The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1968 Summer Olympics was held from 21 to 22 October 1968 at the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Competition format
The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best eight times in the heats advance to the final.
Schedule All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)
DateTimeRound 21 October 10:00 Heats 22 October 17:00 Final
Results
Heats Heat 1 Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Note 1 3 Bill Mahony 2:36.4 2 6 Ian O'Brien 2:36.8 4 Theo Bolkart 4 5 Thomas Aretz 2:39.0 5 8 José Sylvio Fiolo 2:42.1 6 1 Nicolas Gilliard 2:44.0 7 7 Rafael Hernández Rojas 2:44.8 8 2 Eduardo Moreno 2:46.7
Heat 2 Rank Lane Athlete Country Time Note 1 5 Philip Long 2:33.1 2 6 Egon Henninger 2:34.2 3 3 Michael Günther 2:40.7 4 7 Alberto Forelli 2:41.7 5 4 Roger Roberts 2:42.2 6 2 Leiknir Jónsson 2:48.8
Heat 3 Rank Lane Athlete Country Time Note 1 2 Vladimir Kosinsky 2:31.9 2 5 Nobutaka Taguchi 2:35.5 3 6 Ken Merten 2:37.0 4 8 Liam Ball 2:39.8 5 1 José Durán 2:40.3 6 3 Józef Klukowski 2:41.6 7 4 Gershon Shefa 2:42.6 8 7 Abel Muñoz 3:02.8
Heat 4 Rank Lane Athlete Country Time Note 1 2 Brian Job 2:31.5 2 4 Nikolay Pankin 2:33.1 3 7 Osamu Tsurumine 2:33.9 4 6 Ladislau Koszta 2:36.4 5 5 Osvaldo Boretto 2:38.8 6 8 Stuart Roberts 2:39.1 7 1 Slavko Kurbanović 2:39.9 8 3 Yohan Kende 2:44.3
Heat 5 Rank Lane Athlete Country Time Note 1 3 Felipe Muñoz 2:31.1 2 2 Yevhen Mykhailov 2:32.8 3 5 Klaus Katzur 2:36.2 4 7 Thomas Johnsson 2:38.0 5 6 Amman Jalmaani 2:42.6 6 4 Ivan Gomina 2:45.0
Final
Rank Lane Athlete Country Time Notes 4 Felipe Muñoz 2:28.7 3 Vladimir Kosinsky 2:29.2 5 Brian Job 2:29.9 4 7 Nikolay Pankin 2:30.3 5 6 Yevgeny Mikhaylov 2:32.8 6 8 Egon Henninger 2:33.2 7 2 Philip Long 2:33.6 8 1 Osamu Tsurumine 2:34.9
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