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

Swimming events at the
1972 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
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 freestyle event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place August 29.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

GoldMark Spitz
 United States
SilverSteve Genter
 United States
BronzeWerner Lampe
 West Germany

Results

Heats

8 fastest swimmer from seven heats advanced to final.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Mike Wenden  Australia 1:56.66 Q
2 Robert Nay  Australia 1:57.69
3 Viktor Mazanov  Soviet Union 1:57.92
4 Hans Ljungberg  Sweden 1:59.42
5 Alfredo Machado  Brazil 2:00.14

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Vladimir Bure  Soviet Union 1:56.15 Q
2 Georgijs Kuļikovs  Soviet Union 1:57.04
3 Pierre Caland  France 2:00.75
4 Michael Bailey  Great Britain 2:00.79
5 Zbigniew Pacelt  Poland 2:01.28
6 Arnaldo Cinquetti  Italy 2:01.78

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Werner Lampe  West Germany 1:55.97 Q
2 Graham White  Australia 1:58.60
3 John Mills  Great Britain 2:00.17
4 Fritz Warncke  Norway 2:00.98
5 Kamal Kenawi Ali Moustafa  Egypt 2:05.30
6 Luis Ayesa  Philippines 2:05.97

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Klaus Steinbach  West Germany 1:55.80 Q
2 Wilfried Hartung  East Germany 1:56.95
3 Gerardo Vera  Venezuela 1:57.33
4 Olaf, Baron von Schilling  West Germany 2:00.27
5 Bernt Zarnowiecki  Sweden 2:01.34
6 Riccardo Targetti  Italy 2:02.58
7 Fawzi Burhma  Kuwait 2:33.75

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Fred Tyler  United States 1:56.04 Q
2 Peter Bruch  East Germany 1:58.49
3 Bruce Robertson  Canada 1:59.02
4 Marian Slavic  Romania 2:00.23
5 Colin Herring  New Zealand 2:00.29
6 Ian MacKenzie  Canada 2:01.22
7 Hanspeter Würmli  Switzerland 2:03.14
8 Roberto Strauss  Mexico 2:03.57

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Steve Genter  United States 1:55.42 Q
2 Brian Brinkley  Great Britain 1:56.99
3 Peter Prijdekker  Netherlands 1:58.78
4 Ruy de Oliveira  Brazil 2:00.48
5 Roberto Pangaro  Italy 2:00.97
6 Sandro Rudan  Yugoslavia 2:05.88
7 Tomás Rengifo  El Salvador 2:08.67
8 Finnur Garðarsson  Iceland 2:08.88

Heat 7

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Mark Spitz  United States 1:55.29 Q
2 Ralph Hutton  Canada 1:56.84 Q
3 Udo Poser  East Germany 1:57.23
4 Rolf Pettersson  Sweden 2:00.02
5 Mark Crocker  Hong Kong 2:12.85
6 Samnang Prak  Cambodia 2:13.34

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Mark Spitz  United States 1:52.78 WR
Steve Genter  United States 1:53.73
Werner Lampe  West Germany 1:53.99
4 Mike Wenden  Australia 1:54.40
5 Fred Tyler  United States 1:54.96
6 Klaus Steinbach  West Germany 1:55.65
7 Vladimir Bure  Soviet Union 1:57.24
8 Ralph Hutton  Canada 1:57.56

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. ↑ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
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