Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Men's 200 metre breaststroke at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 6, 1973
Competitors	31 from 24 nations
Winning time	2:19.28
Medalists
David Wilkie    Great Britain   John Hencken    United States   Nobutaka Taguchi    Japan
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The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.

Records[]

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

World record	John Hencken (USA)	2:20.52	Louisville, United States	24 August 1973
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 September	Heat 1	Mikhail Khryukin	Soviet Union	2:24.85	CR
6 September	Heat 2	David Wilkie	United Kingdom	2:20.94	CR
6 September	Final	David Wilkie	United Kingdom	2:19.28	WR

Results[]

Heats[]

31 swimmers participated in 4 heats. Th eight fastest times advanced to the final.^[1][2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	-	David Wilkie	Great Britain	2:20.94	Q, CR, CWR[3]
2	4	-	John Hencken	United States	2:21.50	Q
3	2	-	Igor Cherdakov	Soviet Union	2:24.30	Q
4	1	-	Mikhail Khryukin	Soviet Union	2:24.85	Q, CR
5	1	-	Nobutaka Taguchi		2:25.45	Q
6	2	-			2:25.87	Q
7	3	-	Rick Colella	United States	2:26.17	Q
8	3	-	Jürgen Glas	East Germany	2:27.77	Q
9	4	-	Felipe Muñoz	Mexico	2:28.34
10	2	-	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	2:29.08
11	3	-	Ove Wisloff	Norway	2:29.46
12	2	-	Pedro Balcells	Spain	2:30.52
13	4	-		East Germany	2:31.01
14	1	-	Peter Hrdlitschka	Canada	2:31.34
15	3	-	Steffen Kriechbaum	Austria	2:31.56
16	4	-	Cezary Smiglak	Poland	2:32.50
17	3	-		Poland	2:32.66
18	2	-	Mel Zajac	Canada	2:33.15
19	1	-		Australia	2:33.34
20	1	-	G. Islas	Mexico	2:33.99
21	4	-	Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro	Brazil	2:34.07
22	1	-	Alfredo Hunger		2:34.78
23	3	-			2:35.29
24	4	-	Bernard Combet	France	2:35.34
25	2	-	Zdravko Divjak	Yugoslavia	2:38.50
26	2	-	Orlando Catinchi		2:40.14
27	1	-	Carlos Nazario		2:43.79
28	3	-	Faruk Morkal		2:44.12
29	4	-	H. Ashfin		2:48.80
–	4	-	Angel Chakarov	Bulgaria	Did not start
–	3	-	Anders Norling	Sweden	Did not start

Final[]

The results of the final are below.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	David Wilkie	Great Britain	2:19.28	WR
	5	John Hencken	United States	2:19.95
	-	Nobutaka Taguchi		2:23.11
4	-	Mikhail Khryukin	Soviet Union	2:23.47
5	-			2:25.87
6	-	Rick Colella	United States	2:26.41
7	-	Jürgen Glas	East Germany	2:26.56
8	-	Igor Cherdakov	Soviet Union	2:28.18

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