Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 24 July.^[1]

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Graham Smith	Canada	2:22.24	Q
2	Arvydas Juozaitis	Soviet Union	2:22.59	Q
3	Anders Norling	Sweden	2:24.61
4	Peter Lang	West Germany	2:24.96
5	Tuomo Kerola	Finland	2:25.87
6	Julio Abreu	Paraguay	2:35.22
-	Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro	Brazil	-	DQ

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rick Colella	United States	2:21.08	Q, OR
2	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	2:22.82	Q
3	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	2:23.63
4	David Leigh	Great Britain	2:25.58
5	Tateki Shinya	Japan	2:26.16
6	Gustavo Lozano	Mexico	2:31.89
-	Carlos Nazario	Puerto Rico	-	DQ

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	John Hencken	United States	2:21.23	Q
2	Walter Kusch	West Germany	2:22.95	Q
3	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	2:24.12
4	Dave Heinbuch	Canada	2:25.29
5	Steffen Kriechbaum	Austria	2:25.73
6	Paul Jarvie	Australia	2:30.15
7	Henrique Vicêncio	Portugal	2:41.97

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	David Wilkie	Great Britain	2:18.29	Q, OR
2	Charles Keating	United States	2:22.22	Q
3	Aigars Kudis	Soviet Union	2:23.45
4	Ove Wisløff	Norway	2:23.49
5	Orlando Catinchi	Puerto Rico	2:26.27
6	Cezary Śmiglak	Poland	2:27.41
7	Zdravko Divjak	Yugoslavia	2:34.07
-	Paul Naisby	Great Britain	-	DQ

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	David Wilkie	Great Britain	2:15.11	WR
	John Hencken	United States	2:17.26
	Rick Colella	United States	2:19.20
4	Graham Smith	Canada	2:19.42
5	Charles Keating	United States	2:20.79
6	Arvydas Juozaitis	Soviet Union	2:21.87
7	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	2:22.21
8	Walter Kusch	West Germany	2:22.36

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