| Men 200m Freestyle Swimming V World Championship 1986 Madrid, Spain - Sunday, 17th August - Gold Medal: Michael Gross, West Germany | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | pts |  | 1. Michael Gross |   West Germany | 1:47.92 |   | CR | 4 | 22 | 923 |  | 2. Sven Lodziewski |   East Germany | 1:49.12 |   | +1.20s | 2 | 21 | 893 |  | 3. Matt Biondi |   United States | 1:49.43 |   | +1.51s | 6 | 20 | 885 |  | 4. Thomas Fahrner |   West Germany | 1:49.69 |   | +1.77s | 5 | 23 | 879 |  | 5. Marcel Gery |   Czechoslovakia | 1:50.06 |   | +2.14s | 3 | 21 | 870 |  | 6. Duncan Armstrong |   Australia | 1:50.17 |   | +2.25s | 7 | 18 | 867 |  | 7. Alberto Mestre |   Venezuela | 1:50.56 |   | +2.64s | 1 | 21 | 858 |  | 8. Uwe Dassler |   East Germany | 1:50.68 |   | +2.76s | 8 | 19 | 856 |   
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| World Record: Michael Gross, West Germany 1:47.44 OG Los Angeles, United States 29th July 1984 |   
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag |  | 9. Roberto Gleria |   Australia | 1:50.62 |   |   | 2 | 17 |  | 10.Nikolay Yevseyev |   Soviet Union | 1:50.82 |   | +0.20s | 1 | 20 |  | 11.Stephan Caron |   France | 1:51.08 |   | +0.46s | 4 | 20 |  | 12.Artur Wojdat |   Poland | 1:51.61 |   | +0.99s | 6 | 18 |  | 12.Carlos Scanavino |   Uruguay | 1:51.61 |   | +0.99s | 8 | 22 |  | 14.Juan Carlos Vallejo |   Spain | 1:51.64 |   | +1.02s | 5 | 23 |  | 15.Kevin Boyd |   Great Britain | 1:51.71 |   | +1.09s | 7 |   |  | 16.Giorgio Lamberti |   Italy | 1:52.28 |   | +1.66s | 3 | 17 |   
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Heats - Sunday, 17th August | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. Next 8 to Final B. | 
| Heat 8 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 1. Michael Gross |   West Germany | 1:48.70 | CR |   | - | 22 | 1.  |  | 13.Roberto Gleria |   Australia | 1:51.69 |   | +2.99s | - | 17 | 2.  |  | 20.Zoltan Szilagyi |   Hungary | 1:52.26 |   | +3.56s | - | 19 | 3.  |  | 30.Luiz Anchieta |   Brazil | 1:54.01 |   | +5.31s | - |   | 4.  |  | 32.Michael Soderlund |   Sweden | 1:54.24 |   | +5.54s | - | 24 | 5.  |  | 41.Luis I Morell |   Puerto Rico | 1:56.21 |   | +7.51s | - |   | 6.  |  | 48.Ahmet Nakkas |   Turkey | 1:58.99 |   | +10.29s | - | 23 | 7.  |  | 60.Ronald Pickard |   US Virgin Islands | 2:11.85 |   | +23.15s | - | 16 | 8.  |   
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| Heat 7 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 5. Sven Lodziewski |   East Germany | 1:50.77 |   | +2.07s | - | 21 | 1.  |  | 14.Kevin Boyd |   Great Britain | 1:51.75 |   | +3.05s | - | 20 | 2.  |  | 19.Anders Holmertz |   Sweden | 1:52.07 |   | +3.37s | - | 17 | 3.  |  | 23.Laurent Neuville |   France | 1:52.58 |   | +3.88s | - | 21 | 4.  |  | 29.Frantz Mortensen |   Denmark | 1:53.70 |   | +5.00s | - | 22 | 5.  |  | 45.Gokhan Attaroglu |   Turkey | 1:58.24 |   | +9.54s | - | 21 | 6.  |  | 52.Mohamed Youssef |   Egypt | 2:00.92 |   | +12.22s | - | 23 | 7.  |  | 53.Mark Millar |   Ireland | 2:00.96 |   | +12.26s | - |   | 8.  |   
