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

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	31 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	60 from 43 nations
Winning time	2:00.76
Medalists
Tamás Darnyi  Hungary Greg Burgess  United States Attila Czene  Hungary
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Records

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

World record	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	1:59.36	Perth, Australia	13 January 1991
Olympic record	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	2:00.17	Seoul, South Korea	25 September 1988

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	5	Jani Sievinen	Finland	2:01.18	Q, NR
2	8	4	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	2:01.29	Q
3	8	5	Greg Burgess	United States	2:01.35	Q
4	7	4	Ron Karnaugh	United States	2:01.64	Q
5	6	5	Attila Czene	Hungary	2:02.05	Q
6	7	3	Christian Geßner	Germany	2:02.43	Q
7	6	3	Gary Anderson	Canada	2:02.63	Q
8	8	7	Matthew Dunn	Australia	2:02.75	Q
9	6	4	Martín López-Zubero	Spain	2:03.07	q
10	8	2	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	2:03.32	q
11	6	6	Luca Sacchi	Italy	2:03.54	q, WD
12	8	6	Darren Ward	Canada	2:03.71	q
13	7	6	Frédéric Lefevre	France	2:03.82	q
14	7	8	Serghei Mariniuc	Unified Team	2:04.23	q
15	8	3	Lars Sørensen	Denmark	2:04.65	q
16	6	2	Takahiro Fujimoto	Japan	2:04.89	q
17	7	7	Manuel Guzmán	Puerto Rico	2:04.95	q
18	8	8	John Davey	Great Britain	2:05.07
19	5	2	Aleksandr Savitsky	Unified Team	2:05.09
20	4	5	Marcin Maliński	Poland	2:05.32
21	5	4	Petteri Lehtinen	Finland	2:05.65
22	6	7	Marcel Wouda	Netherlands	2:05.95
23	6	1	Joaquín Fernández	Spain	2:06.09
24	5	5	Stefaan Maene	Belgium	2:06.16
25	4	4	Marian Satnoianu	Romania	2:06.45
26	4	2	Denislav Kalchev	Bulgaria	2:06.51
27	1	8	Clifford Lyne	South Africa	2:06.62	AF
28	5	7	Simon Percy	New Zealand	2:06.76
29	3	6	Igor Łuczak	Poland	2:07.08
30	4	6	José Carlos Souza	Brazil	2:07.09
31	4	7	Desmond Koh	Singapore	2:07.16
32	7	2	Josef Hladký	Germany	2:07.18
33	3	4	Diogo Madeira	Portugal	2:07.38
34	5	6	Gary O'Toole	Ireland	2:07.67
35	5	3	Renato Ramalho	Brazil	2:07.78
36	3	5	Andy Rolley	Great Britain	2:09.22
37	3	7	Arthur Li Kai Yien	Hong Kong	2:09.32
38	4	3	Joseph Eric Buhain	Philippines	2:09.33
39	2	4	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	2:11.02
40	3	2	Gary Tan	Singapore	2:11.14
41	3	1	Ricardo Torres	Panama	2:12.01
42	2	2	Duncan Todd	Hong Kong	2:12.29
43	2	6	Christophe Verdino	Monaco	2:12.46
44	4	1	Sultan Al-Otaibi	Kuwait	2:13.68
45	2	5	Alejandro Alvizuri	Peru	2:15.10
46	2	7	Plutarco Castellanos	Honduras	2:15.50
47	2	1	Émile Lahoud	Lebanon	2:22.08
48	1	4	Carl Probert	Fiji	2:22.09
49	1	3	Mohamed Bin Abid	United Arab Emirates	2:22.95
50	1	1	Mouhamed Diop	Senegal	2:23.92
51	1	6	Kenny Roberts	Seychelles	2:30.35
52	1	2	Jean-Paul Adam	Seychelles	2:35.35
	2	3	Roberto Bonilla	Guatemala	DSQ
	5	1	Rodrigo González	Mexico	DSQ
	7	1	Jan Bidrman	Sweden	DSQ
	8	1	Martin Roberts	Australia	DSQ
	1	7	Bruno N'Diaye	Senegal	DNS
	1	5	Ziyad Kashmiri	Saudi Arabia	DNS
	3	3	Eran Groumi	Israel	DNS
	6	8	Stefano Battistelli	Italy	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Martín López-Zubero	Spain	2:03.34
10	2	Serghei Mariniuc	Unified Team	2:03.72
11	7	Lars Sørensen	Denmark	2:03.81
12	6	Frédéric Lefevre	France	2:04.05
13	5	Tatsuya Kinugasa	Japan	2:04.29
14	3	Darren Ward	Canada	2:05.09
15	1	Takahiro Fujimoto	Japan	2:07.74
	8	Manuel Guzmán	Puerto Rico	DNS

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Tamás Darnyi	Hungary	2:00.76
	3	Greg Burgess	United States	2:00.97
	2	Attila Czene	Hungary	2:01.00
4	4	Jani Sievinen	Finland	2:01.28
5	7	Christian Geßner	Germany	2:01.97
6	6	Ron Karnaugh	United States	2:02.18
7	8	Matthew Dunn	Australia	2:02.79
8	1	Gary Anderson	Canada	2:02.79

References

1. . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
2. "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Heats" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. pp. 367–368. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
3. "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Finals" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 368. Retrieved 1 September 2017.

External links

• Official Report