The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on 16 and 18 October. 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.
Results
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Carl Robie 2:10.0 Q, 2 Atsushi Obayashi 2:15.1 Q 3 Antonio Rastrelli 2:17.3 4 Hermann Lotter 2:18.2 5 Vítor da Fonseca 2:18.3 6 Narong Chok-Umnuay 2:32.5
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Kevin Berry 2:11.0 Q 2 Kosuke Sato 2:12.4 Q 3 Daniel Sherry 2:12.9 Q 4 David Gerrard 2:16.3 Q 5 Avraham Melamed 2:20.7 6 Carlos Canepa 2:24.9 7 Joaquín Pujol 2:28.3
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Luis Nicolao 2:15.0 Q 2 John Stark 2:15.3 Q 3 Valentin Kuzmin 2:15.5 Q 4 Werner Freitag 2:16.9 Q 5 Juan Alanís 2:23.9 6 Bernard Chan 2:26.6
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Phil Riker 2:12.6 Q 2 Brian Jenkins 2:15.5 Q 3 Oleg Fotin 2:17.3 4 Gabriel Altamirano 2:17.9 5 Wolfgang Platzeck 2:18.7 6 Volker Deckardt 2:21.3 7 Dick Langerhorst 2:22.5
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Brett Hill 2:12.8 Q 2 Fred Schmidt 2:13.3 Q 3 Yoshinori Kadonaga 2:14.5 Q 4 Giampiero Fossati 2:17.2 Q 5 Ralph Hutton 2:20.8 6 Gustavo Ocampo 2:31.4
Semifinals Semifinal 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Carl Robie 2:09.3 Q, 2 Fred Schmidt 2:11.5 Q 3 Brett Hill 2:11.9 Q 4 Valentin Kuzmin 2:11.9 Q 5 Kosuke Sato 2:13.4 6 Werner Freitag 2:13.5 7 Luis Nicolao 2:13.7 8 John Stark 2:18.4
Semifinal 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Kevin Berry 2:09.8 Q 2 Phil Riker 2:09.9 Q 3 Yoshinori Kadonaga 2:12.3 Q 4 Daniel Sherry 2:12.9 Q 5 Atsushi Obayashi 2:14.1 6 David Gerrard 2:15.4 7 Brian Jenkins 2:15.5 8 Giampiero Fossati 2:18.1
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Kevin Berry 2:06.6 WR Carl Robie 2:07.5 Fred Schmidt 2:09.3 4 Philip Riker 2:11.0 5 Valentin Kuzmin 2:11.3 6 Yoshinori Kadonaga 2:12.6 7 Brett Hill 2:12.8 8 Daniel Sherry 2:14.6
Key: WR = World record
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