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

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 6, 1973
Competitors	27 from 20 nations
Winning time	2:03.32 CR
Medalists
Robin Backhaus    United States   Steve Gregg    United States   Hartmut Flöckner    East Germany
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The men's 200 metre butterfly 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	Mark Spitz (USA)	2:00.70	Munich, West Germany	28 August 1972
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	Brian Brinkley	United Kingdom	2:05.35	CR
6 September	Heat 2	Robin Backhaus	United States	2:04.93	CR
6 September	Heat 4	Steve Gregg	United States	2:04.59	CR
6 September	Final	Robin Backhaus	United States	2:03.32	CR

Results[]

Heats[]

27 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1][2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Steve Gregg	United States	2:04.59	Q, CR
2	4	-	Hartmut Flöckner	East Germany	2:04.60	Q
3	2	-	Robin Backhaus	United States	2:04.93	Q, CR
4	1	-	Brian Brinkley	Great Britain	2:05.35	Q, CR
5	3	-	Jorge Delgado	Ecuador	2:05.64	Q
6	3	-	Folkert Meeuw	West Germany	2:06.04	Q
7	2	-	András Hargitay	Hungary	2:06.12	Q
8	4	-	Jorge Jaramillo		2:07.28	Q
9	1	-	Hideaki Hara		2:07.75
10	3	-	Ross Seymour	Australia	2:07.86
11	1	-		East Germany	2:07.87
12	4	-		Soviet Union	2:08.82
13	1	-	Miguel Lang	Spain	2:10.06
14	2	-		Australia	2:10.83
15	2	-	Ignacio Álvarez	Mexico	2:11.50
16	4	-	Csaba Sós	Hungary	2:11.60
17	3	-	Vasil Dobrev	Bulgaria	2:11.95
18	4	-	Angelo Tozzi	Italy	2:12.13
19	2	-		Brazil	2:12.29
20	4	-		Canada	2:12.39
21	3	-	Ian Mackenzie	Canada	2:12.61
22	2	-	Mikhail Gorelik	Soviet Union	2:14.37
23	4	-	Eugen Almer	Romania	2:19.05
24	2	-		Luxembourg	2:19.12
25	3	-	John Daly		2:21.82
26	1	-	José Ferraioli		2:22.21
27	2	-	O. Mehmat		2:43.75
–	1	-	Anders Bellbring	Sweden	Did not start
–	3	-	Ali Gharbi		Did not start
–	1	-		Brazil	Did not start

Final[]

The results of the final are below.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	Robin Backhaus	United States	2:03.32	CR
	-	Steve Gregg	United States	2:03.58
	-	Hartmut Flöckner	East Germany	2:03.84
4	-	Brian Brinkley	Great Britain	2:03.94	NR[4]
5	-	Jorge Delgado	Ecuador	2:04.03
6	-	András Hargitay	Hungary	2:04.10
7	-	Folkert Meeuw	West Germany	2:05.33
8	-	Jorge Jaramillo		2:10.36

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