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| Heat 6 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 2. Matt Biondi |   United States | 1:49.22 |   | +0.52s | - | 20 | 1.  |  | 6. Duncan Armstrong |   Australia | 1:50.94 |   | +2.24s | - | 18 | 2.  |  | 12.Artur Wojdat |   Poland | 1:51.64 |   | +2.94s | - | 18 | 3.  |  | 35.Scott Flowers |   Canada | 1:54.44 |   | +5.74s | - |   | 4.  |  | 43.Carlos Romo |   Mexico | 1:57.73 |   | +9.03s | - | 19 | 5.  |  | 43.Stefan Opatril |   Austria | 1:57.73 |   | +9.03s | - | 19 | 6.  |  | 46.Richard Patino |   Colombia | 1:58.78 |   | +10.08s | - |   | 7.  |  | 51.Moustafa Ahmed |   Egypt | 2:00.80 |   | +12.10s | - | 2 | 8.  |   
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| Heat 5 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 4. Thomas Fahrner |   West Germany | 1:50.67 |   | +1.97s | - | 23 | 1.  |  | 9. Stephan Caron |   France | 1:51.19 |   | +2.49s | - | 20 | 2.  |  | 10.Juan Carlos Vallejo |   Spain | 1:51.42 |   | +2.72s | - | 23 | 3.  |  | 16.Carlos Scanavino |   Uruguay | 1:51.93 |   | +3.23s | - | 22 | 3.  |  | 27.Tzvetan Golomeev |   Bulgaria | 1:53.01 |   | +4.31s | - | 25 | 5.  |  | 34.Segev Porat |   Israel | 1:54.36 |   | +5.66s | - |   | 6.  |  | 54.Sofiane Benchekor |   Algeria | 2:01.46 |   | +12.76s | - |   | 7.  |  | 56.Juan Tavares |   Dominicana | 2:01.88 |   | +13.18s | - |   | 8.  |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 17.Craig Oppel |   United States | 1:51.95 |   | +3.25s | - | 19 | 1.  |  | 18.Frank Drost |   Netherlands | 1:52.01 |   | +3.31s | - | 23 | 2.  |  | 25.Massimo Trevisan |   Italy | 1:52.70 |   | +4.00s | - | 18 | 3.  |  | 38.Katsunori Fujiwara |   Japan | 1:55.13 |   | +6.43s | - |   | 4.  |  | 40.Shigeo Ogata |   Japan | 1:55.94 |   | +7.24s | - | 17 | 5.  |  | 49.Sergio Esteves |   Portugal | 1:59.39 |   | +10.69s | - | 18 | 6.  |  | 50.Declan Connaughton |   Ireland | 2:00.36 |   | +11.66s | - |   | 7.  |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 3. Marcel Gery |   Czechoslovakia | 1:50.62 |   | +1.92s | - | 21 | 1.  |  | 8. Uwe Dassler |   East Germany | 1:51.02 |   | +2.32s | - | 19 | 2.  |  | 28.Tom Ponting |   Canada | 1:53.26 |   | +4.56s | - | 21 | 3.  |  | 33.Jorge Fernandes |   Brazil | 1:54.31 |   | +5.61s | - | 24 | 4.  |  | 37.Magnus Olafsson |   Iceland | 1:55.09 |   | +6.39s | - | 18 | 5.  |  | 42.Claus Hansen |   Denmark | 1:57.06 |   | +8.36s | - |   | 6.  |  | 58.Jaime Lipszyc |   Costa Rica | 2:03.93 |   | +15.23s | - |   | 7.  |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 7. Alberto Mestre |   Venezuela | 1:51.01 |   | +2.31s | - | 21 | 1.  |  | 11.Giorgio Lamberti |   Italy | 1:51.57 |   | +2.87s | - | 17 | 2.  |  | 20.Neil Cochran |   Great Britain | 1:52.26 |   | +3.56s | - | 21 | 3.  |  | 22.Stefan Volery |   Switzerland | 1:52.47 |   | +3.77s | - | 24 | 4.  |  | 39.Darjan Petric |   Yugoslavia | 1:55.58 |   | +6.88s | - | 21 | 5.  |  | 55.Darryl Smith |   Zimbabwe | 2:01.51 |   | +12.81s | - |   | 7.  |  | 59.Danilo Vicioso |   Dominicana | 2:05.08 |   | +16.38s | - |   | 8.  |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 15.Nikolay Yevseyev |   Soviet Union | 1:51.81 |   | +3.11s | - | 20 | 1.  |  | 24.Veniamin Tayanovich |   Soviet Union | 1:52.61 |   | +3.91s | - | 19 | 2.  |  | 26.Edsard Schlingemann |   Netherlands | 1:52.71 |   | +4.01s | - | 19 | 3.  |  | 31.Zdenek Kolar |   Czechoslovakia | 1:54.09 |   | +5.39s | - |   | 4.  |  | 36.Xavier Miralpeix |   Spain | 1:54.65 |   | +5.95s | - | 20 | 5.  |  | 47.Mika Lohi |   Finland | 1:58.82 |   | +10.12s | - |   | 6.  |  | 57.Hans Foerster |   US Virgin Islands | 2:03.10 |   | +14.40s | - | 21 | 7.  |   
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