Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200m Butterfly at the 2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates	22 July (prelims, semifinals) 23 July (final)
Winning time	1 minute 54.35 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   Takashi Yamamoto    Japan   Tom Malchow    United States
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The Men's 200 Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 22 – 23 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary^[1] and Semifinal^[2] heats were on July 22, with the preliminaries during the morning session and the semifinals during the evening session. The Final^[3] swam during the evening session on July 23.

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both:

• WR and CR: 1:54.58 swum by Michael Phelps (USA) on 24 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan

Results[]

Final[]

Place	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Michael Phelps	USA	1:54.35
2	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:55.52
3	Tom Malchow	USA	1:55.66
4	Steve Parry	Great Britain	1:56.10
5	Denis Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:56.36
6	Serhiy Advena	Ukraine	1:57.21
7	Justin Norris	Australia	1:58.22
8	Travis Nederpelt	Australia	1:58.95

Semifinals[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	Michael Phelps	USA	1:53.93	q, WR
2	S2 L5	Tom Malchow	USA	1:55.90	q
2	S2 L2	Steve Parry	Great Britain	1:55.90	q
4	S1 L4	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:56.35	q
5	S2 L8	Denis Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:56.96	q
6	S2 L7	Travis Nederpelt	Australia	1:57.28	q
7	S2 L6	Justin Norris	Australia	1:57.31	q
8	S1 L7	Serhiy Advena	Ukraine	1:57.32	q
9	S2 L3	Peng Wu	China	1:57.60	q
10	S1 L2	Ioan Gherghel	Romania	1:57.97	q
10	S1 L6	Anatoli Poliakov	Russia	1:57.97	q
12	S1 L5	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1:58.34	q
13	S1 L1	Kaio Almeida	Brazil	1:58.83	q
14	S1 L3	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:59.10	q
15	S1 L8	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	1:59.21	q
16	S2 L1	Helge Meeuw	Germany	1:59.96	q

Preliminaries[]

Rank	Heat+Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	Michael Phelps		1:55.70	q
2	H8 L5	Takashi Yamamoto		1:56.95	q
3	H7 L4	Tom Malchow		1:57.25	q
4	H9 L2	Ioannis Drymonakos		1:57.83	q
5	H7 L5	Peng Wu		1:57.96	q
6	H8 L7	Paweł Korzeniowski		1:58.06	q
7	H8 L3	Justin Norris		1:58.09	q
7	H9 L3	Anatoli Poliakov		1:58.09	q
9	H9 L3	Steve Parry		1:58.11	q
10	H7 L3	Ioan Gherghel		1:58.24	q
11	H7 L2	Travis Nederpelt		1:58.25	q
12	H8 L2	Serhiy Advena		1:58.62	q
13	H4 L6	Helge Meeuw		1:58.64	q
14	H7 L1	Kaio Almeida		1:58.83	q
15	H9 L5	Denys Sylantyev		1:58.86	q
16	H8 L8	Nikolai Skvortsov		1:59.00	q
17	H9 L7	Kyu Chul Han		1:59.57
18	H9 L1	Pedro Monteiro		1:59.75
19	H8 L6			1:59.83
20	H6 L1	Andrew Livingston		1:59.89
21	H7 L6	David Kolozar		2:00.09
22	H7 L7	Brian Johns		2:00.48
23	H6 L4	Johannes Dietrich		2:00.57
24	H6 L3			2:00.60
25	H6 L5	Tero Välimaa		2:01.12
26	H6 L7	Philipp Gilgen		2:01.26
27	H9 L4	Franck Esposito		2:01.35
28	H6 L6	Viktor Bodrogi		2:01.49
29	H7 L8	Luís Monteiro		2:01.57
30	H5 L2	Georgi Palazov		2:01.58
31	H9 L8	Juan Pablo Valdivieso		2:01.69
32	H6 L8			2:01.87
33	H5 L3	Michael Halika		2:02.45
34	H5 L4	Dean Kent		2:02.66
35	H5 L6	Aghiles Slimani		2:03.18
36	H5 L1	Zoran Lazarovski		2:03.69
37	H5 L5	Theo Verster		2:04.14
38	H5 L7	Paulius Andrijauskas		2:04.80
39	H3 L5	Sergio Cabrera		2:04.89
40	H3 L4	Carlo Piccio		2:05.44
41	H4 L5	Luc Decker		2:06.18
42	H4 L2	Anovar Bennaceur		2:06.24
43	H4 L3	Oleg Lyashko		2:06.48
44	H4 L1			2:06.80
45	H5 L8	James Walsh		2:07.46
46	H3 L8	Rehan Poncha		2:08.05
47	H4 L4	Oleg Pukhnaty		2:08.57
48	H3 L2			2:08.87
49	H2 L5			2:09.04
50	H4 L7			2:09.07
51	H3 L7	Roy Barahona		2:10.31
52	H3 L3			2:10.38
53	H3 L6			2:10.88
54	H2 L3			2:10.99
55	H2 L4	Bertrand Bristol		2:11.59
56	H2 L1			2:13.44
57	H2 L2			2:15.33
58	H3 L1			2:15.45
59	H4 L8			2:15.46
60	H1 L4			2:18.32
61	H2 L6			2:19.84
62	H2 L8			2:20.12
-	-	Christian Galenda		DNS
-	-	Simão Morgado		DNS
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