The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events

Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming portion of the 2011 FINA World Championships was held July 24–31 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. Swimming is one of five aquatic disciplines at the championships.-Qualifying criteria:...

 at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

2011 World Aquatics Championships

The 14th FINA World Championships were held at July 16–31, 2011 in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. The 2011 World Championships featured five aquatics disciplines: swimming, water polo, diving, open water, and synchronised swimming...

 was held on July 26 with the heats and the semifinals and July 27 with the final.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...		1:51.51	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...	July 29, 2009

No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

Heats

40 athletes participated in 5 heats.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	7	Dinko Jukić Dinko Jukic Dinko Jukić is a male medley and butterfly swimmer from Austria of Croatian origin. He competed for Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in tenth place in the men's 200 m butterfly event. He is the younger brother of swimmer Mirna Jukić.-References:*...		1:55.26	Q
2	5	1	Leonardo de Deus		1:55.55	Q
3	3	4	Bence Biczó Bence Biczó Bence Biczó is a Hungarian swimmer and Youth Olympic Games gold medalist.Biczó began swimming in 1999 and soon stood out with his talent. For 2005 he held almost all county records in his age group...		1:55.71	Q
4	3	3	Tyler Clary Tyler Clary Scott Clary is an American swimmer. Clary currently holds the American record in the 400-yard individual medley...		1:55.95	Q
5	5	4	Takeshi Matsuda Takeshi Matsuda is a Japanese Olympic and Asian and National Record holding swimmer. He swam for Japan at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the latter event, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200m long course butterfly in an Asian Record of 1:52.97; in doing so, he also set the Japanese Record in the event...		1:55.98	Q
6	5	3	Chen Yin		1:56.23	Q
7	3	2	Chad le Clos Chad le Clos Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos is a South African swimmer who is currently the Commonwealth Games champion and record holder in the 200 metre butterfly. He also won five medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore....		1:56.37	Q
8	5	6	László Cseh László Cseh László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes...		1:56.39	Q
9	5	5	Paweł Korzeniowski		1:56.51	Q
10	3	7	Marcin Cieslak		1:56.56	Q
11	4	4	Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...		1.56.77	Q
12	3	8	Stefanos Dimitriadis		1:56.82	Q
13	3	1	Ioannis Drymonakos Ioannis Drymonakos Ioannis Drymonakos is a Greek swimmer from Athens. He became the first ever Greek swimmer to hold a European swimming record by clocking a time of 1:54.16 seconds in 200 m butterfly event of the 2008 European Aquatics Championships final on 21 March 2008.He tested positive for banned drugs...		1:56.88	Q
14	3	5	Kaio de Almeida Kaio de Almeida Kaio Márcio Ferreira Costa de Almeida is a Brazilian swimmer, who specializes in butterfly. He is also known as: Kaio Márcio, Kaio Márcio de Almeida, Kaio Almeida, or Kaio de Almeida....		1:56.92	Q
15	4	3	Wu Peng Wu Peng Wu Peng is a Chinese swimmer. His height is 1.80 m and he weights approximately 72 kg. His father died when he was only 16 years old. He has concentrated on the butterfly since the 10th National Games in 2005.-Early life and career:...		1:56.98	Q
16	3	6	Michael Rock Michael Rock (swimmer) Michael Paul Rock is a British butterfly stroke swimmer.Rock competed in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, after becoming British champion in both events at the 2008 British Olympic Swimming Trials in Sheffield.At the 2010 Commonwealth...		1:57.03	Q
17	5	8	Sebastien Rousseau		1:57.15
18	5	2	Jayden Hadler		1:57.17
19	2	7	Velimir Stjepanovic Velimir Stjepanović Velimir Stjepanović is a Serbian swimmer, member of Swimming club Partizan....		1:57.40	NR
20	4	5	Ryusuke Sakata		1:57.66
21	2	3	Robert Zbogar		1:57.71	NR
22	4	6	Nikolay Skvortsov Nikolay Skvortsov (swimmer) Nikolay Valeryevich Skvortsov is a butterfly swimmer from Russia, who won a silver and a bronze medal at the 2004 European Championships in Madrid, Spain. He swam for Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he finished in seventh place in the 200 fly....		1:57.85
23	2	6	Chang Gyu-Cheol		1:58.02
24	4	7	Joseph Roebuck		1:58.20
25	4	1	Stefan Hirniak Stefan Hirniak Stefan Max Hirniak is a male swimmer from Canada, who mostly competes in the freestyle and butterfly events...		1:58.72
26	4	8	Hsu Chi-Chieh		1:59.33
27	2	1	Gal Nevo Gal Nevo Gal Nevo is an Israeli swimmer who holds three Israeli records in the 200m IM, 400m IM and 200m butterfly. He represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Nevo is Jewish....		1:59.68
28	2	4	Duarte Mourao		1:59.81
29	2	8	Israel Duran		2:00.55
30	2	5	Omar Pinzón Omar Pinzón Omar Andrés Pinzón García is a Colombian international swimmer. He competed at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece and 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Pinzón attended college in the United States, where he swam for the University of Florida.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pinzón finished...		2:00.79
31	1	2	Diego Castillo Granados		2:00.80
32	4	2	Travis Nederpelt Travis Nederpelt Travis Nederpelt is a swimmer from Western Australia. A butterfly specialist, he represented his country in the 2004 Olympic Games at Athens and in 2008 at Beijing...		2:00.98
33	1	4	Vo Nguyen		2:01.25
34	2	2	Jan Sefl		2:01.34
35	1	8	Hocine Haciane Hocine Haciane Hocine Haciane is a swimmer who represented Andorra at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, then in Beijing in 2008. He was also the flag bearer for Andorra.-References:***...		2:04.14
36	1	6	Jessie Lacuna		2:04.23
37	1	3	Donny Utomo		2:05.23
38	1	5	Quy Phuoc Hoang		2:05.42
39	1	1	Edwin Angjeli		2:06.68
40	1	7	Rommie Benjamin		2:06.75

