Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Swimming at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships
Venue	Aspire Dome
Location	Doha, Qatar
Dates	13 February (heats and semifinals) 14 February (final)
Competitors	39 from 36 nations
Winning time	1:53.88
Medalists
Tomoru Honda   Japan   Alberto Razzetti   Italy   Martin Espernberger   Austria

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships was held on 13 and 14 February 2024.

Records

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

World record	Kristóf Milák (HUN)	1:50.34	Budapest, Hungary	21 June 2022
Competition record	Kristóf Milák (HUN)	1:50.34	Budapest, Hungary	21 June 2022

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 13 February at 10:04.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	7	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:55.58	Q, NR
2	3	2	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:56.10	Q
3	3	3	Zach Harting	United States	1:56.12	Q
4	5	5	Martin Espernberger	Austria	1:56.26	Q
5	4	4	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:56.37	Q
6	5	6	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:56.40	Q
7	3	5	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:56.53	Q
8	3	4	Richárd Márton	Hungary	1:56.54	Q
9	5	4	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:56.56	Q
10	4	5	Michał Chmielewski	Poland	1:56.83	Q
11	5	3	Arbidel González	Spain	1:57.20	Q
12	4	6	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	1:57.42	Q
13	3	7	Ondřej Gemov	Czech Republic	1:57.45	Q
14	2	0	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	1:57.48	Q
14	4	3	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:57.48	Q
16	3	6	Nao Horomura	Japan	1:57.52	SO
16	4	7	Petar Mitsin	Bulgaria	1:57.52	SO
18	4	9	Abdalla Nasr	Egypt	1:57.85	NR
19	5	1	Park Jung-hun	South Korea	1:58.29
20	3	1	Matheus Gonche	Brazil	1:58.79
21	3	0	Marius Toscan	Switzerland	1:58.99
22	4	1	Héctor Ruvalcaba	Mexico	1:59.08
23	4	2	Wang Xizhe	China	1:59.32
24	4	0	Raben Dommann	Canada	1:59.45
25	5	9	Navaphat Wongcharoen	Thailand	1:59.78
26	4	8	Samuel Kostal	Slovakia	1:59.90
27	2	5	Apostolos Papastamos	Greece	2:00.56
28	5	8	Erick Gordillo	Guatemala	2:01.75
29	2	4	Diego Balbi	Peru	2:01.91
30	3	9	David Arias	Colombia	2:02.32
31	2	6	Simon Bachmann	Seychelles	2:03.31
32	2	2	Nika Tchitchiashvili	Georgia	2:03.41
33	2	3	Xavier Ventura	El Salvador	2:03.87
34	1	1	Maxim Skazobtsov	Kazakhstan	2:05.49
35	5	0	Ramil Valizade	Azerbaijan	2:05.58
36	2	7	Isaiah Aleksenko	Northern Mariana Islands	2:10.17
37	2	8	Clinton Opute	Nigeria	2:13.83
38	1	3	Ahmed Theibich	Bahrain	2:18.46
39	1	2	Siraj Ai Sharif	Libya	2:21.88
–	2	1	Gerald Hernández	Nicaragua	Did not start
	3	8	Yeziel Morales	Puerto Rico
	5	2	Chad le Clos	South Africa

Swim-off

The swim-off were started on 13 February at 11:11.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Petar Mitsin	Bulgaria	1:56.91	Q
2	4	Nao Horomura	Japan	1:57.46

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 13 February at 20:33.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:55.09	Q
2	2	2	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:55.20	Q
3	1	2	Michał Chmielewski	Poland	1:55.38	Q
4	1	5	Martin Espernberger	Austria	1:55.40	Q
5	2	4	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:55.64	Q
6	1	4	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:55.82	Q
7	1	3	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:55.88	Q
8	1	6	Richárd Márton	Hungary	1:56.04	Q
9	2	8	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:56.68
10	2	7	Arbidel González	Spain	1:56.77
11	2	5	Zach Harting	United States	1:56.81
12	1	1	Max Litchfield	Great Britain	1:56.93
13	1	7	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	1:57.67
14	1	8	Petar Mitsin	Bulgaria	1:57.77
15	2	1	Ondřej Gemov	Czech Republic	1:58.34
–	2	3	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	Disqualified

Final

The final was started on 14 February at 19:53.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:53.88
	4	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:54.65
	6	Martin Espernberger	Austria	1:55.16
4	3	Michał Chmielewski	Poland	1:55.36
5	2	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:55.48	NR
6	8	Richárd Márton	Hungary	1:55.76
7	7	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:55.86
8	1	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:57.23