Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	4 August (heats and semifinals) 5 August (final)
Competitors	40 from 33 nations
Winning time	1:53.48
Medalists
László Cseh    Hungary   Chad le Clos    South Africa   Jan Świtkowski    Poland
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The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 4 August with the heats and the semifinals and 5 August with the final. ^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Michael Phelps  (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Competition record	Michael Phelps  (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:15. ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:53.71	Q
2	3	3	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:54.47	Q, NR
3	4	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:55.60	Q
4	4	3	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:55.78	Q
5	2	5	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:55.83	Q
6	2	3	Tyler Clary	United States	1:55.86	Q
7	4	5	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.97	Q
8	4	2	David Morgan	Australia	1:56.05	Q
9	3	5	Tom Shields	United States	1:56.12	Q
10	2	7	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:56.23	Q, NR
11	3	7	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	1:56.29	Q
12	4	6	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.33	Q
13	3	6	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	1:56.85	Q
14	2	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:56.92	Q
	2	6	Grant Irvine	Australia		Q
16	4	8	Alexander Kunert	Germany	1:57.28	Q
17	2	0	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	1:57.63
18	3	2	Francesco Pavone	Italy	1:57.69
19	4	7	Evgeny Koptelov	Russia	1:58.06
20	2	1	Wang Pudong	China	1:58.20
21	4	1	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	1:58.32
22	3	0	Alexandru Coci	Romania	1:58.43
23	2	8	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1:58.55
24	4	0	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:58.76
25	3	1	Hao Yun	China	1:59.04
26	2	2	Aleksandr Kudashev	Russia	1:59.33
27	3	9	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:59.45
28	4	9	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	1:59.85
29	1	5	Esnaider Reales	Colombia	2:01.13
30	3	8	Nuno Quintanilha	Portugal	2:01.46
31	1	3	Sajan Prakash	India	2:01.63
32	1	6	Jessie Lacuna	Philippines	2:03.84
33	1	4	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	2:04.31
34	2	9	Hsu Chi-chieh	Chinese Taipei	2:04.48
35	1	2	Ayman Kelzi	Syria	2:04.60
36	1	8	Mihajlo Čeprkalo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:05.64
37	1	7	Teimuraz Kobakhidze	Georgia	2:06.19
38	1	1	Nouamane Batahi	Morocco	2:07.54
39	1	0	Aldo Castillo	Bolivia	2:15.38
40	1	9	Noah Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	2:26.71

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 4 August at 19:04. ^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:54.50	Q
2	4	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:54.82	Q
3	5	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:55.42	Q
4	7	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:55.49	Q
5	2	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:56.31
6	3	Tyler Clary	United States	1:56.47
7	8	Alexander Kunert	Germany	1:57.29
8	6	David Morgan	Australia	1:58.83

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:53.53	Q
2	6	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:54.75	Q
3	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.95	Q
4	2	Tom Shields	United States	1:55.75	Q
5	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.02
6	1	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	1:56.11
7	7	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	1:56.96
8	8	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:57.94

Final

László Cseh wins gold

The final was held at 17:52. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:53.48
	5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:53.68
	7	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:54.10
4	3	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:54.24
5	6	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:54.66
6	2	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:55.16
7	1	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:55.39	NR
8	8	Tom Shields	United States	1:56.17

References

1. Start list
2. Heats results
3. Semifinals results
4. Final results