2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 December 2018.^[1]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors	39 from 34 nations
Winning time	1:48.24 WR
Medalists
Daiya Seto    Japan   Chad le Clos    South Africa   Li Zhuhao    China
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Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:48.56	Singapore	5 November 2013
Championship record	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:48.61	Doha, Qatar	7 December 2014

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
11 December	Final	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:48.24	WR, CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 10:23.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:49.88	Q
2	4	5	Li Zhuhao	China	1:51.28	Q
3	2	5	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	1:51.31	Q
4	2	4	Aleksandr Kharlanov	Russia	1:51.58	Q
5	4	1	Zach Harting	United States	1:51.66	Q
6	4	0	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:51.81	Q
7	3	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:51.90	Q
8	2	3	Nic Brown	Australia	1:52.15	Q
9	3	5	Yuya Yajima	Japan	1:52.62
10	4	9	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	1:53.19
11	2	2	Sajan Prakash	India	1:53.20
12	3	3	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:53.59
13	3	1	Deividas Margevičius	Lithuania	1:53.83
14	2	6	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:53.99
15	4	2	Ramon Klenz	Germany	1:54.02
16	3	7	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:54.10
17	4	8	Wilrich Coetzee	New Zealand	1:54.21
18	4	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:54.22
19	2	8	Erge Can Gezmiş	Turkey	1:54.71
20	4	6	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:55.16
21	3	2	Roman Shevliakov	Russia	1:55.42
22	2	7	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:55.64
23	3	6	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:55.69
24	3	8	Patrick Staber	Austria	1:55.84
25	2	1	Denys Kesyl	Ukraine	1:56.04
26	3	0	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	1:56.51
27	1	4	Luis Vega Torres	Cuba	1:57.45
28	2	9	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	1:57.96
29	2	0	Nicholas Lim	Hong Kong	1:58.16
30	1	5	Jarod Arroyo	Puerto Rico	1:58.22
31	1	3	Gabriel Araya	Chile	1:59.53
32	3	9	Ayman Kelzi	Syria	2:00.58
33	1	8	Nichita Bortnicov	Moldova	2:01.30
34	1	6	Bryan Alvarez	Costa Rica	2:01.57
35	1	7	Fernando Ponce	Guatemala	2:04.91
36	1	1	Munzer Kabbara	Lebanon	2:05.29
37	1	2	Zeniel Guzmán	Dominican Republic	2:05.54
38	1	0	Yacob Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	2:10.03
	4	7	Justin Wright	United States	DSQ

Final

The final was held at 19:41.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:48.24	WR
	1	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:48.32	AF
	5	Li Zhuhao	China	1:50.39	NR
4	6	Aleksandr Kharlanov	Russia	1:50.67
5	2	Zach Harting	United States	1:51.57
6	3	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	1:51.99
7	8	Nic Brown	Australia	1:52.10
8	7	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:52.40

References

1. "Competition Schedule". Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
2. Heats results
3. Final results