The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordKaio de Almeida 1:49.11 Stockholm 10 November 2009 Championship record Moss Burmester 1:51.05 Manchester 13 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nation Time Record 16 December Final Kazuya Kaneda 1:51.01 CR

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Time Notes 1 5 4 1:52.64 Q 2 4 4 1:53.14 Q 3 3 4 1:53.26 Q 4 4 6 1:53.74 Q 5 5 2 1:53.80 Q 6 3 5 1:53.85 Q 7 4 7 1:53.87 Q 8 5 6 1:53.91 Q 9 3 6 1:54.11 10 3 2 1:54.16 11 5 7 1:54.28 12 1 8 1:54.29 13 4 1 1:54.40 14 1 2 1:54.49 15 3 3 1:55.02 16 4 5 1:55.41 17 4 2 1:55.63 18 5 1 1:55.67 19 4 0 1:55.77 20 5 3 1:56.28 21 3 7 1:56.64 22 2 6 1:56.68 23 2 4 1:57.45 24 3 0 1:57.48 25 4 8 1:57.91 26 5 8 1:58.51 27 2 5 1:59.34 28 3 8 1:59.44 NR 29 4 9 1:59.78 30 3 1 2:00.34 31 2 7 2:01.96 32 2 8 2:02.27 33 2 1 2:02.41 34 5 9 2:02.62 35 2 2 2:04.26 36 2 0 2:04.39 37 2 9 2:08.43 38 1 4 2:15.03 39 1 7 2:15.23 40 1 5 2:19.39 41 1 3 2:20.01 42 1 6 2:20.31 4 3 1 1 2 3 3 9 5 0 5 5

Final

The final was held at 20:23.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Kazuya Kaneda 1:51.01 CR 3 László Cseh 1:51.66 4 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:52.33 4 7 Yuki Kobori 1:53.14 5 8 Joeri Verlinden 1:53.49 6 1 Robert Bollier 1:53.85 7 6 Grant Irvine 1:54.11 8 2 Michal Poprawa 1:54.20

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