Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly
Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Victory Ceremony
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Venue | Olympic Aquatics Stadium | ||||||||||||
Dates | 8 August 2016 (heats & semifinals) 9 August 2016 (final) |
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Competitors | 29 from 21 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:53.36 | ||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics ![]() |
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List of swimmers | ||||
Freestyle | ||||
50 m | men | women | ||
100 m | men | women | ||
200 m | men | women | ||
400 m | men | women | ||
800 m | women | |||
1500 m | men | |||
Backstroke | ||||
100 m | men | women | ||
200 m | men | women | ||
Breaststroke | ||||
100 m | men | women | ||
200 m | men | women | ||
Butterfly | ||||
100 m | men | women | ||
200 m | men | women | ||
Individual medley | ||||
200 m | men | women | ||
400 m | men | women | ||
Freestyle relay | ||||
4×100 m | men | women | ||
4×200 m | men | women | ||
Medley relay | ||||
4×100 m | men | women | ||
Marathon | ||||
10 km | men | women |
The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place on 8–9 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.[1]
As the most decorated Olympian of all-time, Michael Phelps got the opportunity to avenge the distance butterfly title that he lost in London four years earlier, when South Africa's Chad le Clos beat him to the wall.[2] Moving to the front at the halfway turn, Phelps held off the Japanese challenger Masato Sakai by a 0.04-second margin to claim his twentieth Olympic gold medal and twenty-fifth overall in 1:53.36.[3][4][5] Coming from sixth at the 150-metre turn, Sakai made a late surge on the final length to nearly upset Phelps towards a close finish, but he ended up taking the silver in 1:53.40.[6] Meanwhile, Hungary's top seed and 2014 Youth Olympic champion Tamás Kenderesi powered home with a bronze in 1:53.62.[7][8]
Le Clos could not produce another striking effort to halt the most decorated Olympian from snatching the title, as he was shut out of the medals to fourth in 1:54.06.[9] Sakai's teammate Daiya Seto finished fifth in 1:54.82, with Denmark's Viktor Bromer following him to pick up the sixth spot in 1:55.64.[6] Hungarian swimmer, 2008 Olympic silver medalist, and reigning world champion László Cseh commanded a brief lead on the initial length, but faded shortly to seventh place in 1:56.24. Belgium's Louis Croenen rounded out the field with an eighth-place time in 1:57.04.[8]
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Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | ![]() |
1:51.51 | Rome, Italy | 29 July 2009 | [10][11] |
Olympic record | ![]() |
1:52.03 | Beijing, China | 13 August 2008 | [12] |
Results
Heats
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | László Cseh | ![]() |
1:55.18 | Q |
2 | 6 | Daiya Seto | ![]() |
1:55.28 | Q |
3 | 3 | Masato Sakai | ![]() |
1:55.32 | Q |
4 | 1 | Louis Croenen | ![]() |
1:56.03 | Q |
5 | 5 | Grant Irvine | ![]() |
1:56.07 | |
6 | 2 | Quah Zheng Wen | ![]() |
1:56.11 | |
7 | 7 | Kaio de Almeida | ![]() |
1:57.45 | |
8 | 8 | Li Zhuhao | ![]() |
1:57.62 |
Semifinal 2
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 4 | Tamás Kenderesi | ![]() |
1:53.96 | Q |
2 | 3 | Michael Phelps | ![]() |
1:54.12 | Q |
3 | 5 | Chad le Clos | ![]() |
1:55.19 | Q |
4 | 6 | Viktor Bromer | ![]() |
1:55.59 | Q |
5 | 7 | Evgeny Koptelov | ![]() |
1:56.46 | |
6 | 1 | Simon Sjödin | ![]() |
1:56.71 | |
7 | 2 | Leonardo de Deus | ![]() |
1:56.77 | |
8 | 8 | Jonathan Gómez | ![]() |
1:57.47 |
Final
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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5 | Michael Phelps | ![]() |
1:53.36 | |
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7 | Masato Sakai | ![]() |
1:53.40 | |
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4 | Tamás Kenderesi | ![]() |
1:53.62 | |
4 | 6 | Chad le Clos | ![]() |
1:54.06 | |
5 | 2 | Daiya Seto | ![]() |
1:54.82 | |
6 | 1 | Viktor Bromer | ![]() |
1:55.64 | |
7 | 3 | László Cseh | ![]() |
1:56.24 | |
8 | 8 | Louis Croenen | ![]() |
1:57.04 |
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