Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre butterfly
Competition:	2007 FINA World Championships
Venue:	Rod Laver Arena
Dates:	27 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) 28 March 2007 (final)
Competitors:	64
Win Value:	1:52.09
Gold:	Michael Phelps
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Wu Peng
Silvernoc:	CHN
Bronze:	Nikolay Skvortsov
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2005
Next:	2009

See main article: Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships.

The men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 27 March (heats and semifinals) and on the evening of 28 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 64 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 62 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR)

1:53.71, Michael Phelps (USA), 17 February 2007 in Columbia, United States.

• Championship record (CR)

1:53.98, Michael Phelps (USA), Barcelona, Spain (22 July 2003)

Results

Finals

The finals started at 19:23 on 28 March 2007

Place	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			1:52.09
	5			1:55.13
	7			1:55.22
4	2			1:55.35
5	3			1:55.81
6	1			1:55.87
7	8			1:56.48
8	6			1:58.15

Semifinals

The semifinals started at 20:34 on 27 March 2007.

Rank	Heat/Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	S2-L4			1:55.13	Q
2	S2-L2			1:55.17	Q
3	S2-L5			1:55.96	Q
4	S1-L7			1:56.04	Q
5	S1-L2			1:56.27	Q
6	S2-L7			1:56.28	Q
7	S1-L3			1:56.30	Q
8	S1-L5			1:56.47	Q
8.5	S1.5			1:56.5	O
9	S2-L3			1:56.57
10	S1-L4			1:56.58
11	S2-L6			1:57.06
12	S2-L1			1:57.15
13	S1-L6			1:57.71
14	S2-L8			1:57.83
15	S1-L8			1:58.67
16	S1-L1			2:00.31

Heats

The 8 heats began at 10:27 on 27 March 2007.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			2:04.99
2	4			2:09.09
3	6			2:12.48
4	7			2:12.55
5	2			2:14.24
6	5			2:14.84
7	3			2:17.79
	8			DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7			2:04.45
2	2			2:04.75
3	6			2:05.93
4	5			2:06.41
5	3			2:07.96
6	1			2:10.55
7	4			2:11.76
8	8			2:13.78

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8			2:03.37
2	3			2:04.22
3	1			2:04.38
4	5			2:06.45
5	7			2:06.74
6	4			2:09.29
7	6			2:09.48
8	2			2:11.77

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			2:00.00
2	5			2:01.78
3	6			2:01.98
4	7			2:03.17
5	8			2:03.63
6	3			2:04.03
7	1			2:07.71
	2			DNS

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			1:59.63
2	8			1:59.67
3	6			2:00.93
4	2			2:01.76
5	4			2:02.02
6	1			2:02.69
7	7			2:03.02
8	5			2:03.63

Heat 6

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			1:57.11	Q
2	5			1:57.53	Q
3	6			1:57.64	Q
4	3			1:57.80	Q
5	1			1:57.91	Q
6	2			1:57.97
7	7			1:59.20
8	8			1:59.98

Heat 7

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			1:56.63	Q
2	5			1:57.10	Q
3	7			1:57.14	Q
4	4			1:57.49	Q
5	8			1:57.54	Q
6	1			1:57.93	Q
7	3			1:58.48
8	2			1:59.47

Heat 8

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			1:55.78	Q
2	5			1:56.81	Q
3	6			1:56.93	Q
4	3			1:57.14	Q
5	7			1:57.88	Q
6	8			1:58.75
7	2			2:00.20
8	1			2:01.01

See also

• Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly
• Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

References

• Men's 200m Fly Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 200m Fly Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.
• Men's 200m Fly Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); Retrieved 2009-07-11.