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200 metres Individual Medley, Men

Date	20 – 21 September 2000
Status	Olympic
Location	Sydney International Aquatic Centre, Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants	56 from 49 countries

After a 104 year wait for an Olympic swimming championship Italy won three in Sydney in 2000. Two of the golds went to Domenico Fioravanti in the breaststroke events and the other, in this event, to Massimiliano Rosolino. Rosolino had already won two medals in freestyle events in Sydney and had been long established as one of the best in the world without ever quite reaching champion status.

This all changed during the course of the race and especially over the course of the third leg, breaststroke, where Rosolino swept into the lead. On his specialist freestyle leg he moved even further away to record the second fastest time ever and break the Olympic record. Tom Dolan and Tom Wilkens, both of the USA, completed the podium positions. Dolan had already retained his 400 metres medley title in these Games.

Pos	Swimmer	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	Massi Rosolino	ITA	2:00.92 (1 h7)	2:01.14 (1 h2)	1:58.98 (1)	Gold
2	Tom Dolan	USA	2:01.55 (1 h5)	2:00.38 (1 h1)	1:59.77 (2)	Silver
3	Tom Wilkens	USA	2:02.21 (1 h6)	2:01.51 (4 h2)	2:00.87 (3)	Bronze
4	Attila Czene	HUN	2:02.66 (5 h5)	2:01.56 (3 h1)	2:01.16 (4)
5	Marcel Wouda	NED	2:01.89 (2 h5)	2:01.40 (2 h2)	2:01.48 (5)
6	Christian Keller	GER	2:02.09 (4 h5)	2:01.23 (2 h1)	2:02.02 (6)
7	Xavier Marchand	FRA	2:02.86 (4 h6)	2:01.81 (4 h1)	2:02.23 (7)
8	Jani Sievinen	FIN	2:02.00 (3 h5)	2:01.46 (3 h2)	2:02.49 (8)
9	Matt Dunn	AUS	2:02.44 (2 h6)	2:01.95 (5 h1)	–
10	Curtis Myden	CAN	2:01.95 (2 h7)	2:01.99 (6 h1)	–
11	Cezar Bădiță	ROU	2:02.48 (3 h6)	2:02.02 (5 h2)	–
12	Jens Kruppa	GER	2:03.08 (5 h6)	2:02.55 (7 h1)	–
13	Jordi Carrasco	ESP	2:02.89 (4 h7)	2:02.90 (6 h2)	–
14	Rob Van der Zant	AUS	2:02.77 (3 h7)	2:02.91 (7 h2)	–
15	Brian Johns	CAN	2:03.12 (6 h5)	2:02.92 (8 h2)	–
16	Jiro Miki	JPN	2:03.33 (6 h6)	2:03.90 (8 h1)	–
17	Terence Parkin	RSA	2:03.33 (5 h7)	–	–
18	Peter Mankoč	SLO	2:03.45 (7 h6)	–	–
19	István Batházi	HUN	2:03.63 (6 h7)	–	–
20	Theo Verster	RSA	2:03.64 (7 h5)	–	–
21	Jan Víťazka	CZE	2:03.66 (7 h7)	–	–
22	Ioannis Kokkodis	GRE	2:04.04 (8 h5)	–	–
23	Dean Kent	NZL	2:04.07 (1 h4)	–	–
24	Valērijs Kalmikovs	LAT	2:04.18 (2 h4)	–	–
25	Xie Xufeng	CHN	2:04.67 (8 h6)	–	–
26	George Bovell	TTO	2:04.68 (1 h3)	–	–
27	Michael Windisch	AUT	2:05.15 (3 h4)	–	–
28	Yves Platel	SUI	2:05.19 (4 h4)	–	–
29	Grigory Matuzkov	KAZ	2:05.45 (1 h2)	–	–
30	Susumu Tabuchi	JPN	2:05.68 (8 h7)	–	–
31	Artem Honcharenko	UKR	2:05.98 (5 h4)	–	–
32	Oleg Pukhnaty	UZB	2:06.01 (2 h3)	–	–
33	Han Gyu-Cheol	KOR	2:06.42 (3 h3)	–	–
34	Arsenio López	PUR	2:06.49 (4 h3)	–	–
35	Jeremy Knowles	BAH	2:06.85 (2 h2)	–	–
36	Krešimir Čač	CRO	2:07.04 (6 h4)	–	–
37	Javier Díaz	MEX	2:07.28 (3 h2)	–	–
38	Aleksandar Miladinovski	MKD	2:07.45 (4 h2)	–	–
39	Miki Halika	ISR	2:07.53 (7 h4)	–	–
40	Andrey Pakin	KGZ	2:07.88 (1 h1)	–	–
41	Stephen Fahy	BER	2:07.92 (5 h3)	–	–
42	George Gleason	ISV	2:08.25 (2 h1)	–	–
43	Phathanyu Yimsumruay	THA	2:08.38 (8 h4)	–	–
44	Wu Nien-Pin	TPE	2:08.85 (6 h3)	–	–
45	Walter Arciprete	ARG	2:08.89 (5 h2)	–	–
46	Alex Fong	HKG	2:09.00 (6 h2)	–	–
47	Andrei Zaharov	MDA	2:09.13 (7 h3)	–	–
48	Uğur Orel Oral	TUR	2:09.51 (7 h2)	–	–
49	Đorđe Filipović	SCG	2:09.58 (3 h1)	–	–
50	Felix Sutanto	INA	2:09.77 (4 h1)	–	–
51	Haitham Hassan	EGY	2:09.92 (8 h3)	–	–
52	Francisco Picasso	URU	2:10.97 (8 h2)	–	–
53	Giorgos Dimitriadis	CYP	2:12.76 (5 h1)	–	–
54	Saad Khalloqi	MAR	2:13.22 (6 h1)	–	–
55	Sultan Al-Otaibi	KUW	2:16.23 (7 h1)	–	–
56	Omar Abu-Fares	JOR	2:21.22 (8 h1)	–	–

