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	1:52.09 WR
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   Wu Peng    China   Nikolay Skvortsov    Russia
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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:

• World record (WR): 1:53.71, Michael Phelps (USA), 17 February 2007 in Columbia, United States.
• Championship record (CR): 1:53.98, Michael Phelps (USA), Barcelona, Spain (22 July 2003)

The finals started at 19:23 on 28 March 2007

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Michael Phelps	United States	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

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

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Daniel Bego	Malaysia	2:04.99
2	4	Andy Wibowo	Indonesia	2:09.09
3	6	Nasir Ali	Pakistan	2:12.48
4	7	Omar Núñez	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

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

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

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	Emmanuel Crescimbeni	Peru	2:03.63
6	3	Donny Utomo	Indonesia	2:04.03
7	1	Marco Camargo	Ecuador	2:07.71
	2	Ahmed Salamoun	Qatar	DNS

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 Rubáček	Czech Republic	2:02.69
7	7	Julio Galofre	Colombia	2:03.02
8	5	Fernando Silva	Brazil	2:03.63

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

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	Tamás Kerékjártó	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

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

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

• Men's 200m Fly Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 200m Fly Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 200m Fly Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.