Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m		women
200 m	men
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Individual medley
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between October 11 and 13.^[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Jed Graef  United States
Silver	Gary Dilley  United States
Bronze	Bob Bennett  United States

Results

Heats

Five heats were held; the fastest sixteen swimmers advanced to the Semifinals. The swimmers that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bob Bennett	United States	2:16.1
2	Isagi Osumi	Japan	2:17.3
3	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:17.8
4	Henri van Osch	Netherlands	2:19.1
5	Lars Kraus Jensen	Denmark	2:23.3
6	Herman Verbauwen	Belgium	2:24.9
7	Michael Eu	Malaysia	2:35.8

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Shigeo Fukushima	Japan	2:14.7
2	Viktor Mazanov	Soviet Union	2:16.8
3	Jürgen Dietze	Germany	2:20.4
4	Jan Weeteling	Netherlands	2:20.4
5	John Byrom	Australia	2:27.0
6	Ákos Gulyás	Hungary	2:30.5
7	Eliot Chenaux	Puerto Rico	2:33.1

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jed Graef	United States	2:14.5
2	Keisuke Ito	Japan	2:16.7
3	Chiaffredo Rora	Italy	2:17.8
4	Jesús Cabrera	Spain	2:19.7
5	Pedro Diz	Argentina	2:24.9
6	Gerhard Wieland	Austria	2:25.9
7	Augusto Ferrero	Peru	2:29.9

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Ezio Della Savia	Italy	2:16.6
2	Ernst-Joachim Küppers	Germany	2:17.9
3	Ivan Ferák	Czechoslovakia	2:20.0
4	Friedrich Suda	Austria	2:20.7
5	Ron Jacks	Canada	2:21.3
6	Geoffrey Thwaites	Great Britain	2:22.0
7	Chan Kam Hong	Hong Kong	2:46.0

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gary Dilley	United States	2:14.2
2	Peter Reynolds	Australia	2:15.9
3	József Csikány	Hungary	2:18.3
4	Wolfgang Wagner	Germany	2:18.5
5	Carlos van der Maath	Argentina	2:19.6
6	Robert Christophe	France	2:22.5

Semifinals

Two heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. The swimmers that advanced are highlighted.

Semifinal One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gary Dilley	United States	2:13.8
2	Shigeo Fukushima	Japan	2:14.1
3	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:15.8
4	Bob Bennett	United States	2:16.3
5	Isagi Osumi	Japan	2:17.0
6	József Csikány	Hungary	2:17.5
7	Keisuke Ito	Japan	2:17.6
8	Henri van Osch	Netherlands	2:19.7

Semifinal Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jed Graef	United States	2:13.7
2	Ernst-Joachim Küppers	Germany	2:15.4
3	Viktor Mazanov	Soviet Union	2:15.4
4	Peter Reynolds	Australia	2:15.6
5	Chiaffredo Rora	Italy	2:16.7
6	Ezio Della Savia	Italy	2:18.4
7	Wolfgang Wagner	Germany	2:20.2
8	Carlos van der Maath	Argentina	2:21.3

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Jed Graef	United States	2:10.3	WR
	Gary Dilley	United States	2:10.5
	Bob Bennett	United States	2:13.1
4	Shigeo Fukushima	Japan	2:13.2
5	Ernst-Joachim Küppers	United Team of Germany	2:15.7
6	Viktor Mazanov	Soviet Union	2:15.9
7	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:15.9
8	Peter Reynolds	Australia	2:16.6

Key: WR = World record

References

1. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Retrieved 27 October 2016.