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

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)

Results

Finals The finals started at 19:23 on 28 March 2007 Place Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Michael Phelps 1:52.09 5 Wu Peng 1:55.13 7 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:55.22 4 2 Moss Burmester 1:55.35 5 3 Ryuichi Shibata 1:55.81 6 1 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:55.87 7 8 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:56.48 8 6 Chen Yin 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 1:55.13 Q 2 S2-L2 Wu Peng 1:55.17 Q 3 S2-L5 Ryuichi Shibata 1:55.96 Q 4 S1-L7 Chen Yin 1:56.04 Q 5 S1-L2 Moss Burmester 1:56.27 Q 6 S2-L7 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:56.28 Q 7 S1-L3 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:56.30 Q 8 S1-L5 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:56.47 Q 8.5 S1.5 1:56.5 O 9 S2-L3 Takeshi Matsuda 1:56.57 10 S1-L4 Davis Tarwater 1:56.58 11 S2-L6 Sergiy Advena 1:57.06 12 S2-L1 Nick D'Arcy 1:57.15 13 S1-L6 Travis Nederpelt 1:57.71 14 S2-L8 Juan Veloz 1:57.83 15 S1-L8 Lukasz Drzewinski 1:58.67 16 S1-L1 Romanos Iasonas Alyfantis 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 Bego 2:04.99 2 4 Andy Wibowo 2:09.09 3 6 Nasir Ali 2:12.48 4 7 Omar Núñez 2:12.55 5 2 Alejandro Madde 2:14.24 6 5 Bertrand Bristol 2:14.84 7 3 Eros Qama 2:17.79 8 Abdul−Fatawu Moro DNS

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

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

Heat 4 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Dávid Verrasztó 2:00.00 2 5 George Du Rand 2:01.78 3 6 Paulius Andrijauskas 2:01.98 4 7 Sofiane Daid 2:03.17 5 8 Emmanuel Crescimbeni 2:03.63 6 3 Donny Utomo 2:04.03 7 1 Marco Camargo 2:07.71 2 Ahmed Salamoun DNS

Heat 5 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Dinko Jukić 1:59.63 2 8 Diogo Carvalho 1:59.67 3 6 Pablo Marmolejo 2:00.93 4 2 Duarte Mourao 2:01.76 5 4 Georgi Palazov 2:02.02 6 1 Michal Rubáček 2:02.69 7 7 Julio Galofre 2:03.02 8 5 Fernando Silva 2:03.63

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

Heat 7 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 Davis Tarwater 1:56.63 Q 2 5 Takeshi Matsuda 1:57.10 Q 3 7 Sergiy Advena 1:57.14 Q 4 4 Wu Peng 1:57.49 Q 5 8 Tamás Kerékjártó 1:57.54 Q 6 1 Juan Veloz 1:57.93 Q 7 3 Ioan Stefan Gherghel 1:58.48 8 2 Francesco Vespe 1:59.47

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

See also 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

References

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.