Swimming at the 2006 Asian Games

The Swimming competition at the 2006 Asian Games took place December 2–9 at the Hamad Aquatic Centre in Doha, Qatar. It featured 38 events (19 male, 19 female), all conducted in a long course (50m) pool.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Rafed Al-Masri  Syria	22.41	Makoto Ito  Japan	22.77	Cai Li  China	22.95
100 m freestyle	Chen Zuo  China	49.06 AR	Park Tae-hwan  South Korea	50.02	Daisuke Hosokawa  Japan	50.25
200 m freestyle	Park Tae-hwan  South Korea	1:47.12 AR	Zhang Lin  China	1:47.85	Daisuke Hosokawa  Japan	1:49.62
400 m freestyle	Park Tae-hwan  South Korea	3:48.44 GR	Zhang Lin  China	3:49.03	Takeshi Matsuda  Japan	3:49.38
1500 m freestyle	Park Tae-hwan  South Korea	14:55.03 AR	Zhang Lin  China	15:03.13	Takeshi Matsuda  Japan	15:17.18
50 m backstroke	Junya Koga  Japan	25.40 GR	Ouyang Kunpeng  China	25.47	Sung Min  South Korea	25.57
100 m backstroke	Junichi Miyashita  Japan	54.67 GR	Ouyang Kunpeng  China	54.92	Masafumi Yamaguchi  Japan	55.78
200 m backstroke	Ryosuke Irie  Japan	1:58.85 GR	Ouyang Kunpeng  China	1:59.15	Takashi Nakano  Japan	1:59.34
50 m breaststroke	Vladislav Polyakov  Kazakhstan	28.29 GR	Kosuke Kitajima  Japan	28.38	Wang Haibo  China	28.41
100 m breaststroke	Kosuke Kitajima  Japan	1:01.13	Makoto Yamashita  Japan	1:01.50	Vladislav Polyakov  Kazakhstan	1:01.63
200 m breaststroke	Kosuke Kitajima  Japan	2:12.05	Daisuke Kimura  Japan	2:13.17	Vladislav Polyakov  Kazakhstan	2:13.60
50 m butterfly	Zhou Jiawei  China	23.94 GR	Ryo Takayasu  Japan	24.11	Wang Dong  China	24.23
100 m butterfly	Takashi Yamamoto  Japan	52.54 GR	Ryo Takayasu  Japan	52.84	Wang Dong  China	53.03
200 m butterfly	Wu Peng  China	1:54.91 GR	Takeshi Matsuda  Japan	1:55.49	Ryuichi Shibata  Japan	1:56.44
200 m individual medley	Hidemasa Sano  Japan	2:00.73	Ken Takakuwa  Japan	2:01.03	Han Kyu-chul  South Korea	2:02.56
400 m individual medley	Hidemasa Sano  Japan	4:16.18	Shinya Taniguchi  Japan	4:17.91	Han Kyu-chul  South Korea	4:21.78
4×100 m freestyle relay	Japan (JPN) Takamitsu Kojima Hiroaki Yamamoto Makoto Ito Daisuke Hosokawa	3:18.95 AR	China (CHN) Huang Shaohua Chen Zuo Cai Li Qu Jingyu	3:19.26	South Korea (KOR) Han Kyu-chul Sung Min Lim Nam-gyun Park Tae-hwan	3:22.16
4×200 m freestyle relay	Japan (JPN) Takeshi Matsuda Yuji Sakurai Takamitsu Kojima Daisuke Hosokawa	7:14.86 GR	China (CHN) Yu Chenglong Zhang Enjian Chen Zuo Zhang Lin	7:15.13	South Korea (KOR) Lim Nam-gyun Han Kyu-chul Kang Yong-hwan Park Tae-hwan	7:23.61
4×100 m medley relay	Japan (JPN) Junichi Miyashita Kosuke Kitajima Takashi Yamamoto Daisuke Hosokawa	3:36.52 GR	China (CHN) Ouyang Kunpeng Lai Zhongjian Wang Dong Chen Zuo	3:40.27	South Korea (KOR) Sung Min You Seung-hun Jeong Doo-hee Park Tae-hwan	3:41.33

