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

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

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record			1:48.56		5 November 2013
Championship record			1:48.61		7 December 2014

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4			1:49.88	Q
2	4	5			1:51.28	Q
3	2	5			1:51.31	Q
4	2	4			1:51.58	Q
5	4	1			1:51.66	Q
6	4	0			1:51.81	Q
7	3	4			1:51.90	Q
8	2	3			1:52.15	Q
9	3	5			1:52.62
10	4	9			1:53.19
11	2	2			1:53.20
12	3	3			1:53.59
13	3	1			1:53.83
14	2	6			1:53.99
15	4	2			1:54.02
16	3	7			1:54.10
17	4	8			1:54.21
18	4	3			1:54.22
19	2	8			1:54.71
20	4	6			1:55.16
21	3	2			1:55.42
22	2	7			1:55.64
23	3	6			1:55.69
24	3	8			1:55.84
25	2	1			1:56.04
26	3	0			1:56.51
27	1	4			1:57.45
28	2	9			1:57.96
29	2	0			1:58.16
30	1	5			1:58.22
31	1	3			1:59.53
32	3	9			2:00.58
33	1	8			2:01.30
34	1	6			2:01.57
35	1	7			2:04.91
36	1	1			2:05.29
37	1	2			2:05.54
38	1	0			2:10.03
	4	7			DSQ

Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			1:48.24	WR
	1			1:48.32	AF
	5			1:50.39	NR
4	6			1:50.67
5	2			1:51.57
6	3			1:51.99
7	8			1:52.10
8	7			1:52.40

Notes and References

1. Web site: Competition Schedule. Omega Timing. 9 December 2018. 9 December 2018.
2. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0104EE01FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Heats results
3. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000112010C0104EE04FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Final results