Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly Heats Heats

| Rank_ | Heat | Lane | Name_ | Nationality | Time_ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 4 | Michael Phelps | United States | 1:53.70 |
| 2 | 4 | 2 | László Cseh | Hungary | 1:54.48 |
| 3 | 6 | 3 | Kaio de Almeida | Brazil | 1:54.65 |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | Takeshi Matsuda | Japan | 1:55.06 |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 1:55.21 |
| 6 | 6 | 5 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:55.33 |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | Wu Peng | China | 1:55.39 |
| 8 | 5 | 4 | Gil Stovall | United States | 1:55.42 |
| 9 | 5 | 7 | Michael Rock | Great Britain | 1:55.55 |
| 10 | 4 | 5 | Moss Burmester | New Zealand | 1:55.80 |
| 11 | 5 | 3 | Ryuichi Shibata | Japan | 1:55.82 |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Dinko Jukić | Austria | 1:55.96 |
| 13 | 4 | 1 | Ioan Gherghel | Romania | 1:56.09 |