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

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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.

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Medalists

Gold Gunnar Larsson
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
Silver Tim McKee
Flag of the United States.svg United States
Bronze Steve Furniss
Flag of the United States.svg United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1 Wolfram Sperling Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 2:12.87
2 Thomas Aretz Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 2:13.19
3 Bertram Türpe Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 2:16.54
4 Hsu Tung-hsiung Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 2:18.34
5 José Joaquín Santibáñez Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:19.47
6 Amin Ahmed Adel Youssef Flag of Egypt (1972-1984).svg  Egypt 2:24.61

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1 András Hargitay Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:10.88
2 Bruce Featherston Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:15.18
3 Clay Evans Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:15.19
4 David Brumwell Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:16.84
5 Guðmundur Gíslason Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 2:20.00
6 James Findlay Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:20.08
7 Ronnie Wong Flag of Hong Kong (1959-1997).svg  Hong Kong 2:34.82

Heat 3

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1 Gunnar Larsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:09.70
2 Klaus Steinbach Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 2:13.84
3 Doug Jamison Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:17.71
4 Antônio Azevedo Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg  Brazil 2:19.41
5 Marian Slavic Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 2:19.98
6 Roy Chan Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:24.43
7 Barry Prime Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:18.84DQ

Heat 4

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1 Tim McKee Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:10.44
2 Juan Carlos Bello Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 2:11.70
3 David Wilkie Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:13.25
4 John McConnochie Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:15.04
5 Andreas Weber Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 2:16.17
6 Neil Martin Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:16.24
7 François van Kruisdijk Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 2:17.14

Heat 5

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1 Steve Furniss Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:09.97
2 Hans Ljungberg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:12.46
3 Valentyn Partyka Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:13.24
4 Ricardo Marmolejo Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2:15.82
5 Zbigniew Pacelt Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 2:17.35
6 Bruno Bassoul Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon 2:27.78
7 Chiang Jin Choon Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 2:32.67

Heat 6

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1 Gary Hall Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:09.85
2 Mikhail Sukharev Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:11.91
3 Christian Lietzmann Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 2:13.42
4 Jiro Sasaki Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:16.56
5 Jairulla Jaitulla Flag of the Philippines (1936-1985, 1986-1998).svg  Philippines 2:17.23
6 Lorenzo Marugo Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:19.00

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Gunnar Larsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:07.17 WR
Silver medal icon.svg Tim McKee Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:08.37
Bronze medal icon.svg Steve Furniss Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:08.45
4 Gary Hall, Sr. Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:08.49
5 András Hargitay Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:09.66
6 Mikhail Sukharev Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:11.78
7 Juan Carlos Bello Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 2:11.87
8 Hans Ljungberg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:13.56

Key: WR = World record

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References

  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.