The Men's 200 Butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum on 26 – 27 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. The Preliminary and Semifinal heats were on 26 July; the final was held on 27 July.

As the Championships were swum in a long course pool, this race consisted of 4 lengths of the pool, butterfly.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships records were: 1:53.93, Michael Phelps (), Barcelona, Spain, 22 July 2003.

Results

Final Place Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:55.02 2 Takeshi Matsuda 1:55.62 3 Wu Peng 1:56.50 4 Davis Tarwater 1:56.74 5 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:57.04 5 Ryuichi Shibata 1:57.04 7 Helge Meeuw 1:57.67 8 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:57.71

Semifinals Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 S2 L5 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:56.11 q 2 S2 L2 Takeshi Matsuda 1:56.14 q 3 S2 L3 WU Peng 1:56.33 q 4 S1 L3 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:56.88 q 5 S1 L1 Helge Meeuw 1:57.07 q 6 S1 L6 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:57.09 q 7 S1 L5 Davis Tarwater 1:57.16 q 8 S2 L4 Ryuichi Shibata 1:57.36 q 9 S1 L4 Travis Nederpelt 1:57.46 10 S2 L1 Sergii Advena 1:57.91 11 S2 L8 Ioan Gherghel 1:57.97 12 S2 L7 Denys Sylantyev 1:58.20 13 S1 L2 Moss Burmester 1:58.24 14 S1 L8 Kaio Almeida 1:58.36 15 S2 L6 Anatoly Polyakov 1:58.39 16 S1 L7 Jeong Nam Yu 1:59.25

Preliminaries Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 H6 L3 Ryuichi Shibata 1:56.60 q 2 H5 L3 Travis Nederpelt 1:56.91 q 3 H5 L4 Paweł Korzeniowski 1:56.93 q 4 H6 L7 Davis Tarwater 1:57.17 q 5 H5 L5 Peng Wu 1:57.44 q 6 H6 L4 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:57.47 q 7 H5 L6 Anatoly Polyakov 1:57.57 q 8 H6 L6 Ioannis Drymonakos 1:57.82 q 9 H6 L5 Takeshi Matsuda 1:57.90 q 10 H4 L6 Moss Burmester 1:58.30 q 11 H6 L2 Denys Sylantyev 1:58.80 q 12 H6 L1 Yoo Jung-Nam 1:58.89 q 13 H4 L2 Sergii Advena 1:58.93 q 14 H4 L5 Helge Meeuw 1:58.95 q 15 H4 L4 Ioan Gherghel 1:59.09 q 16 H4 L7 Kaio Almeida 1:59.20 q 17 H5 L7 Michael Raab 1:59.38 18 H5 L1 Luís Monteiro 2:00.08 19 H5 L8 Joao Araujo 2:00.17 20 H4 L1 Erez Feren 2:00.33 21 H5 L2 Benjamin Starke 2:00.40 22 H4 L3 Andrew Richards 2:00.52 23 H3 L5 Nadav Kochavi 2:01.44 24 H6 L8 Yong Chung 2:01.73 25 H2 L7 Shaune Fraser 2:01.88 26 H3 L1 Pavel Suškov 2:02.77 27 H3 L4 Georgi Palazov 2:03.86 28 H3 L2 Jiri Dub 2:04.27 29 H2 L4 James Walsh 2:04.50 30 H2 L1 Oleg Lyashko 2:04.74 31 H3 L6 Aghiles Slimani 2:05.08 32 H4 L8 Hsu Chi-Chieh 2:05.30 33 H3 L8 Julio Galofre 2:05.72 34 H3 L7 Gary Tan 2:05.93 35 H2 L3 Dominik Bartos 2:06.49 36 H2 L2 Mansoor Al-Mansoor 2:06.52 37 H1 L4 M. Akbar Nasution 2:07.05 38 H1 L5 Sergey Pankov 2:07.40 39 H2 L6 Cheng Xun Ng 2:07.98 40 H2 L8 Waleed Al-Qahtani 2:09.55 41 H1 L6 Wing Cheun Wong 2:10.44 42 H2 L5 Nguyen Thanh Hai 2:10.57 43 H1 L3 Scott Hensley 2:15.70 - H3 L3 Ahmed Salah DNS

References Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Butterfly Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2011-01-21. Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Butterfly Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2011-01-21. Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Butterfly Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2011-01-21.