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

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

The heats were started at 11:46.^[2]

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

The final was held at 20:23.^[3]

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