 (8) 38.25 (8)	2:21.60	0.73

Heat Six (11:25)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	7	Davide Rummolo	ITA	31.02 (1) 33.52 (1)	1:04.54 (1) 34.09 (1)	1:38.63 (1) 34.12 (2)	2:12.75	0.85	Q
2	2	Domenico Fioravanti	ITA	31.24 (2) 34.81 (4)	1:06.05 (3) 34.43 (5)	1:40.48 (2) 34.56 (4)	2:15.04	0.80	Q
3	3	Terence Parkin	RSA	31.77 (7) 35.10 (7)	1:06.87 (7) 34.26 (2)	1:41.13 (7) 33.93 (1)	2:15.06	0.78	Q
4	1	Norbert Rózsa	HUN	31.67 (6) 34.86 (5)	1:06.53 (6) 34.35 (4)	1:40.88 (5) 34.39 (3)	2:15.27	0.88	Q
5	4	Yohan Bernard	FRA	31.27 (3) 35.06 (6)	1:06.33 (5) 34.30 (3)	1:40.63 (3) 34.72 (6)	2:15.35	0.78	Q
6	5	Kyle Salyards	USA	31.44 (5) 34.77 (3)	1:06.21 (4) 34.70 (6)	1:40.91 (6) 34.66 (5)	2:15.57	0.79	Q
7	6	Adam Whitehead	GBR	31.39 (4) 34.14 (2)	1:05.53 (2) 35.25 (7)	1:40.78 (4) 36.38 (7)	2:17.16	0.77
DNS	8	Jens Kruppa	GER	– (–) –	– (–) –	– (–) –	–	–

Heat Seven (11:30)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	2	Morgan Knabe	CAN	29.93 (1) 34.11 (2)	1:04.04 (1) 34.29 (1)	1:38.33 (1) 35.85 (5)	2:14.18	0.78	Q
2	7	Maxim Podoprigora	AUT	30.66 (4) 34.39 (4)	1:05.05 (5) 34.46 (2)	1:39.51 (3) 34.86 (2)	2:14.37	0.95	Q
3	4	Stéphan Perrot	FRA	30.14 (3) 34.37 (3)	1:04.51 (2) 34.49 (3)	1:39.00 (2) 35.79 (4)	2:14.79	0.79	Q
4	6	Regan Harrison	AUS	30.86 (5) 34.05 (1)	1:04.91 (4) 35.00 (5)	1:39.91 (5) 34.94 (3)	2:14.85	0.80	Q
5	5	Dmitry Komornikov	RUS	31.08 (6) 34.93 (6)	1:06.01 (6) 35.10 (6)	1:41.11 (6) 34.59 (1)	2:15.70	0.85	Q
6	3	Kosuke Kitajima	JPN	30.13 (2) 34.57 (5)	1:04.70 (3) 34.96 (4)	1:39.66 (4) 36.05 (7)	2:15.71	0.68
7	8	José Couto	POR	31.60 (8) 35.11 (8)	1:06.71 (8) 35.50 (7)	1:42.21 (7) 35.87 (6)	2:18.08	0.77
8	1	Elvin Chia	MAS	31.21 (7) 35.07 (7)	1:06.28 (7) 38.43 (8)	1:44.71 (8) 42.13 (8)	2:26.84	0.83

Semi-Finals (19 September 2000)

Fastest eight advanced to the final.

