Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly
The men's 200 metre butterfly event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 30–31 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:Results
Heats
The heats were held at 10:38.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | 5 | Tyler Clary | | 1:56.03 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | Chad le Clos | | 1:56.21 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 6 | Tom Luchsinger | | 1:56.32 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 6 | Nikolay Skvortsov | | 1:56.47 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | Chen Yin | | 1:56.48 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 7 | Leonardo de Deus | | 1:56.52 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Paweł Korzeniowski | | 1:56.61 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | 6 | Yuki Kobori | | 1:56.64 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 3 | Bence Biczó | | 1:56.70 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 4 | Wu Peng | | 1:56.96 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | 4 | Takeshi Matsuda | | 1:57.14 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | Grant Irvine | | 1:57.18 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | 2 | Jordan Coelho | | 1:57.19 | Q |
| 14 | 2 | 7 | Joseph Schooling | | 1:57.23 | Q |
| 15 | 2 | 5 | Velimir Stjepanović | | 1:57.34 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | 7 | Roberto Pavoni | | 1:57.37 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | 0 | Alexandru Coci | | 1:57.86 | |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Zackariah Chetrat | | 1:57.92 | |
| 19 | 3 | 8 | Mauricio Fiol | | 1:58.29 | NR |
| 20 | 3 | 2 | Michal Poprawa | | 1:58.34 | |
| 21 | 4 | 2 | Francesco Pavone | | 1:58.68 | |
| 22 | 2 | 8 | Marcos Lavado | | 1:58.69 | |
| 23 | 3 | 1 | Pedro Oliveira | | 1:58.78 | |
| 24 | 2 | 1 | Shaun Burnett | | 1:59.35 | |
| 25 | 2 | 0 | Gal Nevo | | 1:59.37 | |
| 26 | 2 | 9 | Yury Suvorau | | 2:01.28 | |
| 27 | 1 | 5 | Esteban Enderica | | 2:01.46 | NR |
| 28 | 3 | 0 | Hsu Chi-chieh | | 2:01.49 | |
| 29 | 1 | 4 | Ramiro Ramírez | | 2:02.37 | |
| 30 | 4 | 9 | Jan Šefl | | 2:02.43 | |
| 31 | 4 | 8 | Chang Gyu-Cheol | | 2:03.32 | |
| 32 | 3 | 9 | Yousef Al-Askari | | 2:07.03 | |
| 33 | 1 | 6 | Khalid Baba | | 2:20.23 | |
| 34 | 1 | 2 | Andrianirina Lalanomena | | 2:33.87 | |
| 1 | 3 | Nuno Miguel Rola | | | |
Semifinals
The semifinals were held at 19:35.Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
The final was held at 18:23.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 4 | Chad le Clos | | 1:54.32 | |
| 3 | Paweł Korzeniowski | | 1:55.01 | |
| 5 | Wu Peng | | 1:55.09 | |
| 4 | 6 | Chen Yin | | 1:55.47 | |
| 5 | 8 | Tom Luchsinger | | 1:55.70 | |
| 6 | 7 | Nikolay Skvortsov | | 1:56.02 | |
| 7 | 2 | Tyler Clary | | 1:56.34 | |
| 8 | 1 | Leonardo de Deus | | 1:56.44 | |
