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

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1964 Summer Olympics took place between 13 and 15 October. 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 Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Ian O'Brien 2:31.4 Q, 2 Tom Trethewey 2:33.4 Q 3 Klaus Katzur 2:36.7 Q 4 Farid Zablith Filho 2:45.2 5 Wieger Mensonides 2:47.4 6 Huỳnh Văn Hải 2:51.6

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Egon Henninger 2:30.1 Q, 2 Georgy Prokopenko 2:30.3 Q 3 Ferenc Lenkei 2:38.6 Q 4 Peter Tonkin 2:39.3 5 Hemmie Vriens 2:40.8 6 Amman Jalmaani 2:44.7 7 Elliot Chenaux 2:52.5

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Wayne Anderson 2:31.5 Q 2 Osamu Tsurumine 2:34.1 Q 3 Rolando Landrito 2:41.9 4 Gian Corrado Gross 2:42.8 5 Jin Jang-rim 2:48.6

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Kenjiro Matsumoto 2:33.8 Q 2 Vladimir Kosinsky 2:35.6 Q 3 Willi Messner 2:36.0 Q 4 Neil Nicholson 2:36.6 Q 5 Gershon Shefa 2:40.6 6 Cesare Caramelli 2:40.9 7 Miguel Angel Navarro 2:49.7

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Chet Jastremski 2:30.5 Q 2 Yoshiaki Shikiishi 2:32.3 Q 3 Aleksandr Tutakayev 2:36.9 Q 4 John Oravainen 2:38.7 Q 5 Nazario Padrón 2:40.5 6 Rudolf Brack 2:46.0 7 Cheah Tong Kim 2:46.2 8 Charles Fox 2:49.1

Semifinals Semifinal 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Chet Jastremski 2:32.1 Q 2 Wayne Anderson 2:32.6 Q 3 Egon Henninger 2:33.3 Q 4 Osamu Tsurumine 2:33.3 Q 5 Tom Trethewey 2:34.5 6 Willi Messner 2:35.5 7 Klaus Katzur 2:37.3 8 Ferenc Lenkei 2:37.5

Semifinal 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Ian O'Brien 2:28.7 Q, 2 Georgy Prokopenko 2:29.7 Q 3 Aleksandr Tutakayev 2:30.5 Q 4 Vladimir Kosinsky 2:33.5 Q 5 Kenjiro Matsumoto 2:34.3 6 Yoshiaki Shikiishi 2:34.5 7 John Oravainen 2:39.6 8 Neil Nicholson 2:39.9

Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Ian O'Brien 2:27.8 WR Georgy Prokopenko 2:28.2 Chet Jastremski 2:29.6 4 Aleksandr Tutakayev 2:31.0 5 Egon Henninger 2:31.1 6 Osamu Tsurumine 2:33.6 7 Wayne Anderson 2:35.0 8 Vladimir Kosinsky 2:38.1

Key: WR = World record

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