Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi
Dates	July 30, 2013 (heats &; semifinals); July 31, 2013 (final)
Competitors	34 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:54.32
Medalists
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The men's 200 metre butterfly event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30–31 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009	^[3]^[4]
Competition record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009	^[3]^[4]

The heats were held at 10:38.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	5	Tyler Clary	United States	1:56.03	Q
2	4	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:56.21	Q
3	3	6	Tom Luchsinger	United States	1:56.32	Q
4	2	6	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:56.47	Q
5	4	5	Chen Yin	China	1:56.48	Q
6	4	7	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.52	Q
7	4	3	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:56.61	Q
8	4	6	Yuki Kobori	Japan	1:56.64	Q
9	2	3	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:56.70	Q
10	2	4	Wu Peng	China	1:56.96	Q
11	3	4	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:57.14	Q
12	3	3	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:57.18	Q
13	2	2	Jordan Coelho	France	1:57.19	Q
14	2	7	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	1:57.23	Q
15	2	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:57.34	Q
16	3	7	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	1:57.37	Q
17	4	0	Alexandru Coci	Romania	1:57.86
18	4	1	Zackariah Chetrat	Canada	1:57.92
19	3	8	Mauricio Fiol	Peru	1:58.29	NR
20	3	2	Michal Poprawa	Poland	1:58.34
21	4	2	Francesco Pavone	Italy	1:58.68
22	2	8	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	1:58.69
23	3	1	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	1:58.78
24	2	1	Shaun Burnett	New Zealand	1:59.35
25	2	0	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:59.37
26	2	9	Yury Suvorau	Belarus	2:01.28
27	1	5	Esteban Enderica	Ecuador	2:01.46	NR
28	3	0	Hsu Chi-chieh	Chinese Taipei	2:01.49
29	1	4	Ramiro Ramírez	Mexico	2:02.37
30	4	9	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	2:02.43
31	4	8	Chang Gyu-Cheol	South Korea	2:03.32
32	3	9	Yousef Al-Askari	Kuwait	2:07.03
33	1	6	Khalid Baba	Bahrain	2:20.23
34	1	2	Andrianirina Lalanomena	Madagascar	2:33.87
	1	3	Nuno Miguel Rola	Angola		DNS

The semifinals were held at 19:35.^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.33	Q
2	2	Wu Peng	China	1:55.42	Q
3	5	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:56.02	Q
4	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.06	Q
5	6	Yuki Kobori	Japan	1:56.15
6	1	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	1:56.27
7	7	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:56.95
8	8	Roberto Pavoni	Great Britain	1:57.60

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:55.67	Q
2	3	Chen Yin	China	1:55.97	Q
2	4	Tyler Clary	United States	1:55.97	Q
4	5	Tom Luchsinger	United States	1:56.10	Q
5	7	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:56.42
6	2	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:56.48
7	8	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:56.60
8	1	Jordan Coelho	France	1:57.12

The final was held at 18:23.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:54.32
	3	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:55.01
	5	Wu Peng	China	1:55.09
4	6	Chen Yin	China	1:55.47
5	8	Tom Luchsinger	United States	1:55.70
6	7	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:56.02
7	2	Tyler Clary	United States	1:56.34
8	1	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.44