# Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade was held on 22 and 23 August 2017.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and Universiade records were as follows.
| World record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 1:51.51 | Rome, Italy | 29 July 2009 |
| Competition record | Paweł Korzeniowski (POL) | 1:54.30 | Belgrade, Serbia | 8 July 2009 |
The following new records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 23 August | Final | Nao Horomura | Japan | 1:53.90 | UR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 22 August at 09:00.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 5 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:57.53 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 6 | Aleksandr Kudashev | Russia | 1:57.91 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 3 | Zach Harting | United States | 1:57.92 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | Nao Horomura | Japan | 1:58.02 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:58.08 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Justin Wright | United States | 1:58.75 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Alexander Kunert | Germany | 1:58.91 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Leonardo de Deus | Brazil | 1:58.94 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 6 | Fynn Minuth | Germany | 1:59.25 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 8 | Lee Tae-gu | South Korea | 1:59.27 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | 7 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 1:59.37 | Q |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Michał Poprawa | Poland | 1:59.40 | Q, WD |
| 13 | 6 | 5 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 1:59.49 | Q |
| 14 | 5 | 7 | Vinicius Lanza | Brazil | 1:59.71 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | Aleksandr Pribytok | Russia | 2:00.16 | Q |
| 16 | 6 | 1 | Nicholas Brown | Australia | 2:00.39 | Q |
| 17 | 6 | 3 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 2:00.47 | Q |
| 18 | 4 | 8 | Ramiro Ramirez Juarez | Mexico | 2:00.56 | |
| 19 | 6 | 2 | Cameron Brodie | Great Britain | 2:00.71 | |
| 20 | 4 | 7 | Tomáš Havránek | Czech Republic | 2:00.74 | |
| 21 | 3 | 2 | Nicolás Deferrari | Argentina | 2:01.27 | |
| 22 | 5 | 1 | Jesper Björk | Sweden | 2:01.78 | |
| 23 | 3 | 3 | Tsai Yi-lin | Chinese Taipei | 2:03.07 | |
| 23 | 4 | 2 | Paul Lemaire | France | 2:03.07 | |
| 25 | 3 | 6 | Héctor Ruvalcaba | Mexico | 2:03.09 | |
| 26 | 4 | 1 | Michael Gunning | Jamaica | 2:03.43 | |
| 27 | 3 | 5 | Chou Wei-liang | Chinese Taipei | 2:03.49 | |
| 28 | 5 | 8 | David Arias | Colombia | 2:03.66 | |
| 29 | 2 | 3 | Joshua Gold | Estonia | 2:04.10 | |
| 30 | 3 | 7 | Alard Basson | South Africa | 2:04.75 | |
| 31 | 3 | 1 | Adityastha Rai Wratsangka | Indonesia | 2:05.06 | |
| 32 | 3 | 8 | Muhammad Hamgari | Indonesia | 2:07.79 | |
| 33 | 2 | 5 | Ho Tin Long | Hong Kong | 2:08.27 | |
| 34 | 2 | 6 | Eetu Piiroinen | Finland | 2:08.57 | |
| 35 | 2 | 2 | Mu Xingxu | China | 2:08.66 | |
| 36 | 2 | 4 | Ng Chun Nam Derick | Hong Kong | 2:10.54 | |
| 37 | 2 | 7 | Sherif Assi | Lebanon | 2:14.47 | |
| 38 | 1 | 4 | Sander Paavo | Estonia | 2:14.69 | |
| 39 | 1 | 5 | Lee Zheng Kai | Singapore | 2:19.45 | |
| | 1 | 3 | Conrado Sacco Llano | Paraguay | DNS | |
| | 3 | 4 | Myles Brown | South Africa | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 22 August at 20:02.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Nao Horomura | Japan | 1:56.61 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Aleksandr Pribytok | Russia | 1:56.73 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Leonardo de Deus | Brazil | 1:57.10 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Justin Wright | United States | 1:57.27 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Aleksandr Kudashev | Russia | 1:57.37 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 1:58.00 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | Stefanos Dimitriadis | Greece | 1:58.55 | |
| 8 | 2 | Lee Tae-gu | South Korea | 2:00.60 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:56.14 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:56.32 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Zach Harting | United States | 1:58.04 | |
| 4 | 6 | Alexander Kunert | Germany | 1:58.11 | |
| 5 | 2 | Fynn Minuth | Germany | 1:58.21 | |
| 6 | 7 | Brendan Hyland | Ireland | 1:59.26 | |
| 7 | 1 | Vinicius Lanza | Brazil | 2:00.08 | |
| 8 | 8 | Nicholas Brown | Australia | 2:01.19 | |

### Final

The final was held on 23 August at 20:13.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Nao Horomura | Japan | 1:53.90 | UR |
| | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:55.09 | |
| | 5 | Bence Biczó | Hungary | 1:56.16 | |
| 4 | 2 | Leonardo de Deus | Brazil | 1:56.29 | |
| 5 | 1 | Aleksandr Kudashev | Russia | 1:56.48 | |
| 6 | 7 | Justin Wright | United States | 1:57.06 | |
| 7 | 6 | Aleksandr Pribytok | Russia | 1:57.15 | |
| 8 | 8 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 1:58.32 | |