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

Men's 200m butterfly at the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	26 July (heats and semifinals) 27 July (final)
Competitors	44 from 31 nations
Winning time	1 minute 55.02 seconds
Medalists
Paweł Korzeniowski    Poland   Takeshi Matsuda    Japan   Wu Peng    China
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Main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships

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.

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:

• 1:53.93, Michael Phelps ( USA), Barcelona, Spain, 22 July 2003.

Results

Final

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

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

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

• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Butterfly Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2011-01-21.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Butterfly Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2011-01-21.
• Worlds 2005 results: Men's 200m Butterfly Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds); Retrieved 2011-01-21.