Round One (20 September 2000)

Fastest 16 advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One (11:25)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	7	Andrey Pakin	KGZ	26.67 (1) 32.28 (2)	58.95 (2) 39.45 (4)	1:38.40 (3) 29.48 (1)	2:07.88	0.94
2	5	George Gleason	ISV	26.94 (3) 31.73 (1)	58.67 (1) 39.47 (5)	1:38.14 (2) 30.11 (2)	2:08.25	0.78
3	3	Đorđe Filipović	SCG	26.74 (2) 33.92 (5)	1:00.66 (4) 38.45 (1)	1:39.11 (4) 30.47 (3)	2:09.58	0.82
4	4	Felix Sutanto	INA	27.21 (4) 32.36 (3)	59.57 (3) 38.53 (2)	1:38.10 (1) 31.67 (6)	2:09.77	0.71
5	6	Giorgos Dimitriadis	CYP	27.44 (5) 33.64 (4)	1:01.08 (5) 40.48 (7)	1:41.56 (5) 31.20 (4)	2:12.76	0.77
6	1	Saad Khalloqi	MAR	28.23 (6) 34.73 (6)	1:02.96 (6) 38.93 (3)	1:41.89 (6) 31.33 (5)	2:13.22	0.88
7	2	Sultan Al-Otaibi	KUW	28.54 (7) 35.99 (8)	1:04.53 (7) 39.53 (6)	1:44.06 (7) 32.17 (7)	2:16.23	0.79
8	8	Omar Abu-Fares	JOR	29.96 (8) 35.05 (7)	1:05.01 (8) 43.03 (8)	1:48.04 (8) 33.18 (8)	2:21.22	0.88

Heat Two (11:29)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	3	Grigory Matuzkov	KAZ	27.06 (2) 32.10 (1)	59.16 (2) 36.01 (1)	1:35.17 (1) 30.28 (4)	2:05.45	0.83
2	6	Jeremy Knowles	BAH	28.01 (5) 32.27 (2)	1:00.28 (3) 37.22 (4)	1:37.50 (4) 29.35 (2)	2:06.85	0.84
3	5	Javier Díaz	MEX	27.85 (4) 32.93 (5)	1:00.78 (6) 37.21 (3)	1:37.99 (5) 29.29 (1)	2:07.28	0.76
4	2	Aleksandar Miladinovski	MKD	26.34 (1) 32.77 (4)	59.11 (1) 37.51 (5)	1:36.62 (2) 30.83 (5)	2:07.45	0.81
5	4	Walter Arciprete	ARG	28.03 (6) 33.09 (7)	1:01.12 (7) 36.09 (2)	1:37.21 (3) 31.68 (8)	2:08.89	0.88
6	7	Alex Fong	HKG	28.25 (7) 32.37 (3)	1:00.62 (5) 38.31 (8)	1:38.93 (7) 30.07 (3)	2:09.00	0.79
7	1	Uğur Orel Oral	TUR	27.39 (3) 33.07 (6)	1:00.46 (4) 37.83 (7)	1:38.29 (6) 31.22 (6)	2:09.51	0.76
8	8	Francisco Picasso	URU	28.41 (8) 33.54 (8)	1:01.95 (8) 37.60 (6)	1:39.55 (8) 31.42 (7)	2:10.97	0.79

