Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 200 metre butterfly

The Men's 200 metre butterfly event was one of sixteen events for male swimmers at the 2004 Olympics.

Records

World Record	Michael Phelps (USA)	Beijing, China	1:52.02	13 August 2008
Previous Olympic Record	Michael Phelps (USA)	Athens, Greece	1:54.04	17 August 2004
New Olympic Record (Final)	Michael Phelps (USA)	Beijing, China	1:52.02	13 August 2008

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Michael Phelps Michael Phelps Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions... , USA	Takashi Yamamoto, JPN	Stephen Parry Stephen Parry (swimmer) Stephen Benjamin Parry is a former British butterfly swimmer. He competed internationally in 100-metre and 200-metre butterfly distances.... , GBR

By winning a medal, Parry puts fellow Briton Melanie Marshall

Melanie Marshall

Melanie Marshall is a former British swimmer.Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, brought up in Wrangle and currently residing in Loughborough with her two dogs, Missy and Jetson, she is 1.7 m , 62 kg...

on the spot to fulfill her promise, made after Britain failed to win any swimming medals in Sydney, of shaving her head if the team won a single medal in Athens.

Heat 1

Gaston Rodriguez, , 2:04.01
Donny Utomo, , 2:05.71
Roy Barahona, , 2:05.99
Sergio Cabrera
Sergio Cabrera
Sergio Moises Cabrera Diaz is a male swimmer from Paraguay. He was the nation's only swimming competitor at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he ended up in 35th place in the men's 200 metres butterfly event....

, , 2:06.15
James Walsh
James Walsh (swimmer)
James Bernard "J.B" Walsh is an American-born college and international swimmer who represented the Philippines in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

, , 2:06.76
Bertrand Bristol, , 2:09.07
Sergey Pankov, , 2:13.06

Heat 2

Nathaniel O'Brien, , 2:00.12
Doo-Hee Jeong, , 2:00.96
Georgi Palazov, , 2:02.15
Zoran Lazarovski, , 2:02.26
Paulius Andrijauskas, , 2:04.64
Vladan Marković
Vladan Markovic
Vladan Marković is a Serbian swimmer also considered to be one of the country's all-time best. He is the current president of PK Zlatni Delfin, a swimming club from Belgrade and is a University of Belgrade alumni since 2001.Marković represented his country at three different Summer Olympics...

, , 2:04.77
Aghiles Slimani, , 2:04.93
Tzu-Cheng Yeh, , 2:06.41

Heat 3

Tom Malchow
Tom Malchow
Thomas James Malchow is a swimmer from the United States, who won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He broke Denis Pankratov's world record in the 200 m butterfly in 2000.Malchow was also a captain of the U.S. Men's Swimming Team at the 2004...

, United States
United States
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1:57.75 -Q
Wu Peng
Wu Peng
Wu Peng is a Chinese swimmer. His height is 1.80 m and he weights approximately 72 kg. His father died when he was only 16 years old. He has concentrated on the butterfly since the 10th National Games in 2005.-Early life and career:...

, China
People's Republic of China
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1:57.96 -Q
Nikolay Skvortsov
Nikolay Skvortsov (swimmer)
Nikolay Valeryevich Skvortsov is a butterfly swimmer from Russia, who won a silver and a bronze medal at the 2004 European Championships in Madrid, Spain. He swam for Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he finished in seventh place in the 200 fly....

, Russia
Russia
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1:58.18 -Q
Sergii Advena, Ukraine
Ukraine
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1:58.41 -Q
Denys Sylantyev
Denys Sylantyev
Denys Sylantyev is a Ukrainian swimmer, who won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the 200 m butterfly.He won the Mare Nostrum circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002.-References:*...

, Ukraine 1:58.44 -Q
United Kingdom Stephen Parry
Stephen Parry (swimmer)
Stephen Benjamin Parry is a former British butterfly swimmer. He competed internationally in 100-metre and 200-metre butterfly distances....

, Great Britain
United Kingdom
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1:58.88 -Q
Jeremy Knowles
Jeremy Knowles (swimmer)
Jeremy Daniel Knowles is a 3-time Olympic and Bahamian-Record-holding swimmer from The Bahamas.He was the Bahamas flag-bearer at the 2007 Pan American Games.-International tournaments:*1997 Short Course Worlds...

, Bahamas 1:59.32
Andrew Livingston
Andrew Livingston
Andrew Joseph Livingston is a butterfly stroke swimmer from the United States, who competed for Puerto Rico at the 2000 Summer Olympics and at the 2004 Summer Olympics....

, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
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1:59.42

Heat 4

Takashi Yamamoto, Japan
Japan
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1:57.36 -Q
Anatoly Polyakov
Anatoly Polyakov
Anatoly Sergeyevich Polyakov is a butterfly swimmer from Russia, who won a bronze in the men's 200 metres butterfly event at the 2004 European Championships in Madrid, Spain. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000.-References:* *...

, Russia 1:58.12 -Q
Franck Esposito
Franck Esposito
Franck Esposito is a former swimmer from France, who won the bronze medal in the 200 metres butterfly at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona...

, France
France
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1:58.12 -Q
Takeshi Matsuda
Takeshi Matsuda
is a Japanese Olympic and Asian and National Record holding swimmer. He swam for Japan at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the latter event, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200m long course butterfly in an Asian Record of 1:52.97; in doing so, he also set the Japanese Record in the event...

, Japan 1:58.23 -Q
Travis Nederpelt
Travis Nederpelt
Travis Nederpelt is a swimmer from Western Australia. A butterfly specialist, he represented his country in the 2004 Olympic Games at Athens and in 2008 at Beijing...

, Australia
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1:58.93
Ioannis Drymonakos
Ioannis Drymonakos
Ioannis Drymonakos is a Greek swimmer from Athens. He became the first ever Greek swimmer to hold a European swimming record by clocking a time of 1:54.16 seconds in 200 m butterfly event of the 2008 European Aquatics Championships final on 21 March 2008.He tested positive for banned drugs...

, Greece
Greece
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1:59.42
David Kolozar, Hungary
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2:01.89
Juan Pablo Valdivieso, Peru
Peru
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2:02.79

Heat 5

Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps
Michael Fred Phelps is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions...

, , 1:57.36 -Q
Paweł Korzeniowski, , 1:57.45 -Q
Justin Norris
Justin Norris
Justin Neville Norris is an Australian butterfly and individual medley swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Sydney Olympics....

, , 1:58.05 -Q
Ioan Gherghel
Ioan Gherghel
Ioan Gherghel is an Olympic butterfly swimmer from Romania. He swam for Romania at three consecutive Olympics: 2000, 2004 and 2008....

, , 1:58.12 -Q
Moss Burmester
Moss Burmester
Moss James Burmester is a New Zealand swimmer. His specialist event is the 200m butterfly in which he holds the Commonwealth record of 1:54.35 set at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

, , 1:58.13 -Q
Juan Veloz
Juan Veloz
Juan José Veloz Dávila is an Olympic and national record-holding swimmer for Mexico. He swam for his native country at the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympics.-Career:...

, , 1:58.32 -Q
Helge Meeuw
Helge Meeuw
Helge Meeuw is a German swimmer from Wiesbaden. At the 2008 German Swimming Championships in Berlin, he swam in 53.10 sec a new European record at 100 m backstroke...

, , 1:58.96
Kaio de Almeida
Kaio de Almeida
Kaio Márcio Ferreira Costa de Almeida is a Brazilian swimmer, who specializes in butterfly. He is also known as: Kaio Márcio, Kaio Márcio de Almeida, Kaio Almeida, or Kaio de Almeida....

, , 1:59.23