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

Event:	Men's 200m Butterfly
Competition:	2003 FINA World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	22 July (prelims, semifinals) 23 July (final)
Win Value:	1 minute 54.35 seconds
Gold:	Michael Phelps
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Takashi Yamamoto
Silvernoc:	JPN
Bronze:	Tom Malchow
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2001
Next:	2005

See main article: Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships.

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			1:54.35
2			1:55.52
3			1:55.66
4			1:56.10
5			1:56.36
6			1:57.21
7			1:58.22
8			1:58.95

Semifinals

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	S2 L4	1:53.93	q, WR
2	S2 L5	1:55.90	q
2	S2 L2	1:55.90	q
4	S1 L4	1:56.35	q
5	S2 L8	1:56.96	q
6	S2 L7	1:57.28	q
7	S2 L6	1:57.31	q
8	S1 L7	1:57.32	q

9	S2 L3	1:57.60	q
10	S1 L2	1:57.97	q
10	S1 L6	1:57.97	q
12	S1 L5	1:58.34	q
13	S1 L1	1:58.83	q
14	S1 L3	1:59.10	q
15	S1 L8	1:59.21	q
16	S2 L1	1:59.96	q

Preliminaries

Rank	Heat+Lane	Time	Notes
1	H8 L4	1:55.70	q
2	H8 L5	1:56.95	q
3	H7 L4	1:57.25	q
4	H9 L2	1:57.83	q
5	H7 L5	1:57.96	q
6	H8 L7	1:58.06	q
7	H8 L3	1:58.09	q
7	H9 L3	1:58.09	q
9	H9 L3	1:58.11	q
10	H7 L3	1:58.24	q
11	H7 L2	1:58.25	q
12	H8 L2	1:58.62	q
13	H4 L6	1:58.64	q
14	H7 L1	1:58.83	q
15	H9 L5	1:58.86	q
16	H8 L8	1:59.00	q

17	H9 L7	1:59.57
18	H9 L1	1:59.75
19	H8 L6	1:59.83
20	H6 L1	1:59.89
21	H7 L6	2:00.09
22	H7 L7	2:00.48
23	H6 L4	2:00.57
24	H6 L3	2:00.60
25	H6 L5	2:01.12
26	H6 L7	2:01.26
27	H9 L4	2:01.35
28	H6 L6	2:01.49
29	H7 L8	2:01.57
30	H5 L2	2:01.58
31	H9 L8	2:01.69
32	H6 L8	2:01.87
33	H5 L3	2:02.45
34	H5 L4	2:02.66
35	H5 L6	2:03.18
36	H5 L1	2:03.69
37	H5 L5	2:04.14
38	H5 L7	2:04.80
39	H3 L5	2:04.89
40	H3 L4	2:05.44
41	H4 L5	2:06.18
42	H4 L2	2:06.24
43	H4 L3	2:06.48
44	H4 L1	2:06.80
45	H5 L8	2:07.46
46	H3 L8	2:08.05
47	H4 L4	2:08.57
48	H3 L2	2:08.87
49	H2 L5	2:09.04
50	H4 L7	2:09.07
51	H3 L7	2:10.31
52	H3 L3	2:10.38
53	H3 L6	2:10.88
54	H2 L3	2:10.99
55	H2 L4	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
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS
-	-	DNS

Notes and References

Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Butterfly - prelims, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-19.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Butterfly - semis, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-19.
Worlds 2003 results: Men's 200m Butterfly - final, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); retrieved 2010-01-19.