Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly


The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships 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.
NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record
Championship record
Michael Phelps1:51.51RomeJuly 29, 2009

Results

Heats

40 athletes participated in 5 heats.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
157Dinko Jukić1:55.26Q
251Leonardo de Deus1:55.55Q
334Bence Biczó1:55.71Q
433Tyler Clary1:55.95Q
554Takeshi Matsuda1:55.98Q
653Chen Yin1:56.23Q
732Chad le Clos1:56.37Q
856László Cseh1:56.39Q
955Paweł Korzeniowski1:56.51Q
1037Marcin Cieslak1:56.56Q
1144Michael Phelps1:56.77Q
1238Stefanos Dimitriadis1:56.82Q
1331Ioannis Drymonakos1:56.88Q
1435Kaio de Almeida1:56.92Q
1543Wu Peng1:56.98Q
1636Michael Rock1:57.03Q
1758Sebastien Rousseau1:57.15
1852Jayden Hadler1:57.17
1927Velimir Stjepanovic1:57.40NR
2045Ryusuke Sakata1:57.66
2123Robert Zbogar1:57.71NR
2246Nikolay Skvortsov1:57.85
2326Chang Gyu-Cheol1:58.02
2447Joseph Roebuck1:58.20
2541Stefan Hirniak1:58.72
2648Hsu Chi-Chieh1:59.33
2721Gal Nevo1:59.68
2824Duarte Mourao1:59.81
2928Israel Duran2:00.55
3025Omar Pinzón2:00.79
3112Diego Castillo2:00.80
3242Travis Nederpelt2:00.98
3314Thái Nguyên2:01.25
3422Jan Sefl2:01.34
3518Hocine Haciane2:04.14
3616Jessie Lacuna2:04.23
3713Donny Utomo2:05.23
3815Hoàng Quý Phước2:05.42
3911Edwin Angjeli2:06.68
4017Rommie Benjamin2:06.75

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19.35.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
13Takeshi Matsuda1:54.30Q
27Michael Phelps1:54.85Q
34Dinko Jukić1:54.94Q
48Wu Peng1:55.28Q
55Bence Biczó1:55.35Q
66Chad le Clos1:55.56Q
72Paweł Korzeniowski1:55.85Q
81Ioannis Drymonakos1:57.77

Final

The final was held at 18:22.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
3Michael Phelps1:53.34
4Takeshi Matsuda1:54.01
2Wu Peng1:54.67
45Chen Yin1:55.00
51Chad le Clos1:55.07
68Paweł Korzeniowski1:55.39
76Dinko Jukić1:55.48
87Bence Biczó1:55.53