200 m butterfly, men

What to remember

Kristóf Milák broke this record close to home. Born in Tárnok, on the outskirts of Budapest, the Hungarian swam the 200 m butterfly in 1 min 50.34 s on June 21, 2022, at the World Championships held in his country's capital. The time erased his own world record from 2019.

His first Olympics, Tokyo 2020, brought him gold in the 200 m butterfly and silver in the 100 m butterfly. He has also won three gold medals and one silver at the World Championships and three European titles, and he set the European record in the long course 100 m butterfly. Earlier, at the 2018 Youth Olympics, he won the 400 m freestyle, the 200 m freestyle and the 200 m butterfly.

The men's 200 m butterfly joined the Olympics in 1956 and the women's event in 1968. Men and women alike have swum it at the World Championships from their inaugural 1973 edition on.