Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 October.[1] This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

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Gold Carl Robie
  United States
Silver Martyn Woodroffe
  Great Britain
Bronze John Ferris
  United States

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Martyn Woodroffe   Great Britain 2:11.6
2 Yasuo Takada   Japan 2:13.3
3 Avraham Melamed   Israel 2:15.4
4 Ron Jacks   Canada 2:18.1
5 Raúl Villagómez   Mexico 2:22.4
6 Arturo Carranza   El Salvador 2:47.3

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Peter Feil   Sweden 2:11.9
2 Gabriel Altamirano   Mexico 2:12.1
3 Tom Arusoo   Canada 2:12.7
4 Sergey Konov   Soviet Union 2:13.1
5 Eduardo Orejuela   Ecuador 2:23.4

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 John Ferris   United States 2:10.6
2 Folkert Meeuw   West Germany 2:11.1
3 John Thurley   Great Britain 2:12.5
4 Giampiero Fossati   Italy 2:18.2
5 Jacek Krawczyk   Poland 2:22.1

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Mark Spitz   United States 2:10.6
2 Satoshi Maruya   Japan 2:14.2
3 Lutz Stoklasa   West Germany 2:16.4
4 Tomas Becerra   Colombia 2:16.8
5 Robert Cusack   Australia 2:19.4
6 Angelo Tozzi   Italy 2:20.9
7 José Ferraioli   Puerto Rico 2:23.4

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Viktor Sharygin   Soviet Union 2:10.9
2 Carl Robie   United States 2:11.1
3 Valentin Kuzmin   Soviet Union 2:11.5
4 Dick Langerhorst   Netherlands 2:17.4
5 Graham Dunn   Australia 2:17.5
6 Ramiro Benavides   Guatemala 2:24.3
7 Leroy Goff   Philippines 2:25.3

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Carl Robie   United States 2:08.7
  Martyn Woodroffe   Great Britain 2:09.0
  John Ferris   United States 2:09.3
4 Valentin Kuzmin   Soviet Union 2:10.6
5 Peter Feil   Sweden 2:10.9
6 Folkert Meeuw   West Germany 2:11.5
7 Viktor Sharygin   Soviet Union 2:11.9
8 Mark Spitz   United States 2:13.5

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2016.