Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 200 metre butterfly ; at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Danube Arena
Location	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	20 June (heats and semifinals); 21 June (final)
Competitors	42 from 35 nations
Winning time	1:50.34 WR
Medalists
	← 2019 2023 →

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 20 and 21 June 2022.^[1]^[2]

Records

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

World record	Kristóf Milák (HUN)	1:50.73	Gwangju, South Korea	24 July 2019
Competition record	Kristóf Milák (HUN)	1:50.73	Gwangju, South Korea	24 July 2019

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
21 June	Final	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:50.34	WR

The heats were started on 20 June at 09:37.^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:54.10	Q
2	4	6	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:54.75	Q, NR
3	4	4	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:54.94	Q
4	5	5	Trenton Julian	United States	1:55.04	Q
5	3	7	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:55.71	Q
6	4	2	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:55.73	Q
7	3	4	Luca Urlando	United States	1:55.94	Q
8	4	5	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:56.09	Q
9	5	0	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:56.13	Q, NR
10	3	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.35	Q
11	3	2	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:56.38	Q
11	5	7	Léon Marchand	France	1:56.38	Q
13	4	0	Niu Guangsheng	China	1:56.48	Q
14	3	6	James Guy	Great Britain	1:56.63	Q
15	5	2	Takumi Terada	Japan	1:56.70	Q
16	3	5	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:56.87	Q
17	3	0	Héctor Ruvalcaba	Mexico	1:56.96
18	5	3	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:57.00
19	3	8	Kim Min-seop	South Korea	1:57.43
20	4	7	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:57.63
21	4	3	Chen Juner	China	1:58.31
22	5	8	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	1:58.36
23	2	7	Jorge Otaiza	Venezuela	1:58.54
24	5	1	Bowen Gough	Australia	1:58.66
25	4	8	Sajan Prakash	India	1:58.67
26	5	9	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:59.44
27	4	1	Moon Seung-woo	South Korea	1:59.81
28	4	9	Ong Jung Yi	Singapore	2:00.18
29	2	2	Patrick Hussey	Canada	2:00.24
30	2	6	Erick Gordillo	Guatemala	2:00.48
31	2	1	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	2:00.83
32	2	3	Nguyễn Duy Khoa Hồ	Vietnam	2:01.05
33	3	1	Matheus Gonche	Brazil	2:01.65
34	2	8	Felipe Baffico	Chile	2:01.99
35	3	9	Navaphat Wongcharoen	Thailand	2:02.10
36	2	4	Ramil Valizade	Azerbaijan	2:02.41
37	2	5	Keanan Dols	Jamaica	2:04.04
38	2	0	Simon Bachmann	Seychelles	2:06.70
39	1	4	Salem Sabt	United Arab Emirates	2:08.21
40	2	9	Gerald Hernández	Nicaragua	2:09.26
41	1	5	Mubal Azzam Ibrahim	Maldives	2:36.74
	1	3	Heni Mesfar	Tunisia	Disqualified
	5	6	Chad le Clos	South Africa	Did not start

The semifinals were started on 20 June at 19:35.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:52.39	Q
2	2	5	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:54.01	Q
3	1	4	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:54.20	Q, NR
4	1	7	Léon Marchand	France	1:54.32	Q, NR
5	2	6	Luca Urlando	United States	1:54.50	Q
6	1	6	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.79	Q
7	2	3	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:54.87	Q
8	1	1	James Guy	Great Britain	1:54.91	Q
9	1	3	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:55.01
10	2	1	Niu Guangsheng	China	1:55.27
11	2	2	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:55.62	NR
12	2	7	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:55.74
13	2	8	Takumi Terada	Japan	1:56.07
14	1	2	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.18
15	1	8	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:56.23
16	1	5	Trenton Julian	United States	1:56.45

The final was held on 21 at 18:54.^[5]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Kristóf Milák	Hungary	1:50.34	WR
	6	Léon Marchand	France	1:53.37	NR
	5	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:53.61
4	3	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:54.29
5	2	Luca Urlando	United States	1:54.92
6	7	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:55.20
7	1	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:55.52
8	8	James Guy	Great Britain	1:55.54