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.

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2009 FINA World Championships
VenueForo Italico
Dates28 July 2009 (heats, semifinals)
29 July 2009 (final)
Competitors75
Winning time1:51.51 WR
Medalists
gold medal    United States
silver medal    Poland
bronze medal    Japan
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Records edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record   Michael Phelps (USA) 1:52.03 Beijing, China 13 August 2008
Championship record   Michael Phelps (USA) 1:52.09 Melbourne, Australia 28 March 2007

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
29 July Final Michael Phelps   United States 1:51.51 WR

Results edit

Heats edit

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

Semifinals edit

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

Final edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes
  Michael Phelps   United States 1:51.51 5 WR
  Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland 1:53.23 3 NR
  Takeshi Matsuda   Japan 1:53.32 4
4 Kaio de Almeida   Brazil 1:54.27 2
5 Tyler Clary   United States 1:54.45 8
6 Dinko Jukić   Austria 1:55.08 6
7 Sebastien Rousseau   South Africa 1:55.43 1
7 Michael Rock   Great Britain 1:55.43 7

See also edit

References edit