Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m		women
200 m	men
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Individual medley
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
4 × 200 m	men
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
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The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1964 Summer Olympics took place between October 13 and October 15.^[1] 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.

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Ian O'Brien  Australia
Silver	Georgy Prokopenko  Soviet Union
Bronze	Chet Jastremski  United States

Results[edit]

Heats[edit]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Ian O'Brien	Australia	2:31.4	Q, OR
2	Tom Trethewey	United States	2:33.4	Q
3	Klaus Katzur	United Team of Germany	2:36.7	Q
4	Farid Zablith Filho	Brazil	2:45.2
5	Wieger Mensonides	Netherlands	2:47.4
6	Huỳnh Văn Hải	Vietnam	2:51.6

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Egon Henninger	United Team of Germany	2:30.1	Q, OR
2	Georgy Prokopenko	Soviet Union	2:30.3	Q
3	Ferenc Lenkei	Hungary	2:38.6	Q
4	Peter Tonkin	Australia	2:39.3
5	Hemmie Vriens	Netherlands	2:40.8
6	Amman Jalmaani	Philippines	2:44.7
7	Elliot Chenaux	Puerto Rico	2:52.5

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Wayne Anderson	United States	2:31.5	Q
2	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:34.1	Q
3	Rolando Landrito	Philippines	2:41.9
4	Gian Corrado Gross	Italy	2:42.8
5	Jin Jang-rim	South Korea	2:48.6

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kenjiro Matsumoto	Japan	2:33.8	Q
2	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:35.6	Q
3	Willi Messner	United Team of Germany	2:36.0	Q
4	Neil Nicholson	Great Britain	2:36.6	Q
5	Gershon Shefa	Israel	2:40.6
6	Cesare Caramelli	Italy	2:40.9
7	Miguel Angel Navarro	Argentina	2:49.7

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Chet Jastremski	United States	2:30.5	Q
2	Yoshiaki Shikiishi	Japan	2:32.3	Q
3	Aleksandr Tutakayev	Soviet Union	2:36.9	Q
4	John Oravainen	Australia	2:38.7	Q
5	Nazario Padrón	Spain	2:40.5
6	Rudolf Brack	Switzerland	2:46.0
7	Cheah Tong Kim	Malaysia	2:46.2
8	Charles Fox	Northern Rhodesia	2:49.1

Semifinals[edit]

Semifinal 1[edit]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chet Jastremski	United States	2:32.1	Q
2	Wayne Anderson	United States	2:32.6	Q
3	Egon Henninger	United Team of Germany	2:33.3	Q
4	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:33.3	Q
5	Tom Trethewey	United States	2:34.5
6	Willi Messner	United Team of Germany	2:35.5
7	Klaus Katzur	United Team of Germany	2:37.3
8	Ferenc Lenkei	Hungary	2:37.5

Semifinal 2[edit]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ian O'Brien	Australia	2:28.7	Q, OR
2	Georgy Prokopenko	Soviet Union	2:29.7	Q
3	Aleksandr Tutakayev	Soviet Union	2:30.5	Q
4	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:33.5	Q
5	Kenjiro Matsumoto	Japan	2:34.3
6	Yoshiaki Shikiishi	Japan	2:34.5
7	John Oravainen	Australia	2:39.6
8	Neil Nicholson	Great Britain	2:39.9

Final[edit]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ian O'Brien	Australia	2:27.8	WR
	Georgy Prokopenko	Soviet Union	2:28.2
	Chet Jastremski	United States	2:29.6
4	Aleksandr Tutakayev	Soviet Union	2:31.0
5	Egon Henninger	United Team of Germany	2:31.1
6	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:33.6
7	Wayne Anderson	United States	2:35.0
8	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:38.1

Key: WR = World record

References[edit]