Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Swimming at the
1952 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m men   women
400 m men   women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men   women
Breaststroke
200 m men   women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m   women
4×200 m men  

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between July 31 and August 2 at the Swimming Stadium.[1] 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

GoldJohn Davies
 Australia
SilverBowen Stassforth
 United States
BronzeHerbert Klein
 Germany

Results

Heats

16 fastest swimmer advanced to semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Monte Nitzkowski  United States 2:40.6
2 Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil  France 2:43.4
3 Marek Petrusewicz  Poland 2:44.0
4 Juha Tikka  Finland 2:46.3
5 Brian Barnes  Great Britain 2:48.6
6 René Kohn  Luxembourg 2:59.3

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 John Davies  Australia 2:39.7
2 Jiro Nagasawa  Japan 2:40.4
3 Nikola Trojanović  Yugoslavia 2:42.4
4 Bengt Rask  Sweden 2:45.3
5 Ludovicus Schoenmaekers  Belgium 2:46.5
6 Yury Kurchashov  Soviet Union 2:47.3
7 Alfons Oehy  Switzerland 2:54.8
8 Muhammad Bashir  Pakistan 2:59.3

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ľudovít Komadel  Czechoslovakia 2:38.9
2 Orlando Cossani  Argentina 2:39.6
3 Takayoshi Kajikawa  Japan 2:39.6
4 Walter Ocampo  Mexico 2:44.8
5 Octavio Mobiglia  Brazil 2:46.1
6 Giorgio Grilz  Italy - disqualified

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Bowen Stassforth  United States 2:39.3
2 David Hawkins  Australia 2:41.2
3 George Portelance  Canada 2:42.5
4 Pyotr Skripchenkov  Soviet Union 2:47.3
5 Blago Barbijeri  Yugoslavia 2:47.3
6 Knud Gleie  Denmark 2:51.4
7 Vladimír Skovajsa  Czechoslovakia 2:53.3

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Gerald Holan  United States 2:36.8
2 Maurice Lusien  France 2:40.9
3 Nobuyasu Hirayama  Japan 2:41.5
4 Adhemar Grijó Filho  Brazil 2:47.6
5 Habib Suharko  Indonesia 2:51.3

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Herbert Klein  Germany 2:37.0
2 Daan Buijze  Netherlands 2:41.9
3 Vladimir Borisenko  Soviet Union 2:43.2
4 Aulis Kähkönen  Finland 2:43.8
5 Manuel Sanguily  Cuba 2:44.5
6 Vlastimil Linhart  Czechoslovakia 2:48.0
7 Awad Moukhtar Halloudah  Egypt 2:50.5
8 Eduardo Barbeiro  Portugal 3:04.6

Semifinals

Eight fastest swimmers advanced to final.

Semifinal 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 John Davies  Australia 2:36.8
2 Ľudovít Komadeľ  Czechoslovakia 2:38.8
3 Nobuyasu Hirayama  Japan 2:39.1
4 Gerald Holan  United States 2:39.2
5 Monte Nitzkowski  United States 2:41.4
6 Daan Buijze  Netherlands 2:42.6
7 Orlando Cossani  Argentina 2:43.1
8 George Portelance  Canada 2:43.8

Semifinal 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Herbert Klein  Germany 2:37.0
2 Takayoshi Kajikawa  Japan 2:37.3
3 Bowen Stassforth  United States 2:98.7
4 Jiro Nagasawa  Japan 2:39.0
5 Maurice Lusien  France 2:39.1
6 David Hawkins  Australia 2:39.8
7 Nikola Trojanović  Yugoslavia 2:41.8
8 Vladimir Borisenko  Soviet Union 2:46.2

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
John Davies  Australia 2:34.4 OR
Bowen Stassforth  United States 2:34.7
Herbert Klein  Germany 2:35.9
4 Nobuyasu Hirayama  Japan 2:37.4
5 Takayoshi Kajikawa  Japan 2:38.6
6 Jiro Nagasawa  Japan 2:39.1
7 Maurice Lusien  France 2:39.8
8 Ľudovít Komadeľ  Czechoslovakia 2:40.1

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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