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

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 butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 October.^[1] This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists[]

Gold	Carl Robie  United States
Silver	Martyn Woodroffe  Great Britain
Bronze	John Ferris  United States

Results[]

Heats[]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Martyn Woodroffe	Great Britain	2:11.6
2	Yasuo Takada	Japan	2:13.3
3	Avraham Melamed	Israel	2:15.4
4	Ron Jacks	Canada	2:18.1
5	Raúl Villagómez	Mexico	2:22.4
6	Arturo Carranza	El Salvador	2:47.3

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Peter Feil	Sweden	2:11.9
2	Gabriel Altamirano	Mexico	2:12.1
3	Tom Arusoo	Canada	2:12.7
4	Sergey Konov	Soviet Union	2:13.1
5	Eduardo Orejuela	Ecuador	2:23.4

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	John Ferris	United States	2:10.6
2	Folkert Meeuw	West Germany	2:11.1
3	John Thurley	Great Britain	2:12.5
4	Giampiero Fossati	Italy	2:18.2
5	Jacek Krawczyk	Poland	2:22.1

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Mark Spitz	United States	2:10.6
2	Satoshi Maruya	Japan	2:14.2
3	Lutz Stoklasa	West Germany	2:16.4
4	Tomas Becerra	Colombia	2:16.8
5	Robert Cusack	Australia	2:19.4
6	Angelo Tozzi	Italy	2:20.9
7	José Ferraioli	Puerto Rico	2:23.4

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Viktor Sharygin	Soviet Union	2:10.9
2	Carl Robie	United States	2:11.1
3	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	2:11.5
4	Dick Langerhorst	Netherlands	2:17.4
5	Graham Dunn	Australia	2:17.5
6	Ramiro Benavides	Guatemala	2:24.3
7	Leroy Goff	Philippines	2:25.3

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Carl Robie	United States	2:08.7
	Martyn Woodroffe	Great Britain	2:09.0
	John Ferris	United States	2:09.3
4	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	2:10.6
5	Peter Feil	Sweden	2:10.9
6	Folkert Meeuw	West Germany	2:11.5
7	Viktor Sharygin	Soviet Union	2:11.9
8	Mark Spitz	United States	2:13.5

References[]