The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2019 World Championships was held on 23 and 24 July 2019.ScheduleStart list The event was won by Kristóf Milák, who broke a 10-year-old record set by Michael Phelps, and set a new world-record time of 1:50.73 in the process.

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

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 24 July Final Kristóf Milák 1:50.73 WR Results Heats The heats were held on 23 July at 10:45.Heats results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 4 Kristóf Milák 1:54.19 Q 2 5 5 Daiya Seto 1:54.56 Q 3 5 2 Denys Kesil 1:55.82 Q 4 5 3 Leonardo de Deus 1:56.05 Q 5 3 4 Chad le Clos 1:56.17 Q 6 4 1 Antani Ivanov 1:56.35 Q 6 5 1 Louis Croenen 1:56.35 Q 8 4 3 Zach Harting 1:56.42 Q 9 3 1 Matthew Temple 1:56.54 Q 10 3 5 Federico Burdisso 1:56.64 Q 11 4 4 Tamás Kenderesi 1:56.82 Q 12 3 3 David Morgan 1:56.90 Q 13 4 6 Luiz Altamir Melo 1:57.08 Q 14 5 8 Brendan Hyland 1:57.09 Q, NR 15 5 7 Mackenzie Darragh 1:57.13 Q 16 3 2 Maksym Shemberev 1:57.14 Q 17 3 8 Velimir Stjepanović 1:57.15 18 4 5 Justin Wright 1:57.18 19 4 8 Wang Kuan-hung 1:57.21 20 4 2 David Thomasberger 1:57.31 21 4 7 Jan Świtkowski 1:57.58 22 2 4 Kregor Zirk 1:58.04 NR 23 5 0 Joan Lluís Pons 1:58.44 24 3 0 Sajan Prakash 1:58.45 25 2 3 Adilbek Mussin 1:58.58 NR 26 3 6 Viktor Bromer 1:58.59 27 5 9 Quah Zheng Wen 1:59.10 28 2 1 Richard Nagy 1:59.29 NR 29 3 9 Luis Vega Torres 1:59.94 30 2 7 Jarod Arroyo 2:00.28 31 2 9 Ayman Kelzi 2:00.59 NR 32 4 9 Kim Min-seop 2:00.95 33 2 2 Navaphat Wongcharoen 2:01.40 34 2 8 Nicholas Lim 2:01.46 35 1 3 Gabriel Araya 2:01.63 NR 36 1 4 Gustavo Gutiérrez 2:01.64 37 5 6 Li Zhuhao 2:01.84 38 2 5 Filip Zelić 2:02.47 39 2 6 Michael Gunning 2:02.89 40 3 7 Wang Zhou 2:03.07 41 1 6 Matthew Mays 2:03.47 NR 42 2 0 Faang der Tiaa 2:03.51 43 1 5 Bryan Alvaréz 2:04.71 44 1 7 Davor Petrovski 2:06.33 45 1 2 Fernando Ponce 2:07.61 46 1 8 Salvador Gordo 2:11.27 47 1 1 Emilien Puyo 2:15.13 1 0 Collins Saliboko 4 0 Nils Liess

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 23 July at 21:35.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 Zach Harting 1:55.26 Q 2 4 Daiya Seto 1:55.33 Q 3 5 Leonardo de Deus 1:55.71 Q 4 2 Federico Burdisso 1:55.92 Q 5 3 Antani Ivanov 1:56.25 6 1 Brendan Hyland 1:56.55 NR 7 8 Maksym Shemberev 1:56.78 8 7 David Morgan 1:59.57

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Kristóf Milák 1:52.96 Q 2 3 Chad le Clos 1:55.88 Q 3 5 Denys Kesil 1:55.95 Q 4 7 Tamás Kenderesi 1:56.25 5 2 Matthew Temple 1:56.52 6 1 Luiz Altamir Melo 1:57.43 7 8 Mackenzie Darragh 1:57.89 8 6 Louis Croenen 1:59.12

Swim-off The swim-off was held on 24 July at 10:00.Swim-off results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Tamás Kenderesi 1:59.39 Q 2 4 Antani Ivanov 1:59.52

Final The final was held on 24 July at 20:47.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Kristóf Milák 1:50.73 3 Daiya Seto 1:53.86 2 Chad le Clos 1:54.15 4 7 Federico Burdisso 1:54.39 NR 5 1 Denys Kesil 1:54.79 NR 6 5 Zach Harting 1:55.69 7 6 Leonardo de Deus 1:55.96 8 8 Tamás Kenderesi 1:57.10

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