Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

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Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date31 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors60 from 43 nations
Winning time2:00.76
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Tamás Darnyi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Silver medal icon.svg Greg Burgess Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Attila Czene Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
  1988
1996  

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain. [1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of Hungary.svg  Tamás Darnyi  (HUN)1:59.36 Perth, Australia 13 January 1991
Olympic recordFlag of Hungary.svg  Tamás Darnyi  (HUN)2:00.17 Seoul, South Korea 25 September 1988

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). [2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
175 Jani Sievinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:01.18Q, NR
284 Tamás Darnyi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:01.29Q
385 Greg Burgess Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:01.35Q
474 Ron Karnaugh Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:01.64Q
565 Attila Czene Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:02.05Q
673 Christian Geßner Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:02.43Q
763 Gary Anderson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:02.63Q
887 Matthew Dunn Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:02.75Q
964 Martín López-Zubero Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 2:03.07q
1082 Tatsuya Kinugasa Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:03.32q
1166 Luca Sacchi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:03.54q, WD
1286 Darren Ward Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:03.71q
1376 Frédéric Lefevre Flag of France.svg  France 2:03.82q
1478 Serghei Mariniuc Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 2:04.23q
1583 Lars Sørensen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2:04.65q
1662 Takahiro Fujimoto Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:04.89q
1777 Manuel Guzmán Flag of Puerto Rico (1952-1995).svg  Puerto Rico 2:04.95q
1888 John Davey Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:05.07
1952 Aleksandr Savitsky Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 2:05.09
2045 Marcin Maliński Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:05.32
2154 Petteri Lehtinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:05.65
2267 Marcel Wouda Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 2:05.95
2361 Joaquín Fernández Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 2:06.09
2455 Stefaan Maene Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 2:06.16
2544 Marian Satnoianu Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 2:06.45
2642 Denislav Kalchev Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 2:06.51
2718 Clifford Lyne South African Olympic Flag.svg  South Africa 2:06.62 AF
2857 Simon Percy Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2:06.76
2936 Igor Łuczak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 2:07.08
3046 José Carlos Souza Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:07.09
3147 Desmond Koh Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:07.16
3272 Josef Hladký Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:07.18
3334 Diogo Madeira Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 2:07.38
3456 Gary O'Toole Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 2:07.67
3553 Renato Ramalho Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 2:07.78
3635 Andy Rolley Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 2:09.22
3737 Arthur Li Kai Yien Flag of Hong Kong (1959-1997).svg  Hong Kong 2:09.32
3843 Joseph Eric Buhain Flag of the Philippines (1936-1985, 1986-1998).svg  Philippines 2:09.33
3924 Ratapong Sirisanont Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 2:11.02
4032 Gary Tan Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 2:11.14
4131 Ricardo Torres Flag of Panama.svg  Panama 2:12.01
4222 Duncan Todd Flag of Hong Kong (1959-1997).svg  Hong Kong 2:12.29
4326 Christophe Verdino Flag of Monaco.svg  Monaco 2:12.46
4441 Sultan Al-Otaibi Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait 2:13.68
4525 Alejandro Alvizuri Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 2:15.10
4627 Plutarco Castellanos Flag of Honduras (before 2022).svg  Honduras 2:15.50
4721 Émile Lahoud Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon 2:22.08
4814 Carl Probert Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 2:22.09
4913 Mohamed Bin Abid Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg  United Arab Emirates 2:22.95
5011 Mouhamed Diop Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal 2:23.92
5116 Kenny Roberts Flag of Seychelles (1977-1996).svg  Seychelles 2:30.35
5212 Jean-Paul Adam Flag of Seychelles (1977-1996).svg  Seychelles 2:35.35
23 Roberto Bonilla Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala DSQ
51 Rodrigo González Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico DSQ
71 Jan Bidrman Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden DSQ
81 Martin Roberts Flag of Australia.svg  Australia DSQ
17 Bruno N'Diaye Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal DNS
15 Ziyad Kashmiri Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia DNS
33 Eran Groumi Flag of Israel.svg  Israel DNS
68 Stefano Battistelli Flag of Italy.svg  Italy DNS

Finals

[3]

Final B

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
94 Martín López-Zubero Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 2:03.34
102 Serghei Mariniuc Olympic flag.svg  Unified Team 2:03.72
117 Lars Sørensen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2:03.81
126 Frédéric Lefevre Flag of France.svg  France 2:04.05
135 Tatsuya Kinugasa Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:04.29
143 Darren Ward Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:05.09
151 Takahiro Fujimoto Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:07.74
8 Manuel Guzmán Flag of Puerto Rico (1952-1995).svg  Puerto Rico DNS

Final A

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg5 Tamás Darnyi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:00.76
Silver medal icon.svg3 Greg Burgess Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:00.97
Bronze medal icon.svg2 Attila Czene Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 2:01.00
44 Jani Sievinen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:01.28
57 Christian Geßner Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 2:01.97
66 Ron Karnaugh Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:02.18
78 Matthew Dunn Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 2:02.79
81 Gary Anderson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2:02.79

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References

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