The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 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 Martyn Woodroffe 2:11.6 2 Yasuo Takada 2:13.3 3 Avraham Melamed 2:15.4 4 Ron Jacks 2:18.1 5 Raúl Villagómez 2:22.4 6 Arturo Carranza 2:47.3
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Peter Feil 2:11.9 2 Gabriel Altamirano 2:12.1 3 Tom Arusoo 2:12.7 4 Sergey Konov 2:13.1 5 Eduardo Orejuela 2:23.4
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 John Ferris 2:10.6 2 Folkert Meeuw 2:11.1 3 John Thurley 2:12.5 4 Giampiero Fossati 2:18.2 5 Jacek Krawczyk 2:22.1
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Mark Spitz 2:10.6 2 Satoshi Maruya 2:14.2 3 Lutz Stoklasa 2:16.4 4 Tomas Becerra 2:16.8 5 Robert Cusack 2:19.4 6 Angelo Tozzi 2:20.9 7 José Ferraioli 2:23.4
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Viktor Sharygin 2:10.9 2 Carl Robie 2:11.1 3 Valentin Kuzmin 2:11.5 4 Dick Langerhorst 2:17.4 5 Graham Dunn 2:17.5 6 Ramiro Benavides 2:24.3 7 Leroy Goff 2:25.3
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Carl Robie 2:08.7 Martyn Woodroffe 2:09.0 John Ferris 2:09.3 4 Valentin Kuzmin 2:10.6 5 Peter Feil 2:10.9 6 Folkert Meeuw 2:11.5 7 Viktor Sharygin 2:11.9 8 Mark Spitz 2:13.5
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