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Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Men's 200 metre butterfly; at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
	Victory Ceremony
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	8 August 2016 (heats &; semifinals); 9 August 2016 (final)
Competitors	29 from 21 nations
Winning time	1:53.36
Medalists
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The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 8–9 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.^[1]

Summary

As the most decorated Olympian of all-time, Michael Phelps got the opportunity to avenge the distance butterfly title that he lost in London four years earlier, when South Africa's Chad le Clos beat him to the wall.^[2] Moving to the front at the halfway turn, Phelps held off the Japanese challenger Masato Sakai by a 0.04-second margin to claim his twentieth Olympic gold medal and twenty-fifth overall in 1:53.36.^[3]^[4]^[5] Coming from sixth at the 150-metre turn, Sakai made a late surge on the final length to nearly upset Phelps towards a close finish, but he ended up taking the silver in 1:53.40.^[6] Meanwhile, Hungary's top seed and 2014 Youth Olympic champion Tamás Kenderesi powered home with a bronze in 1:53.62.^[7]^[8]

Le Clos did not produce another striking effort to halt the most decorated Olympian from snatching the title, as he was shut out of the medals to fourth in 1:54.06.^[9] Sakai's teammate Daiya Seto finished fifth in 1:54.82, with Denmark's Viktor Bromer following him to pick up the sixth spot in 1:55.64.^[6] Hungarian swimmer, 2008 Olympic silver medalist, and reigning world champion László Cseh commanded a brief lead on the initial length, but faded shortly to seventh place in 1:56.24. Belgium's Louis Croenen rounded out the field with an eighth-place time in 1:57.04.^[8]

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009	^[10]^[11]
Olympic record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:52.03	Beijing, China	13 August 2008	^[12]

Competition format

The competition consisted of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.^[1]

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.73	Q
2	4	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.14	Q
3	2	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.57	Q
4	3	2	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:55.64	Q
5	3	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:55.73	Q
6	2	5	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.76	Q
7	4	3	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.77	Q
8	3	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:55.79	Q
9	4	6	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:55.98	Q
10	2	7	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	1:56.01	Q
11	2	3	Evgeny Koptelov	Russia	1:56.13	Q
12	4	7	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:56.45	Q
13	1	4	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	1:56.46	Q
14	3	6	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.48	Q
15	4	8	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia	1:56.65	Q
16	2	6	Li Zhuhao	China	1:56.72	Q
17	4	5	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:56.73
18	3	7	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:56.76
19	4	2	David Morgan	Australia	1:56.81
20	2	2	Tom Shields	United States	1:56.93
21	3	1	Carlos Peralta	Spain	1:56.98
22	1	5	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1:57.05
23	4	1	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	1:57.33
24	2	8	Daniil Pakhomov	Russia	1:57.36
25	2	1	Jordan Coelho	France	1:58.62
26	1	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:58.64
27	3	8	Wu Yuhang	China	1:59.04
28	1	3	Sajan Prakash	India	1:59.37
29	1	2	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	2:01.22

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.18	Q
2	6	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:55.28	Q
3	3	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.32	Q
4	1	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.03	Q
5	5	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:56.07
6	2	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	1:56.11
7	7	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:57.45
8	8	Li Zhuhao	China	1:57.62

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:53.96	Q
2	3	Michael Phelps	United States	1:54.12	Q
3	5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.19	Q
4	6	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.59	Q
5	7	Evgeny Koptelov	Russia	1:56.46
6	1	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	1:56.71
7	2	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.77
8	8	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia	1:57.47

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Michael Phelps	United States	1:53.36
	7	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:53.40
	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:53.62
4	6	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:54.06
5	2	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.82
6	1	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.64
7	3	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.24
8	8	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:57.04