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


The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place August 28. 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.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Gary Hall, Sr.2:03.70OR, Q
2András Hargitay2:05.05 Q
3Roger Pyttel2:08.72
4Sean Maher2:09.39
5Jorge Jaramillo2:10.24
6Walter Mack2:11.03
7Vasil Dobrev2:11.28

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified
Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Robin Backhaus2:03.11OR, Q
2Folkert Meeuw2:06.13 Q
3Yasuhiro Komazaki2:08.72
4Hugo Valencia2:09.56
5Andrzej Chudziński2:12.62
6Geoffrey Ferreira2:19.76
Angelo Tozzi2:10.82 DQ

Key: DQ = Disqualified, OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified
Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Hans Fassnacht2:05.39 Q
2Jorge Delgado, Jr.2:05.61 Q
3Viktor Sharygin2:06.76
4James Findlay2:08.36
5Ron Jacks2:09.04
6Ricardo Marmolejo2:10.00
7Jacques Leloup2:10.79
8Roy Chan2:20.30

Key: Q = Qualified
Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Mark Spitz2:02.11OR, Q
2Hartmut Flöckner2:05.54 Q
3John Mills2:06.58
4Brian Brinkley2:06.82
5Byron MacDonald2:12.12
6Gaetano Carboni2:12.16
7Hsu Tung-Hsiung2:16.35
8Carlos Singson2:23.70

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Mark Spitz2:00.70WR
Gary Hall, Sr.2:02.86
Robin Backhaus2:03.23
4Jorge Delgado, Jr.2:04.60
5Hans Fassnacht2:04.69
6András Hargitay2:04.69
7Hartmut Flöckner2:05.34
8Folkert Meeuw2:05.57

Key: WR = World record