2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Dates	7 December
Competitors	52 from 39 nations
Winning time	1:48.61
Medalists
Chad le Clos    South Africa   Daiya Seto    Japan   Paweł Korzeniowski    Poland

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 7 December.^[1]

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	Kazuya Kaneda	Japan	1:51.01	Istanbul	16 December 2012

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
7 December	Heats	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:50.82	CR
7 December	Final	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:48.61	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 10:26.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:50.82	Q, CR
2	6	5	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:51.24	Q
3	5	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:51.37	Q
4	5	3	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:51.81	Q
5	6	6	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:52.12	Q
6	4	4	Tom Shields	United States	1:52.64	Q
7	6	3	Aleksandr Kudashev	Russia	1:52.66	Q
8	4	5	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:52.67	Q
9	4	7	Sebastien Rousseau	South Africa	1:52.97
10	5	2	Lucas Salatta	Brazil	1:53.08
11	4	8	Louis Croenen	Belgium	1:53.13
12	4	6	Bence Biczó	Hungary	1:53.17
13	6	2	Tyler Clary	United States	1:53.39
14	4	2	Markus Gierke	Germany	1:53.72
15	5	6	Michał Poprawa	Poland	1:53.89
16	5	8	Diogo Carvalho	Portugal	1:54.43
17	6	0	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	1:54.45
18	5	7	David Verrasztó	Hungary	1:54.55
18	5	0	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	1:54.55
20	4	0	Andreas Vazaios	Greece	1:54.58
21	5	5	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	1:54.63
22	4	1	David Morgan	Australia	1:54.72
23	5	1	Alexander Kunert	Germany	1:54.92
24	6	7	Wang Pudong	China	1:54.99
25	3	3	Alexandru Coci	Romania	1:55.41
26	6	1	Matteo Pelizzari	Italy	1:55.97
27	5	9	Andrés Montoya	Colombia	1:56.12
28	4	9	Pavel Janeček	Czech Republic	1:56.27
29	6	9	Sindri Jakobsson	Norway	1:56.82
30	6	8	Gal Nevo	Israel	1:57.11
31	1	6	Guy Barnea	Israel	1:58.06
32	3	9	Gabriel Ogawa	Brazil	1:58.57
33	3	4	Xiao Lei	China	1:58.77
34	3	6	Teimuraz Kobakhidze	Georgia	1:59.46
35	3	5	Max Abreu	Paraguay	1:59.65
36	3	8	Jessie Lacuna	Philippines	1:59.89
37	2	0	Ngọc Huỳnh Nguyễn	Vietnam	2:00.46
38	3	7	Marko Blaževski	Macedonia	2:00.61
39	2	5	Ensar Hajder	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:01.42
40	3	2	Joaquin Sepulveda	Chile	2:02.10
41	3	0	Daniel Pálsson	Iceland	2:02.94
42	3	1	Jean Monteagudo	Peru	2:03.48
43	2	7	Aldo Castillo	Bolivia	2:05.47
44	2	2	Matthew Courtis	Barbados	2:05.91
45	2	6	Jeremy Lim	Philippines	2:06.87
46	2	4	Ali Ashkanani	Kuwait	2:08.23
47	2	1	Arian Oliaei	Iran	2:08.75
48	2	3	Said Saber	Morocco	2:08.79
49	2	8	Franci Aleksi	Albania	2:12.90
50	1	3	Miguel Mena	Nicaragua	2:17.81
51	1	5	Binald Mahmuti	Albania	2:18.41
52	2	9	Yacop Al-Khulaifi	Qatar	2:19.22
—	1	4	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda		DNS
—	4	3	Masato Sakai	Japan		DSQ

Final

The final was held at 18:28.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	3	Chad le Clos	South Africa	1:48.61	CR
02 !	4	Daiya Seto	Japan	1:48.92	AS
03 !	5	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	1:50.21
4	7	Tom Shields	United States	1:50.68
5	6	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	1:52.13
6	1	Aleksandr Kudashev	Russia	1:52.17
7	8	Nikolay Skvortsov	Russia	1:52.52
8	2	Grant Irvine	Australia	1:52.69

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