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

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 individual medley event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 3.[1] This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. The first length was swum using the butterfly stroke, the second with the backstroke, the third length in breaststroke, and the fourth freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.

Medalists

GoldGunnar Larsson
 Sweden
SilverTim McKee
 United States
BronzeSteve Furniss
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Wolfram Sperling East Germany 2:12.87
2 Thomas Aretz West Germany 2:13.19
3 Bertram Türpe East Germany 2:16.54
4 Hsu Tung-hsiung Chinese Taipei 2:18.34
5 José Joaquín Santibáñez Mexico 2:19.47
6 Amin Ahmed Adel Youssef Egypt 2:24.61

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 András Hargitay Hungary 2:10.88
2 Bruce Featherston Australia 2:15.18
3 Clay Evans Canada 2:15.19
4 David Brumwell Canada 2:16.84
5 Gudmunður Gíslason Iceland 2:20.00
6 James Findlay Australia 2:20.08
7 Ronnie Wong Hong Kong 2:34.82

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Gunnar Larsson Sweden 2:09.70
2 Klaus Steinbach West Germany 2:13.84
3 Doug Jamison Canada 2:17.71
4 Antônio Azevedo Brazil 2:19.41
5 Marian Slavic Romania 2:19.98
6 Roy Chan Singapore 2:24.43
7 Barry Prime Great Britain 2:18.84 DQ

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Tim McKee United States 2:10.44
2 Juan Carlos Bello Peru 2:11.70
3 David Wilkie Great Britain 2:13.25
4 John McConnochie New Zealand 2:15.04
5 Andreas Weber West Germany 2:16.17
6 Neil Martin Australia 2:16.24
7 François van Kruisdijk Netherlands 2:17.14

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Steve Furniss United States 2:09.97
2 Hans Ljungberg Sweden 2:12.46
3 Valentyn Partyka Soviet Union 2:13.24
4 Ricardo Marmolejo Mexico 2:15.82
5 Zbigniew Pacelt Poland 2:17.35
6 Bruno Bassoul Lebanon 2:27.78
7 Chiang Jin Choon Malaysia 2:32.67

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Gary Hall United States 2:09.85
2 Mikhail Sukharev Soviet Union 2:11.91
3 Christian Lietzmann East Germany 2:13.42
4 Jiro Sasaki Japan 2:16.56
5 Jairulla Jaitulla Philippines 2:17.23
6 Lorenzo Marugo Italy 2:19.00

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Gunnar Larsson Sweden 2:07.17 WR
Tim McKee United States 2:08.37
Steve Furniss United States 2:08.45
4 Gary Hall, Sr. United States 2:08.49
5 András Hargitay Hungary 2:09.66
6 Mikhail Sukharev Soviet Union 2:11.78
7 Juan Carlos Bello Peru 2:11.87
8 Hans Ljungberg Sweden 2:13.56

Key: WR = World record

References

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