Swimming at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2017 World Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2017.[1][2]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	25 July (heats and semifinals) 26 July (final)
Competitors	44 from 39 nations
Winning time	1:53.33
Medalists
Chad le Clos    South Africa   László Cseh    Hungary   Daiya Seto    Japan

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Competition record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 25 July at 10:12.[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:54.08	Q
2	4	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.89	Q
3	5	6	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.13	Q
4	4	8	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:55.55	Q NR
5	5	5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.90	Q
6	4	4	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.94	Q
7	3	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:55.96	Q
8	3	5	Jack Conger	United States	1:56.00	Q
9	4	7	Daniil Pakhomov	Russia	1:56.07	Q
10	4	2	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:56.20	Q
11	5	3	Pace Clark	United States	1:56.23	Q
12	4	6	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.52	Q
13	3	6	David Morgan	Australia	1:56.57	Q
14	3	7	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia	1:56.60	Q
15	5	2	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:56.61	Q
16	4	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.71	Q
17	5	7	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.75
18	3	2	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	1:56.76
19	4	1	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	1:57.37
20	3	8	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:57.96
21	3	3	Li Zhuhao	China	1:58.63
22	5	8	Wang Zhou	China	1:58.88
23	3	1	Miguel Nascimento	Portugal	1:59.02
24	5	1	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:59.07
25	5	9	Patrick Stäber	Austria	1:59.10
26	3	0	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	1:59.41
27	3	9	Etay Gurevich	Israel	1:59.87
28	5	0	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	1:59.91
29	2	2	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	2:00.53
30	2	4	Sajan Prakash	India	2:00.57
31	2	1	Deividas Margevičius	Lithuania	2:00.63	NR
32	4	0	Tomáš Havránek	Czech Republic	2:01.50
33	4	9	Kim Moon-kee	South Korea	2:02.31
34	2	8	Ayman Kelzi	Syria	2:01.44
35	2	7	Chou Wei-liang	Chinese Taipei	2:01.49
36	2	5	Michael Gunning	Jamaica	2:01.73
37	2	3	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	2:03.10
38	2	6	Lazaro Vergara	Cuba	2:03.19
39	1	3	Nguyễn Ngọc Huỳnh	Vietnam	2:03.57
40	1	4	Rami Anis	FINA Independent Athletes	2:06.02
41	2	9	Matthew Lowe	Bahamas	2:06.29
42	1	6	Mikhail Umnov	Malta	2:06.45
43	2	0	Jeerakit Soammanus	Thailand	2:07.30
44	1	5	Duran Alfonso	Honduras	2:12.21

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 25 July at 19:04.[4]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.03	Q
2	6	Jack Conger	United States	1:55.30	Q
3	3	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.57	Q
4	5	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:55.58	Q
5	2	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:55.84
6	7	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.59
7	8	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.85
8	1	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia	1:57.60

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:54.22	Q
2	6	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.98	Q
3	3	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.09	Q
4	5	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.39	Q
5	7	Pace Clark	United States	1:55.82
6	2	Daniil Pakhomov	Russia	1:55.84
7	8	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:56.33
8	1	David Morgan	Australia	1:57.66

Final

The final was held on 26 July at 18:01.[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:53.33
	5	László Cseh	Hungary	1:53.72
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.21
4	3	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.73
5	2	Jack Conger	United States	1:54.88
6	1	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.04
7	7	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.30
8	8	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:55.98

References

1. Schedule Archived 28 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Semifinals results
5. Final results