Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	28 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 29 July 2009 (final)
Competitors	75
Winning time	1 minute 51.51 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   Paweł Korzeniowski    Poland   Takeshi Matsuda    Japan
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The heats for the men's 200 metre butterfly race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning of 28 July, with the final in the evening session of 29 July at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records[]

Existing records at the start of the event were:

World record
1:52.03	Michael Phelps	Beijing	13 August 2008
Championship record
1:52.09	Michael Phelps	Melbourne	28 March 2007

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:54.33	6	6
2	Michael Phelps	United States	1:54.35	8	4
3	Tyler Clary	United States	1:54.42	6	4
4	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	1:54.51	6	3	AF
5	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:54.57	8	5
6	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:55.07	6	5
7	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1:55.45	7	6
8	Chen Yin	China	1:55.49	8	1
9	Michael Rock	Great Britain	1:55.76	8	6
10	Wu Peng	China	1:55.96	8	3
11	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	1:56.03	7	5
12	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:56.10	7	4
13	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	1:56.16	8	7
14	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	1:56.17	6	1
15	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	1:56.59	8	8	NR
16		Japan	1:56.75	7	3
17	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:56.90	7	8
18	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	1:57.01	8	0	NR
19	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:57.02	4	5	NR
20	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	1:57.13	6	9	NR
21		Italy	1:57.16	8	2
22		Australia	1:57.21	7	1
23	Stefan Hirniak	Canada	1:57.43	5	9	NR
23	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	1:57.43	7	7
25	Joseph Roebuck	Great Britain	1:57.44	6	8
26		Poland	1:57.53	5	6
27	Christopher Wright	Australia	1:57.54	6	7
28	Hsu Chi-Chieh	Chinese Taipei	1:57.61	7	2
29		Romania	1:57.97	5	7
30	Illya Chuyev	Ukraine	1:58.40	7	0
31	Jan Sefl	Czech Republic	1:58.46	7	9
32		South Korea	1:58.56	5	4
33		Mexico	1:58.59	5	8
34	Denys Dubrov	Ukraine	1:58.96	5	1
35	Daniel Bego	Malaysia	1:58.99	4	6
36	Mathieu Fonteyn	Belgium	1:59.40	6	2
37	Norbert Kovács	Hungary	1:59.64	4	3
38		Mexico	1:59.86	4	4
39	Douglas Lennox-Silva	Puerto Rico	2:01.01	4	7
40	Andrés José González	Argentina	2:01.30	8	9
41		Canada	2:01.56	5	2
42	Emmanuel Crescimbeni	Peru	2:01.57	4	1
43	Alon Mandel	Israel	2:01.79	5	5
44	Bernhard Wolf	Austria	2:01.90	5	3
45	Rehan Poncha	India	2:02.27	4	8
46		Slovakia	2:02.83	4	9
47	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	2:02.84	5	0
48	Sergey Pankov	Uzbekistan	2:03.33	3	3
49		Vietnam	2:03.55	3	8
50	Pedro Pinotes	Angola	2:03.68	3	9
51	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	2:03.76	3	4
52		Uruguay	2:03.80	3	6	NR
53		Singapore	2:03.83	3	0
54	Dmitriy Gordiyenko	Kazakhstan	2:04.05	3	5
55	Diego Castillo	Panama	2:04.71	3	2
56		Albania	2:05.65	3	7
57	Javier Hernández Maradiaga	Honduras	2:05.99	4	0
58		Honduras	2:06.92	3	1
59	Andrejs Dūda	Latvia	2:06.94	2	3
60		North Macedonia	2:07.34	1	2
61		Philippines	2:08.17	2	6
62		Singapore	2:09.54	2	5
63		Uzbekistan	2:09.98	2	4
64		United States Virgin Islands	2:11.56	2	1
65		Estonia	2:13.37	2	8
66		Kyrgyzstan	2:13.40	2	7
67		Bolivia	2:14.11	2	0
68		United Arab Emirates	2:15.52	2	9	NR
69		Paraguay	2:16.08	2	2
70	Jean Marie Froget	Mauritius	2:16.82	1	4
71		American Samoa	2:18.37	1	3
72	Kareem Ennab	Jordan	2:19.51	1	5
73	Paul Elaisa	Fiji	2:22.25	1	6
–	Shaune Fraser	Cayman Islands	DNS	4	2
–	Romanos Alyfantis	Greece	DNS	6	9

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:53.35	1	7
2	Michael Phelps	United States	1:53.48	1	4
3	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:53.75	2	4	NR
4	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1:54.42	2	6	NR
5	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:54.50	2	3
6	Michael Rock	Great Britain	1:54.58	2	2	NR
7	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	1:54.71	1	5
8	Tyler Clary	United States	1:54.75	2	5
9	Chen Yin	China	1:54.85	1	6
10	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:55.10	1	3
11	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	1:55.35	2	7
12	Wu Peng	China	1:55.73	1	2
13		Japan	1:55.91	1	8
14	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	1:56.25	1	1
15	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	1:56.74	2	8
16	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	1:57.17	2	1

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Lane	Notes
	Michael Phelps	United States	1:51.51	5	WR
	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:53.23	3	NR
	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1:53.32	4
4	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:54.27	2
5	Tyler Clary	United States	1:54.45	8
6	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1:55.08	6
7	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	1:55.43	1
7	Michael Rock	Great Britain	1:55.43	7

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

References[]

• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 200m Fly Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-29.