The Men's 200 Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 22 – 23 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. PreliminaryWorlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Butterfly - prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-19. and SemifinalWorlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Butterfly - semis, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-19. heats were on July 22, with the preliminaries during the morning session and the semifinals during the evening session. The FinalWorlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Butterfly - final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-19. swam during the evening session on July 23.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: WR and CR: 1:54.58 swum by Michael Phelps (USA) on 24 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Michael Phelps 1:54.35 2 Takashi Yamamoto 1:55.52 3 Tom Malchow 1:55.66 4 Steve Parry 1:56.10 5 Denis Sylantyev 1:56.36 6 Serhiy Advena 1:57.21 7 Justin Norris 1:58.22 8 Travis Nederpelt 1:58.95

Semifinals Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S2 L4 Michael Phelps 1:53.93 q, WR 2 S2 L5 Tom Malchow 1:55.90 q 2 S2 L2 Steve Parry 1:55.90 q 4 S1 L4 Takashi Yamamoto 1:56.35 q 5 S2 L8 Denis Sylantyev 1:56.96 q 6 S2 L7 Travis Nederpelt 1:57.28 q 7 S2 L6 Justin Norris 1:57.31 q 8 S1 L7 Serhiy Advena 1:57.32 q 9 S2 L3 Peng Wu 1:57.60 q 10 S1 L2 Ioan Gherghel 1:57.97 q 10 S1 L6 Anatoli Poliakov 1:57.97 q 12 S1 L5 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:58.34 q 13 S1 L1 Kaio Almeida 1:58.83 q 14 S1 L3 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:59.10 q 15 S1 L8 Nikolai Skvortsov 1:59.21 q 16 S2 L1 Helge Meeuw 1:59.96 q

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H8 L4 Michael Phelps 1:55.70 q 2 H8 L5 Takashi Yamamoto 1:56.95 q 3 H7 L4 Tom Malchow 1:57.25 q 4 H9 L2 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:57.83 q 5 H7 L5 Peng Wu 1:57.96 q 6 H8 L7 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:58.06 q 7 H8 L3 Justin Norris 1:58.09 q 7 H9 L3 Anatoli Poliakov 1:58.09 q 9 H9 L3 Steve Parry 1:58.11 q 10 H7 L3 Ioan Gherghel 1:58.24 q 11 H7 L2 Travis Nederpelt 1:58.25 q 12 H8 L2 Serhiy Advena 1:58.62 q 13 H4 L6 Helge Meeuw 1:58.64 q 14 H7 L1 Kaio Almeida 1:58.83 q 15 H9 L5 Denys Sylantyev 1:58.86 q 16 H8 L8 Nikolai Skvortsov 1:59.00 q 17 H9 L7 Kyu Chul Han 1:59.57 18 H9 L1 Pedro Monteiro 1:59.75 19 H8 L6 Kentaro Usuda 1:59.83 20 H6 L1 Andrew Livingston 1:59.89 21 H7 L6 David Kolozar 2:00.09 22 H7 L7 Brian Johns 2:00.48 23 H6 L4 Johannes Dietrich 2:00.57 24 H6 L3 Huazhang Zheng 2:00.60 25 H6 L5 Tero Välimaa 2:01.12 26 H6 L7 Philipp Gilgen 2:01.26 27 H9 L4 Franck Esposito 2:01.35 28 H6 L6 Viktor Bodrogi 2:01.49 29 H7 L8 Luís Monteiro 2:01.57 30 H5 L2 Georgi Palazov 2:01.58 31 H9 L8 Juan Pablo Valdivieso 2:01.69 32 H6 L8 Jae Hyon Joe 2:01.87 33 H5 L3 Michael Halika 2:02.45 34 H5 L4 Dean Kent 2:02.66 35 H5 L6 Aghiles Slimani 2:03.18 36 H5 L1 Zoran Lazarovski 2:03.69 37 H5 L5 Theo Verster 2:04.14 38 H5 L7 Paulius Andrijauskas 2:04.80 39 H3 L5 Sergio Cabrera 2:04.89 40 H3 L4 Carlo Piccio 2:05.44 41 H4 L5 Luc Decker 2:06.18 42 H4 L2 Anovar Bennaceur 2:06.24 43 H4 L3 Oleg Lyashko 2:06.48 44 H4 L1 Shui Ki Szeto 2:06.80 45 H5 L8 James Walsh 2:07.46 46 H3 L8 Rehan Poncha 2:08.05 47 H4 L4 Oleg Pukhnaty 2:08.57 48 H3 L2 Marcos Burgos 2:08.87 49 H2 L5 Jorge Arturo Arce 2:09.04 50 H4 L7 William Muriel 2:09.07 51 H3 L7 Roy Barahona 2:10.31 52 H3 L3 Rafael de Leon Alfaro 2:10.38 53 H3 L6 David Cartin 2:10.88 54 H2 L3 Günther Streit 2:10.99 55 H2 L4 Bertrand Bristol 2:11.59 56 H2 L1 Jean Paul Adam 2:13.44 57 H2 L2 Dean Palacios 2:15.33 58 H3 L1 Ivan Grougnet 2:15.45 59 H4 L8 Mohammed Al-Yousef 2:15.46 60 H1 L4 Nuno Rola 2:18.32 61 H2 L6 Ben Wells 2:19.84 62 H2 L8 Yann Lausan 2:20.12 - - Christian Galenda DNS - - Simão Morgado DNS - - Raad Awisat DNS - - Landry Degnifo Enokorin DNS

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