Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke


The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 2. This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Klaus Katzur2:26.32Q
2Bill Mahony2:26.71
3Roger-Philippe Menu2:30.05
4Guðjón Guðmundsson2:32.40
5Sokhon Yi2:34.77
6János Tóth2:37.40

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Nobutaka Taguchi2:23.45Q
2Felipe Muñoz2:25.99Q
3Pedro Balcells2:29.29
4Robert Stoddart2:30.08
5Cezary Śmiglak2:34.51
6Morkal Faruk2:43.69
7Piero Ferracuti2:45.73

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1David Wilkie2:24.54Q
2Walter Kusch2:26.43Q
3Steffen Kriechbaum2:30.09
4Malcolm O'Connell2:31.21
5Jean-Pierre Dubey2:31.56
6Gustavo Salcedo2:32.81
7Osvaldo Boretto2:31.84DSQ

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Rick Colella2:25.40Q
2Vladimir Kosinsky2:28.00
3Angel Chakarov2:30.27
4Andreas Hellmann2:32.60
5Liam Ball2:33.47
6Nigel Johnson2:34.37
7Karl Christian Koch2:38.47

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Igor Cherdakov2:26.21Q
2Brian Job2:26.91
3José Sylvio Fiolo2:30.21
4Rainer Hradetzky2:32.48
5Amman Jaalmani2:33.54
6Michele Di Pietro2:36.49

Heat 6
RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1John Hencken2:24.88Q
2Nikolay Pankin2:26.71
3Paul Jarvie2:27.83
4Mike Whitaker2:33.47
5Rudi Vingerhoets2:36.89
6Gregor Betz2:36.96
7Alfredo Hunger2:37.20
8Alejandro Cabrera2:56.60

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
John Hencken2:21.55WR
David Wilkie2:23.67
Nobutaka Taguchi2:23.88
4Rick Colella2:24.28
5Felipe Muñoz2:26.44
6Walter Kusch2:26.55
7Igor Cherdakov2:27.15
8Klaus Katzur2:27.44

Key: WR = World record