Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly
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The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships took place between 26 July – 27 July. The heats and semifinals were held on 26 July. The final was held on 27 July.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Name Nationality Time Location Date
World record 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...

 
  United States
United States
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1:53.93 Barcelona
Barcelona
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22 July 2003
Championship record 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...

 
  United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 
1:53.93 Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 
22 July 2003


No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Pawel Korzeniowski
Pawel Korzeniowski
Paweł Korzeniowski is a Polish swimmer, who won the 200 m butterfly at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal...

 
1:55.02
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...

 
1:55.62
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:...

 
1:56.50
4 Davis Tarwater  1:56.74
5 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....

 
1:57.04
5 Ryuichi Shibata  1:57.04
7 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...

 
1:57.67
8 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...

1:57.71
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