Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

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Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
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	men	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
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place between 21 and 22 October.^[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	Felipe Muñoz  Mexico
Silver	Vladimir Kosinsky  Soviet Union
Bronze	Brian Job  United States

Results[]

Heats[]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Bill Mahony	Canada	2:36.4
2	Ian O'Brien	Australia	2:36.8
	Theo Bolkart	West Germany
4	Thomas Aretz	West Germany	2:39.0
5	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	2:42.1
6	Nicolas Gilliard	Switzerland	2:44.0
7	Rafael Hernández Rojas	Mexico	2:44.8
8	Eduardo Moreno	Mexico	2:46.7

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Philip Long	United States	2:33.1
2	Egon Henninger	East Germany	2:34.2
3	Michael Günther	West Germany	2:40.7
4	Alberto Forelli	Argentina	2:41.7
5	Roger Roberts	Great Britain	2:42.2
6	Leiknir Jónsson	Iceland	2:48.8

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:31.9
2	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	2:35.5
3	Ken Merten	United States	2:37.0
4	Liam Ball	Ireland	2:39.8
5	José Durán	Spain	2:40.3
6	Józef Klukowski	Poland	2:41.6
7	Gershon Shefa	Israel	2:42.6
8	Abel Muñoz	El Salvador	3:02.8

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Brian Job	United States	2:31.5
2	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	2:33.1
3	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:33.9
4	Ladislau Koszta	Romania	2:36.4
5	Osvaldo Boretto	Argentina	2:38.8
6	Stuart Roberts	Great Britain	2:39.1
7	Slavko Kurbanović	Yugoslavia	2:39.9
8	Yohan Kende	Israel	2:44.3

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Felipe Muñoz	Mexico	2:31.1
2	Yevhen Mykhailov	Soviet Union	2:32.8
3	Klaus Katzur	East Germany	2:36.2
4	Thomas Johnsson	Sweden	2:38.0
5	Amman Jalmaani	Philippines	2:42.6
6	Ivan Gomina	Colombia	2:45.0

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Felipe Muñoz	Mexico	2:28.7
	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:29.2
	Brian Job	United States	2:29.9
4	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	2:30.3
5	Yevgeny Mikhaylov	Soviet Union	2:32.8
6	Egon Henninger	East Germany	2:33.2
7	Philip Long	United States	2:33.6
8	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:34.9

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