# 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 6 December 2016.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| | Name | Nation | Time | Location | Date |
| World record | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:48.56 | Singapore | 5 November 2013 |
| Championship record | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:48.61 | Doha | 7 December 2014 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 10:49.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 5 | Aleksandr Kharlanov | Russia | 1:51.03 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:51.23 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | 6 | Pace Clark | United States | 1:51.68 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | 5 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:51.87 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:52.44 | Q |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Leonardo de Deus | Brazil | 1:52.89 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Nao Horomura | Japan | 1:53.05 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 4 | Tom Shields | United States | 1:53.09 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Tamás Kenderesi | Hungary | 1:53.32 | |
| 10 | 6 | 7 | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 1:53.42 | |
| 11 | 4 | 5 | David Morgan | Australia | 1:53.54 | |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:53.67 | |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Giacomo Carini | Italy | 1:53.92 | |
| 14 | 5 | 2 | Jonathan Gómez | Colombia | 1:54.09 | NR |
| 15 | 4 | 6 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1:54.80 | NR |
| 16 | 6 | 6 | Louis Croenen | Belgium | 1:54.84 | |
| 17 | 5 | 0 | Marius Kusch | Germany | 1:55.24 | |
| 18 | 6 | 0 | Mackenzie Darragh | Canada | 1:55.45 | |
| 19 | 5 | 7 | Pavel Janeček | Czech Republic | 1:55.50 | |
| 20 | 4 | 7 | Tomáš Havránek | Czech Republic | 1:55.57 | |
| 21 | 5 | 1 | Joan Lluís Pons | Spain | 1:56.08 | |
| 22 | 6 | 1 | Jesper Björk | Sweden | 1:56.19 | |
| 23 | 6 | 8 | Miguel Nascimento | Portugal | 1:56.28 | |
| 24 | 5 | 8 | Yu Yingbiao | China | 1:56.68 | |
| 25 | 5 | 9 | Sajan Prakash | India | 1:56.73 | NR |
| 26 | 4 | 8 | Deividas Margevičius | Lithuania | 1:57.31 | |
| 27 | 3 | 3 | Chou Wei-Liang | Chinese Taipei | 1:57.53 | |
| 28 | 4 | 1 | Wu Yuhang | China | 1:57.68 | |
| 29 | 4 | 0 | Eben Vorster | South Africa | 1:58.62 | |
| 30 | 3 | 7 | Tsai Yi-Lin | Chinese Taipei | 1:59.28 | |
| 31 | 4 | 9 | Nicolaas Dekker | Canada | 1:59.67 | |
| 32 | 3 | 5 | Lazaro Vergara Martin | Cuba | 2:00.43 | NR |
| 33 | 2 | 1 | Said Saber | Morocco | 2:01.25 | |
| 34 | 3 | 8 | Akaki Vashakidze | Georgia | 2:01.72 | |
| 35 | 3 | 6 | Jean Pierre Monteagudo | Peru | 2:01.83 | |
| 36 | 6 | 9 | Navaphat Wongcharoen | Thailand | 2:01.87 | NR |
| 37 | 3 | 2 | Pedro Pinotes | Angola | 2:01.91 | NR |
| 38 | 3 | 0 | Bryan Alvarez | Costa Rica | 2:02.74 | NR |
| 39 | 2 | 7 | Russell Brown | Costa Rica | 2:04.68 | |
| 40 | 2 | 2 | Brandon Vives | Dominican Republic | 2:05.13 | |
| 41 | 3 | 9 | Joaquin Sepulveda Parra | Chile | 2:05.71 | |
| 42 | 2 | 3 | Amir Amrollahi Biuoki | Iran | 2:06.30 | NR |
| 43 | 2 | 4 | Dylan Koo | Singapore | 2:06.38 | |
| 44 | 1 | 4 | Jeremy Lim | Philippines | 2:06.83 | |
| 45 | 3 | 4 | Lâm Quang Nhật | Vietnam | 2:08.45 | |
| 46 | 2 | 5 | Nuno Rola | Angola | 2:09.64 | |
| 47 | 2 | 8 | Matt Savitz | Gibraltar | 2:09.65 | NR |
| 48 | 2 | 6 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 2:10.58 | |
| 49 | 1 | 5 | Carlos Vasquez | Honduras | 2:14.46 | |
| 50 | 1 | 3 | Abdulmajid Kadernani | Kenya | 2:19.17 | |
| | 3 | 1 | Ayman Kelzi | Syria | | DNS |

### Final

The final was held at 19:10.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:48.76 |
| | 8 | Tom Shields | United States | 1:49.50 |
| | 2 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:49.97 |
| 4 | 4 | Aleksandr Kharlanov | Russia | 1:51.41 |
| 5 | 7 | Leonardo de Deus | Brazil | 1:52.65 |
| 6 | 6 | Viktor Bromer | Denmark | 1:52.68 |
| 7 | 3 | Pace Clark | United States | 1:53.15 |
| 8 | 1 | Nao Horomura | Japan | 1:53.64 |