Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly
Rank Heat+Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes
1 H8 L4 Michael Phelps United States 1:55.70 q
2 H8 L5 Takashi Yamamoto Japan 1:56.95 q
3 H7 L4 Tom Malchow United States 1:57.25 q
4 H9 L2 Ioannis Drymonakos Greece 1:57.83 q
5 H7 L5 Peng Wu China 1:57.96 q
6 H8 L7 Paweł Korzeniowski Poland 1:58.06 q
7 H8 L3 Justin Norris Australia 1:58.09 q
7 H9 L3 Anatoli Poliakov Russia 1:58.09 q
9 H9 L3 Steve Parry Great Britain 1:58.11 q
10 H7 L3 Ioan Gherghel Romania 1:58.24 q
11 H7 L2 Travis Nederpelt Australia 1:58.25 q
12 H8 L2 Serhiy Advena Ukraine 1:58.62 q
13 H4 L6 Helge Meeuw Germany 1:58.64 q
14 H7 L1 Kaio Almeida Brazil 1:58.83 q
15 H9 L5 Denys Sylantyev Ukraine 1:58.86 q
16 H8 L8 Nikolai Skvortsov Russia 1:59.00 q
17 H9 L7 Kyu Chul Han South Korea 1:59.57
18 H9 L1 Pedro Monteiro Brazil 1:59.75
19 H8 L6 Kentaro Usuda Japan 1:59.83
20 H6 L1 Andrew Livingston Puerto Rico 1:59.89
Results -- Preliminaries
The Men's 200 Butterfly event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam 22 - 23 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were on July 22, with the preliminaries during the morning session and the semifinals during the evening session. The Final swam during the evening session on July 23. At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: