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

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

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates	11 December (heats and final)
Competitors	39 from 34 nations
Winning time	1:48.24 WR
Medalists
Daiya Seto   Japan   Chad le Clos   South Africa   Li Zhuhao   China

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:48.56	Singapore	5 November 2013
Championship record	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:48.61	Doha, Qatar	7 December 2014

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
11 December	Final	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:48.24	WR, CR

Results

Heats

The heats were started at 10:23.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:49.88	Q
2	4	5	Li Zhuhao	China	1:51.28	Q
3	2	5	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	1:51.31	Q
4	2	4	Aleksandr Kharlanov	Russia	1:51.58	Q
5	4	1	Zach Harting	United States	1:51.66	Q
6	4	0	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:51.81	Q
7	3	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:51.90	Q
8	2	3	Nic Brown	Australia	1:52.15	Q
9	3	5	Yuya Yajima	Japan	1:52.62
10	4	9	Brendan Hyland	Ireland	1:53.19
11	2	2	Sajan Prakash	India	1:53.20
12	3	3	Tamás Kenderesi	Hungary	1:53.59
13	3	1	Deividas Margevičius	Lithuania	1:53.83
14	2	6	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:53.99
15	4	2	Ramon Klenz	Germany	1:54.02
16	3	7	Federico Burdisso	Italy	1:54.10
17	4	8	Wilrich Coetzee	New Zealand	1:54.21
18	4	3	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1:54.22
19	2	8	Erge Can Gezmiş	Turkey	1:54.71
20	4	6	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:55.16
21	3	2	Roman Shevliakov	Russia	1:55.42
22	2	7	Nils Liess	Switzerland	1:55.64
23	3	6	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:55.69
24	3	8	Patrick Staber	Austria	1:55.84
25	2	1	Denys Kesyl	Ukraine	1:56.04
26	3	0	Joan Lluís Pons	Spain	1:56.51
27	1	4	Luis Vega Torres	Cuba	1:57.45
28	2	9	Richard Nagy	Slovakia	1:57.96
29	2	0	Nicholas Lim	Hong Kong	1:58.16
30	1	5	Jarod Arroyo	Puerto Rico	1:58.22
31	1	3	Gabriel Araya	Chile	1:59.53
32	3	9	Ayman Kelzi	Syria	2:00.58
33	1	8	Nichita Bortnicov	Moldova	2:01.30
34	1	6	Bryan Alvarez	Costa Rica	2:01.57
35	1	7	Fernando Ponce	Guatemala	2:04.91
36	1	1	Munzer Kabbara	Lebanon	2:05.29
37	1	2	Zeniel Guzmán	Dominican Republic	2:05.54
38	1	0	Yacob Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	2:10.03
	4	7	Justin Wright	United States	DSQ

Final

The final was held at 19:41.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:48.24	WR
	1	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:48.32	AF
	5	Li Zhuhao	China	1:50.39	NR
4	6	Aleksandr Kharlanov	Russia	1:50.67
5	2	Zach Harting	United States	1:51.57
6	3	Luiz Altamir Melo	Brazil	1:51.99
7	8	Nic Brown	Australia	1:52.10
8	7	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria	1:52.40