2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 200m Butterfly
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	19 December 2010
Competitors:	44
Win Value:	1:51.56
Gold:	Chad le Clos
Goldnoc:	RSA
Silver:	Kaio Almeida
Silvernoc:	BRA
Bronze:	László Cseh
Bronzenoc:	HUN
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

See main article: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).

The Men's 200 Butterfly at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was swum on 19 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 44 individuals swam in the preliminary heats in the morning,^[1] with the top-8 finishers advancing to the final that evening.^[2]

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Kaio Almeida		align=left	1:49.11	Stockholm	10 November 2009
CR			align=left	1:51.05		13 April 2008

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	1	1:52.81	Q
2	6	8	1:52.91	Q
3	1	6	1:53.25	Q
4	4	5	1:53.26	Q
4	5	7	1:53.26	Q
6	5	3	1:53.27	Q
7	6	5	1:53.52	Q
8	4	3	1:53.76	Q
9	6	4	1:53.77
10	5	8	1:53.80
11	6	6	1:53.82
12	4	4	1:53.86
13	5	4	1:53.92
14	5	6	1:54.41
15	4	6	1:54.43
16	6	3	1:54.64
17	4	2	1:54.73
18	5	1	1:55.03
19	6	7	1:55.06
20	5	2	1:55.21
21	4	1	1:55.87
22	6	2	1:56.25
23	5	5	1:56.66
24	1	3	1:56.67
25	3	2	1:57.18
26	4	7	1:57.61
27	3	4	1:59.26
28	2	5	1:59.45
29	3	1	1:59.49
30	2	4	1:59.79
31	4	8	1:59.94
32	3	8	1:59.99
33	3	5	2:03.24
34	3	6	2:05.06
35	2	1	2:08.39
36	2	7	2:10.39
37	2	2	2:10.69
38	2	3	2:11.10
39	2	6	2:19.06
40	2	8	2:20.51
–	1	4	DNS
–	1	5	DNS
–	3	3	DNS
–	3	7	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Time
	5	1:51.56
	6	1:51.61
	4	1:51.67
4	1	1:51.85
5	3	1:51.92
6	8	1:53.09
7	2	1:53.61
7	7	1:53.61

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly (heats) . https://web.archive.org/web/20110125000049/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_37_Heats_Men_200_Fly.pdf . dead . 2011-01-25 . Omega Timing . 2010-12-18 .
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly (final) . https://web.archive.org/web/20110125001251/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_137_Finals_1_Men_200_Fly.pdf . dead . 2011-01-25 . Omega Timing . 2010-12-19 .