The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 2. 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 Klaus Katzur 2:26.32 Q 2 Bill Mahony 2:26.71 3 Roger-Philippe Menu 2:30.05 4 Guðjón Guðmundsson 2:32.40 5 Sokhon Yi 2:34.77 6 János Tóth 2:37.40
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Nobutaka Taguchi 2:23.45 Q 2 Felipe Muñoz 2:25.99 Q 3 Pedro Balcells 2:29.29 4 Robert Stoddart 2:30.08 5 Cezary Śmiglak 2:34.51 6 Morkal Faruk 2:43.69 7 Piero Ferracuti 2:45.73
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 David Wilkie 2:24.54 Q 2 Walter Kusch 2:26.43 Q 3 Steffen Kriechbaum 2:30.09 4 Malcolm O'Connell 2:31.21 5 Jean-Pierre Dubey 2:31.56 6 Gustavo Salcedo 2:32.81 7 Osvaldo Boretto 2:31.84 DSQ
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Rick Colella 2:25.40 Q 2 Vladimir Kosinsky 2:28.00 3 Angel Chakarov 2:30.27 4 Andreas Hellmann 2:32.60 5 Liam Ball 2:33.47 6 Nigel Johnson 2:34.37 7 Karl Christian Koch 2:38.47
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Igor Cherdakov 2:26.21 Q 2 Brian Job 2:26.91 3 José Sylvio Fiolo 2:30.21 4 Rainer Hradetzky 2:32.48 5 Amman Jaalmani 2:33.54 6 Michele Di Pietro 2:36.49
Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 John Hencken 2:24.88 Q 2 Nikolay Pankin 2:26.71 3 Paul Jarvie 2:27.83 4 Mike Whitaker 2:33.47 5 Rudi Vingerhoets 2:36.89 6 Gregor Betz 2:36.96 7 Alfredo Hunger 2:37.20 8 Alejandro Cabrera 2:56.60
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes John Hencken 2:21.55 WR David Wilkie 2:23.67 Nobutaka Taguchi 2:23.88 4 Rick Colella 2:24.28 5 Felipe Muñoz 2:26.44 6 Walter Kusch 2:26.55 7 Igor Cherdakov 2:27.15 8 Klaus Katzur 2:27.44
Key: WR = World record
References
External links Men 200m Breaststroke Swimming Olympic Games 1972 Munich (FRG)