Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly


The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on 16 and 18 October. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Carl Robie2:10.0Q,
2Atsushi Obayashi2:15.1Q
3Antonio Rastrelli2:17.3
4Hermann Lotter2:18.2
5Vítor da Fonseca2:18.3
6Narong Chok-Umnuay2:32.5

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Kevin Berry2:11.0Q
2Kosuke Sato2:12.4Q
3Daniel Sherry2:12.9Q
4David Gerrard2:16.3Q
5Avraham Melamed2:20.7
6Carlos Canepa2:24.9
7Joaquín Pujol2:28.3

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Luis Nicolao2:15.0Q
2John Stark2:15.3Q
3Valentin Kuzmin2:15.5Q
4Werner Freitag2:16.9Q
5Juan Alanís2:23.9
6Bernard Chan2:26.6

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Phil Riker2:12.6Q
2Brian Jenkins2:15.5Q
3Oleg Fotin2:17.3
4Gabriel Altamirano2:17.9
5Wolfgang Platzeck2:18.7
6Volker Deckardt2:21.3
7Dick Langerhorst2:22.5

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Brett Hill2:12.8Q
2Fred Schmidt2:13.3Q
3Yoshinori Kadonaga2:14.5Q
4Giampiero Fossati2:17.2Q
5Ralph Hutton2:20.8
6Gustavo Ocampo2:31.4

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Kevin Berry2:06.6WR
Carl Robie2:07.5
Fred Schmidt2:09.3
4Philip Riker2:11.0
5Valentin Kuzmin2:11.3
6Yoshinori Kadonaga2:12.6
7Brett Hill2:12.8
8Daniel Sherry2:14.6

Key: WR = World record