Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium
Date	29 July 1984 (heats & final)
Competitors	56 from 36 nations
Winning time	1:47.44 WR
Medalists

The final of the men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on July 29, 1984.[1]

Records

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

World record	Michael Gross (FRG)	1:47.55	Munich, West Germany	8 June 1984
Olympic record	Sergey Koplyakov (URS)	1:49.81	Moscow, Soviet Union	21 July 1980

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
29 July	Heat 7	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:48.03	OR
29 July	Final A	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:47.44	WR

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	7	4	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:48.03	Q, OR
2	6	4	Mike Heath	United States	1:49.87	Q
3	4	4	Thomas Fahrner	West Germany	1:50.00	Q
4	3	4	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	1:50.73	Q
5	5	4	Jeff Float	United States	1:50.95	Q
6	5	3	Frank Drost	Netherlands	1:51.32	Q, NR
7	1	5	Peter Dale	Australia	1:51.42	Q, NR
8	7	5	Marco Dell'Uomo	Italy	1:51.67	Q
9	4	5	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	1:51.70	q
10	6	5	Thomas Lejdström	Sweden	1:51.76	q
10	4	3	Alex Baumann	Canada	1:51.76	q, WD
12	2	3	Paul Easter	Great Britain	1:51.80	q
13	5	6	Juan Carlos Vallejo	Spain	1:51.97	q, NR
14	3	5	Andrew Astbury	Great Britain	1:52.01	q
15	2	5	Hans Kroes	Netherlands	1:52.37	q
16	1	4	Peter Szmidt	Canada	1:52.48	q
17	6	3	Carlos Scanavino	Uruguay	1:52.70	q
18	5	5	Justin Lemberg	Australia	1:52.73
19	7	5	Borut Petrič	Yugoslavia	1:52.74
20	3	3	Jorge Fernandes	Brazil	1:53.03
21	2	8	Cyro Delgado	Brazil	1:53.22
22	2	4	Paolo Revelli	Italy	1:53.46
23	1	6	Franz Mortensen	Denmark	1:54.09	NR
24	6	2	Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	1:54.12	NR
25	1	2	Stéfan Voléry	Switzerland	1:54.19	NR
26	7	2	Hiroshi Sakamoto	Japan	1:54.71
27	1	7	Michael Miao	Chinese Taipei	1:55.01	NR
28	3	6	Javier Miralpeix	Spain	1:55.25
29	6	6	Jean-Marie François	Venezuela	1:55.28
30	1	3	Darjan Petrič	Yugoslavia	1:55.68
31	4	7	César Sánchez	Mexico	1:55.82
32	3	2	Gökhan Attaroglu	Turkey	1:55.92
33	2	6	Shigeo Ogata	Japan	1:55.97
34	7	7	Shen Jianqiang	China	1:56.08
35	5	2	Mike Davidson	New Zealand	1:56.20
36	2	2	Thierry Jacot	Switzerland	1:56.54
37	7	6	Fernando Cañales	Puerto Rico	1:56.60
38	5	7	Evert Johan Kroon	Netherlands Antilles	1:57.05
39	3	7	William Wilson	Philippines	1:57.18
40	2	7	Sean Nottage	Bahamas	1:57.54
41	6	7	Scott Newkirk	Virgin Islands	1:57.74
42	4	2	Carlos Romo	Mexico	1:58.77
43	4	6	Fabián Ferrari	Argentina	1:59.39
44	7	1	Mohamed Youssef	Egypt	1:59.71
45	4	1	Erik Rosskopf	Virgin Islands	2:02.04
46	2	1	Samuela Tupou	Fiji	2:02.22
47	5	1	Ingi Jónsson	Iceland	2:02.23
48	6	1	Tsang Yi Ming	Hong Kong	2:03.11
49	3	1	Ng Wing Hon	Hong Kong	2:03.66
50	7	8	Roberto Granados	Guatemala	2:05.21
51	1	1	Rodrigo Leal	Guatemala	2:05.96
52	1	8	Juan José Piro	Honduras	2:12.51
53	3	8	Trevor Ncala	Swaziland	2:15.30
54	4	8	Michele Piva	San Marino	2:15.39
55	5	8	Percy Sayegh	Lebanon	2:20.76
56	6	8	Rami Kantari	Lebanon	2:25.43

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	3	Paul Easter	Great Britain	1:51.70
10	6	Juan Carlos Vallejo	Spain	1:51.77	NR
11	7	Hans Kroes	Netherlands	1:52.36
12	4	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	1:52.44
13	8	Carlos Scanavino	Uruguay	1:52.54
14	1	Peter Szmidt	Canada	1:52.56
15	2	Andrew Astbury	Great Britain	1:53.02
16	5	Thomas Lejdström	Sweden	1:53.63

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:47.44	WR
	5	Mike Heath	United States	1:49.10
	3	Thomas Fahrner	West Germany	1:49.69
4	2	Jeff Float	United States	1:50.18
5	6	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	1:50.23	NR
6	7	Frank Drost	Netherlands	1:51.62
7	8	Marco Dell'Uomo	Italy	1:52.20
8	1	Peter Dale	Australia	1:53.84

References

"Swimming at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
"Los Angeles 1984: Swimming – Men's 200m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Los Angeles 1984. LA84 Foundation. pp. 504–505. Retrieved March 6, 2017.

External links

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[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2017.

[2] "Los Angeles 1984: Swimming – Men's 200m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Los Angeles 1984. LA84 Foundation. pp. 504–505. Retrieved March 6, 2017.

Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

Olympic champions in men's 200 m freestyle
220 yards	1904: Charles Daniels (USA)
200 metres	1900: Frederick Lane (AUS) 1968: Michael Wenden (AUS) 1972: Mark Spitz (USA) 1976: Bruce Furniss (USA) 1980: Sergey Koplyakov (URS) 1984: Michael Gross (FRG) 1988: Duncan Armstrong (AUS) 1992: Yevgeny Sadovyi (EUN) 1996: Danyon Loader (NZL) 2000: Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED) 2004: Ian Thorpe (AUS) 2008: Michael Phelps (USA) 2012: Yannick Agnel (FRA) 2016: Sun Yang (CHN)