The men's 200 metre butterfly event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event took place on 18 July.
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Sean Maher 2:05.95 2 András Hargitay 2:06.20 3 Csaba Sós 2:06.71 4 Shinsuke Kayama 2:07.46 5 Gordon Hewit 2:07.60 6 Hugo Cuenca 2:11.06 - Lawrence Kwoh - DQ
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Michael Kraus 2:01.91 Q 2 Jorge Jaramillo 2:04.30 3 Jeff Van de Graaf 2:05.58 4 Doug Martin 2:06.81 5 Adi Prag 2:09.91 6 Steven Newkirk 2:17.84
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Steve Gregg 2:00.24 Q, OR 2 Brian Brinkley 2:01.93 Q 3 Hideaki Hara 2:04.68 4 Anders Bellbring 2:07.03 5 John Daly 2:07.13 6 Carlos González 2:20.92
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Bill Forrester 2:01.95 Q 2 George Nagy 2:03.33 3 Hartmut Flöckner 2:05.71 4 Ricardo Marmolejo 2:08.88 5 Paulo Frischknecht 2:20.51 - Ross Seymour - DQ
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Mike Bruner 2:01.35 Q 2 Jorge Delgado, Jr. 2:01.70 Q 3 Mikhail Gorelik 2:02.96 4 Bruce Rogers 2:04.51 5 Miguel Lang-Lenton 2:08.51 6 Anatoly Smirnov 2:10.50 7 François Deley 2:12.99 8 Julio Abreu 2:13.54
Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Roger Pyttel 2:00.28 Q 2 Oleksandr Manachynskiy 2:02.91 Q 3 Pär Arvidsson 2:03.79 4 Peter Broscienski 2:04.17 5 John Coutts 2:05.05 6 Ronald Woutering 2:07.31 7 Edwin Borja 2:10.61
Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Mike Bruner 1:59.23 WR Steve Gregg 1:59.54 Bill Forrester 1:59.96 4 Roger Pyttel 2:00.02 5 Michael Kraus 2:00.46 6 Brian Brinkley 2:01.49 7 Jorge Delgado, Jr. 2:01.95 8 Oleksandr Manachynskiy 2:04.61
References
External links Official Olympic Report