The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1960 Summer Olympics took place on 31 August and 2 September in Rome, Italy. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. This race consisted of four lengths of the Stadio Olympico del Nuoto, a 50m Olympic size swimming pool.
Results
Heats
Five heats were held; the fastest sixteen swimmers advanced to the Semifinals. Because there was a tie for sixteenth place, a swim-off was held to determine the sixteenth swimmer to advance.
Key Advanced to Semifinals See Swim-Off Did Not Advance
Heat One Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Mike Troy United States 2:15.5 2 Kenzo Izutsu Japan 2:20.3 3 Grigory Kiselyov Soviet Union 2:24.6 4 Alexandru Popescu Romania 2:24.6 5 Ian Blyth Great Britain 2:24.9 6 Giampiero Fossati Italy 2:31.9 7 Bert Sitters Netherlands 2:36.6
Heat Two Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Fritz Dennerlein Italy 2:18.3 2 Valentin Kuzmin Soviet Union 2:19.3 3 Eulalio Ríos Alemán Mexico 2:22.7 4 Håkan Bengtsson Sweden 2:25.0 5 Wolfgang Sieber Germany 2:25.4 6 Gerrit Korteweg Netherlands 2:26.4 7 Cam Grout Canada 2:27.7
Heat Three Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Dave Gillanders United States 2:16.2 2 Luis Nicolao Argentina 2:23.9 3 Pavel Pazdírek Czechoslovakia 2:24.2 4 Amir Hussin Hamsain Philippines 2:27.9 5 Luís Vaz Jorge Portugal 2:28.9 6 Aldo Perseke Brazil 2:50.8 7 Lovro Radonjić Yugoslavia 3:00.6
Heat Four Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Neville Hayes Australia 2:18.1 2 Ilkka Suvanto Finland 2:23.9 3 Jürgen Bachmann Germany 2:25.0 4 Henri Vidil France 2:36.0 5 Heriberto de la Fe Spain 2:37.0 6 Ahiron Radjae Philippines 2:39.8
Heat Five Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Kevin Berry Australia 2:18.9 2 Haruo Yoshimuta Japan 2:19.4 3 Fernando Fanjul Argentina 2:25.2 4 László Kiss Hungary 2:31.0 5 José Vicente León Spain 2:31.4 6 Veljko Rogošić Yugoslavia 2:35.5 7 Fong Seow Hor Malaya 2:56.4
Swim-Off Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Jürgen Bachmann Germany 2:23.1 2 Håkan Bengtsson Sweden 2:25.1
Semifinals
Two heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. Those that advanced are highlighted.
Semifinal One Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Mike Troy United States 2:18.0 2 Neville Hayes Australia 2:21.6 3 Haruo Yoshimuta Japan 2:21.7 4 Kevin Berry Australia 2:23.1 5 Eulalio Ríos Alemán Mexico 2:24.2 6 Grigory Kiselyov Soviet Union 2:24.8 7 Luis Nicolao Argentina 2:26.8 8 Ian Blyth Great Britain 2:26.8
Semifinal Two Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Dave Gillanders United States 2:18.7 2 Valentin Kuzmin Soviet Union 2:19.1 3 Fritz Dennerlein Italy 2:20.5 4 Kenzo Izutsu Japan 2:21.5 5 Pavel Pazdírek Czechoslovakia 2:23.5 6 Jürgen Bachmann Germany 2:28.4 7 Alexandru Popescu Romania 2:28.5 – Ilkka Suvanto Finland DNF
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Mike Troy 2:12.8 WR Neville Hayes 2:14.6 Dave Gillanders 2:15.3 4 Fritz Dennerlein 2:16.0 5 Haruo Yoshimuta 2:18.3 6 Kevin Berry 2:18.5 7 Valentin Kuzmin 2:18.9 8 Kenzo Izutsu 2:19.4
Key: WR = World record
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