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

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]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	23 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 24 July 2001 (final)
Competitors	40
Winning time	1 minute 54.58 seconds
Medalists
Michael Phelps    United States   Tom Malchow    United States   Anatoly Polyakov    Russia
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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	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:54.92	Austin, United States	30 March 2001
Championship record	Melvin Stewart (USA)	1:55.69	Perth, Australia	12 January 1991

The following record was established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
23 July	Semifinal 2	Franck Esposito	France	1:55.03	CR
		Tom Malchow	United States
24 July	Final	Michael Phelps	United States	1:54.58	WR

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Franck Esposito	France	1:56.05	Q
2	Michael Phelps	United States	1:56.11	Q
3	Tom Malchow	United States	1:56.13	Q
4	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:57.76	Q
5	Justin Norris	Australia	1:57.79	Q
6	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	1:57.80	Q
7	Anatoly Polyakov	Russia	1:58.27	Q
8	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:58.41	Q
9	Ioan Gherghel	Romania	1:58.71	Q
10	Andrew Livingston	Puerto Rico	1:58.72	Q
11	Juan José Veloz	Mexico	1:58.85	Q
12	Christian Galenda	Italy	1:59.31	Q
13	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1:59.41	Q
14	Tero Välimaa	Finland	1:59.77	Q
15	William Kirby	Australia	2:00.12	Q
16	Viktor Bodrogi	Hungary	2:00.54	Q
17	Alessio Boggiatto	Italy	2:01.32
18	Xie Xufeng	China	2:01.37
19	Mickey Halika	Israel	2:01.67
20	Simão Morgado	Portugal	2:02.10
21	Hisayoshi Tanaka	Japan	2:02.72
22	Dean Kent	New Zealand	2:03.09
23	Zoran Lazarevski	Macedonia	2:03.71
24	Jacob Fraire	Mexico	2:03.72
25	Joe Jae-hyon	South Korea	2:03.95
26	Yoo Jung-nam	South Korea	2:03.96
27	Benjamin Gan	Singapore	2:04.19
28	Aleksandar Miladinovski	Macedonia	2:04.22
29	Raazik Nordien	South Africa	2:05.29
30	Georgi Palazov	Bulgaria	2:05.31
31	Sergio Cabrera	Paraguay	2:06.51
32	Sergio Rafael De Leon Alfaro	Guatemala	2:06.81
33	Jiang Bing-Ru	Chinese Taipei	2:08.73
34	Chen Jui-Chen	Chinese Taipei	2:08.97
35	Oleg Lyashko	Uzbekistan	2:09.90
36	Carlos Melendez	El Salvador	2:11.38
37	Bertrand Bristol	Seychelles	2:12.28
38	Zulfiqar Ali	Pakistan	2:15.78
39	Obaid Ahmed Al Jassimi	United Arab Emirates	2:17.03
40	Zaid Saeed	Iraq	2:29.74

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Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Franck Esposito	France	1:55.03	Q, CR
1	Tom Malchow	United States	1:55.03	Q, CR
3	Michael Phelps	United States	1:56.41	Q
4	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:56.51	Q
5	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:56.85	Q
6	Justin Norris	Australia	1:56.98	Q
7	Anatoly Polyakov	Russia	1:57.34	Q
8	Andrew Livingston	Puerto Rico	1:57.94	Q
9	Ioan Gherghel	Romania	1:57.96
10	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	1:58.15
11	Christian Galenda	Italy	1:58.20
12	Viktor Bodrogi	Hungary	1:58.60
13	Juan José Veloz	Mexico	1:59.06
14	William Kirby	Australia	1:59.52
15	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1:59.56
16	Tero Välimaa	Finland	2:01.37

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Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Michael Phelps	United States	1:54.58	WR
	Tom Malchow	United States	1:55.28
	Anatoly Polyakov	Russia	1:55.68
4	Franck Esposito	France	1:55.71
5	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	1:55.84
6	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	1:56.71
7	Justin Norris	Australia	1:57.18
8	Andrew Livingston	Puerto Rico	1:58.68

Key: WR = World record

References

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3. . FINA. Archived from the original on 19 October 2004. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
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