Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 31 July and 2 August at the Swimming Stadium.^[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[]

Gold	John Davies Australia
Silver	Bowen Stassforth United States
Bronze	Herbert Klein Germany

Results[]

Heats[]

16 fastest swimmer advanced to semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Monte Nitzkowski	United States	2:40.6
2	Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil	France	2:43.4
3	Marek Petrusewicz	Poland	2:44.0
4	Juha Tikka	Finland	2:46.3
5	Brian Barnes	Great Britain	2:48.6
6	René Kohn	Luxembourg	2:59.3

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	John Davies	Australia	2:39.7
2	Jiro Nagasawa	Japan	2:40.4
3	Nikola Trojanović	Yugoslavia	2:42.4
4	Bengt Rask	Sweden	2:45.3
5	Ludovicus Schoenmaekers	Belgium	2:46.5
6	Yury Kurchashov	Soviet Union	2:47.3
7	Alfons Oehy	Switzerland	2:54.8
8	Muhammad Bashir	Pakistan	3:01.3

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Ľudovít Komadel	Czechoslovakia	2:38.9
2	Orlando Cossani	Argentina	2:39.6
3	Takayoshi Kajikawa	Japan	2:39.6
4	Walter Ocampo	Mexico	2:44.8
5	Octavio Mobiglia	Brazil	2:46.1
6	Giorgio Grilz	Italy	–	disqualified

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bowen Stassforth	United States	2:39.3
2	David Hawkins	Australia	2:41.2
3	George Portelance	Canada	2:42.5
4	Pyotr Skripchenkov	Soviet Union	2:47.3
5	Blago Barbieri	Yugoslavia	2:47.3
6	Knud Gleie	Denmark	2:51.4
7	Vladimír Skovajsa	Czechoslovakia	2:53.3

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gerald Holan	United States	2:36.8
2	Maurice Lusien	France	2:40.9
3	Nobuyasu Hirayama	Japan	2:41.5
4	Adhemar Grijó Filho	Brazil	2:47.6
5	Habib Suharko	Indonesia	2:51.3

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Herbert Klein	Germany	2:37.0
2	Daan Buijze	Netherlands	2:41.9
3	Vladimir Borisenko	Soviet Union	2:43.2
4	Aulis Kähkönen	Finland	2:43.8
5	Manuel Sanguily	Cuba	2:44.5
6	Vlastimil Linhart	Czechoslovakia	2:48.0
7	Awad Moukhtar Halloudah	Egypt	2:50.5
8	Eduardo Barbeiro	Portugal	3:04.6

Semifinals[]

Eight fastest swimmers advanced to final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	John Davies	Australia	2:36.8
2	Ľudovít Komadeľ	Czechoslovakia	2:38.8
3	Nobuyasu Hirayama	Japan	2:39.1
4	Gerald Holan	United States	2:39.2
5	Monte Nitzkowski	United States	2:41.4
6	Daan Buijze	Netherlands	2:42.6
7	Orlando Cossani	Argentina	2:43.1
8	George Portelance	Canada	2:43.8

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Herbert Klein	Germany	2:37.0
2	Takayoshi Kajikawa	Japan	2:37.3
3	Bowen Stassforth	United States	2:38.7
4	Jiro Nagasawa	Japan	2:39.0
5	Maurice Lusien	France	2:39.1
6	David Hawkins	Australia	2:39.8
7	Nikola Trojanović	Yugoslavia	2:41.8
8	Vladimir Borisenko	Soviet Union	2:46.2

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	John Davies	Australia	2:34.4	OR
	Bowen Stassforth	United States	2:34.7
	Herbert Klein	Germany	2:35.9
4	Nobuyasu Hirayama	Japan	2:37.4
5	Takayoshi Kajikawa	Japan	2:38.6
6	Jiro Nagasawa	Japan	2:39.1
7	Maurice Lusien	France	2:39.8
8	Ľudovít Komadeľ	Czechoslovakia	2:40.1