Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

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Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Aquatics Centre,
Paris La Défense Arena
Dates30 July 2024
(Heats and Semis)
31 July 2024
(Final)
Competitors28 from 23 nations
Winning time1:51.21 OR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Léon Marchand Flag of France.svg  France
Silver medal icon.svg Kristóf Milák Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Bronze medal icon.svg Ilya Kharun Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
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The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 30 to 31 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre.

Background

Going into the event, Hungarian Kristóf Milák was the defending Olympic champion. Milák also won the event at the 2019 and 2022 World Aquatics Championships, but in 2023 he "hit rock bottom" and took a break from swimming. [1] Milák returned to training in 2024, but the Hungarian national head coach Csaba Sós reported that Milák had been training inconsistently in the lead up to the Olympics. France's Léon Marchand won the 2023 Championships in Milák's absence and had dropped three seconds off his personal best over the previous three years, making him the third fastest performer of all time after Milák and Michael Phelps. Japan's Tomoru Honda was also returning after winning the silver in the previous Olympics. [1] Both SwimSwam and Swimming World predicted Milák would take the gold and Marchand the silver. [1] [2]

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). [3] For this event, the OQT was 1:55.78. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. [3] [4] Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 1:56.36 for this event. [3] In total, 23 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, three athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT. [4]

Heats

Three heats took place on 30 July 2024, starting at 11:00. [a] The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals. [5]

Results [6]
RankHeatLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
134 Kristóf Milák Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:53.92Q
225 Ilya Kharun Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:54.06Q
336 Noè Ponti Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 1:54.77Q
442 Alberto Razzetti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:54.78Q
532 Martin Espernberger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:55.19Q
644 Léon Marchand Flag of France.svg  France 1:55.26Q
722 Michal Chmielewski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:55.28Q
823 Wang Kuan-hung Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 1:55.32Q
945 Krzysztof Chmielewski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:55.42Q
1021 Kregor Zirk Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1:55.52Q
1135 Thomas Heilman Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:55.74Q
1233 Giacomo Carini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:55.81Q
1343 Genki Terakado Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:55.82Q
1437 Arbidel González Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:55.86Q
1547 Kim Min-seop Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1:56.02Q
1646 Richárd Márton Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:56.03Q
1726 Luca Urlando Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:56.18
1848 Nicolas Albiero Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:56.49
1914 Petar Petrov Mitsin Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 1:57.03
2027 Matthew Sates Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1:57.04
2128 Lewis Clareburt Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:57.12
2224 Tomoru Honda Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:57.30
2331 Matthew Temple Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 1:57.39
2438 Denys Kesil Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1:57.72
2515 Ramil Valizada Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 1:59.77
2613 Matin Balsini Olympic flag.svg  Refugee Olympic Team 2:00.77
2716 Gerald Hernández Flag of Nicaragua.svg  Nicaragua 2:06.80
41 Niu Guangsheng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China DNS

Semifinals

Two semifinals took place on 30 July, starting at 20:44. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final. [7]

Results [8]
RankHeatLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
124 Kristóf Milák Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:52.72Q
213 Léon Marchand Flag of France.svg  France 1:53.50Q
314 Ilya Kharun Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:54.01Q
425 Noè Ponti Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 1:54.14Q, NR
512 Kregor Zirk Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1:54.22Q, NR
622 Krzysztof Chmielewski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:54.28Q
715 Alberto Razzetti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:54.51Q
823 Martin Espernberger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:54.62Q
926 Michal Chmielewski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:54.64
1027 Thomas Heilman Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:54.87
1116 Wang Kuan-hung Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 1:55.07
1217 Giacomo Carini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:55.20
1328 Kim Min-seop Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1:55.22
1418 Richard Marton Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:55.93
1521 Genki Terakado Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:56.21
1611 Arbidel González Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 1:56.26

Final

The final took place at 20:37 on 31 July. [9]

Results [10]
RankLaneSwimmerNationTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg5 Léon Marchand Flag of France.svg  France 1:51.21 OR , NR
Silver medal icon.svg4 Kristóf Milák Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1:51.75
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Ilya Kharun Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:52.80 NR
47 Krzysztof Chmielewski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:53.90
56 Noè Ponti Civil Ensign of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 1:54.14 =NR
68 Martin Espernberger Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 1:54.17 NR
72 Kregor Zirk Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1:54.55
81 Alberto Razzetti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:54.85
Metrics [11]
Name50 metre split100 metre split150 metre splitTimeStroke rate (strokes/min)
Léon Marchand 00:24.9600:53.4601:22.241:51.2151.1
Kristóf Milák 00:24.3200:52.8601:21.521:51.7547.0
Ilya Kharun 00:25.0600:53.6701:23.041:52.8051.6
Krzysztof Chmielewski 00:25.2900:54.4001:23.891:53.9054.3
Noè Ponti 00:25.2300:54.2601:23.811:54.1447.9
Martin Espernberger 00:25.7900:54.6301:24.541:54.1751.1
Kregor Zirk 00:25.3900:54.0201:23.761:54.5549.2
Alberto Razzetti 00:25.2300:53.9001:23.591:54.8547.7

Notes

  1. ↑ All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

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  2. ↑ Writer, David Rieder-Senior (23 July 2024). "Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 5: 100 Freestyle Finals Bookend Busy Middle Night". Swimming World. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Paris 2024 – Swimming Info". World Aquatics. 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  4. 1 2 Entries list - Swimming, World Aquatics, archived from the original on 12 July 2024, retrieved 18 December 2024
  5. ↑ "Men's 200m Butterfly - Heats Results". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  6. ↑ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  7. ↑ "Men's 200m Butterfly Semifinals Results". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  8. ↑ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  9. ↑ "Women's 200m Butterfly Final Results". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 9 October 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  10. ↑ "Results" (PDF). olympics.com. International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  11. ↑ Bodard, Simon; Decron, Nathan; Dernoncourt, Eric; Hui, Pierre; Jambu, Clément; Loisel, Camille; Pla, Robin; Raineteau, Yannis. "Jeux Olympiques 2024: Analyses de course des Finales" (PDF). French Swimming Federation . Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
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