Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Victory Ceremony
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates	8–9 August 2016
Competitors	29 from 21 nations
Winning time	1:53.36
Medalists
Michael Phelps  United States Masato Sakai  Japan Tamás Kenderesi  Hungary

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 8–9 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

Records

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Olympic record	Michael Phelps (USA)	1:52.03	Beijing, China	13 August 2008

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	3	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:54.73	Q
2	4	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.14	Q
3	2	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.57	Q
4	3	2	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:55.64	Q
5	3	4	Michael Phelps	United States	1:55.73	Q
6	2	5	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.76	Q
7	4	3	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.77	Q
8	3	5	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:55.79	Q
9	4	6	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:55.98	Q
10	2	7	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	1:56.01	Q
11	2	3	Evgeny Koptelov	Russia	1:56.13	Q
12	4	7	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:56.45	Q
13	1	4	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	1:56.46	Q
14	3	6	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.48	Q
15	4	8	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia	1:56.65	Q
16	2	6	Li Zhuhao	China	1:56.72	Q
17	4	5	Jan Świtkowski	Poland	1:56.73
18	3	7	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1:56.76
19	4	2	David Morgan	Australia	1:56.81
20	1	2	Tom Shields	United States	1:56.93
21	3	1	Carlos Peralta	Spain	1:56.98
22	1	5	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1:57.05
23	4	1	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	1:57.33
24	2	8	Daniil Pakhomov	Russia	1:57.36
25	2	1	Jordan Coelho	France	1:58.62
26	1	6	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:58.64
27	3	8	Wu Yuhang	China	1:59.04
28	1	3	Sajan Prakash	India	1:59.37
29	1	2	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	2:01.22

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	László Cseh	Hungary	1:55.18	Q
2	6	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:55.28	Q
3	3	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:55.32	Q
4	1	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:56.03	Q
5	5	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:56.07
6	2	Quah Zheng Wen	Singapore	1:56.11
7	7	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:57.45
8	8	Li Zhuhao	China	1:57.62

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:53.96	Q
2	3	Michael Phelps	United States	1:54.12	Q
3	5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:55.19	Q
4	6	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.59	Q
5	7	Evgeny Koptelov	Russia	1:56.46
6	1	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	1:56.71
7	2	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:56.77
8	8	Jonathan Gómez	Colombia	1:57.47

Finals

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Michael Phelps	United States	1:53.36
	7	Masato Sakai	Japan	1:53.40
	4	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:53.62
4	6	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:54.06
5	2	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:54.82
6	1	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:55.64
7	3	László Cseh	Hungary	1:56.24
8	8	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:57.04