Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	22 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	43 from 37 nations
Winning time	1:56.51
Medalists
Denis Pankratov  Russia Tom Malchow  United States Scott Goodman  Australia

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 22 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.

Records

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

World record	Denis Pankratov (RUS)	1:55.22	Canet-en-Roussillon, France	14 June 1995
Olympic record	Melvin Stewart (USA)	1:56.26	Barcelona, Spain	30 July 1992

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Scott Goodman	Australia	1:57.77	Q
2	4	7	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:58.04	Q, NR
3	6	3	James Hickman	Great Britain	1:58.16	Q, NR
4	6	4	Denis Pankratov	Russia	1:58.28	Q
5	4	4	Tom Malchow	United States	1:58.69	Q
6	4	1	Péter Horváth	Hungary	1:58.76	Q
7	4	5	Franck Esposito	France	1:58.79	Q
8	5	5	Scott Miller	Australia	1:58.97	Q
9	6	1	Vesa Hanski	Finland	1:59.73	q, NR
10	6	7	Oliver Lampe	Germany	1:59.87	q
11	6	2	Konrad Gałka	Poland	1:59.97	q
12	5	1	Stefan Aartsen	Netherlands	2:00.04	q
13	4	2	Casey Barrett	Canada	2:00.28	q
14	5	3	Chris-Carol Bremer	Germany	2:00.48	q
15	5	6	Attila Czene	Hungary	2:00.50	q
16	4	3	David Abrard	France	2:00.60	q
17	5	7	Andrea Oriana	Italy	2:00.67
18	5	2	Aleksey Kolesnikov	Russia	2:00.77
19	6	6	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	2:00.81
20	4	6	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	2:00.87
21	6	5	Ray Carey	United States	2:01.10
22	3	3	Dominik Galić	Croatia	2:01.17	NR
23	3	1	Aleksandar Malenko	Macedonia	2:01.46	NR
24	5	8	Nelson Mora	Venezuela	2:01.50
25	3	4	Diogo Madeira	Portugal	2:01.58
26	3	7	Konstantin Andriushin	Kyrgyzstan	2:01.59	NR
27	4	8	Can Ergenekan	Turkey	2:01.65
28	3	6	Vladan Marković	FR Yugoslavia	2:01.80
29	3	5	José Luis Ballester	Spain	2:02.69
30	3	8	Josef Horký	Czech Republic	2:02.84
31	2	2	Anthony Ang	Malaysia	2:03.01	NR
32	2	6	Mindaugas Bružas	Lithuania	2:03.76
33	2	1	Niti Intharapichai	Thailand	2:03.88	NR
34	1	4	Mark Kwok Kin Ming	Hong Kong	2:04.01
35	2	4	Lee Jung-hyung	South Korea	2:04.53
36	1	5	Walter Soza	Nicaragua	2:04.66
37	2	7	Javier Golovchenko	Uruguay	2:04.96
38	2	3	Dmitriy Pankov	Uzbekistan	2:05.36
39	2	8	Andrés Vasconcellos	Ecuador	2:05.98
40	3	2	Georgios Popotas	Greece	2:06.00
41	6	8	Thum Ping Tjin	Singapore	2:07.00
42	1	3	Aitor Osorio	Andorra	2:12.59
	2	5	Jesús González	Mexico	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	1	Attila Czene	Hungary	1:58.99
10	4	Vesa Hanski	Finland	1:59.64	NR
11	2	Casey Barrett	Canada	1:59.72
12	5	Oliver Lampe	Germany	2:00.08
13	6	Stefan Aartsen	Netherlands	2:00.41
14	3	Konrad Gałka	Poland	2:00.91
15	8	David Abrard	France	2:01.25
16	7	Chris-Carol Bremer	Germany	2:01.62

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Denis Pankratov	Russia	1:56.51
	2	Tom Malchow	United States	1:57.44
	4	Scott Goodman	Australia	1:57.48
4	1	Franck Esposito	France	1:58.10	NR
5	8	Scott Miller	Australia	1:58.28
6	5	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:58.37
7	3	James Hickman	Great Britain	1:58.47
8	7	Péter Horváth	Hungary	1:59.12

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming