| | | Final 19:00 | time |  | L |  | 1. Xu Jiayu |  China | 1:53.99 | NR | 5 |  | 2. Ryosuke Irie |  Japan | 1:55.11 |  | 3 |  | 3. Keita Sunama |  Japan | 1:55.54 |  | 2 |  | 4. Li Guangyuan |  China | 1:57.13 |  | 4 |  | 5. Lee Ju-ho |  South Korea | 1:59.88 |  | 6 |  | 6. Srihari Nataraj |  India | 2:02.83 |  | 7 |  | 7. Ricky Anggawijaya |  Indonesia | 2:04.60 |  | 8 |  | 8. Francis Fong |  Singapore | 2:06.16 |  | 1 | 
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 | Heats - Thursday 23.08 Morning session 09:50 | 
 | | Ranking | time |  | L | H |  | 1. Li Guangyuan |  China | 1:59.87 | Q | 4 | 1 |  | 2. Xu Jiayu |  China | 2:00.53 | Q | 4 | 3 |  | 3. Ryosuke Irie |  Japan | 2:01.74 | Q | 4 | 2 |  | 4. Lee Ju-ho |  South Korea | 2:01.88 | Q | 5 | 2 |  | 5. Keita Sunama |  Japan | 2:02.64 | Q | 5 | 3 |  | 6. Quah Zheng Wen |  Singapore | 2:02.68 | Q | 5 | 1 |  | 7. Srihari Nataraj |  India | 2:02.97 | Q | 1 | 1 |  | 8. Francis Fong |  Singapore | 2:03.35 | Q | 3 | 3 |  | eliminated in Heats |  | 9. Ricky Anggawijaya |  Indonesia | 2:05.59 |  | 3 | 2 |  | 10.Chuang Mu-lun |  Taipei | 2:06.56 |  | 6 | 2 |  | 11.Cheung Yau Ming |  Hong Kong | 2:06.78 |  | 6 | 1 |  | 12.Advait Page |  India | 2:06.85 |  | 1 | 2 |  | 13.Chang Hou-chi |  Taipei | 2:07.58 |  | 6 | 3 |  | 14.Marcus Mok |  Hong Kong | 2:10.37 |  | 2 | 3 |  | 15.Lê Nguyễn Paul |  Vietnam | 2:10.64 |  | 3 | 1 |  | 16.Akalanka Peiris |  Sri Lanka | 2:12.14 |  | 2 | 2 |  | 17.Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly |  Qatar | 2:13.92 |  | 2 | 1 |  | 18.Buyantogtokh Boldbaatar |  Mongolia | 2:21.49 |  | 7 | 1 |  | 19.Kawas Behram Aga |  Pakistan | 2:22.41 |  | 7 | 2 |  | 20.Demuul Erdenemunkh |  Mongolia | 2:24.64 |  | 8 | 1 |  | 21.Mesalam Al-Nabit |  Qatar | 2:24.94 |  | 7 | 3 |  | 22.Imaan Ali |  Maldives | 2:48.36 |  | 1 | 3 | 
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