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Chen Yin		1:54.80	Q
2	5	Tyler Clary Tyler Clary Scott Clary is an American swimmer. Clary currently holds the American record in the 400-yard individual medley...		1:56.01
3	1	Kaio de Almeida Kaio de Almeida Kaio Márcio Ferreira Costa de Almeida is a Brazilian swimmer, who specializes in butterfly. He is also known as: Kaio Márcio, Kaio Márcio de Almeida, Kaio Almeida, or Kaio de Almeida....		1:56.06
4	2	Marcin Cieslak		1:56.13
5	6	László Cseh László Cseh László Cseh , is a four-time Olympic medalist Hungarian swimmer.-Personal:Cseh has competed in swimming from an early age, and has won numerous Hungarian swimming events. Cseh is coached by György Turi and Zoltán Nemes...		1:56.32
6	4	Leonardo de Deus		1:57.58
7	7	Stefanos Dimitriadis		1:58.16
8	8	Michael Rock Michael Rock (swimmer) Michael Paul Rock is a British butterfly stroke swimmer.Rock competed in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, after becoming British champion in both events at the 2008 British Olympic Swimming Trials in Sheffield.At the 2010 Commonwealth...		1:58.78

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Takeshi Matsuda Takeshi Matsuda is a Japanese Olympic and Asian and National Record holding swimmer. He swam for Japan at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the latter event, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200m long course butterfly in an Asian Record of 1:52.97; in doing so, he also set the Japanese Record in the event...		1:54.30	Q
2	7	Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...		1:54.85	Q
3	4	Dinko Jukić Dinko Jukic Dinko Jukić is a male medley and butterfly swimmer from Austria of Croatian origin. He competed for Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in tenth place in the men's 200 m butterfly event. He is the younger brother of swimmer Mirna Jukić.-References:*...		1:54.94	Q
4	8	Wu Peng Wu Peng Wu Peng is a Chinese swimmer. His height is 1.80 m and he weights approximately 72 kg. His father died when he was only 16 years old. He has concentrated on the butterfly since the 10th National Games in 2005.-Early life and career:...		1:55.28	Q
5	5	Bence Biczó Bence Biczó Bence Biczó is a Hungarian swimmer and Youth Olympic Games gold medalist.Biczó began swimming in 1999 and soon stood out with his talent. For 2005 he held almost all county records in his age group...		1:55.35	Q
6	6	Chad le Clos Chad le Clos Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos is a South African swimmer who is currently the Commonwealth Games champion and record holder in the 200 metre butterfly. He also won five medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore....		1:55.56	Q
7	2	Paweł Korzeniowski		1:55.85	Q
8	1	Ioannis Drymonakos Ioannis Drymonakos Ioannis Drymonakos is a Greek swimmer from Athens. He became the first ever Greek swimmer to hold a European swimming record by clocking a time of 1:54.16 seconds in 200 m butterfly event of the 2008 European Aquatics Championships final on 21 March 2008.He tested positive for banned drugs...		1:57.77

Final

The final was held at 18:22.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...		1:53.34
	4	Takeshi Matsuda Takeshi Matsuda is a Japanese Olympic and Asian and National Record holding swimmer. He swam for Japan at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the latter event, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200m long course butterfly in an Asian Record of 1:52.97; in doing so, he also set the Japanese Record in the event...		1:54.01
	2	Wu Peng Wu Peng Wu Peng is a Chinese swimmer. His height is 1.80 m and he weights approximately 72 kg. His father died when he was only 16 years old. He has concentrated on the butterfly since the 10th National Games in 2005.-Early life and career:...		1:54.67
4	5	Chen Yin		1:55.00
5	1	Chad le Clos Chad le Clos Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos is a South African swimmer who is currently the Commonwealth Games champion and record holder in the 200 metre butterfly. He also won five medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore....		1:55.07
6	8	Paweł Korzeniowski		1:55.39
7	6	Dinko Jukić Dinko Jukic Dinko Jukić is a male medley and butterfly swimmer from Austria of Croatian origin. He competed for Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in tenth place in the men's 200 m butterfly event. He is the younger brother of swimmer Mirna Jukić.-References:*...		1:55.48
8	7	Bence Biczó Bence Biczó Bence Biczó is a Hungarian swimmer and Youth Olympic Games gold medalist.Biczó began swimming in 1999 and soon stood out with his talent. For 2005 he held almost all county records in his age group...		1:55.53

External links

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 200 metre butterfly start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.