Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre butterfly
# Swimming at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The men's 200 metre butterfly swimming competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan was held on 1 October at the Sajik Swimming Pool.

## Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

| Date | Time | Event |
| - | - | - |
| Tuesday, 1 October 2002 | 10:00 | Heats |
| Tuesday, 1 October 2002 | 19:00 | Final |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

| World Record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 1:54.58 | Fukuoka, Japan | 24 July 2001 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Asian Record | Takashi Yamamoto (JPN) | 1:55.57 | Yokohama, Japan | 27 August 2002 |
| Games Record | Takashi Yamamoto (JPN) | 1:56.75 | Bangkok, Thailand | 11 December 1998 |

## Results

### Legend

* DNS — Did not start

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | Takashi Yamamoto (JPN) | 2:00.02 |
| 2 | 1 | Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) | 2:00.36 |
| 3 | 2 | Wu Peng (CHN) | 2:01.85 |
| 4 | 2 | Yoo Jung-nam (KOR) | 2:02.00 |
| 5 | 2 | Cho Jae-hyun (KOR) | 2:02.44 |
| 6 | 1 | Jin Hao (CHN) | 2:02.51 |
| 7 | 1 | Tseng Cheng-hua (TPE) | 2:03.83 |
| 8 | 1 | Mark Kwok (HKG) | 2:06.19 |
| 9 | 2 | Charles Szeto (HKG) | 2:06.31 |
| 10 | 2 | Mohammed Al-Yousef (KSA) | 2:08.84 |
| 11 | 1 | Ng Cheng Xun (SIN) | 2:11.04 |
| 12 | 1 | Zulfiqar Ali (PAK) | 2:19.67 |
| 13 | 2 | Moyssara El-Aarag (QAT) | 2:27.11 |
| 14 | 2 | Rad Aweisat (PLE) | 2:37.24 |
| — | 1 | Mohammed Al-Hamadi (QAT) | DNS |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Wu Peng (CHN) | 1:56.63 | GR |
| | Takashi Yamamoto (JPN) | 1:57.18 | |
| | Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) | 1:57.26 | |
| 4 | Jin Hao (CHN) | 1:59.54 | |
| 5 | Yoo Jung-nam (KOR) | 2:00.77 | |
| 6 | Cho Jae-hyun (KOR) | 2:02.78 | |
| 7 | Tseng Cheng-hua (TPE) | 2:03.87 | |
| 8 | Mark Kwok (HKG) | 2:03.91 | |
