Swimming at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle
at the 1998 Asian Games
Men's 200 metre freestyle ; at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Aquatic Center
Date	7 December 1998
Competitors	27 from 17 nations
Medalists
	← 1994 2002 →

The men's 200 metre freestyle swimming competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok was held on 7 December at the Thammasat Aquatic Center.^[1]

Schedule[edit]

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

Date	Time	Event
Monday, 7 December 1998	09:00	Heats
Monday, 7 December 1998	18:00	Finals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Time
1	4	Torlarp Sethsothorn (THA)	1:52.77
2	4	Wang Chuan (CHN)	1:52.97
3	2	Kim Bang-hyun (KOR)	1:53.69
4	4	Mark Chay (SIN)	1:54.36
5	4	Yosuke Ichikawa (JPN)	1:54.49
6	2	Koh Yun-ho (KOR)	1:54.50
7	3	Sng Ju Wei (SIN)	1:54.53
8	3	Shusuke Ito (JPN)	1:54.91
9	2	Vicha Ratanachote (THA)	1:54.99
10	2	Du Jie (CHN)	1:55.02
11	3	Andrey Kvassov (KAZ)	1:55.54
12	3	Oleg Tsvetkovskiy (UZB)	1:55.77
13	4	Zachary Moffatt (HKG)	1:56.38
14	4	Carlo Piccio (PHI)	1:58.22
15	1	Wu Nien-pin (TPE)	1:58.40
16	3	Petr Vasiliev (UZB)	1:58.57
17	3	Tang Chon Kit (MAC)	1:59.15
18	4	Sun Fat Yee (HKG)	1:59.43
19	1	Chen Yi-chung (TPE)	2:00.35
20	2	Fahad Al-Otaibi (KUW)	2:03.31
21	2	Hamed Rezakhani (IRI)	2:04.48
22	1	Farshid Karami (IRI)	2:09.34
23	3	Ibrahim Shafee (UAE)	2:12.41
24	4	Hem Kiry (CAM)	2:13.27
25	3	Ammar Al-Ejji (QAT)	2:16.42
—	2	Kamal Salman Masud (PAK)	DNS
—	2	Mumtaz Ahmed (PAK)	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Time
1	Vicha Ratanachote (THA)	1:54.52
2	Andrey Kvassov (KAZ)	1:54.69
3	Oleg Tsvetkovskiy (UZB)	1:55.69
4	Zachary Moffatt (HKG)	1:56.53
5	Du Jie (CHN)	1:57.12
6	Petr Vasiliev (UZB)	1:58.63
7	Wu Nien-pin (TPE)	1:58.80
8	Carlo Piccio (PHI)	1:59.93

Rank	Athlete	Time
	Yosuke Ichikawa (JPN)	1:52.46
	Torlarp Sethsothorn (THA)	1:52.53
	Shusuke Ito (JPN)	1:52.81
4	Kim Bang-hyun (KOR)	1:53.04
5	Wang Chuan (CHN)	1:53.16
6	Koh Yun-ho (KOR)	1:53.82
7	Mark Chay (SIN)	1:54.57
8	Sng Ju Wei (SIN)	1:55.26