The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 31 July and 2 August at the Swimming Stadium. 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.

Results

Heats 16 fastest swimmer advanced to semifinals.

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Monte Nitzkowski 2:40.6 2 Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil 2:43.4 3 Marek Petrusewicz 2:44.0 4 Juha Tikka 2:46.3 5 Brian Barnes 2:48.6 6 René Kohn 2:59.3

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 John Davies 2:39.7 2 Jiro Nagasawa 2:40.4 3 Nikola Trojanović 2:42.4 4 Bengt Rask 2:45.3 5 Ludovicus Schoenmaekers 2:46.5 6 Yury Kurchashov 2:47.3 7 Alfons Oehy 2:54.8 8 Muhammad Bashir 3:01.3

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ľudovít Komadel 2:38.9 2 Orlando Cossani 2:39.6 3 Takayoshi Kajikawa 2:39.6 4 Walter Ocampo 2:44.8 5 Octavio Mobiglia 2:46.1 6 Giorgio Grilz – disqualified

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Bowen Stassforth 2:39.3 2 David Hawkins 2:41.2 3 George Portelance 2:42.5 4 Pyotr Skripchenkov 2:47.3 5 Blago Barbieri 2:47.3 6 Knud Gleie 2:51.4 7 Vladimír Skovajsa 2:53.3

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Jerry Holan 2:36.8 2 Maurice Lusien 2:40.9 3 Nobuyasu Hirayama 2:41.5 4 Adhemar Grijó Filho 2:47.6 5 Habib Suharko 2:51.3

Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Herbert Klein 2:37.0 2 Daan Buijze 2:41.9 3 Vladimir Borisenko 2:43.2 4 Aulis Kähkönen 2:43.8 5 Manuel Sanguily 2:44.5 6 Vlastimil Linhart 2:48.0 7 Awad Moukhtar Halloudah 2:50.5 8 Eduardo Barbeiro 3:04.6

Semifinals Eight fastest swimmers advanced to final.

Semifinal 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 John Davies 2:36.8 2 Ľudovít Komadeľ 2:38.8 3 Nobuyasu Hirayama 2:39.1 4 Gerald Holan 2:39.2 5 Monte Nitzkowski 2:41.4 6 Daan Buijze 2:42.6 7 Orlando Cossani 2:43.1 8 George Portelance 2:43.8

Semifinal 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Herbert Klein 2:37.0 2 Takayoshi Kajikawa 2:37.3 3 Bowen Stassforth 2:38.7 4 Jiro Nagasawa 2:39.0 5 Maurice Lusien 2:39.1 6 David Hawkins 2:39.8 7 Nikola Trojanović 2:41.8 8 Vladimir Borisenko 2:46.2

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes John Davies 2:34.4 OR Bowen Stassforth 2:34.7 Herbert Klein 2:35.9 4 Nobuyasu Hirayama 2:37.4 5 Takayoshi Kajikawa 2:38.6 6 Jiro Nagasawa 2:39.1 7 Maurice Lusien 2:39.8 8 Ľudovít Komadeľ 2:40.1

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

External links Men 200m Breaststroke Swimming Olympic Games 1952 Helsinki (FIN)