Heat Three (11:33)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	George Bovell	TTO	27.09 (4) 31.09 (1)	58.18 (1) 36.86 (4)	1:35.04 (1) 29.64 (2)	2:04.68	0.87
2	5	Oleg Pukhnaty	UZB	27.47 (6) 32.97 (=4)	1:00.44 (5) 35.80 (1)	1:36.24 (2) 29.77 (3)	2:06.01	0.89
3	3	Han Gyu-Cheol	KOR	26.98 (=2) 32.63 (3)	59.61 (3) 36.81 (3)	1:36.42 (4) 30.00 (5)	2:06.42	0.81
4	2	Arsenio López	PUR	27.60 (8) 32.97 (=4)	1:00.57 (6) 36.08 (2)	1:36.65 (5) 29.84 (4)	2:06.49	0.78
5	1	Stephen Fahy	BER	26.98 (=2) 31.84 (2)	58.82 (2) 37.58 (7)	1:36.40 (3) 31.52 (7)	2:07.92	0.67
6	6	Wu Nien-Pin	TPE	27.42 (5) 33.31 (6)	1:00.73 (7) 39.49 (8)	1:40.22 (8) 28.63 (1)	2:08.85	0.66
7	7	Andrei Zaharov	MDA	27.59 (7) 33.60 (8)	1:01.19 (8) 37.50 (6)	1:38.69 (7) 30.44 (6)	2:09.13	0.88
8	8	Haitham Hassan	EGY	26.81 (1) 33.39 (7)	1:00.20 (4) 37.05 (5)	1:37.25 (6) 32.67 (8)	2:09.92	0.83

Heat Four (11:37)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Dean Kent	NZL	27.17 (3) 31.57 (1)	58.74 (2) 35.58 (4)	1:34.32 (2) 29.75 (2)	2:04.07	0.80
2	2	Valērijs Kalmikovs	LAT	26.92 (2) 32.63 (3)	59.55 (3) 34.69 (1)	1:34.24 (1) 29.94 (4)	2:04.18	0.80
3	1	Michael Windisch	AUT	26.59 (1) 31.68 (2)	58.27 (1) 36.88 (8)	1:35.15 (3) 30.00 (5)	2:05.15	0.79
4	8	Yves Platel	SUI	27.66 (7) 32.73 (4)	1:00.39 (5) 35.18 (2)	1:35.57 (4) 29.62 (1)	2:05.19	0.76
5	5	Artem Honcharenko	UKR	27.36 (4) 33.46 (8)	1:00.82 (6) 35.40 (3)	1:36.22 (5) 29.76 (3)	2:05.98	0.89
6	3	Krešimir Čač	CRO	27.39 (5) 32.79 (5)	1:00.18 (4) 36.72 (7)	1:36.90 (6) 30.14 (6)	2:07.04	0.94
7	6	Miki Halika	ISR	27.63 (6) 33.24 (7)	1:00.87 (7) 36.51 (6)	1:37.38 (7) 30.15 (7)	2:07.53	0.86
8	7	Phathanyu Yimsumruay	THA	27.93 (8) 33.02 (6)	1:00.95 (8) 36.44 (5)	1:37.39 (8) 30.99 (8)	2:08.38	0.76

