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

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 butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on October 16 and October 18.[1] This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

GoldKevin Berry
 Australia
SilverCarl Robie
 United States
BronzeFred Schmidt
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Carl Robie  United States 2:10.0
2 Atsushi Obayashi  Japan 2:15.1
3 Antonio Rastrelli  Italy 2:17.3
4 Hermann Lotter  Germany 2:18.2
5 Vítor da Fonseca  Portugal 2:18.3
6 Narong Chok-Umnuay  Thailand 2:32.5

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Kevin Berry  Australia 2:11.0
2 Kosuke Sato  Japan 2:12.4
3 Daniel Sherry  Canada 2:12.9
4 David Gerrard  New Zealand 2:16.3
5 Avraham Melamed  Israel 2:20.7
6 Carlos Canepa  Peru 2:24.9
7 Joaquín Pujol  Spain 2:28.3

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Luis Nicolao  Argentina 2:15.0
2 John Stark  Australia 2:15.3
3 Valentin Kuzmin  Soviet Union 2:15.5
4 Werner Freitag  Germany 2:16.9
5 Juan Alanís  Mexico 2:23.9
6 Bernard Chan  Malaysia 2:26.6

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Phil Riker  United States 2:12.6
2 Brian Jenkins  Great Britain 2:15.5
3 Oleg Fotin  Soviet Union 2:17.3
4 Gabriel Altamirano  Mexico 2:17.9
5 Wolfgang Platzeck  Germany 2:18.7
6 Volker Deckardt  Austria 2:21.3
7 Dick Langerhorst  Netherlands 2:22.5

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Brett Hill  Australia 2:12.8
2 Fred Schmidt  United States 2:13.3
3 Yoshinori Kadonaga  Japan 2:14.5
4 Giampiero Fossati  Italy 2:17.2
5 Ralph Hutton  Canada 2:20.8
6 Gustavo Ocampo  Peru 2:31.4

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Kevin Berry  Australia 2:06.6 WR
Carl Robie  United States 2:07.5
Fred Schmidt  United States 2:09.3
4 Philip Riker  United States 2:11.0
5 Valentin Kuzmin  Soviet Union 2:11.3
6 Yoshinori Kadonaga  Japan 2:12.6
7 Brett Hill  Australia 2:12.8
8 Daniel Sherry  Canada 2:14.6

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. ↑ "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
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