Swimming at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Marine Messe Fukuoka
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Dates	25 July (heats and semifinals); 26 July (final)
Competitors	38 from 34 nations
Winning time	1:52.43
Medalists
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The men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships was held on 25 and 26 July 2023.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.^[4]

World record	Kristóf Milák (HUN)	1:50.34	Budapest, Hungary	21 June 2022
Competition record	Kristóf Milák (HUN)	1:50.34	Budapest, Hungary	21 June 2022

The heats were started on 25 July at 11:13.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:54.21	Q
2	3	1	Arbidel González	Spain	1:54.99	Q, NR
3	4	6	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:55.02	Q
4	5	2	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:55.17	Q
5	5	6	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:55.35	Q
6	4	5	Carson Foster	United States	1:55.36	Q
7	4	4	Léon Marchand	France	1:55.46	Q
8	5	3	Thomas Heilman	United States	1:55.59	Q
9	3	6	Niu Guangsheng	China	1:55.69	Q
10	4	3	Teppei Morimoto	Japan	1:55.72	Q
11	3	7	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	1:55.75	Q
12	5	5	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:55.85	Q
13	3	5	Ilya Kharun	Canada	1:55.93	Q
14	3	3	Richárd Márton	Hungary	1:56.03	Q
15	3	2	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:56.23	Q
16	5	1	Matthew Temple	Australia	1:56.51	Q, WD
17	4	2	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.79	Q
18	5	7	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:56.86
19	3	4	Chen Juner	China	1:56.87
20	4	8	Martin Espernberger	Austria	1:57.36
21	4	1	Moon Seung-woo	South Korea	1:57.79
22	5	8	Héctor Ruvalcaba	Mexico	1:57.80
23	5	0	Sajan Prakash	India	1:58.07
24	4	7	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:58.69
25	5	9	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico	1:59.10
26	2	4	Erick Gordillo	Guatemala	1:59.96
27	3	9	Abdalla Nasr	Egypt	2:00.17
28	4	0	Jorge Otaiza	Venezuela	2:01.83
29	3	0	Navaphat Wongcharoen	Thailand	2:03.05
30	2	5	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	2:03.33
31	2	6	Simon Bachmann	Seychelles	2:03.57
32	2	3	Diego Balbi	Peru	2:03.61
33	1	3	Raekwon Noel	Guyana	2:05.65	NR
34	2	7	Gerald Hernández	Nicaragua	2:07.28
35	2	1	Christian Jerome	Haiti	2:08.54	NR
36	4	9	Hồ Nguyễn Duy Khoa	Vietnam	2:11.47
37	2	8	Ali Haidar	Kuwait	2:13.97
38	1	4	Mohamed Rihan Shiham	Maldives	2:32.93
	1	5	James Hendrix	Guam	DNS
	2	2	Salem Sabt	United Arab Emirates
	3	8	Jaouad Syoud	Algeria

The semifinals were held on 25 July at 21:33.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	3	Carson Foster	United States	1:53.85	Q
2	2	6	Léon Marchand	France	1:54.21	Q
3	2	1	Ilya Kharun	Canada	1:54.28	Q, NR
4	2	5	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:54.36	Q
5	2	4	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:54.43	Q
6	1	1	Richárd Márton	Hungary	1:54.54	Q
7	1	6	Thomas Heilman	United States	1:54.57	Q
8	1	5	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:54.97	Q
9	2	3	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:55.00
10	1	2	Teppei Morimoto	Japan	1:55.36
11	1	7	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:55.44
12	1	4	Arbidel González	Spain	1:55.61
13	2	8	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:56.44
14	2	7	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	1:56.89
15	2	2	Niu Guangsheng	China	1:57.51
16	1	8	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:57.94

The final was held on 26 July at 20:53.^[7]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Léon Marchand	France	1:52.43	NR
	6	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:53.62
	2	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:53.66
4	1	Thomas Heilman	United States	1:53.82
4	3	Ilya Kharun	Canada	1:53.82	NR
6	4	Carson Foster	United States	1:54.74
7	7	Richárd Márton	Hungary	1:55.02
8	8	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:55.43