Swimming at the 2018 Mediterranean Games – Men's 200 metre butterfly explained

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The men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2018 Mediterranean Games was held on 25 June 2018 at the Campclar Aquatic Center.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Mediterranean Games records were as follows:

World record		1:51.51	Rome, Italy	29 July 2009
Mediterranean Games record		1:56.19	Mersin, Turkey	25 June 2013

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 09:41.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Filippo Berlincioni		1:58.75	Q
2	3	4	Velimir Stjepanović		1:59.43	Q
3	2	3	Francisco Chacón		1:59.48	Q
4	3	3	Christian Ferraro		1:59.88	Q
5	2	4	Stefanos Dimitriadis		2:00.02	Q
6	1	3	Andreas Vazaios		2:00.04	Q
7	1	4	Jordan Coelho		2:00.50	Q
8	1	5	Joan Lluís Pons		2:01.82	Q
9	3	5	Samet Alkan		2:02.34
10	2	7	Said Saber		2:04.44
11	2	2	Ahmed Hussein		2:05.37
12	3	2	Mohamed Masmoudi		2:05.78
13	2	6	Mohamed Abdelbaky		2:05.98
14	1	6	Aleksa Bobar		2:06.12
15	3	7	Ramzi Chouchar		2:07.97
16	1	2	Erge Can Gezmiş		2:11.48

Final

The final was held at 17:52.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Velimir Stjepanović		1:56.93
	4	Filippo Berlincioni		1:58.01
	2	Stefanos Dimitriadis		1:58.16
	7	Andreas Vazaios		1:58.16
5	6	Christian Ferraro		1:58.38
6	1	Jordan Coelho		1:58.82
7	3	Francisco Chacón		1:59.04
8	8	Joan Lluís Pons		2:02.02

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2018 Mediterranean Games – Swimming schedule. tarragona2018.cat. 23 June 2018.
2. https://tarragona2018-reports.s3.amazonaws.com/SWM/MED18_SWMM200MBF------------------------_C76_v1.pdf Final results