| Event: | Men's 200m Butterfly |
| Competition: | 2012 Short Course Worlds |
| Dates: | 16 December (heats and final) |
| Win Value: | 1:51.01 |
| Gold: | Kazuya Kaneda |
| Goldnoc: | JPN |
| Silver: | László Cseh |
| Silvernoc: | HUN |
| Bronze: | Nikolay Skvortsov |
| Bronzenoc: | RUS |
| Prev: | 2010 |
| Next: | 2014 |
See main article: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).
The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | Kaio de Almeida | align=left | 1:49.11 | 10 November 2009 | |||
| Championship record | align=left | 1:51.05 | 13 April 2008 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 4 | 1:52.64 | Q | ||
| 2 | 4 | 4 | 1:53.14 | Q | ||
| 3 | 3 | 4 | 1:53.26 | Q | ||
| 4 | 4 | 6 | 1:53.74 | Q | ||
| 5 | 5 | 2 | 1:53.80 | Q | ||
| 6 | 3 | 5 | 1:53.85 | Q | ||
| 7 | 4 | 7 | 1:53.87 | Q | ||
| 8 | 5 | 6 | 1:53.91 | Q | ||
| 9 | 3 | 6 | 1:54.11 | |||
| 10 | 3 | 2 | 1:54.16 | |||
| 11 | 5 | 7 | 1:54.28 | |||
| 12 | 1 | 8 | 1:54.29 | |||
| 13 | 4 | 1 | 1:54.40 | |||
| 14 | 1 | 2 | 1:54.49 | |||
| 15 | 3 | 3 | 1:55.02 | |||
| 16 | 4 | 5 | 1:55.41 | |||
| 17 | 4 | 2 | 1:55.63 | |||
| 18 | 5 | 1 | 1:55.67 | |||
| 19 | 4 | 0 | 1:55.77 | |||
| 20 | 5 | 3 | 1:56.28 | |||
| 21 | 3 | 7 | 1:56.64 | |||
| 22 | 2 | 6 | 1:56.68 | |||
| 23 | 2 | 4 | 1:57.45 | |||
| 24 | 3 | 0 | 1:57.48 | |||
| 25 | 4 | 8 | 1:57.91 | |||
| 26 | 5 | 8 | 1:58.51 | |||
| 27 | 2 | 5 | 1:59.34 | |||
| 28 | 3 | 8 | 1:59.44 | NR | ||
| 29 | 4 | 9 | 1:59.78 | |||
| 30 | 3 | 1 | 2:00.34 | |||
| 31 | 2 | 7 | 2:01.96 | |||
| 32 | 2 | 8 | 2:02.27 | |||
| 33 | 2 | 1 | 2:02.41 | |||
| 34 | 5 | 9 | 2:02.62 | |||
| 35 | 2 | 2 | 2:04.26 | |||
| 36 | 2 | 0 | 2:04.39 | |||
| 37 | 2 | 9 | 2:08.43 | |||
| 38 | 1 | 4 | 2:15.03 | |||
| 39 | 1 | 7 | 2:15.23 | |||
| 40 | 1 | 5 | 2:19.39 | |||
| 41 | 1 | 3 | 2:20.01 | |||
| 42 | 1 | 6 | 2:20.31 | |||
| 4 | 3 | |||||
| 1 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | 3 | |||||
| 3 | 9 | |||||
| 5 | 0 | |||||
| 5 | 5 |
The final was held at 20:23.[2]
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 |  | 1:51.01 | CR | |||
| 3 |  | 1:51.66 | ||||
| 4 | 1:52.33 | |||||
| 4 | 7 | | 1:53.14 | |||
| 5 | 8 | 1:53.49 | ||||
| 6 | 1 | 1:53.85 | ||||
| 7 | 6 | 1:54.11 | ||||
| 8 | 2 |  | 1:54.20 |