Men 200m Butterfly Swimming Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City, Mexico - Thursday, 24th October - Gold Medal: Carl Robbie, United States |
Final | | time | gap | L | Y | 100m | 1. Carl Robie | United States | 2:08.7 | | 2 | 23 | 1:02.5 | 2. Martin Woodroffe | Great Britain | 2:09.0 | +0.3s | 1 | 18 | 1:02.9 | 3. John Ferris | United States | 2:09.3 | +0.6s | 4 | 19 | 1:04.3 | 4. Valentin Kuzmin | Soviet Union | 2:10.6 | +1.9s | 7 | 27 | 1:03.7 | 5. Peter Feil | Sweden | 2:10.9 | +2.2s | 8 | 21 | 1:03.3 | 6. Folkert Meeuw | West Germany | 2:11.5 | +2.8s | 6 | 21 | 1:03.7 | 7. Viktor Sharygin | Soviet Union | 2:11.9 | +3.2s | 3 | 19 | 1:03.9 | 8. Mark Spitz | United States | 2:13.5 | +4.8s | 5 | 18 | 1:05.1 |
World Record: Mark Spitz, United States 2:05.7 West Berlin 8th October 1967 | Olympic Record: Kevin Berry, Australia 2:06.6 Tokyo, Japan 18 October 1964 |
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Heats - Thursday, 24th October |
Best 8 times advanced to Final. |
Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m | 1. Martin Woodroffe | Great Britain | 2:11.6 | +1.0s | 7 | 18 | 7. | 1:03.6 | 2. Yasuo Takada | Japan | 2:13.3 | +2.7s | 3 | 18 | 13. | 1:04.1 | 3. Abraham Melamed | Israel | 2:15.4 | +4.8s | 2 | 24 | 15. | 1:04.2 | 4. Ron Jacks | Canada | 2:18.1 | +7.5s | 5 | 20 | 20. | 1:05.6 | 5. Raul Villagomez | Mexico | 2:22.4 | +11.8s | 6 | 18 | 25. | 1:07.0 | 6. Arturo Carranza | El Salvador | 2:47.3 | +36.7s | 4 | 15 | 30. | 1:14.7 | -. Bo Westergren | Sweden | DNS | | - | 18 | -. | |
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Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m | 1. Peter Feil | Sweden | 2:11.9 | +1.3s | 5 | 21 | 8. | 1:04.2 | 2. Gabriel Altamirano Tames | Mexico | 2:12.1 | +1.5s | 4 | 22 | 9. | 1:02.9 | 3. Toomas Arusoo | Canada | 2:12.7 | +2.1s | 3 | 20 | 11. | 1:04.3 | 4. Sergei Konov | Soviet Union | 2:13.1 | +2.5s | 2 | 20 | 12. | 1:02.6 | 5. Eduardo Orejuela | Ecuador | 2:23.4 | +12.8s | 6 | 16 | 26. | 1:05.0 | -. Joao Reynaldo Costa Lima Neto | Brazil | DNS | | - | 21 | -. | | -. Tong-Shing Lee | Taiwan | DNS | | - | 20 | -. | |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m | 1. John Ferris | United States | 2:10.6 | | 2 | 19 | 1. | 1:03.2 | 2. Folkert Meeuw | West Germany | 2:11.1 | +0.5s | 5 | 21 | 4. | 1:02.1 | 3. John Thurley | Great Britain | 2:12.5 | +1.9s | 3 | 20 | 10. | 1:02.9 | 4. Giampiero Fossati | Italy | 2:18.2 | +7.6s | 6 | 24 | 21. | 1:05.7 | 5. Jacek Krawczyk | Poland | 2:22.1 | +11.5s | 4 | 19 | 24. | 1:06.4 | -. Antonio Attanasio | Italy | DNS | | - | 18 | -. | | -. Andrew Loh | Hong Kong | DNS | | - | 19 | -. | |
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Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m | 1. Mark Spitz | United States | 2:10.6 | | 3 | 18 | 1. | 1:02.6 | 2. Satoshi Maruya | Japan | 2:14.2 | +3.6s | 5 | 21 | 14. | 1:02.1 | 3. Lutz Stoklasa | West Germany | 2:16.4 | +5.8s | 7 | 18 | 16. | 1:03.0 | 4. Tomas Alberto Becerra | Colombia | 2:16.8 | +6.2s | 1 | 15 | 17. | 1:05.2 | 5. Robert Cusack | Australia | 2:19.4 | +8.8s | 2 | 17 | 22. | 1:05.9 | 6. Angelo Tozzi | Italy | 2:20.9 | +10.3s | 4 | 19 | 23. | 1:06.1 | 7. Jose Ferraioli | Puerto Rico | 2:23.4 | +12.8s | 6 | 20 | 26. | 1:06.0 | -. Robert Loh | Hong Kong | DNS | | - | 22 | -. | |
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Heat 5 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m | 1. Viktor Sharygin | Soviet Union | 2:10.9 | +0.3s | 5 | 19 | 3. | 1:03.3 | 2. Carl Robie | United States | 2:11.1 | +0.5s | 3 | 23 | 4. | 1:03.5 | 3. Valentin Kuzmin | Soviet Union | 2:11.5 | +0.9s | 4 | 27 | 6. | 1:03.7 | 4. Dirk Langerhorst | Netherlands | 2:17.4 | +6.8s | 6 | 22 | 18. | 1:04.7 | 5. Graham Dunn | Australia | 2:17.5 | +6.9s | 1 | 18 | 19. | 1:06.4 | 6. Ramiro Benavides | Guatemala | 2:24.3 | +13.7s | 2 | 14 | 28. | 1:09.5 | 7. Leroy Goff | Philippines | 2:25.3 | +14.7s | 7 | 22 | 29. | 1:06.0 |
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