Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	24 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	36 from 31 nations
Winning time	2:12.57
Medalists
Norbert Rózsa  Hungary Károly Güttler  Hungary Andrey Korneyev  Russia

Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m		women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
4 × 200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 24 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.^[1]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Mike Barrowman (USA)	2:10.16	Barcelona, Spain	29 July 1992
Olympic record	Mike Barrowman (USA)	2:10.16	Barcelona, Spain	29 July 1992

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Károly Güttler	Hungary	2:13.89	Q
2	5	4	Andrey Korneyev	Russia	2:14.11	Q
3	5	5	Kurt Grote	United States	2:14.63	Q
4	3	5	Norbert Rózsa	Hungary	2:14.66	Q
5	3	6	Nick Gillingham	Great Britain	2:14.96	Q
6	4	3	Phil Rogers	Australia	2:14.97	Q
7	5	2	Marek Krawczyk	Poland	2:15.17	Q
8	5	6	Eric Wunderlich	United States	2:15.18	Q
9	4	2	Jean-Christophe Sarnin	France	2:15.27	q
10	3	3	Ryan Mitchell	Australia	2:15.31	q
11	3	4	Akira Hayashi	Japan	2:15.37	q
12	5	3	Andrey Ivanov	Russia	2:15.56	q
13	3	7	Joaquín Fernández	Spain	2:16.05	q
14	5	7	Jonathan Cleveland	Canada	2:16.08	q
15	4	5	Frédérik Deburghgraeve	Belgium	2:16.10	q, WD
16	3	8	Mario González	Cuba	2:16.15	q
17	2	5	Valērijs Kalmikovs	Latvia	2:17.07	q, NR
18	3	1	Daniel Málek	Czech Republic	2:17.08
19	2	8	José Couto	Portugal	2:17.28	NR
20	4	1	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	2:17.32
21	2	6	Aliaksandr Hukau	Belarus	2:17.49
22	5	1	Dmytro Ivanusa	Ukraine	2:17.54
23	4	8	Stéphan Perrot	France	2:18.58
24	3	2	Wang Yiwu	China	2:19.13
25	2	3	Elvin Chia	Malaysia	2:20.39
26	4	7	Børge Mørk	Norway	2:20.42
27	4	8	Vadim Alexeev	Israel	2:20.47
28	2	2	Christophe Verdino	Monaco	2:20.77
29	2	4	Vadim Tatarov	Moldova	2:21.34
30	1	5	Roberto Bonilla	Guatemala	2:21.86
31	2	1	Todd Torres	Puerto Rico	2:22.66
32	2	7	Nerijus Beiga	Lithuania	2:23.40
33	1	4	Francisco Suriano	El Salvador	2:25.57
34	1	3	Huang Chih-yung	Chinese Taipei	2:25.96
	1	6	Desmond Koh	Singapore	DNS
	5	8	Paul Kent	New Zealand	DNS

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	6	Andrey Ivanov	Russia	2:14.37
10	1	Mario González	Cuba	2:15.11	NR
11	5	Ryan Mitchell	Australia	2:15.63
12	2	Joaquín Fernández	Spain	2:16.05
13	8	Valērijs Kalmikovs	Latvia	2:16.23	NR
14	4	Jean-Christophe Sarnin	France	2:16.26
15	1	Jonathan Cleveland	Canada	2:16.39
16	3	Akira Hayashi	Japan	2:16.69

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Norbert Rózsa	Hungary	2:12.57
	4	Károly Güttler	Hungary	2:13.03
	5	Andrey Korneyev	Russia	2:13.17
4	2	Nick Gillingham	Great Britain	2:14.37
5	7	Phil Rogers	Australia	2:14.79
6	1	Marek Krawczyk	Poland	2:14.84	NR
7	8	Eric Wunderlich	United States	2:15.69
8	3	Kurt Grote	United States	2:16.05

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