# Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The Men's 200 Butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Aquatics Championships was swum on 26 – 27 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada. The Preliminary and Semifinal heats were on 26 July; the final was held on 27 July.
As the Championships were swum in a long course pool, this race consisted of 4 lengths of the pool, butterfly.
At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championships records were:

## Results
### Final

| Place | Swimmer | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:55.02 |
| 2 | Takeshi Matsuda | Japan | 1:55.62 |
| 3 | Wu Peng | China | 1:56.50 |
| 4 | Davis Tarwater | USA | 1:56.74 |
| 5 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:57.04 |
| 5 | Ryuichi Shibata | Japan | 1:57.04 |
| 7 | Helge Meeuw | Germany | 1:57.67 |
| 8 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | 1:57.71 |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | S2 L5 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:56.11 | q |
| 2 | S2 L2 | Takeshi Matsuda | Japan | 1:56.14 | q |
| 3 | S2 L3 | WU Peng | China | 1:56.33 | q |
| 4 | S1 L3 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:56.88 | q |
| 5 | S1 L1 | Helge Meeuw | Germany | 1:57.07 | q |
| 6 | S1 L6 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | 1:57.09 | q |
| 7 | S1 L5 | Davis Tarwater | USA | 1:57.16 | q |
| 8 | S2 L4 | Ryuichi Shibata | Japan | 1:57.36 | q |
| 9 | S1 L4 | Travis Nederpelt | Australia | 1:57.46 | |
| 10 | S2 L1 | Sergii Advena | Ukraine | 1:57.91 | |
| 11 | S2 L8 | Ioan Gherghel | Romania | 1:57.97 | |
| 12 | S2 L7 | Denys Sylantyev | Ukraine | 1:58.20 | |
| 13 | S1 L2 | Moss Burmester | New Zealand | 1:58.24 | |
| 14 | S1 L8 | Kaio Almeida | Brazil | 1:58.36 | |
| 15 | S2 L6 | Anatoly Polyakov | Russia | 1:58.39 | |
| 16 | S1 L7 | Jeong Nam Yu | South Korea | 1:59.25 | |

### Preliminaries

| Rank | Heat+Lane | Swimmer | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | H6 L3 | Ryuichi Shibata | Japan | 1:56.60 | q |
| 2 | H5 L3 | Travis Nederpelt | Australia | 1:56.91 | q |
| 3 | H5 L4 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:56.93 | q |
| 4 | H6 L7 | Davis Tarwater | United States | 1:57.17 | q |
| 5 | H5 L5 | Peng Wu | China | 1:57.44 | q |
| 6 | H6 L4 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:57.47 | q |
| 7 | H5 L6 | Anatoly Polyakov | Russia | 1:57.57 | q |
| 8 | H6 L6 | Ioannis Drymonakos | Greece | 1:57.82 | q |
| 9 | H6 L5 | Takeshi Matsuda | Japan | 1:57.90 | q |
| 10 | H4 L6 | Moss Burmester | New Zealand | 1:58.30 | q |
| 11 | H6 L2 | Denys Sylantyev | Ukraine | 1:58.80 | q |
| 12 | H6 L1 | Yoo Jung-Nam | South Korea | 1:58.89 | q |
| 13 | H4 L2 | Sergii Advena | Ukraine | 1:58.93 | q |
| 14 | H4 L5 | Helge Meeuw | Germany | 1:58.95 | q |
| 15 | H4 L4 | Ioan Gherghel | Romania | 1:59.09 | q |
| 16 | H4 L7 | Kaio Almeida | Brazil | 1:59.20 | q |
| 17 | H5 L7 | Michael Raab | United States | 1:59.38 | |
| 18 | H5 L1 | Luís Monteiro | Portugal | 2:00.08 | |
| 19 | H5 L8 | Joao Araujo | Portugal | 2:00.17 | |
| 20 | H4 L1 | Erez Feren | Israel | 2:00.33 | |
| 21 | H5 L2 | Benjamin Starke | Germany | 2:00.40 | |
| 22 | H4 L3 | Andrew Richards | Australia | 2:00.52 | |
| 23 | H3 L5 | Nadav Kochavi | Israel | 2:01.44 | |
| 24 | H6 L8 | Yong Chung | South Korea | 2:01.73 | |
| 25 | H2 L7 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 2:01.88 | |
| 26 | H3 L1 | Pavel Suškov | Lithuania | 2:02.77 | |
| 27 | H3 L4 | Georgi Palazov | Bulgaria | 2:03.86 | |
| 28 | H3 L2 | Jiri Dub | Czech Republic | 2:04.27 | |
| 29 | H2 L4 | James Walsh | Philippines | 2:04.50 | |
| 30 | H2 L1 | Oleg Lyashko | Uzbekistan | 2:04.74 | |
| 31 | H3 L6 | Aghiles Slimani | Algeria | 2:05.08 | |
| 32 | H4 L8 | Hsu Chi-Chieh | Chinese Taipei | 2:05.30 | |
| 33 | H3 L8 | Julio Galofre | Colombia | 2:05.72 | |
| 34 | H3 L7 | Gary Tan | Singapore | 2:05.93 | |
| 35 | H2 L3 | Dominik Bartos | Czech Republic | 2:06.49 | |
| 36 | H2 L2 | Mansoor Al-Mansoor | Kuwait | 2:06.52 | |
| 37 | H1 L4 | M. Akbar Nasution | Indonesia | 2:07.05 | |
| 38 | H1 L5 | Sergey Pankov | Uzbekistan | 2:07.40 | |
| 39 | H2 L6 | Cheng Xun Ng | Singapore | 2:07.98 | |
| 40 | H2 L8 | Waleed Al-Qahtani | Kuwait | 2:09.55 | |
| 41 | H1 L6 | Wing Cheun Wong | Macau | 2:10.44 | |
| 42 | H2 L5 | Nguyen Thanh Hai | Vietnam | 2:10.57 | |
| 43 | H1 L3 | Scott Hensley | Virgin Islands | 2:15.70 | |
| - | H3 L3 | Ahmed Salah | Egypt | DNS | |