Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

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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.[1]

Heats[edit]

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Sean Maher  Great Britain 2:05.95
2 András Hargitay  Hungary 2:06.20
3 Csaba Sós  Hungary 2:06.71
4 Shinsuke Kayama  Japan 2:07.46
5 Gordon Hewit  Great Britain 2:07.60
6 Hugo Cuenca  Venezuela 2:11.06
- Lawrence Kwoh  Hong Kong - DQ

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Michael Kraus  West Germany 2:01.91 Q
2 Jorge Jaramillo  Colombia 2:04.30
3 Jeff Van de Graaf  Australia 2:05.58
4 Doug Martin  Canada 2:06.81
5 Adi Prag  Israel 2:09.91
6 Steven Newkirk  Virgin Islands 2:17.84

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Steve Gregg  United States 2:00.24 Q, OR
2 Brian Brinkley  Great Britain 2:01.93 Q
3 Hideaki Hara  Japan 2:04.68
4 Anders Bellbring  Sweden 2:07.03
5 John Daly  Puerto Rico 2:07.13
6 Carlos González  Panama 2:20.92

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Bill Forrester  United States 2:01.95 Q
2 George Nagy  Canada 2:03.33
3 Hartmut Flöckner  East Germany 2:05.71
4 Ricardo Marmolejo  Mexico 2:08.88
5 Paulo Frischknecht  Portugal 2:20.51
- Ross Seymour  Australia - DQ

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Mike Bruner  United States 2:01.35 Q
2 Jorge Delgado, Jr.  Ecuador 2:01.70 Q
3 Mikhail Gorelik  Soviet Union 2:02.96
4 Bruce Rogers  Canada 2:04.51
5 Miguel Lang-Lenton  Spain 2:08.51
6 Anatoly Smirnov  Soviet Union 2:10.50
7 François Deley  Belgium 2:12.99
8 Julio Abreu  Paraguay 2:13.54

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Roger Pyttel  East Germany 2:00.28 Q
2 Oleksandr Manachynskiy  Soviet Union 2:02.91 Q
3 Pär Arvidsson  Sweden 2:03.79
4 Peter Broscienski  West Germany 2:04.17
5 John Coutts  New Zealand 2:05.05
6 Ronald Woutering  Netherlands 2:07.31
7 Edwin Borja  Philippines 2:10.61

Final[edit]

Left-right: Gregg, Bruner, Forrester
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Mike Bruner  United States 1:59.23 WR
2 Steve Gregg  United States 1:59.54
3 Bill Forrester  United States 1:59.96
4 Roger Pyttel  East Germany 2:00.02
5 Michael Kraus  West Germany 2:00.46
6 Brian Brinkley  Great Britain 2:01.49
7 Jorge Delgado, Jr.  Ecuador 2:01.95
8 Oleksandr Manachynskiy  Soviet Union 2:04.61

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

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