Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly
| Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | ||||||||||
 Victory Ceremony | ||||||||||
| Venue | Olympic Aquatics Stadium | |||||||||
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| Dates | 8 August 2016 (heats & semifinals) 9 August 2016 (final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 29 from 21 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 1:53.36 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics  | ||||
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| Qualification | ||||
| 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 and 2008 Olympic silver medalist 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]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record |  Michael Phelps (USA) | 1:51.51 | Rome, Italy | 29 July 2009 |
| Olympic record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 1:52.03 | Beijing, China | 13 August 2008 |
Results
Heats
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | László Cseh |  Hungary | 1:55.18 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Daiya Seto |  Japan | 1:55.28 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Masato Sakai | Japan | 1:55.32 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Louis Croenen | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium | 1:56.03 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | Grant Irvine |  Australia | 1:56.07 | |
| 6 | 2 | Quah Zheng Wen |  Singapore | 1:56.11 | |
| 7 | 7 | Kaio de Almeida |  Brazil | 1:57.45 | |
| 8 | 8 | Li Zhuhao |  China | 1:57.62 |
Semifinal 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:53.96 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:54.12 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Chad le Clos |  South Africa | 1:55.19 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Viktor Bromer |  Denmark | 1:55.59 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Evgeny Koptelov |  Russia | 1:56.46 | |
| 6 | 1 | Simon Sjödin |  Sweden | 1:56.71 | |
| 7 | 2 | Leonardo de Deus | Brazil | 1:56.77 | |
| 8 | 8 | Jonathan Gómez |  Colombia | 1:57.47 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 5 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:53.36 | |
 | 7 | Masato Sakai | Japan | 1:53.40 | |
 | 4 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:53.62 | |
| 4 | 6 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:54.06 | |
| 5 | 2 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:54.82 | |
| 6 | 1 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:55.64 | |
| 7 | 3 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:56.24 | |
| 8 | 8 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:57.04 |
References
- ↑ "Men's 200m Butterfly". Rio 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
- ↑ "Michael Phelps gets 20th gold medal of career at Rio Olympics". CBS News. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- ↑ Auerbach, Nicole (10 August 2016). "Michael Phelps wins gold in 200 fly, adds to record medal tally". USA Today. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- ↑ "Michael Phelps wins 200 butterfly, helps 4x200 free relay team to gold". ESPN. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- ↑ "Phelps avenges 2012 defeat in 200m butterfly". United States: Fox Sports. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- 1 2 McKirdy, Andrew (10 August 2016). "Sakai takes silver in 200 butterfly; Phelps claims 20th, 21st gold medals of career". The Japan Times. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ↑ "Message Sent: 21 and Counting for Michael Phelps". The New York Times. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- 1 2 "Michael Phelps Secures 20th Olympic Gold By Only .04 in 200 Butterfly". Swimming World Magazine. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ↑ "Chad le Clos finished with 200m fly?". News24. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
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