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

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 3, 1972.[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

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Gold Gunnar Larsson
  Sweden
Silver Tim McKee
  United States
Bronze Steve Furniss
  United States

Results

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Heats

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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 Guðmundur 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

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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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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2016.