Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue Rod Laver Arena
Dates 27 March 2007 (heats, semifinals)
28 March 2007 (final)
Competitors 64
Winning time 1 minute 52.09 seconds
Medalists
  Michael Phelps   United States
  Wu Peng   China
  Nikolay Skvortsov   Russia
«2005 2009»
2007 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
Open water swimming
5 km men women
10 km men women
25 km men women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Synchronised swimming
Solo Technical Free
Duet Technical Free
Team Technical Free
Combination
Water polo
men    •   women
Main article: Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships

The men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 27 March (heats and semifinals) and on the evening of 28 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 64 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 62 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

Contents

Results

Finals

The finals started at 19:23 on 28 March 2007

Place Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
4 Michael Phelps  USA 1:52.09 WR
5 Wu Peng  China 1:55.13
7 Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia 1:55.22
4 2 Moss Burmester  New Zealand 1:55.35
5 3 Ryuichi Shibata  Japan 1:55.81
6 1 Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland 1:55.87
7 8 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:56.48
8 6 Chen Yin  China 1:58.15

Semifinals

The semifinals started at 20:34 on 27 March 2007.

Rank Heat/Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 S2-L4 Michael Phelps  USA 1:55.13 Q
2 S2-L2 Wu Peng  China 1:55.17 Q
3 S2-L5 Ryuichi Shibata  Japan 1:55.96 Q
4 S1-L7 Chen Yin  China 1:56.04 Q
5 S1-L2 Moss Burmester  New Zealand 1:56.27 Q
6 S2-L7 Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia 1:56.28 Q
7 S1-L3 Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland 1:56.30 Q
8 S1-L5 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:56.47 Q
8.5 S1.5 1:56.5 O
9 S2-L3 Takeshi Matsuda  Japan 1:56.57
10 S1-L4 Davis Tarwater  USA 1:56.58
11 S2-L6 Sergiy Advena  Ukraine 1:57.06
12 S2-L1 Nick D'Arcy  Australia 1:57.15
13 S1-L6 Travis Nederpelt  Australia 1:57.71
14 S2-L8 Juan Veloz  Mexico 1:57.83
15 S1-L8 Lukasz Drzewinski  Poland 1:58.67
16 S1-L1 Romanos Iasonas Alyfantis  Greece 2:00.31

Heats

The 8 heats began at 10:27 on 27 March 2007.

Heat 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Daniel William Bego  Malaysia 2:04.99
2 4 Andy Wibowo  Indonesia 2:09.09
3 6 Nasir Ali  Pakistan 2:12.48
4 7 Omar Yasser Nunez Munguia  Nicaragua 2:12.55
5 2 Alejandro Madde  Bolivia 2:14.24
6 5 Bertrand Bristol  Seychelles 2:14.84
7 3 Eros Qama  Albania 2:17.79
8 Abdul−Fatawu Moro  Ghana DNS

Heat 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 Chris Boe Christensen  Denmark 2:04.45
2 2 Rehan Poncha  India 2:04.75
3 6 Sergey Pankov  Uzbekistan 2:05.93
4 5 Ng Tze Kang  Singapore 2:06.41
5 3 Radomyos Matjiur  Thailand 2:07.96
6 1 Carlos Eduardo Gil  Peru 2:10.55
7 4 Miro Krestevski  Macedonia 2:11.76
8 8 Nuno Rola  Angola 2:13.78

Heat 3

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 8 Javier Hernandez Maradiaga  Honduras 2:03.37
2 3 Oleg Lyashko  Uzbekistan 2:04.22
3 1 Jorge Arturo Arce Aita  Costa Rica 2:04.38
4 5 Arjun Muralidharan  India 2:06.45
5 7 Tan Xue-Wei  Singapore 2:06.74
6 4 Roy Felipe Barahona Fuente  Honduras 2:09.29
7 6 Waleed Al-Qahtani  Kuwait 2:09.48
8 2 Yu-An Lin  Chinese Taipei 2:11.77

Heat 4

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Dávid Verrasztó  Hungary 2:00.00
2 5 George Du Rand  South Africa 2:01.78
3 6 Paulius Andrijauskas  Lithuania 2:01.98
4 7 Sofiane Daid  Algeria 2:03.17
5 8 Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni  Peru 2:03.63
6 3 Donny Budiarto Utomo  Indonesia 2:04.03
7 1 Marco Camargo Gonzalez  Ecuador 2:07.71
2 Ahmed Salamoun  Qatar DNS

Heat 5

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Dinko Jukić  Austria 1:59.63
2 8 Diogo Carvalho  Portugal 1:59.67
3 6 Pablo Marmolejo  Mexico 2:00.93
4 2 Duarte Mourao  Portugal 2:01.76
5 4 Georgi Palazov  Bulgaria 2:02.02
6 1 Michal Rubacek  Czech Republic 2:02.69
7 7 Julio Galofre  Colombia 2:03.02
8 5 Fernando Silva  Brazil 2:03.63

Heat 6

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland 1:57.11 Q
2 5 Moss Burmester  New Zealand 1:57.53 Q
3 6 Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia 1:57.64 Q
4 3 Chen Yin  China 1:57.80 Q
5 1 Romanos Iasonas Alyfantis  Greece 1:57.91 Q
6 2 Lukasz Drzewinski  Poland 1:57.97
7 7 Jeremy Knowles  Bahamas 1:59.20
8 8 Andrew McMillan  New Zealand 1:59.98

Heat 7

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 Davis Tarwater  United States 1:56.63 Q
2 5 Takeshi Matsuda  Japan 1:57.10 Q
3 7 Sergiy Advena  Ukraine 1:57.14 Q
4 4 Wu Peng  China 1:57.49 Q
5 8 Tamas Kerekjarto  Hungary 1:57.54 Q
6 1 Juan Veloz  Mexico 1:57.93 Q
7 3 Ioan Stefan Gherghel  Romania 1:58.48
8 2 Francesco Vespe  Italy 1:59.47

Heat 8

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Michael Phelps  United States 1:55.78 Q
2 5 Ryuichi Shibata  Japan 1:56.81 Q
3 6 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:56.93 Q
4 3 Travis Nederpelt  Australia 1:57.14 Q
5 7 Nick D'Arcy  Australia 1:57.88 Q
6 8 Mathieu Fonteyn  Belgium 1:58.75
7 2 Christophe Lebon  France 2:00.20
8 1 Benjamin Starke  Germany 2:01.01

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