2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly
# 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The Men's 200 metre butterfly competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 15 December 2022.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

| World record | Tomoru Honda (JPN) | 1:46.85 | Tokyo, Japan | 22 October 2022 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Competition record | Daiya Seto (JPN) | 1:48.24 | Hangzhou, China | 11 December 2018 |

## Results

### Heats

The heats were started at 11:46.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | 5 | Trenton Julian | United States | 1:49.93 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:49.98 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:49.99 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | 3 | Teppei Morimoto | Japan | 1:50.26 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | 1:50.69 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | Kregor Zirk | Estonia | 1:50.85 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Ilya Kharun | Canada | 1:50.86 | Q, NR |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:50.89 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 4 | Chen Juner | China | 1:51.24 | |
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Wang Kuan-hung | Chinese Taipei | 1:51.26 | |
| 11 | 3 | 2 | Zach Harting | United States | 1:51.86 | |
| 12 | 4 | 6 | Andreas Vazaios | Greece | 1:52.28 | |
| 13 | 3 | 6 | Antani Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1:52.38 | |
| 14 | 3 | 7 | Jakub Majerski | Poland | 1:52.45 | |
| 15 | 4 | 7 | Ondřej Gemov | Czech Republic | 1:52.92 | |
| 16 | 2 | 6 | José Ángel Martínez | Mexico | 1:53.16 | |
| 17 | 2 | 1 | Richard Nagy | Slovakia | 1:54.92 | NR |
| 18 | 2 | 7 | Adilbek Mussin | Kazakhstan | 1:55.61 | |
| 19 | 4 | 1 | Yeziel Morales | Puerto Rico | 1:56.23 | |
| 20 | 3 | 1 | Navaphat Wongcharoen | Thailand | 1:56.37 | NR |
| 21 | 3 | 8 | Erick Gordillo | Guatemala | 1:56.93 | NR |
| 22 | 4 | 8 | Carlos Vásquez | Honduras | 1:58.63 | |
| 23 | 2 | 8 | Xavier Ventura | El Salvador | 2:02.63 | |
| 24 | 1 | 3 | Isaiah Aleksenko | Northern Mariana Islands | 2:02.96 | |
| 25 | 1 | 4 | Jake Chee-A-Tow | Barbados | 2:07.92 | |
| 26 | 1 | 6 | James Hendrix | Guam | 2:08.63 | |
| 27 | 1 | 5 | Mohamed Rihan Shiham | Maldives | 2:27.12 | |
| | 2 | 2 | Xu Fang | China | Did not start | Did not start |

### Final

The final was held at 20:23.

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 5 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:48.27 | AF |
| | 3 | Daiya Seto | Japan | 1:49.22 | |
| | 2 | Noè Ponti | Switzerland | 1:49.42 | NR |
| 4 | 8 | Alberto Razzetti | Italy | 1:50.12 | |
| 5 | 7 | Kregor Zirk | Estonia | 1:50.51 | NR |
| 6 | 6 | Teppei Morimoto | Japan | 1:50.70 | |
| 7 | 4 | Trenton Julian | United States | 1:50.94 | |
| 8 | 1 | Ilya Kharun | Canada | 1:52.21 | |
