The men's 200 metre butterfly at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 19 to 20 July 2025. Jack Dahlgren from the United States won the gold medal, Wang Kuan-hung from Chinese Taipei took the silver medal and Mason Laur from the United States earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round19 July 09:00 Heats 19:24 Semifinals 20 July 20:24 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Kristóf Milák 1:50.34 21 June 2022 Budapest, Hungary 2022 World Championships Universiade record Nao Horomura 1:53.90 23 August 2017 Taipei, Chinese Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 16 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 3 4 1:56.82 2 5 4 1:57.47 3 5 3 1:57.70 4 5 1 1:58.00 5 3 5 1:58.27 6 3 3 1:58.36 7 4 4 Wang Kuan-hung 1:58.39 8 4 5 1:58.49 9 4 2 1:58.62 10 5 2 1:58.63 11 3 6 1:58.65 12 4 3 1:58.69 13 5 5 1:59.23 14 4 7 1:59.46 15 3 1 1:59.49 16 3 2 1:59.62 17 5 6 1:59.70 18 5 7 1:59.77 19 4 6 2:00.34 20 3 7 2:00.62 21 4 1 2:01.15 22 1 8 2:01.21 23 2 3 2:02.36 24 3 8 2:02.44 25 4 8 2:03.31 26 2 8 2:03.83 27 2 2 2:04.18 28 2 5 2:04.55 29 5 8 2:04.57 30 2 6 2:04.85 31 2 4 2:05.19 32 2 1 2:05.88 33 2 7 2:07.59 34 1 4 2:11.45 35 1 5 2:14.73 36 1 7 2:17.74 37 1 1 2:18.31 38 1 3 2:19.50 39 1 6 2:23.29
Semifinals The 16 advancing swimmers were split into two semifinal heats of 8 during the evening session. The swimmers recording the top 8 fastest times advanced to the final round.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 6 Wang Kuan-hung 1:55.65 2 1 4 1:55.77 3 1 7 1:56.33 4 2 5 1:56.71 5 2 1 1:56.97 6 2 3 1:57.43 7 1 5 1:57.54 7 2 4 1:57.54 9 1 3 1:57.89 10 1 6 1:57.91 10 2 7 1:57.91 12 1 1 1:58.29 13 1 2 1:58.60 14 1 8 1:58.71 15 2 2 1:59.09 16 2 8 1:59.59
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 1:55.59 4 Wang Kuan-hung 1:55.85 5 1:56.50 4 6 1:56.76 5 2 1:56.91 6 3 1:57.05 7 8 1:57.19 8 7 1:57.83
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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