Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Na dem hold de men's 200 metre butterfly event for de 2024 Summer Olympics from 30 to 31 July 2024 for de Paris Aquatics Centre.

swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre butterfly

Olympic sporting event

Part of	swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Competition class	men's 200 metre butterfly
Sport	swimming
Country	France
Ein location	Paris La Défense Arena
Dey follow	swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's 200 metre butterfly
Point for tym insyd	July 2024
Tym dem start	30 July 2024
End tym	31 July 2024
Participant	Léon Marchand, Kristóf Milák, Ilya Kharun
Winner	Léon Marchand, Kristóf Milák, Ilya Kharun

Records

Prior to dis competition, na de existing world den Olympic records be as follows:

World record	Kristóf Milák (HUN)	1:50.34	Budapest, Hungary	21 June 2022
Olympic record	Kristóf Milák (HUN)	1:51.25	Tokyo, Japan	28 July 2021

Na dem establish de record wey dey follow during de competition:

Date	Event	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Record
31 July	Final	Léon Marchand	France	1:51.21	OR

Qualification

National Olympic Committee (NOC) fi enter maximum of two qualified athletes insyd each individual event, buh only if both of dem attain de Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). One athlete per event fi potentially enter if dem meet de Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), anaa if de total quota of 852 athletes no be targeted. NOCs sanso fi permit swimmers regardless of time (one per gender) under Universality place since dem get no swimmers wey dey attain either of de standard entry times (OQT/OCT).

Dey follow de end of de qualification window, World Aquatics go assess de number of swimmers wey achieve de OQT, de number of relay-only swimmers, den de number of Universality places, before dem invite those plus OCT make dem fulfill de total quota of 852. Additionally, dem go distribute OCT places by event according to de position of de World Aquatics Rankings during de qualifying deadline.

Time standards

Dem for obtain de qualifying time standards for de 2023 den 2024 World Championships, continental championships, continental swimming meets, national championships den selection trials, den various international meets dem approve by World Aquatics insyd de period between 1 March 2023 den 23 June 2024.

De table wey dey follow dey outline de qualifying time standards for Paris 2024 for dis event:

Men's events
Event	OQT*	OCT^
200 m butterfly	1:55.78	1:56.36

* OQTs dey correspond to de time dem achieve by fourteenth-place swimmer for ein respective preliminary heat of each event for de previous Games.

ª Secof de fourteenth-place swimmer achieve standard slower dan de OQT insyd Tokyo 2020, de OQT dem use for de previous Games go remain constant.

^ Dem dey derive OCTs by adding 0.5% of de OQT standard.

Competition format

De competition dey consist of three rounds: heats, semifinals, den final. De swimmers plus de best 16 times insyd de heats advance go de semifinals. De swimmers plus de best 8 times insyd de semifinals advance go de final. Dem dey use swim-offs as necessary make dem break ties for advancement to de next round.

Schedule

All times be Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
30 July 2024	11:00	Heats
	20:30	Semifinals
31 July 2024	20:30	Final

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Kristof Milak	Hungary	1:53.92	Q
2	2	5	Ilya Kharun	Canada	1:54.06	Q
3	3	6	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:54.77	Q
4	4	2	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:54.78	Q
5	3	2	Martin Espernberger	Austria	1:55.19	Q
6	4	4	Léon Marchand	France	1:55.26	Q
7	2	2	Michal Chmielewski	Poland	1:55.28	Q
8	2	3	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:55.32	Q
9	4	5	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:55.42	Q
10	2	1	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:55.52	Q
11	3	5	Thomas Heilman	United States	1:55.74	Q
12	3	3	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:55.81	Q
13	4	3	Genki Terakado	Japan	1:55.82	Q
14	3	7	Arbidel González	Spain	1:55.86	Q
15	4	7	Kim Min-seop	South Korea	1:56.02	Q
16	4	6	Richárd Márton	Hungary	1:56.03	Q
17	2	6	Luca Urlando	United States	1:56.18
18	4	8	Nicolas Albiero	Brazil	1:56.49
19	1	4	Petar Petrov Mitsin	Bulgaria	1:57.03
20	2	7	Matthew Sates	South Africa	1:57.04
21	2	8	Lewis Clareburt	New Zealand	1:57.12
22	2	4	Tomoru Honda	Japan	1:57.30
23	3	1	Matthew Temple	Australia	1:57.39
24	3	8	Denys Kesil	Ukraine	1:57.72
25	1	5	Ramil Valizada	Azerbaijan	1:59.77
26	1	3	Matin Balsini	Refugee Olympic Team	2:00.77
27	1	6	Gerald Hernández	Nicaragua	2:06.80
	4	1	Niu Guangsheng	China	DNS

Semifinals

De swimmers plus de best 8 times, regardless of heat, advance to de final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Kristof Milak	Hungary	1:52.72	Q
2	1	3	Léon Marchand	France	1:53.50	Q
3	1	4	Ilya Kharun	Canada	1:54.01	Q
4	2	5	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:54.14	Q, NR
5	1	2	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:54.22	Q, NR
6	2	2	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:54.28	Q
7	1	5	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:54.51	Q
8	2	3	Martin Espernberger	Austria	1:54.62	Q
9	2	6	Michal Chmielewski	Poland	1:54.64
10	2	7	Thomas Heilman	United States	1:54.87
11	1	6	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei	1:55.07
12	1	7	Giacomo Carini	Italy	1:55.20
13	2	8	Kim Min-seop	South Korea	1:55.22
14	1	8	Richard Marton	Hungary	1:55.93
15	2	1	Genki Terakado	Japan	1:56.21
16	1	1	Arbidel González	Spain	1:56.26

Final

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Léon Marchand	France	1:51.21	OR, NR
2	4	Kristof Milak	Hungary	1:51.75
3	3	Ilya Kharun	Canada	1:52.80	NR
4	7	Krzysztof Chmielewski	Poland	1:53.90
5	6	Noè Ponti	Switzerland	1:54.14	=NR
6	8	Martin Espernberger	Austria	1:54.17	NR
7	2	Kregor Zirk	Estonia	1:54.55
8	1	Alberto Razzetti	Italy	1:54.85

References

Olympic champions insyd men's 200 m butterfly

1956:  William Yorzyk (USA) 1960:  Mike Troy (USA) 1964:  Kevin Berry (AUS) 1968:  Carl Robie (USA) 1972:  Mark Spitz (USA) 1976:  Mike Bruner (USA) 1980:  Sergey Fesenko Sr. (URS) 1984:  Jon Sieben (AUS) 1988:  Michael Gross (FRG) 1992:  Melvin Stewart (USA) 1996:  Denis Pankratov (RUS) 2000:  Tom Malchow (USA) 2004:  Michael Phelps (USA) 2008:  Michael Phelps (USA) 2012:  Chad le Clos (RSA) 2016:  Michael Phelps (USA) 2020:  Kristóf Milák (HUN) 2024:  Léon Marchand (FRA)