Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

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.

Men's 200m butterfly
at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates26 July (heats and semifinals)
27 July (final)
Competitors44 from 31 nations
Winning time1 minute 55.02 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    Poland
silver medal    Japan
bronze medal    China
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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:

Results edit

Final edit

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

Semifinals edit

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

Preliminaries edit

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

References edit