Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	25 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	39 from 31 nations
Winning time	1:59.91 OR
Medalists
Attila Czene   Hungary Jani Sievinen   Finland Curtis Myden   Canada
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The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 25 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States. ^[1]

Records

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

World record	Jani Sievinen  (FIN)	1:58.16	Rome, Italy	11 September 1994
Olympic record	Tamás Darnyi  (HUN)	2:00.17	Seoul, South Korea	25 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
25 July	Final A	Attila Czene	Hungary	1:59.91	OR

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Jani Sievinen	Finland	2:01.05	Q
2	3	2	Marcel Wouda	Netherlands	2:01.21	Q, NR
3	3	5	Matthew Dunn	Australia	2:01.44	Q
4	5	5	Curtis Myden	Canada	2:01.50	Q
5	5	3	Greg Burgess	United States	2:01.93	Q
6	4	4	Tom Dolan	United States	2:01.99	Q
7	3	4	Attila Czene	Hungary	2:02.10	Q
8	4	6	Xavier Marchand	France	2:03.17	Q
9	5	6	Luca Sacchi	Italy	2:03.24	q
10	3	6	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	2:03.42	q
11	4	7	Martin van der Spoel	Netherlands	2:03.75	q
12	4	5	Christian Keller	Germany	2:03.82	q
13	3	3	Stev Theloke	Germany	2:04.23	q
14	4	2	Jo Yoshimi	Japan	2:04.49	q
15	2	4	Serghei Mariniuc	Moldova	2:04.99	q
16	5	8	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	2:05.18	q
17	5	2	Marcin Maliński	Poland	2:05.42
18	2	5	Josef Horký	Czech Republic	2:05.45
19	5	7	Petteri Lehtinen	Finland	2:05.51
20	1	4	Walter Soza	Nicaragua	2:06.15	NR
21	2	3	Valērijs Kalmikovs	Latvia	2:06.16
22	3	7	Attila Zubor	Hungary	2:06.24
23	3	1	Sergiy Sergeyev	Ukraine	2:06.30
24	2	2	Oleg Pukhnatiy	Uzbekistan	2:06.39
25	2	6	Krešimir Čač	Croatia	2:06.97
26	2	7	Kim Bang-hyun	South Korea	2:06.99
27	2	1	Arsenio López	Puerto Rico	2:07.09
28	4	3	Simon Coombs	Australia	2:07.31
29	2	8	Mark Kwok Kin Ming	Hong Kong	2:07.61
30	4	8	Denislav Kalchev	Bulgaria	2:08.16
31	1	7	Aleksandr Savitsky	Kazakhstan	2:08.78
32	5	1	Desmond Koh	Singapore	2:08.99
33	1	2	Armando Serrano	Colombia	2:09.67
34	4	1	Gerald Koh	Singapore	2:11.76
35	1	5	Kire Filipovski	Macedonia	2:11.90
36	1	3	Wan Azlan Abdullah	Malaysia	2:12.11
37	1	6	Sultan Al-Otaibi	Kuwait	2:19.77
	1	1	Hem Lumphat	Cambodia	DSQ
	3	8	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	DSQ

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	6	Christian Keller	Germany	2:02.90
10	3	Martin van der Spoel	Netherlands	2:03.01
11	4	Luca Sacchi	Italy	2:03.49
12	2	Stev Theloke	Germany	2:03.94
13	1	Serghei Mariniuc	Moldova	2:04.11	NR
14	5	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	2:04.59
15	8	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	2:05.02
16	7	Jo Yoshimi	Japan	2:05.42

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Attila Czene	Hungary	1:59.91	OR
	4	Jani Sievinen	Finland	2:00.13
	6	Curtis Myden	Canada	2:01.13	NR
4	5	Marcel Wouda	Netherlands	2:01.45
5	3	Matthew Dunn	Australia	2:01.57
6	2	Greg Burgess	United States	2:02.56
7	7	Tom Dolan	United States	2:03.89
8	8	Xavier Marchand	France	2:04.29

References

1. "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
2. "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996 . LA84 Foundation. pp. 48–49. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
3. "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Finals" (PDF). Atlanta 1996 . LA84 Foundation. p. 49. Retrieved 11 September 2017.

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming