Men's 200m Freestyle Heats

Park Taehwan returns after an (my prediction) emotional race last night, where he failed to defend his title in the 400m Freestyle. Sun Yang returns after a victorious, historical win in the same event. Also in this race is Ryan Lochte, the current IT-boy I dare say, for the swimming events in this games. Paul Beidermann, the 25 year old from Germany, who holds the world record for both 200m & 400m for long and short course; is also here.

1. Sun Yang (Chn) 1:46.24
2. Ryan Lochte (Usa) 1:46.45
3. Yannick Agnel (Fra) 1:46.60
4. Danila Izotov (Rus) 1:46.61
5. Park Taehwan (Kor) 1:46.79
6. Robbie Renwick (Gbr) 1:46.79
7. Kenrick Monk (Aus) 1:46.94
8. Ricky Berens (Usa) 1:47.07
9. Dominik Kozma (Hun) 1:47.18
10. Paul Beidermann (Ger) 1:47.27
11. Sebestian Verschuren (Ned) 1:47.31
12. Gregory Mallet (Fra) 1:47.39
13. Thomas Fraser-Holmes (Aus) 1:47.50
14. Brett Fraser (Cay) 1:47.74
15. Artem Lobuzov (Rus) 1:47.91
16. Dominik Meichtry (Sui) 1:47.97

Yup that's the semifinals. Gruesome as usual. The fastest and slowest qualifying time is within a second difference. It's all about the milliseconds. All about the milliseconds...

Lochte captured by robotic cam