Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	28 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 29 July 2009 (final)
Competitors	75
Winning time	1:51.51 WR
Medalists
Michael Phelps   United States   Paweł Korzeniowski   Poland   Takeshi Matsuda   Japan

Main article: Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships

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.

Records

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

Heats

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

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

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

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

References

• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.