Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly1998 FINA World Championships
Date	14 January 1998
Competitors	36
Winning time	1 minute 56.61 seconds
Medalists
Denys Sylantyev   Ukraine   Franck Esposito   France   Tom Malchow   United States

1998 FINA World Championships Perth, Australia
Diving
1 m		men		women
3 m		men		women
10 m		men		women
Open water swimming
5 km		men		women
25 km		men		women
Team		5 km		25 km
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men		women
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women
Synchronised swimming
Solo				women
Duet				women
Team				women
Water polo
Team		men		women

The finals and the qualifying heats of the men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Wednesday 1998-01-14 in Perth, Australia.

A Final

Rank	Name	Time
	Denys Sylantyev (UKR)	1:56.61
	Franck Esposito (FRA)	1:56.77
	Tom Malchow (USA)	1:57.26
4	Takashi Yamamoto (JPN)	1:57.50
5	James Hickman (GBR)	1:58.76
6	Stephen Parry (GBR)	1:59.57
7	Han Kyu-Chul (KOR)	2:00.26
—	Scott Goodman (AUS)	DSQ

B Final

Rank	Name	Time
9	Uğur Taner (USA)	1:59.13
10	Stefan Aartsen (NED)	1:59.98
11	Anatoly Polyakov (RUS)	1:59.98
12	Vesa Hanski (FIN)	2:00.30
13	Chris-Carol Bremer (GER)	2:00.37
14	Péter Horváth (HUN)	2:00.73
15	Massimiliano Eroli (ITA)	2:00.79
16	Xie Xufeng (CHN)	2:03.24

Qualifying heats

Rank	Name	Time
1	Franck Esposito (FRA)	1:56.32
2	Takashi Yamamoto (JPN)	1:56.99
3	Denys Sylantyev (UKR)	1:57.62
4	Tom Malchow (USA)	1:58.20
5	Scott Goodman (AUS)	1:58.87
6	James Hickman (GBR)	1:59.13
7	Han Kyu-Chul (KOR)	1:59.14
8	Stephen Parry (GBR)	1:59.37
9	Uğur Taner (USA)	1:59.63
10	Chris-Carol Bremer (GER)	1:59.85
11	Stefan Aartsen (NED)	1:59.89
12	Péter Horváth (HUN)	1:59.91
13	Vesa Hanski (FIN)	2:00.23
14	Anatoly Polyakov (RUS)	2:00.45
15	Massimiliano Eroli (ITA)	2:00.85
16	Xie Xufeng (CHN)	2:01.24
17	Zane King (AUS)	2:01.50
18	Pedro Monteiro (BRA)	2:01.61
19	Jorge Pérez (ESP)	2:01.62
20	Tero Välimaa (FIN)	2:01.64
21	Alex Gorguraki (RUS)	2:01.75
22	Aleksandar Malenko (MKD)	2:02.18
23	Vladan Marković (YUG)	2:02.30
24	Marcin Kaczmarek (POL)	2:02.40
25	Thomas Rupprath (GER)	2:02.60
26	Colin Lowth (IRL)	2:03.25
27	Theo Verster (RSA)	2:03.32
28	Konstantin Andrushin (KAZ)	2:03.46
29	Adrian Andermatt (SUI)	2:03.76
30	Kim Bang-Hyun (KOR)	2:03.90
31	Georgios Popotas (GRE)	2:04.17
32	Mark Kwok (HKG)	2:04.42
33	Huang Xin (CHN)	2:04.67
34	Aleksandar Miladinovski (MKD)	2:04.83
35	Alexis Perdomo (VEN)	2:04.90
36	Simão Morgado (POR)	2:05.82

See also

• 1996 Men's Olympic Games 200m Butterfly (Atlanta)
• 1997 Men's World SC Championships 200m Butterfly (Gothenburg)
• 1997 Men's European LC Championships 200m Butterfly (Seville)
• 2000 Men's Olympic Games 200m Butterfly (Sydney)