Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | London Aquatics Centre | ||||||||||||
Date | July 30, 2012 (heats & semifinals) July 31, 2012 (final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 37 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:52.96 AF | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
Freestyle | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4 × 100 m | men | women |
4 × 200 m | men | women |
Medley relay | ||
4 × 100 m | men | women |
Marathon | ||
10 km | men | women |
The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 30–31 July at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom. [1]
For the second time at the 2012 Olympic Games, Michael Phelps fell short in his attempt to win the same event three consecutive times, due to a spectacular performance from South Africa's Chad le Clos. Phelps was considered a favorite to win the race, but Le Clos came from third at the final turn to edge out the superstar (and his personal hero) by five-hundredths of a second (0.05) for the gold medal and an African record in 1:52.96. [2] [3] By finishing with a time of 1:53.01, Phelps earned his second silver medal of the games, bringing his overall total to eighteen, and matching Larisa Latynina's record of eighteen medals as the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. [4] [5] [6] Japan's Takeshi Matsuda managed to repeat his bronze from Beijing four years earlier in 1:53.21. [7] [8]
Austria's Dinko Jukić, who claimed the top seed earlier in the prelims, missed the podium by over a body length with a fourth-place time and a national record in 1:54.35. [8] [9] U.S. swimmer Tyler Clary finished fifth in 1:55.06 to hold off a close battle from Serbia's Velimir Stjepanović (1:55.07) and Poland's three-time Olympic finalist Paweł Korzeniowski (1:55.08) by a hundredth of a second (0.01) each. [10] [11] China's Chen Yin rounded out the historic finale with an eighth-place time in 1:55.18. [8]
Hungary's László Cseh missed a chance to reach the final roster and defend his Olympic silver medal after placing twelfth in the semifinals (1:55.88). [9]
Prior to this competition, the world and Olympic records were:
World record | ![]() | 1:51.51 | Rome, Italy | 29 July 2009 | [12] [13] |
Olympic record | ![]() | 1:52.03 | Beijing, China | 13 August 2008 | [14] |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 6 | Takeshi Matsuda | ![]() | 1:54.25 | Q |
2 | 5 | Chad le Clos | ![]() | 1:54.43 | Q, AF |
2 | 3 | Chen Yin | ![]() | 1:54.43 | Q |
4 | 4 | Tyler Clary | ![]() | 1:54.93 | Q |
5 | 2 | Wu Peng | ![]() | 1:55.65 | |
6 | 7 | Nick D'Arcy | ![]() | 1:56.07 | |
7 | 8 | Ioannis Drymonakos | ![]() | 1:58.05 | |
8 | 1 | Chris Wright | ![]() | 1:58.56 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 3 | Michael Phelps | ![]() | 1:54.53 | Q |
2 | 4 | Dinko Jukić | ![]() | 1:54.95 | Q |
3 | 7 | Paweł Korzeniowski | ![]() | 1:55.04 | Q |
4 | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | ![]() | 1:55.13 | Q |
5 | 1 | Bence Biczó | ![]() | 1:55.36 | |
6 | 6 | Kazuya Kaneda | ![]() | 1:55.56 | |
7 | 2 | László Cseh | ![]() | 1:55.88 | |
8 | 8 | Nikolay Skvorstov | ![]() | 1:56.53 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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![]() | 5 | Chad le Clos | ![]() | 1:52.96 | AF |
![]() | 6 | Michael Phelps | ![]() | 1:53.01 | |
![]() | 4 | Takeshi Matsuda | ![]() | 1:53.21 | |
4 | 7 | Dinko Jukic | ![]() | 1:54.35 | NR |
5 | 2 | Tyler Clary | ![]() | 1:55.06 | |
6 | 8 | Velimir Stjepanović | ![]() | 1:55.07 | |
7 | 1 | Paweł Korzeniowski | ![]() | 1:55.08 | |
8 | 3 | Chen Yin | ![]() | 1:55.18 |
László Cseh is a retired Hungarian competitive swimmer and six-time Olympic medalist. He is a 33-time European Champion. His father, László Cseh Sr., also represented Hungary at the Olympics in swimming. In 2020, Braden Keith of SwimSwam nominated him as number 1 within top 10 male swimmers who have never won Olympic gold.
Michael Fred Phelps II is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games, held by gymnast Alexander Dityatin, by winning six gold and two bronze medals. Four years later, when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, he broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.
Dinko Jukić is a retired medley and butterfly swimmer from Austria of Croatian origin.
Scott Tyler Clary is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. In his Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Clary won gold in the 200-meter backstroke in Olympic record time. In total, he won sixteen medals in major international competitions: three gold, eight silver, and five bronze spanning the Summer Olympics, the FINA World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Pan American Games.
Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos, OIS is a South African competitive swimmer who is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion. He is the African record, Commonwealth record, and South African record holder in the short course and long course 200-metre butterfly and the short course 100-metre butterfly. He also holds African and South African records in the long course 200-metre freestyle and 100-metre butterfly, as well as the short course 100-metre freestyle. Formerly, he was a world record holder in the short course 100-metre butterfly and 200-metre butterfly.
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