The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 22 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.

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

Results

Heats Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Scott Goodman 1:57.77 Q 2 4 7 Denys Sylantyev 1:58.04 Q, NR 3 6 3 James Hickman 1:58.16 Q, NR 4 6 4 Denis Pankratov 1:58.28 Q 5 4 4 Tom Malchow 1:58.69 Q 6 4 1 Péter Horváth 1:58.76 Q 7 4 5 Franck Esposito 1:58.79 Q 8 5 5 Scott Miller 1:58.97 Q 9 6 1 Vesa Hanski 1:59.73 q, NR 10 6 7 Oliver Lampe 1:59.87 q 11 6 2 Konrad Gałka 1:59.97 q 12 5 1 Stefan Aartsen 2:00.04 q 13 4 2 Casey Barrett 2:00.28 q 14 5 3 Chris-Carol Bremer 2:00.48 q 15 5 6 Attila Czene 2:00.50 q 16 4 3 David Abrard 2:00.60 q 17 5 7 Andrea Oriana 2:00.67 18 5 2 Aleksey Kolesnikov 2:00.77 19 6 6 Danyon Loader 2:00.81 20 4 6 Takashi Yamamoto 2:00.87 21 6 5 Ray Carey 2:01.10 22 3 3 Dominik Galić 2:01.17 NR 23 3 1 Aleksandar Malenko 2:01.46 NR 24 5 8 Nelson Mora 2:01.50 25 3 4 Diogo Madeira 2:01.58 26 3 7 Konstantin Andriushin 2:01.59 NR 27 4 8 Can Ergenekan 2:01.65 28 3 6 Vladan Marković 2:01.80 29 3 5 José Luis Ballester 2:02.69 30 3 8 Josef Horký 2:02.84 31 2 2 Anthony Ang 2:03.01 NR 32 2 6 Mindaugas Bružas 2:03.76 33 2 1 Niti Intharapichai 2:03.88 NR 34 1 4 Mark Kwok Kin Ming 2:04.01 35 2 4 Lee Jung-hyung 2:04.53 36 1 5 Walter Soza 2:04.66 37 2 7 Javier Golovchenko 2:04.96 38 2 3 Dmitriy Pankov 2:05.36 39 2 8 Andrés Vasconcellos 2:05.98 40 3 2 Georgios Popotas 2:06.00 41 6 8 Thum Ping Tjin 2:07.00 42 1 3 Aitor Osorio 2:12.59 2 5 Jesús González

Finals

Final B Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 1 Attila Czene 1:58.99 10 4 Vesa Hanski 1:59.64 NR 11 2 Casey Barrett 1:59.72 12 5 Oliver Lampe 2:00.08 13 6 Stefan Aartsen 2:00.41 14 3 Konrad Gałka 2:00.91 15 8 David Abrard 2:01.25 16 7 Chris-Carol Bremer 2:01.62

Final A Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Denis Pankratov 1:56.51 2 Tom Malchow 1:57.44 4 Scott Goodman 1:57.48 4 1 Franck Esposito 1:58.10 NR 5 8 Scott Miller 1:58.28 6 5 Denys Sylantyev 1:58.37 7 3 James Hickman 1:58.47 8 7 Péter Horváth 1:59.12

References

External links Official Report USA Swimming