Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m		women
200 m	men
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Individual medley
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1964 Summer Olympics took place between October 13 and October 15.^[1] This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Ian O'Brien  Australia
Silver	Georgy Prokopenko  Soviet Union
Bronze	Chet Jastremski  United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Ian O'Brien	Australia	2:31.4
2	Tom Trethewey	United States	2:33.4
3	Klaus Katzur	Germany	2:36.7
4	Farid Zablith Filho	Brazil	2:45.2
5	Wieger Mensonides	Netherlands	2:47.4
6	Huỳnh Văn Hải	South Vietnam	2:51.6

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Egon Henninger	Germany	2:30.1
2	Heorhiy Prokopenko	Soviet Union	2:30.3
3	Ferenc Lenkei	Hungary	2:38.6
4	Peter Tonkin	Australia	2:39.3
5	Hemmie Vriens	Netherlands	2:40.8
6	Amman Jalmaani	Philippines	2:44.7
7	Elliot Chenaux	Puerto Rico	2:52.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Wayne Anderson	United States	2:31.5
2	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:34.1
3	Rolando Landrito	Philippines	2:41.9
4	Gian Corrado Gross	Italy	2:42.8
5	Jin Jang-rim	South Korea	2:48.6

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kenjiro Matsumoto	Japan	2:33.8
2	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:35.6
3	Willi Messner	Germany	2:36.0
4	Neil Nicholson	Great Britain	2:36.6
5	Gershon Shefa	Israel	2:40.6
6	Cesare Caramelli	Italy	2:40.9
7	Miguel Angel Navarro	Argentina	2:49.7

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Chet Jastremski	United States	2:30.5
2	Yoshiaki Shikishi	Japan	2:32.3
3	Aleksandr T'ut'ak'aevi	Soviet Union	2:36.9
4	John Oravainen	Australia	2:38.7
5	Nazario Padrón	Spain	2:40.5
6	Rudolf Brack	Switzerland	2:46.0
7	Cheah Tong Kim	Malaysia	2:46.2
8	Charles Fox	Zambia	2:49.1

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ian O'Brien	Australia	2:27.8	WR
	Georgy Prokopenko	Soviet Union	2:28.2
	Chet Jastremski	United States	2:29.6
4	Aleksandr T'ut'ak'aevi	Soviet Union	2:31.0
5	Egon Henninger	United Team of Germany	2:31.1
6	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:33.6
7	Wayne Anderson	United States	2:35.0
8	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:38.1

Key: WR = World record

References