Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
DatesJuly 26, 2011 (heats and semifinals)
July 27, 2011 (final)
Competitors40 from 29 nations
Winning time1:53.34
Medalists
gold medal    United States
silver medal    Japan
bronze medal    China
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The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 26 with the heats and the semifinals and July 27 with the final.

Records

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

Name Nation Time Location Date
World record
Championship record
Michael Phelps  United States 1:51.51 Rome July 29, 2009

Results

Heats

40 athletes participated in 5 heats.[1]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 7 Dinko Jukić  Austria 1:55.26 Q
2 5 1 Leonardo de Deus  Brazil 1:55.55 Q
3 3 4 Bence Biczó  Hungary 1:55.71 Q
4 3 3 Tyler Clary  United States 1:55.95 Q
5 5 4 Takeshi Matsuda  Japan 1:55.98 Q
6 5 3 Chen Yin  China 1:56.23 Q
7 3 2 Chad le Clos  South Africa 1:56.37 Q
8 5 6 László Cseh  Hungary 1:56.39 Q
9 5 5 Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland 1:56.51 Q
10 3 7 Marcin Cieślak  Poland 1:56.56 Q
11 4 4 Michael Phelps  United States 1:56.77 Q
12 3 8 Stefanos Dimitriadis  Greece 1:56.82 Q
13 3 1 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:56.88 Q
14 3 5 Kaio de Almeida  Brazil 1:56.92 Q
15 4 3 Wu Peng  China 1:56.98 Q
16 3 6 Michael Rock  Great Britain 1:57.03 Q
17 5 8 Sebastien Rousseau  South Africa 1:57.15
18 5 2 Jayden Hadler  Australia 1:57.17
19 2 7 Velimir Stjepanović  Serbia 1:57.40 NR
20 4 5 Ryusuke Sakata  Japan 1:57.66
21 2 3 Robert Žbogar  Slovenia 1:57.71 NR
22 4 6 Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia 1:57.85
23 2 6 Chang Gyu-Cheol  South Korea 1:58.02
24 4 7 Joseph Roebuck  Great Britain 1:58.20
25 4 1 Stefan Hirniak  Canada 1:58.72
26 4 8 Hsu Chi-Chieh  Chinese Taipei 1:59.33
27 2 1 Gal Nevo  Israel 1:59.68
28 2 4 Duarte Mourao  Portugal 1:59.81
29 2 8 Israel Duran  Mexico 2:00.55
30 2 5 Omar Pinzón  Colombia 2:00.79
31 1 2 Diego Castillo  Panama 2:00.80
32 4 2 Travis Nederpelt  Australia 2:00.98
33 1 4 Võ Thái Nguyên  Vietnam 2:01.25
34 2 2 Jan Šefl  Czech Republic 2:01.34
35 1 8 Hocine Haciane  Andorra 2:04.14
36 1 6 Jessie Lacuna  Philippines 2:04.23
37 1 3 Donny Utomo  Indonesia 2:05.23
38 1 5 Hoàng Quý Phước  Vietnam 2:05.42
39 1 1 Edwin Angjeli  Albania 2:06.68
40 1 7 Rommie Benjamin  Dominican Republic 2:06.75

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19.35.[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Chen Yin  China 1:54.80 Q
2 5 Tyler Clary  United States 1:56.01
3 1 Kaio de Almeida  Brazil 1:56.06
4 2 Marcin Cieślak  Poland 1:56.13
5 6 László Cseh  Hungary 1:56.32
6 4 Leonardo de Deus  Brazil 1:57.58
7 7 Stefanos Dimitriadis  Greece 1:58.16
8 8 Michael Rock  Great Britain 1:58.78

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Takeshi Matsuda  Japan 1:54.30 Q
2 7 Michael Phelps  United States 1:54.85 Q
3 4 Dinko Jukić  Austria 1:54.94 Q
4 8 Wu Peng  China 1:55.28 Q
5 5 Bence Biczó  Hungary 1:55.35 Q
6 6 Chad le Clos  South Africa 1:55.56 Q
7 2 Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland 1:55.85 Q
8 1 Ioannis Drymonakos  Greece 1:57.77

Final

The final was held at 18:22.[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 3 Michael Phelps  United States 1:53.34
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Takeshi Matsuda  Japan 1:54.01
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Wu Peng  China 1:54.67
4 5 Chen Yin  China 1:55.00
5 1 Chad le Clos  South Africa 1:55.07
6 8 Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland 1:55.39
7 6 Dinko Jukić  Austria 1:55.48
8 7 Bence Biczó  Hungary 1:55.53

References

  1. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly (heats)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-26.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly (semifinals)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 2011-07-26.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2011-07-27.