Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m butterfly (men)

sport	swim
discipline	200 meter butterfly
gender	Men
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	37 athletes from 28 countries
Competition phase	30./31. July 2012

The competition over 200m butterfly men at the 2012 Olympics in London was on 30 and 31 July 2012 at the London Aquatics Center held. 37 athletes took part.

There were five preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals that were held on the same day. Here too, the finalists qualified by setting the eight fastest times in both semi-finals.

Abbreviations: WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record

Existing records

World record	Michael Phelps ( United States )	1: 51.51 min	Rome , Italy	July 29, 2009
Olympic record		1: 52.03 min	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 13, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Michael Phelps ( United States )	1: 52.03 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Michael Phelps ( United States )	1: 53.34 min	Shanghai 2011
European champion	László Cseh ( Hungary )	1: 54.95 min	Debrecen 2012
German champions	Toni Embacher	1: 58.53 min	Berlin 2012

leader

Forward 1

July 30, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Gal Nevo	Israel	1: 59.98 min
2	Omar Pinzón	Colombia	2: 02.32 min
3	Diego Castillo	Panama	2: 04.72 min
4th	Yousef Al-Askari	Kuwait	2: 05.41 min
5	Hocine Haciane	Andorra	2: 06.37 min

Forward 2

July 30, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pedro Oliveira	Portugal	1: 58.45 min
2	Mauricio Fiol	Peru	1: 59.02 min	NO
3	Marcos Lavado	Venezuela	1: 59.31 min
4th	Ilya Chuev	Ukraine	1: 59.65 min
5	Alexandru Coci	Romania	1: 59.67 min
6th	Hsu Chi-chieh	Chinese Taipei	1: 59.81 min
7th	David Sharpe	Canada	1: 59.87 min
8th	Alexandre Liess	Switzerland	2:00, 13 min

Forward 3

July 30, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1: 54.99 min	NO
2	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1: 55.23 min
3	Chen Yin	People's Republic of China	1: 55.60 min
4th	Kazuya Kaneda	Japan	1: 55.70 min
5	Wu Peng	People's Republic of China	1: 55.88 min
6th	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1: 56.97 min
6th	Joseph Roebuck	United Kingdom	1: 56.99 min
8th	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1: 58.99 min

Forward 4

July 30, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1: 55.81 min
2	László Cseh	Hungary	1: 55.86 min
3	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1: 56.51 min
4th	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	1: 56.76 min
5	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1: 56.99 min
6th	Marcin Cieślak	Poland	1: 57.07 min
7th	Leonardo de Deus	Brazil	1: 58.03 min
8th	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	1: 58.79 min

Forward 5

July 30, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1: 54.79 min
2	Tyler Clary	United States	1: 54.96 min
3	Michael Phelps	United States	1: 55.53 min
4th	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1: 56.09 min
5	Nick D'Arcy	Australia	1: 56.25 min
6th	Chris Wright	Australia	1: 56.69 min
7th	Roberto Pavoni	United Kingdom	1: 57.55 min
8th	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	1: 59.18 min

Semifinals

Run 1

July 30, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1: 54.25 min
2	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1: 54.34 min	NO
3	Chen Yin	People's Republic of China	1: 54.43 min
4th	Tyler Clary	United States	1: 54.93 min
5	Wu Peng	People's Republic of China	1: 55.65 min
6th	Nick D'Arcy	Australia	1: 56.07 min
6th	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	1: 58.05 min
8th	Chris Wright	Australia	1: 58.56

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Run 2

July 30, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Phelps	United States	1: 54.53 min
2	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1: 54.95 min
3	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1: 55.04 min
4th	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1: 55.13 min
5	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1: 55.36 min
6th	Kazuya Kaneda	Japan	1: 55.56 min
7th	László Cseh	Hungary	1: 55.88 min
8th	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	1: 56.53 min

final

July 31, 2012, 7:49 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1: 52.96 min	NO
2	Michael Phelps	United States	1: 53.01 min
3	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	1: 53.21 min
4th	Dinko Jukić	Austria	1: 54.35 min	NO
4th	Tyler Clary	United States	1: 55.06 min
6th	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1: 55.07 min
7th	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1: 55.08 min
8th	Chen Yin	People's Republic of China	1: 55.18 min

With his victory, le Clos is the first South African medalist and Olympic champion in this discipline. Le Clos improved the South African record twice in this competition.
Michael Phelps missed his first Olympic triple by 5/100 seconds. However, he made up for that four days later over 200 meters butterfly.
With this medal, his 18th overall, Phelps drew level with the Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina in the number of medals won.

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m butterfly in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )