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

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]

Men's 200 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	30 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	46 from 32 nations
Winning time	1:56.26 OR
Medalists
Melvin Stewart  United States Danyon Loader  New Zealand Franck Esposito  France
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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

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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
	4	Melvin Stewart	United States	1:56.26	OR
	5	Danyon Loader	New Zealand	1:57.93
	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. . 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.

External links

• Official Report