Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.[1] It was the seventh appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held from Thursday to Saturday, 13 to 15 August 1936.

Twenty-five swimmers from eleven nations competed. Several of the swimmers used butterfly-swimming strokes; the butterfly stroke was only developed in the early 1930s and was still regarded as a variant of breaststroke in 1936.

Medalists

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Gold Silver Bronze
Tetsuo Hamuro
  Japan
Erwin Sietas
  Germany
Reizo Koike
  Japan

Records

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These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record 2:37.2   Jack Kasley New Haven (USA) 28 March 1936
Olympic Record 2:44.9   Reizo Koike Los Angeles (USA) 12 August 1932

In the first heat of the first round Tetsuo Hamuro set a new Olympic record with 2:42.5 minutes. He bettered his own Olympic record in the final with 2:41.5 minutes.

Results

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Heats

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Thursday 13 August 1936: The fastest three in each heat and the fastest from across the heats advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1   Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:42.5 QQ OR
2   Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:44.6 QQ
3   Ray Kaye (USA) 2:48.5 QQ
4   Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI) 2:50.2 qq
5   Julius Edgar Arp (BRA) 3:02.6

Heat 2

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1   Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:45.8 QQ
2   Jochen Balke (GER) 2:46.4 QQ
3   Jack Kasley (USA) 2:54.4 QQ
4   Erik Skou (DEN) 2:57.6
5   Percy Belvin (BER) 3:09.8
6   Albert Puddy (CAN) 3:10.2

Heat 3

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1   John Higgins (USA) 2:48.8 QQ
2   Arsad Alpad (PHI) 2:52.6 QQ
3   Finn Jensen (DEN) 2:55.7 QQ
4   Antônio Luiz dos Santos (BRA) 2:56.8
5   Mohamed Hassanein (EGY) 2:58.9
  Jorge Berroeta (CHI) DSQ

Heat 4

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1   Leonard Spence (BER) 2:52.0 QQ
2   Gerald Clawson (CAN) 2:54.7 QQ
3   Felix Erbert (TCH) 2:55.7 QQ
  Carlos Reed (CHI) DSQ

Heat 5

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1   Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:43.8 QQ
2   Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:47.4 QQ
3   Arthur Heina (GER) 2:48.5 QQ
4   Hans Malmström (DEN) 2:56.5

Semifinals

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Wednesday 14 August 1936: The fastest three in each semi-final and the fastest fourth-placed advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1   Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:44.5 QQ
2   Jochen Balke (GER) 2:45.4 QQ
3   Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:45.5 QQ
4   Ray Kaye (USA) 2:49.2
5   Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI) 2:54.0
6   Arsad Alpad (PHI) 2:54.6
7   Finn Jensen (DEN) 2:54.8
8   Gerald Clawson (CAN) 2:55.6

Semifinal 2

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1   Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:43.4 QQ
2   John Higgins (USA) 2:44.0 QQ
3   Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:44.8 QQ
4   Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:46.8 qq
5   Arthur Heina (GER) 2:47.3
6   Jack Kasley (USA) 2:53.4
7   Felix Erbert (TCH) 2:53.5
  Leonard Spence (BER) DSQ

Final

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Saturday 15 August 1936:

Place Swimmer Time
1   Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:41.5
2   Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:42.9
3   Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:44.2
4   John Higgins (USA) 2:45.2
5   Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:47.6
6   Jochen Balke (GER) 2:47.8
7   Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:51.1

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
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