Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly
The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 30 July | Final A | Melvin Stewart | | 1:56.26 | |
Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Melvin Stewart | | 1:56.99 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 1 | Danyon Loader | | 1:58.15 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Franck Esposito | | 1:58.75 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 4 | Martin Roberts | | 1:58.91 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Denis Pankratov | | 1:59.00 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 1 | Rafał Szukała | | 1:59.51 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 2 | Robert Pinter | | 1:59.59 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Keiichi Kawanaka | | 1:59.96 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 8 | Martin Herrmann | | 2:00.47 | q |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Chris-Carol Bremer | | 2:00.49 | q |
| 11 | 7 | 5 | Can Ergenekan | | 2:00.82 | q, NR |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | David Wharton | | 2:00.84 | q |
| 13 | 6 | 7 | Simon McKillop-Davies | | 2:00.92 | q |
| 14 | 5 | 7 | Marco Braida | | 2:01.18 | q |
| 15 | 2 | 5 | Eduardo Piccinini | | 2:01.20 | q, NR |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | Tom Ponting | | 2:01.20 | q |
| 17 | 5 | 3 | Tomohiro Miyoshi | | 2:01.27 | |
| 18 | 7 | 6 | Konrad Gałka | | 2:01.33 | |
| 19 | 4 | 2 | Matjaž Kozelj | | 2:01.39 | NR |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | André Teixeira | | 2:01.39 | |
| 21 | 4 | 4 | José Luis Ballester | | 2:01.41 | |
| 22 | 4 | 5 | Simon Wainwright | | 2:01.53 | |
| 23 | 6 | 5 | Uğur Taner | | 2:01.61 | |
| 24 | 5 | 8 | Jorge Pérez | | 2:01.63 | |
| 25 | 6 | 1 | Christophe Bordeau | | 2:01.99 | |
| 26 | 7 | 8 | Edward Parenti | | 2:02.00 | |
| 27 | 4 | 3 | Guy Callaghan | | 2:02.12 | |
| 28 | 3 | 6 | Craig Jackson | | 2:02.17 | |
| 29 | 3 | 4 | Diogo Madeira | | 2:02.22 | |
| 30 | 4 | 7 | David Monasterio | | 2:02.32 | |
| 31 | 3 | 2 | Vesa Hanski | | 2:02.75 | |
| 32 | 3 | 5 | Alexander Brandl | | 2:02.88 | |
| 33 | 3 | 7 | Denislav Kalchev | | 2:03.73 | |
| 34 | 4 | 1 | Miguel Cabrita | | 2:04.28 | |
| 35 | 3 | 1 | Khristian Minkovski | | 2:05.18 | |
| 36 | 3 | 3 | Kai Johansson | | 2:05.71 | |
| 37 | 2 | 4 | Gary Tan | | 2:06.41 | |
| 38 | 2 | 2 | Duncan Todd | | 2:08.20 | |
| 39 | 1 | 3 | Kristan Singleton | | 2:08.71 | NR |
| 39 | 4 | 6 | Kire Filipovski | | 2:08.71 | |
| 41 | 1 | 7 | Janko Gojković | | 2:09.08 | NR |
| 42 | 1 | 5 | Alan Espínola | | 2:11.88 | |
| 43 | 2 | 3 | Benoît Fleurot | | 2:13.09 | |
| 44 | 2 | 7 | Julian Bolling | | 2:17.47 | |
| 45 | 1 | 6 | Ziyad Kashmiri | | 2:21.59 | |
| 46 | 1 | 2 | Mohamed Khamis | | 2:29.73 | |
Finals
Final B
Final A
