Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2001 FINA World Championships
Dates:	23 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 24 July 2001 (final)
Competitors:	40
Win Value:	1 minute 54.58 seconds
Gold:	Michael Phelps
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Tom Malchow
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Anatoly Polyakov
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	1998
Next:	2003

See main article: Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.

The men's 200-metre butterfly event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place between 23 July - 24 July. Both the heats and semifinals were held on 23 July^[1] ^[2] with the heats being held in the morning session and the semifinals being held in the evening session. The final was held on 24 July.^[3]

In the final, American swimmer Michael Phelps broke his own world record with a time of 1:54.58, bettering his previous record of 1:54.92. For Phelps, this was also his first world title since finishing 5th in the same event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.^[4]

Records

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

World record		1:54.92	Austin, United States	align=right	30 March 2001
Championship record		1:55.69	Perth, Australia	align=right	12 January 1991

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Time	Record
23 July	Semifinal 2	Franck Esposito	1:55.03	CR
23 July	Semifinal 2		1:55.03	CR
24 July	Final		1:54.58	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Time	Notes
1	1:56.05	Q
2	1:56.11	Q
3	1:56.13	Q
4	1:57.76	Q
5	1:57.79	Q
6	1:57.80	Q
7	1:58.27	Q
8	1:58.41	Q
9	1:58.71	Q
10	1:58.72	Q
11	1:58.85	Q
12	1:59.31	Q
13	1:59.41	Q
14	1:59.77	Q
15	2:00.12	Q
16	2:00.54	Q
17	2:01.32
18	2:01.37
19	2:01.67
20	2:02.10
21	2:02.72
22	2:03.09
23	2:03.71
24	2:03.72
25	2:03.95
26	2:03.96
27	2:04.19
28	2:04.22
29	2:05.29
30	2:05.31
31	2:06.51
32	2:06.81
33	2:08.73
34	2:08.97
35	2:09.90
36	2:11.38
37	2:12.28
38	2:15.78
39	2:17.03
40	2:29.74

^[5]

Semifinals

Rank	Time	Notes
1	1:55.03	Q,
1	1:55.03	Q,
3	1:56.41	Q
4	1:56.51	Q
5	1:56.85	Q
6	1:56.98	Q
7	1:57.34	Q
8	1:57.94	Q
9	1:57.96
10	1:58.15
11	1:58.20
12	1:58.60
13	1:59.06
14	1:59.52
15	1:59.56
16	2:01.37

^[6]

Final

Rank	Time	Notes
	1:54.58	WR
	1:55.28
	1:55.68
4	1:55.71
5	1:55.84
6	1:56.71
7	1:57.18
8	1:58.68

Key: WR = World record

Notes and References

Web site: Heats Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024112205/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay2.html#200mFlyM . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Semifinals Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041024113207/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay2FINAL.html#200FlyM . 24 October 2004 .
Web site: Final Results . 2023-08-07 . FINA. https://web.archive.org/web/20041019122334/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsM200fly.html . 19 October 2004 .
News: Swimming: Thorpe and Phelps smash world records . The Daily Telegraph. 2001-07-24. 2013-06-27.
Web site: FINA World Swimming Fukoka . 2014-01-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20011218005745/http://www.fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay2.html . 18 December 2001 . dmy-all .
Web site: FINA World Swimming Fukoka . 2016-08-21 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20011109040236/http://fina.org/fukuoka_SwimmingResultsDay2FINAL.html . 9 November 2001 . dmy-all .