Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
VenuePiscines Bernat Picornell
Date30 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors46 from 32 nations
Winning time1:56.26 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Melvin Stewart  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Danyon Loader  New Zealand
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Franck Esposito  France
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Swimming at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.[1]

Records

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

World record  Melvin Stewart (USA) 1:55.69 Perth, Australia 12 January 1991
Olympic record  Michael Gross (FRG) 1:56.94 Seoul, South Korea 24 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nation Time Record
30 July Final A Melvin Stewart  United States 1:56.26 OR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 4 Melvin Stewart  United States 1:56.99 Q
2 5 1 Danyon Loader  New Zealand 1:58.15 Q
3 5 5 Franck Esposito  France 1:58.75 Q
4 6 4 Martin Roberts  Australia 1:58.91 Q
5 7 3 Denis Pankratov  Unified Team 1:59.00 Q
6 7 1 Rafał Szukała  Poland 1:59.51 Q
7 5 2 Robert Pinter  Romania 1:59.59 Q
8 5 4 Keiichi Kawanaka  Japan 1:59.96 Q
9 6 8 Martin Herrmann  Germany 2:00.47 q
10 6 2 Chris-Carol Bremer  Germany 2:00.49 q
11 7 5 Can Ergenekan  Turkey 2:00.82 q, NR
12 6 3 David Wharton  United States 2:00.84 q
13 6 7 Simon McKillop-Davies  Australia 2:00.92 q
14 5 7 Marco Braida  Italy 2:01.18 q
15 2 5 Eduardo Piccinini  Brazil 2:01.20 q, NR
6 6 Tom Ponting  Canada q
17 5 3 Tomohiro Miyoshi  Japan 2:01.27
18 7 6 Konrad Gałka  Poland 2:01.33
19 4 2 Matjaž Kozelj  Slovenia 2:01.39 NR
7 7 André Teixeira  Brazil
21 4 4 José Luis Ballester  Spain 2:01.41
22 4 5 Simon Wainwright  Great Britain 2:01.53
23 6 5 Uğur Taner  Turkey 2:01.61
24 5 8 Jorge Pérez  Spain 2:01.63
25 6 1 Christophe Bordeau  France 2:01.99
26 7 8 Edward Parenti  Canada 2:02.00
27 4 3 Guy Callaghan  New Zealand 2:02.12
28 3 6 Craig Jackson  South Africa 2:02.17
29 3 4 Diogo Madeira  Portugal 2:02.22
30 4 7 David Monasterio  Puerto Rico 2:02.32
31 3 2 Vesa Hanski  Finland 2:02.75
32 3 5 Alexander Brandl  Austria 2:02.88
33 3 7 Denislav Kalchev  Bulgaria 2:03.73
34 4 1 Miguel Cabrita  Portugal 2:04.28
35 3 1 Khristian Minkovski  Bulgaria 2:05.18
36 3 3 Kai Johansson  Finland 2:05.71
37 2 4 Gary Tan  Singapore 2:06.41
38 2 2 Duncan Todd  Hong Kong 2:08.20
39 1 3 Kristan Singleton  Virgin Islands 2:08.71 NR
4 6 Kire Filipovski  Independent Olympic Participants
41 1 7 Janko Gojković  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2:09.08 NR
42 1 5 Alan Espínola  Paraguay 2:11.88
43 2 3 Benoît Fleurot  Mauritius 2:13.09
44 2 7 Julian Bolling  Sri Lanka 2:17.47
45 1 6 Ziyad Kashmiri  Saudi Arabia 2:21.59
46 1 2 Mohamed Khamis  United Arab Emirates 2:29.73

Finals

[3]

Final B

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
9 5 Chris-Carol Bremer  Germany 1:59.93
10 6 David Wharton  United States 2:01.08
11 4 Martin Herrmann  Germany 2:01.14
12 3 Can Ergenekan  Turkey 2:01.21
13 1 Tom Ponting  Canada 2:01.60
14 2 Simon McKillop-Davies  Australia 2:01.86
15 8 Eduardo Piccinini  Brazil 2:01.87
16 7 Marco Braida  Italy 2:02.24

Final A

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 Melvin Stewart  United States 1:56.26 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5 Danyon Loader  New Zealand 1:57.93
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3 Franck Esposito  France 1:58.51
4 7 Rafał Szukała  Poland 1:58.89
5 8 Keiichi Kawanaka  Japan 1:58.97 NR
6 2 Denis Pankratov  Unified Team 1:58.98
7 1 Robert Pinter  Romania 1:59.34 NR
8 6 Martin Roberts  Australia 1:59.64

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Heats" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. pp. 366–367. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Finals" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 367. Retrieved 1 September 2017.