Heat One (19:57)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	1	Kyle Salyards	USA	30.36 (4) 33.79 (1)	1:04.15 (1) 34.20 (1)	1:38.35 (1) 35.03 (6)	2:13.38	0.79	Q
2	4	Daniel Málek	CZE	30.60 (7) 34.37 (6)	1:04.97 (7) 34.74 (5)	1:39.71 (6) 33.75 (1)	2:13.46	0.83	Q
3	7	Yohan Bernard	FRA	30.22 (2) 34.31 (4)	1:04.53 (3) 34.61 (4)	1:39.14 (3) 34.34 (3)	2:13.48	0.79	Q
4	2	Terence Parkin	RSA	30.90 (8) 34.18 (2)	1:05.08 (8) 34.43 (2)	1:39.51 (4) 34.06 (2)	2:13.57	0.74	Q
5	8	Dmitry Komornikov	RUS	30.14 (1) 34.27 (3)	1:04.41 (2) 34.50 (3)	1:38.91 (2) 35.04 (7)	2:13.95	0.82
6	5	Maxim Podoprigora	AUT	30.28 (3) 34.52 (7)	1:04.80 (4) 34.96 (8)	1:39.76 (8) 34.44 (4)	2:14.20	0.92
7	3	Stéphan Perrot	FRA	30.41 (5) 34.55 (8)	1:04.96 (6) 34.77 (6)	1:39.73 (7) 34.86 (5)	2:14.59	0.82
8	6	Martin Gustavsson	SWE	30.48 (6) 34.35 (5)	1:04.83 (5) 34.81 (7)	1:39.64 (5) 35.59 (8)	2:15.23	0.81

Heat Two (20:03)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	2	Domenico Fioravanti	ITA	30.20 (3) 33.91 (3)	1:04.11 (2) 33.54 (1)	1:37.65 (1) 34.72 (4)	2:12.37	0.75	Q
2	4	Davide Rummolo	ITA	30.77 (6) 33.79 (2)	1:04.56 (4) 34.34 (=2)	1:38.90 (3) 34.33 (1)	2:13.23	0.81	Q
3	6	Regan Harrison	AUS	30.36 (4) 34.21 (5)	1:04.57 (5) 34.55 (4)	1:39.12 (5) 34.63 (2)	2:13.75	0.79	Q
4	3	Ryan Mitchell	AUS	30.50 (5) 34.12 (4)	1:04.62 (6) 34.34 (=2)	1:38.96 (4) 34.91 (5)	2:13.87	0.70	Q
5	5	Morgan Knabe	CAN	29.76 (1) 33.70 (1)	1:03.46 (1) 34.56 (5)	1:38.02 (2) 35.99 (8)	2:14.01	0.77
6	7	Norbert Rózsa	HUN	30.90 (7) 34.53 (=6)	1:05.43 (7) 34.60 (6)	1:40.03 (7) 34.64 (3)	2:14.67	0.82
7	1	Akira Hayashi	JPN	29.96 (2) 34.53 (=6)	1:04.49 (3) 34.98 (7)	1:39.47 (6) 35.69 (6)	2:15.16	0.69
8	8	Aleksandr Tkachev	KGZ	31.00 (8) 34.80 (8)	1:05.80 (8) 35.17 (8)	1:40.97 (8) 35.93 (7)	2:16.90	0.85

Final (20 September 2000 — 19:03)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Domenico Fioravanti	ITA	30.50 (2) 33.65 (2)	1:04.15 (1) 33.20 (1)	1:37.35 (1) 33.52 (2)	2:10.87	0.78
2	7	Terence Parkin	RSA	30.84 (7) 33.67 (3)	1:04.51 (4) 34.18 (6)	1:38.69 (3) 33.81 (3)	2:12.50	0.75
3	5	Davide Rummolo	ITA	30.85 (8) 33.84 (4)	1:04.69 (7) 34.04 (2)	1:38.73 (5) 34.00 (4)	2:12.73	0.82
4	1	Regan Harrison	AUS	30.57 (=3) 34.00 (=5)	1:04.57 (5) 34.15 (=4)	1:38.72 (4) 34.16 (5)	2:12.88	0.79
5	6	Daniel Málek	CZE	30.82 (6) 34.25 (8)	1:05.07 (8) 34.77 (8)	1:39.84 (8) 33.36 (1)	2:13.20	0.82
6	3	Kyle Salyards	USA	30.57 (=3) 34.09 (7)	1:04.66 (6) 34.14 (3)	1:38.80 (6) 34.47 (6)	2:13.27	0.83
7	2	Yohan Bernard	FRA	30.45 (1) 34.00 (=5)	1:04.45 (3) 34.15 (=4)	1:38.60 (2) 34.71 (7)	2:13.31	0.83
8	8	Ryan Mitchell	AUS	30.64 (5) 33.58 (1)	1:04.22 (2) 34.62 (7)	1:38.84 (7) 35.16 (8)	2:14.00	0.71