Heat Five (11:41)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Tom Dolan	USA	26.79 (=6) 30.92 (2)	57.71 (2) 35.31 (4)	1:33.02 (3) 28.53 (1)	2:01.55	0.74
2	5	Marcel Wouda	NED	26.56 (3) 31.92 (5)	58.48 (4) 34.15 (1)	1:32.63 (1) 29.26 (5)	2:01.89	0.91
3	6	Jani Sievinen	FIN	26.35 (2) 31.76 (4)	58.11 (3) 34.65 (3)	1:32.76 (2) 29.24 (4)	2:02.00	0.77
4	3	Christian Keller	GER	26.77 (5) 32.31 (7)	59.08 (7) 34.25 (2)	1:33.33 (4) 28.76 (2)	2:02.09	0.79
5	2	Attila Czene	HUN	26.66 (4) 30.89 (1)	57.55 (1) 35.84 (8)	1:33.39 (5) 29.27 (6)	2:02.66	0.83
6	7	Brian Johns	CAN	26.79 (=6) 31.99 (6)	58.78 (6) 35.55 (7)	1:34.33 (7) 28.79 (3)	2:03.12	0.81
7	1	Theo Verster	RSA	26.10 (1) 32.61 (8)	58.71 (5) 35.40 (6)	1:34.11 (6) 29.53 (7)	2:03.64	0.73
8	8	Ioannis Kokkodis	GRE	27.63 (8) 31.46 (3)	59.09 (8) 35.34 (5)	1:34.43 (8) 29.61 (8)	2:04.04	0.83

Heat Six (11:46)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Tom Wilkens	USA	26.55 (6) 31.33 (=2)	57.88 (4) 34.66 (3)	1:32.54 (2) 29.67 (7)	2:02.21	0.78
2	5	Matt Dunn	AUS	26.69 (7) 31.33 (=2)	58.02 (5) 35.01 (4)	1:33.03 (3) 29.41 (4)	2:02.44	0.88
3	2	Cezar Bădiță	ROU	26.87 (8) 33.11 (8)	59.98 (8) 34.47 (1)	1:34.45 (7) 28.03 (1)	2:02.48	0.86
4	6	Xavier Marchand	FRA	26.29 (4) 31.49 (4)	57.78 (2) 35.45 (5)	1:33.23 (4) 29.63 (6)	2:02.86	0.76
5	3	Jens Kruppa	GER	25.86 (1) 31.95 (5)	57.81 (3) 34.53 (2)	1:32.34 (1) 30.74 (8)	2:03.08	0.82
6	7	Jiro Miki	JPN	26.53 (5) 30.81 (1)	57.34 (1) 36.61 (8)	1:33.95 (5) 29.38 (3)	2:03.33	0.69
7	8	Peter Mankoč	SLO	26.07 (2) 32.36 (6)	58.43 (6) 35.91 (6)	1:34.34 (6) 29.11 (2)	2:03.45	0.83
8	1	Xie Xufeng	CHN	26.27 (3) 32.78 (7)	59.05 (7) 36.14 (7)	1:35.19 (8) 29.48 (5)	2:04.67	0.90

Heat Seven (11:51)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Massi Rosolino	ITA	26.38 (=1) 30.82 (2)	57.20 (1) 34.68 (1)	1:31.88 (1) 29.04 (3)	2:00.92	0.85
2	5	Curtis Myden	CAN	26.38 (=1) 31.46 (6)	57.84 (4) 34.70 (2)	1:32.54 (2) 29.41 (4)	2:01.95	0.78
3	3	Rob Van der Zant	AUS	26.96 (6) 31.20 (5)	58.16 (5) 36.22 (7)	1:34.38 (6) 28.39 (1)	2:02.77	0.75
4	2	Jordi Carrasco	ESP	26.80 (=3) 30.61 (1)	57.41 (2) 35.14 (5)	1:32.55 (3) 30.34 (8)	2:02.89	0.79
5	6	Terence Parkin	RSA	27.57 (8) 30.95 (3)	58.52 (6) 34.86 (3)	1:33.38 (4) 29.95 (6)	2:03.33	0.76
6	1	István Batházi	HUN	27.44 (7) 32.16 (8)	59.60 (8) 35.05 (4)	1:34.65 (7) 28.98 (2)	2:03.63	0.79
7	8	Jan Víťazka	CZE	26.82 (5) 31.82 (7)	58.64 (7) 35.53 (6)	1:34.17 (5) 29.49 (5)	2:03.66	0.71
8	7	Susumu Tabuchi	JPN	26.80 (=3) 30.98 (4)	57.78 (3) 37.67 (8)	1:35.45 (8) 30.23 (7)	2:05.68	0.82

Semi-Finals (20 September 2000)

Fastest eight advanced to the final.

