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

Swimming at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mwomen
Individual medley
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

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

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

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

  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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