200m individual medley is an event that compete for the time it takes to swim 200m by 50m total in the order of butterfly backstroke → → → breaststroke freestyle alone.
Video, is a state of the men's 200m individual medley final at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Regulations commentary seen in 5 minutes
The competition area
- One way by the 50m pool and swim a total of 2 round trip on each stroke.
- 1Is performed in eight human race.
Start
- Take the starting blocks at the whistle.
- Gun after the starting signal will be; "(provided by Take Your Marks) Take Your Marks".
- Until the gun had to be stationary from "Take Your Marks", will be disqualified if moved.
Stroke
- → freestyle swim in the order of backstroke breaststroke butterfly → →.
- To go to somewhere other than their own lane, to touch the rope course, you can walk or kicking the bottom of the pool is not allowed.
Finish
- 200will finish when you touch the wall of the pool swimming in the m.
The road to gold medal
- Proceed through the semi-finals and finals → → qualifying.
- In qualifying, the top 16 will advance to the semifinals name.
- In the semifinals, the name of the top eight will advance to the finals.
World Record / Japanese record
200m individual medley
Record | Name | Date | |
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World | 1:54"00 | Ryan Rokute (United States of America) | 2011/07/28 |
World | 2:06"15 | Ariana Kukazu (United States of America) | 2009/07/27 |
Japan | 1:57"24 | Ken Takakuwa | 2009/04/18 |
Japan | 2:10"90 | Tomoyo Fukuda | 2009/09/11 |