# Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Melvin Stewart (USA) | 1:55.69 | Perth, Australia | 12 January 1991 |
| Olympic record | Michael Gross (FRG) | 1:56.94 | Seoul, South Korea | 24 September 1988 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
| 30 July | Final A | Melvin Stewart | United States | 1:56.26 | OR |

## Results
### Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Melvin Stewart | United States | 1:56.99 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 1 | Danyon Loader | New Zealand | 1:58.15 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 5 | Franck Esposito | France | 1:58.75 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | 4 | Martin Roberts | Australia | 1:58.91 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Denis Pankratov | Unified Team | 1:59.00 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 1 | Rafał Szukała | Poland | 1:59.51 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | 2 | Robert Pinter | Romania | 1:59.59 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Keiichi Kawanaka | Japan | 1:59.96 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 8 | Martin Herrmann | Germany | 2:00.47 | q |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Chris-Carol Bremer | Germany | 2:00.49 | q |
| 11 | 7 | 5 | Can Ergenekan | Turkey | 2:00.82 | q, NR |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | David Wharton | United States | 2:00.84 | q |
| 13 | 6 | 7 | Simon McKillop-Davies | Australia | 2:00.92 | q |
| 14 | 5 | 7 | Marco Braida | Italy | 2:01.18 | q |
| 15 | 2 | 5 | Eduardo Piccinini | Brazil | 2:01.20 | q, NR |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | Tom Ponting | Canada | 2:01.20 | q |
| 17 | 5 | 3 | Tomohiro Miyoshi | Japan | 2:01.27 | |
| 18 | 7 | 6 | Konrad Gałka | Poland | 2:01.33 | |
| 19 | 4 | 2 | Matjaž Kozelj | Slovenia | 2:01.39 | NR |
| 19 | 7 | 7 | André Teixeira | Brazil | 2:01.39 | |
| 21 | 4 | 4 | José Luis Ballester | Spain | 2:01.41 | |
| 22 | 4 | 5 | Simon Wainwright | Great Britain | 2:01.53 | |
| 23 | 6 | 5 | Uğur Taner | Turkey | 2:01.61 | |
| 24 | 5 | 8 | Jorge Pérez | Spain | 2:01.63 | |
| 25 | 6 | 1 | Christophe Bordeau | France | 2:01.99 | |
| 26 | 7 | 8 | Edward Parenti | Canada | 2:02.00 | |
| 27 | 4 | 3 | Guy Callaghan | New Zealand | 2:02.12 | |
| 28 | 3 | 6 | Craig Jackson | South Africa | 2:02.17 | |
| 29 | 3 | 4 | Diogo Madeira | Portugal | 2:02.22 | |
| 30 | 4 | 7 | David Monasterio | Puerto Rico | 2:02.32 | |
| 31 | 3 | 2 | Vesa Hanski | Finland | 2:02.75 | |
| 32 | 3 | 5 | Alexander Brandl | Austria | 2:02.88 | |
| 33 | 3 | 7 | Denislav Kalchev | Bulgaria | 2:03.73 | |
| 34 | 4 | 1 | Miguel Cabrita | Portugal | 2:04.28 | |
| 35 | 3 | 1 | Khristian Minkovski | Bulgaria | 2:05.18 | |
| 36 | 3 | 3 | Kai Johansson | Finland | 2:05.71 | |
| 37 | 2 | 4 | Gary Tan | Singapore | 2:06.41 | |
| 38 | 2 | 2 | Duncan Todd | Hong Kong | 2:08.20 | |
| 39 | 1 | 3 | Kristan Singleton | Virgin Islands | 2:08.71 | NR |
| 39 | 4 | 6 | Kire Filipovski | Independent Olympic Participants | 2:08.71 | |
| 41 | 1 | 7 | Janko Gojković | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2:09.08 | NR |
| 42 | 1 | 5 | Alan Espínola | Paraguay | 2:11.88 | |
| 43 | 2 | 3 | Benoît Fleurot | Mauritius | 2:13.09 | |
| 44 | 2 | 7 | Julian Bolling | Sri Lanka | 2:17.47 | |
| 45 | 1 | 6 | Ziyad Kashmiri | Saudi Arabia | 2:21.59 | |
| 46 | 1 | 2 | Mohamed Khamis | United Arab Emirates | 2:29.73 | |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 9 | 5 | Chris-Carol Bremer | Germany | 1:59.93 |
| 10 | 6 | David Wharton | United States | 2:01.08 |
| 11 | 4 | Martin Herrmann | Germany | 2:01.14 |
| 12 | 3 | Can Ergenekan | Turkey | 2:01.21 |
| 13 | 1 | Tom Ponting | Canada | 2:01.60 |
| 14 | 2 | Simon McKillop-Davies | Australia | 2:01.86 |
| 15 | 8 | Eduardo Piccinini | Brazil | 2:01.87 |
| 16 | 7 | Marco Braida | Italy | 2:02.24 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Melvin Stewart | United States | 1:56.26 | OR |
| | 5 | Danyon Loader | New Zealand | 1:57.93 | |
| | 3 | Franck Esposito | France | 1:58.51 | |
| 4 | 7 | Rafał Szukała | Poland | 1:58.89 | |
| 5 | 8 | Keiichi Kawanaka | Japan | 1:58.97 | NR |
| 6 | 2 | Denis Pankratov | Unified Team | 1:58.98 | |
| 7 | 1 | Robert Pinter | Romania | 1:59.34 | NR |
| 8 | 6 | Martin Roberts | Australia | 1:59.64 | |