Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium | ||||||||||||
Date | 3 August 1984 (heats & final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 38 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 1:57.04 WR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics | ||
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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 final of the men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on August 3, 1984. [1]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Michael Gross (FRG) | 1:57.05 | Rome, Italy | 26 August 1983 |
Olympic record | Mike Bruner (USA) | 1:59.23 | Montreal, Canada | 18 July 1976 |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Round | Name | Nation | Time | Record |
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3 August | Heat 5 | Michael Gross | West Germany | 1:58.72 | OR |
3 August | Final A | Jon Sieben | Australia | 1:57.04 | WR |
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). [2]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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9 | 5 | Taihei Saka | Japan | 2:00.31 | NR |
10 | 6 | Frank Drost | Netherlands | 2:01.23 | |
11 | 2 | Nick Hodgson | Great Britain | 2:01.24 | |
12 | 7 | Filiberto Colon | Puerto Rico | 2:01.27 | |
13 | 3 | Gérard de Kort | Netherlands | 2:01.30 | |
14 | 4 | Paolo Revelli | Italy | 2:01.58 | |
15 | 1 | Harri Garmendia | Spain | 2:01.82 | |
16 | 8 | Philip Hubble | Great Britain | 2:03.06 |
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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6 | Jon Sieben | Australia | 1:57.04 | WR | |
4 | Michael Gross | West Germany | 1:57.40 | ||
5 | Rafael Vidal | Venezuela | 1:57.51 | AM | |
4 | 3 | Pablo Morales | United States | 1:57.75 | NR |
5 | 2 | Anthony Mosse | New Zealand | 1:58.75 | NR |
6 | 7 | Tom Ponting | Canada | 1:59.37 | |
7 | 1 | Peter Ward | Canada | 2:00.39 | |
8 | 8 | Patrick Kennedy | United States | 2:01.03 |
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