Rank | Heat | Athlete | Time | Notes | 1 | 5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Park Tae-hwan|KOR|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:49.75 |
2 | 5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Daisuke Hosokawa|JPN|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:50.14 |
3 | 3 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Zhang Enjian|CHN|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:50.71 |
4 | 4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Zhang Lin|CHN|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:50.96 |
5 | 3 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Lim Nam-gyun|KOR|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:51.07 |
6 | 4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Takamitsu Kojima|JPN|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:51.47 |
7 | 4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Bryan Tay|SGP|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:53.04 |
8 | 5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Daniel Bego|MAS|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:54.37 |
9 | 3 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Virdhawal Khade|IND|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:54.44 |
10 | 3 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Miguel Molina|PHI|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:54.62 |
11 | 4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Tang Sheng-chieh|TPE|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:55.32 |
12 | 4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Cheung Siu Hang|HKG|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:55.57 |
13 | 4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Timur Irgashev|UZB|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:55.73 |
14 | 5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Mohammad Madwa|KUW|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:55.86 |
15 | 4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Marcus Cheah|SGP|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:55.99 |
16 | 3 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Tharnawat Thanakornworakiart|THA|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:56.23 |
17 | 1 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Vyacheslav Titarenko|KAZ|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:56.39 |
18 | 5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Petr Vasiliev|UZB|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:56.66 |
19 | 3 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Mohammad Bidarian|IRI|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:56.84 |
20 | 3 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Waleed Al-Qahtani|KUW|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:56.99 |
21 | 5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Chen Te-tung|TPE|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:57.96 |
22 | 5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Soheil Maleka Ashtiani|IRI|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:58.17 |
23 | 5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Chung Kwok Ting|HKG|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:58.55 |
24 | 3 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Anas Abu-Yousuf|QAT|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:58.87 |
25 | 2 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Daniel Lee|SRI|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:01.02 |
26 | 2 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Moyssara El-Aarag|QAT|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:01.03 |
27 | 2 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Heshan Unamboowe|SRI|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:01.60 |
28 | 2 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Jamil Yamout|LBN|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:01.89 |
29 | 2 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Rashid Iunusov|KGZ|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:02.48 |
30 | 2 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Antonio Tong|MAC|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:03.19 |
31 | 4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Kendrick Uy|PHI|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:04.80 |
32 | 2 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Lao Kuan Fong|MAC|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:06.72 |
33 | 2 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Ali Adel|IRQ|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:10.87 |
34 | 1 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Ali Majeed|IRQ|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:17.00 |
35 | 1 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Ali Mohamed Raaidh|MDV|2006 Asian Games}} | 2:30.12 |
Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes | {{Gold1}} | {{flagIOC2athlete|Park Tae-hwan|KOR|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:47.12 | swimming}} |
{{Silver2}} | {{flagIOC2athlete|Zhang Lin|CHN|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:47.85 |
{{Bronze3}} | {{flagIOC2athlete|Daisuke Hosokawa|JPN|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:49.62 |
4 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Zhang Enjian|CHN|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:49.92 |
5 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Takamitsu Kojima|JPN|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:50.37 |
6 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Lim Nam-gyun|KOR|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:51.67 |
7 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Bryan Tay|SGP|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:52.09 |
8 | {{flagIOC2athlete|Daniel Bego|MAS|2006 Asian Games}} | 1:56.25 |