2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200m Butterfly2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates	16 December 2012 (heats and final)
Winning time	1:51.01
Medalists
Kazuya Kaneda   Japan   László Cseh   Hungary   Nikolay Skvortsov   Russia

2012 FINA Short Course Worlds Istanbul, TUR
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
100 m	men	women
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

Main article: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)

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	Date
World record	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	1:49.11	Stockholm	10 November 2009
Championship record	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	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	Japan	1:51.01	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Nikolay Skvortsov (RUS)	1:52.64	Q
2	4	4	Kazuya Kaneda (JPN)	1:53.14	Q
3	3	4	László Cseh (HUN)	1:53.26	Q
4	4	6	Grant Irvine (AUS)	1:53.74	Q
5	5	2	Michal Poprawa (POL)	1:53.80	Q
6	3	5	Yuki Kobori (JPN)	1:53.85	Q
7	4	7	Robert Bollier (USA)	1:53.87	Q
8	5	6	Joeri Verlinden (NED)	1:53.91	Q
9	3	6	Robert Žbogar (SLO)	1:54.11
10	3	2	Gal Nevo (ISR)	1:54.16
11	5	7	Zackariah Chetrat (CAN)	1:54.28
12	1	8	Wu Peng (CHN)	1:54.29
13	4	1	Mark Dylla (USA)	1:54.40
14	1	2	Chen Yin (CHN)	1:54.49
15	3	3	Mauricio Fiol (PER)	1:55.02
16	4	5	Velimir Stjepanović (SRB)	1:55.41
17	4	2	Evgeny Koptelov (RUS)	1:55.63
18	5	1	Roberto Pavoni (GBR)	1:55.67
19	4	0	Andreas Vazaios (GRE)	1:55.77
20	5	3	Bence Biczó (HUN)	1:56.28
21	3	7	Hsu Chi-Chieh (TPE)	1:56.64
22	2	6	Michael Meyer (RSA)	1:56.68
23	2	4	Coleman Allen (CAN)	1:57.45
24	3	0	Matthew Johnson (GBR)	1:57.48
25	4	8	Jakub Maly (AUT)	1:57.91
26	5	8	Chang Gyu-Cheol (KOR)	1:58.51
27	2	5	Emmanuel Crescimbeni (PER)	1:59.34
28	3	8	Joseph Schooling (SIN)	1:59.44	NR
29	4	9	Ng Kai Wee Rainer (SIN)	1:59.78
30	3	1	Alexandre Liess (SUI)	2:00.34
31	2	7	Marko Blaževski (MKD)	2:01.96
32	2	8	Teimuraz Kobakhidze (GEO)	2:02.27
33	2	1	Ayman Klzie (SYR)	2:02.41
34	5	9	Pavel Naroskin (EST)	2:02.62
35	2	2	Carlos Orihuela (PAR)	2:04.26
36	2	0	Joaquin Sepulveda (CHI)	2:04.39
37	2	9	Nuno Rola (ANG)	2:08.43
38	1	4	Paul Elaisa (FIJ)	2:15.03
39	1	7	Lao Kuan Fong (MAC)	2:15.23
40	1	5	Sio Ka Kun (MAC)	2:19.39
41	1	3	Khalid Baba (BHR)	2:20.01
42	1	6	Franc Aleksi (ALB)	2:20.31
	4	3	Victor Bromer (DEN)	DSQ
	1	1	Marcos Lavado (VEN)	DNS
	2	3	Nurettin Yildir Erhan (TUR)	DNS
	3	9	Pedro Pinotes (ANG)	DNS
	5	0	Taki M'Rabet (TUN)	DNS
	5	5	Chad le Clos (RSA)	DNS

Final

The final was held at 20:23.

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