Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The heats for the men's 200 metre butterfly race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning of 28 July, with the final in the evening session of 29 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 1:52.03 Beijing, China 13 August 2008Championship record 1:52.09 Melbourne, Australia 28 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 29 July Final Michael Phelps 1:51.51 WR

Results

Heats Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:54.33 6 6 2 Michael Phelps 1:54.35 8 4 3 Tyler Clary 1:54.42 6 4 4 Sebastien Rousseau 1:54.51 6 3 AF 5 Kaio de Almeida 1:54.57 8 5 6 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:55.07 6 5 7 Dinko Jukić 1:55.45 7 6 8 Chen Yin 1:55.49 8 1 9 Michael Rock 1:55.76 8 6 10 Wu Peng 1:55.96 8 3 11 Moss Burmester 1:56.03 7 5 12 Takeshi Matsuda 1:56.10 7 4 13 Lucas Salatta 1:56.16 8 7 14 Pedro Oliveira 1:56.17 6 1 15 Joeri Verlinden 1:56.59 8 8 NR 16 Ryusuke Sakata 1:56.75 7 3 17 Chad le Clos 1:56.90 7 8 18 Simon Sjödin 1:57.01 8 0 NR 19 Gal Nevo 1:57.02 4 5 NR 20 Omar Pinzón 1:57.13 6 9 NR 21 Francesco Vespe 1:57.16 8 2 22 Lachlan Staples 1:57.21 7 1 23 Stefan Hirniak 1:57.43 5 9 NR 23 Diogo Carvalho 1:57.43 7 7 25 Joseph Roebuck 1:57.44 6 8 26 Marcin Babuchowski 1:57.53 5 6 27 Christopher Wright 1:57.54 6 7 28 Hsu Chi-Chieh 1:57.61 7 2 29 Alexandru Felix Maestru 1:57.97 5 7 30 Illya Chuyev 1:58.40 7 0 31 Jan Šefl 1:58.46 7 9 32 Yu Jeongnam 1:58.56 5 4 33 Pablo Marmolejo 1:58.59 5 8 34 Denys Dubrov 1:58.96 5 1 35 Daniel Bego 1:58.99 4 6 36 Mathieu Fonteyn 1:59.40 6 2 37 Norbert Kovács 1:59.64 4 3 38 Israel Duran 1:59.86 4 4 39 Douglas Lennox-Silva 2:01.01 4 7 40 Andrés José González 2:01.30 8 9 41 Anders Mcintyre 2:01.56 5 2 42 Emmanuel Crescimbeni 2:01.57 4 1 43 Alon Mandel 2:01.79 5 5 44 Bernhard Wolf 2:01.90 5 3 45 Rehan Poncha 2:02.27 4 8 46 Norbert Trudman 2:02.83 4 9 47 Stefanos Dimitriadis 2:02.84 5 0 48 Sergey Pankov 2:03.33 3 3 49 Nguyen Vo Thai 2:03.55 3 8 50 Pedro Pinotes 2:03.68 3 9 51 Pavel Sankovich 2:03.76 3 4 52 Joel Romeu 2:03.80 3 6 NR 53 Ng Kai Wee Rainer 2:03.83 3 0 54 Dmitriy Gordiyenko 2:04.05 3 5 55 Diego Castillo 2:04.71 3 2 56 Endi Babi 2:05.65 3 7 57 Javier Hernández Maradiaga 2:05.99 4 0 58 Roy Felipe Barahona Fuentes 2:06.92 3 1 59 Andrejs Dūda 2:06.94 2 3 60 Bojan Jovanov 2:07.34 1 2 61 Robert Walsh 2:08.17 2 6 62 Sim Ri Jin Nicholas 2:09.54 2 5 63 Sobitjon Amilov 2:09.98 2 4 64 Ryan Nelthropp 2:11.56 2 1 65 Kaspar Raigla 2:13.37 2 8 66 Aleksei Klimenko 2:13.40 2 7 67 Alejandro Madde Madd 2:14.11 2 0 68 Ali Al Kaabi 2:15.52 2 9 NR 69 Favio Persano 2:16.08 2 2 70 Jean Marie Froget 2:16.82 1 4 71 Benjamin Gabbard 2:18.37 1 3 72 Kareem Ennab 2:19.51 1 5 73 Paul Elaisa 2:22.25 1 6 – Shaune Fraser DNS 4 2 – Romanos Alyfantis DNS 6 9

Semifinals Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes 1 Takeshi Matsuda 1:53.35 1 7 2 Michael Phelps 1:53.48 1 4 3 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:53.75 2 4 NR 4 Dinko Jukić 1:54.42 2 6 NR 5 Kaio de Almeida 1:54.50 2 3 6 Michael Rock 1:54.58 2 2 NR 7 Sebastien Rousseau 1:54.71 1 5 8 Tyler Clary 1:54.75 2 5 9 Chen Yin 1:54.85 1 6 10 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:55.10 1 3 11 Moss Burmester 1:55.35 2 7 12 Wu Peng 1:55.73 1 2 13 Ryusuke Sakata 1:55.91 1 8 14 Pedro Oliveira 1:56.25 1 1 15 Joeri Verlinden 1:56.74 2 8 16 Lucas Salatta 1:57.17 2 1

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes Michael Phelps 1:51.51 5 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:53.23 3 NR Takeshi Matsuda 1:53.32 4 4 Kaio de Almeida 1:54.27 2 5 Tyler Clary 1:54.45 8 6 Dinko Jukić 1:55.08 6 7 Sebastien Rousseau 1:55.43 1 7 Michael Rock 1:55.43 7

See also Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

References Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29. Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29. Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.