Heat One (20:32)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Tom Dolan	USA	26.51 (3) 30.61 (1)	57.12 (1) 34.33 (2)	1:31.45 (1) 28.93 (5)	2:00.38	0.69	Q
2	3	Christian Keller	GER	26.40 (2) 32.23 (8)	58.63 (7) 33.95 (1)	1:32.58 (4) 28.65 (2)	2:01.23	0.77	Q
3	2	Attila Czene	HUN	26.58 (5) 31.05 (2)	57.63 (2) 34.77 (5)	1:32.40 (3) 29.16 (6)	2:01.56	0.80	Q
4	7	Xavier Marchand	FRA	26.67 (6) 31.97 (7)	58.64 (8) 34.39 (3)	1:33.03 (5) 28.78 (3)	2:01.81	0.75	Q
5	6	Matt Dunn	AUS	27.19 (8) 31.18 (3)	58.37 (6) 35.02 (7)	1:33.39 (7) 28.56 (1)	2:01.95	0.87
6	5	Curtis Myden	CAN	26.55 (4) 31.72 (5)	58.27 (5) 34.85 (6)	1:33.12 (6) 28.87 (4)	2:01.99	0.80
7	1	Jens Kruppa	GER	25.96 (1) 31.82 (6)	57.78 (3) 34.43 (4)	1:32.21 (2) 30.34 (8)	2:02.55	0.82
8	8	Jiro Miki	JPN	26.69 (7) 31.41 (4)	58.10 (4) 36.07 (8)	1:34.17 (8) 29.73 (7)	2:03.90	0.68

Heat Two (20:38)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	4	Massi Rosolino	ITA	26.22 (1) 30.82 (2)	57.04 (1) 35.18 (5)	1:32.22 (3) 28.92 (=4)	2:01.14	0.84	Q
2	5	Marcel Wouda	NED	26.40 (=3) 31.46 (4)	57.86 (3) 34.17 (1)	1:32.03 (1) 29.37 (6)	2:01.40	0.89	Q
3	3	Jani Sievinen	FIN	26.40 (=3) 31.58 (5)	57.98 (=4) 34.56 (2)	1:32.54 (4) 28.92 (=4)	2:01.46	0.77	Q
4	6	Tom Wilkens	USA	26.24 (2) 31.24 (3)	57.48 (2) 34.59 (3)	1:32.07 (2) 29.44 (7)	2:01.51	0.79	Q
5	2	Cezar Bădiță	ROU	27.21 (8) 32.37 (8)	59.58 (8) 34.60 (4)	1:34.18 (6) 27.84 (1)	2:02.02	0.90
6	1	Jordi Carrasco	ESP	27.18 (7) 30.80 (1)	57.98 (=4) 35.24 (6)	1:33.22 (5) 29.68 (8)	2:02.90	0.82
7	7	Rob Van der Zant	AUS	26.76 (5) 31.69 (7)	58.45 (6) 36.13 (8)	1:34.58 (8) 28.33 (2)	2:02.91	0.76
8	8	Brian Johns	CAN	27.04 (6) 31.68 (6)	58.72 (7) 35.64 (7)	1:34.36 (7) 28.56 (3)	2:02.92	0.84

Final (21 September 2000 — 20:24)

Pos	Lane	Swimmer	NOC	50 m	100 m	150 m	Time	Reaction
1	5	Massi Rosolino	ITA	26.59 (7) 30.77 (3)	57.36 (3) 33.52 (1)	1:30.88 (1) 28.10 (1)	1:58.98	0.79	OR
2	4	Tom Dolan	USA	26.37 (5) 30.03 (1)	56.40 (2) 34.77 (6)	1:31.17 (2) 28.60 (2)	1:59.77	0.66
3	7	Tom Wilkens	USA	26.38 (6) 31.02 (4)	57.40 (4) 34.24 (2)	1:31.64 (3) 29.23 (=4)	2:00.87	0.77
4	1	Attila Czene	HUN	26.22 (3) 30.10 (2)	56.32 (1) 35.40 (8)	1:31.72 (4) 29.44 (8)	2:01.16	0.85
5	6	Marcel Wouda	NED	26.13 (1) 31.39 (5)	57.52 (5) 34.75 (5)	1:32.27 (5) 29.21 (3)	2:01.48	0.88
6	3	Christian Keller	GER	26.17 (2) 31.96 (7)	58.13 (7) 34.51 (4)	1:32.64 (6) 29.38 (6)	2:02.02	0.77
7	8	Xavier Marchand	FRA	26.62 (8) 32.05 (8)	58.67 (8) 34.33 (3)	1:33.00 (7) 29.23 (=4)	2:02.23	0.79
8	2	Jani Sievinen	FIN	26.27 (4) 31.85 (6)	58.12 (6) 34.94 (7)	1:33.06 (8) 29.43 (7)	2:02.49	0.75