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Xu Yanwei  China	25.23 GR	Pang Jiaying  China	25.84	Kaori Yamada  Japan	26.01
100 m freestyle	Xu Yanwei  China	55.02	Pang Jiaying  China	55.17	Kaori Yamada  Japan	56.29
200 m freestyle	Pang Jiaying  China	1:59.26	Yang Yu  China	2:00.73	Maki Mita  Japan	2:00.78
400 m freestyle	Yang Jieqiao  China	4:12.75	Zhu Wenrui  China	4:14.45	Lee Ji-eun  South Korea	4:14.95
800 m freestyle	Yurie Yano  Japan	8:29.51	Yang Jieqiao  China	8:38.35	Maiko Fujino  Japan	8:42.31
50 m backstroke	Zhao Jing  China	28.69 GR	Gao Chang  China	28.88	Reiko Nakamura  Japan	28.89
100 m backstroke	Reiko Nakamura  Japan	1:00.82	Xu Tianlongzi  China	1:01.22	Zhao Jing  China	1:01.72
200 m backstroke	Reiko Nakamura  Japan	2:10.33	Zhao Jing  China	2:11.54	Takami Igarashi  Japan	2:12.55
50 m breaststroke	Ji Liping  China	31.52 GR	Asami Kitagawa  Japan	32.27	Wang Qun  China	32.53
100 m breaststroke	Asami Kitagawa  Japan	1:09.13	Ji Liping  China	1:09.47	Back Su-yeon  South Korea	1:10.22
200 m breaststroke	Qi Hui  China	2:23.93 GR	Luo Nan  China	2:27.49	Jung Seul-ki  South Korea	2:27.82
50 m butterfly	Tao Li  Singapore	26.73 GR	Xu Yanwei  China	26.95	Yuka Kato  Japan	26.98
100 m butterfly	Zhou Yafei  China	58.39	Xu Yanwei  China	58.73	Tao Li  Singapore	58.96
200 m butterfly	Yurie Yano  Japan	2:09.08	Choi Hye-ra  South Korea	2:09.64	Yuko Nakanishi  Japan	2:09.75
200 m individual medley	Qi Hui  China	2:11.92 GR	Asami Kitagawa  Japan	2:14.51	Maiko Fujino  Japan	2:15.21
400 m individual medley	Qi Hui  China	4:38.31 GR	Yu Rui  China	4:39.51	Maiko Fujino  Japan	4:42.70
4×100 m freestyle relay	China (CHN) Xu Yanwei Yang Yu Wang Dan Pang Jiaying	3:42.11	Japan (JPN) Norie Urabe Maki Mita Kaori Yamada Haruka Ueda	3:45.86	Hong Kong (HKG) Hannah Wilson Sherry Tsai Lee Leong Kwai Sze Hang Yu	3:48.82
4×200 m freestyle relay	China (CHN) Tang Yi Yang Yu Tang Jingzhi Pang Jiaying	8:01.89	Japan (JPN) Maki Mita Norie Urabe Haruka Ueda Yurie Yano	8:06.76	South Korea (KOR) Lee Keo-ra Park Na-ri Jung Yoo-jin Lee Ji-eun	8:14.68
4×100 m medley relay	China (CHN) Zhao Jing Luo Nan Zhou Yafei Pang Jiaying	4:04.22	Japan (JPN) Reiko Nakamura Asami Kitagawa Yuko Nakanishi Maki Mita	4:05.14	South Korea (KOR) Lee Nam-eun Jung Seul-ki Shin Hae-in Ryu Yoon-ji	4:09.22

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	16	22	6	44
2	Japan (JPN)	16	14	17	47
3	South Korea (KOR)	3	2	11	16
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	2	3
5	Singapore (SIN)	1	0	1	2
6	Syria (SYR)	1	0	0	1
7	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
Total		38	38	38	114

Participating nations

A total of 313 athletes from 34 nations competed in swimming at the 2006 Asian Games:

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