Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The Men's 200 Butterfly event at the XXIV Olympic Games was swum on September 24, 1988, in Seoul, South Korea. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 meters long (long course), this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

The existing World and Olympic records at the time of the competition were:

The following records were established during the competition:

Key: OR = Olympic record