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

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on 16 and 18 October.[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.

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
VenueYoyogi National Gymnasium
Date16 October 1964 (heats)
17 October 1964 (semifinals)
18 October 1964 (final)
Competitors32 from 19 nations
Winning time2:06.6 (WR)
Medalists
Kevin Berry  Australia
Carl Robie  United States
Fred Schmidt  United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Carl Robie United States2:10.0Q, OR
2Atsushi Obayashi Japan2:15.1Q
3Antonio Rastrelli Italy2:17.3
4Hermann Lotter United Team of Germany2:18.2
5Vítor da Fonseca Portugal2:18.3
6Narong Chok-Umnuay Thailand2:32.5

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Kevin Berry Australia2:11.0Q
2Kosuke Sato Japan2:12.4Q
3Daniel Sherry Canada2:12.9Q
4David Gerrard New Zealand2:16.3Q
5Avraham Melamed Israel2:20.7
6Carlos Canepa Peru2:24.9
7Joaquín Pujol Spain2:28.3

Heat 3

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Luis Nicolao Argentina2:15.0Q
2John Stark Australia2:15.3Q
3Valentin Kuzmin Soviet Union2:15.5Q
4Werner Freitag United Team of Germany2:16.9Q
5Juan Alanís Mexico2:23.9
6Bernard Chan Malaysia2:26.6

Heat 4

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Phil Riker United States2:12.6Q
2Brian Jenkins Great Britain2:15.5Q
3Oleg Fotin Soviet Union2:17.3
4Gabriel Altamirano Mexico2:17.9
5Wolfgang Platzeck United Team of Germany2:18.7
6Volker Deckardt Austria2:21.3
7Dick Langerhorst Netherlands2:22.5

Heat 5

RankAthleteCountryTimeNote
1Brett Hill Australia2:12.8Q
2Fred Schmidt United States2:13.3Q
3Yoshinori Kadonaga Japan2:14.5Q
4Giampiero Fossati Italy2:17.2Q
5Ralph Hutton Canada2:20.8
6Gustavo Ocampo Peru2:31.4

Semifinal 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Carl Robie United States2:09.3Q, OR
2Fred Schmidt United States2:11.5Q
3Brett Hill Australia2:11.9Q
4Valentin Kuzmin Soviet Union2:11.9Q
5Kosuke Sato Japan2:13.4
6Werner Freitag United Team of Germany2:13.5
7Luis Nicolao Argentina2:13.7
8John Stark Australia2:18.4

Semifinal 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Kevin Berry Australia2:09.8Q
2Phil Riker United States2:09.9Q
3Yoshinori Kadonaga Japan2:12.3Q
4Daniel Sherry Canada2:12.9Q
5Atsushi Obayashi Japan2:14.1
6David Gerrard New Zealand2:15.4
7Brian Jenkins Great Britain2:15.5
8Giampiero Fossati Italy2:18.1

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Kevin Berry Australia2:06.6WR
Carl Robie United States2:07.5
Fred Schmidt United States2:09.3
4Philip Riker United States2:11.0
5Valentin Kuzmin Soviet Union2:11.3
6Yoshinori Kadonaga Japan2:12.6
7Brett Hill Australia2:12.8
8Daniel Sherry Canada2:14.6

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
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