Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men

The men's 200 metre breaststroke was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme.^[1] It was the fifth appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held from Monday August 6, 1928 to Wednesday August 8, 1928.

Twenty-one swimmers from 13 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta  Japan	Erich Rademacher  Germany	Teófilo Yldefonso  Philippines

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	2:48.0	Erich Rademacher	Brussels (BEL)	March 11, 1927
Olympic Record	2:56.0	Robert Skelton	Paris (FRA)	July 15, 1924

In the third heat Erich Rademacher set a new Olympic record with 2:52.0 minutes. In the fourth heat Yoshiyuki Tsuruta bettered the record to 2:50.0 minutes. Tsuruta improved the record in the semi-finals with 2:49.2 minutes and in the final with 2:48.8 minutes.

Results

Heats

Monday August 6, 1928: The fastest two in each heat and the fastest third-placed from across the heats advanced.

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Walter Spence (CAN)	2:56.6	QQ
2	Erwin Sietas (GER)	2:57.4	QQ
3	Louis Van Parijs (BEL)	3:00.0
4	William Rozier (FRA)
5	Hugh Smith (GBR)

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Erik Harling (SWE)	2:56.4	QQ
2	Karl Schäfer (AUT)	2:56.6	QQ
3	Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI)	2:57.4	qq
4	Yuki Mawatari (JPN)
5	Ernst Budig (GER)	2:58.6

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Erich Rademacher (GER)	2:52.0	QQ OR
2	Thomas Blankenburg (USA)	3:04.2	QQ
3	Léon Tallon (FRA)	3:05.0
4	Jack Aubin (CAN)
—	Joseph De Combe (BEL)	DNF

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)	2:50.0	QQ OR
2	Robert Wyss (SUI)	3:02.6	QQ
3	Leen Korpershoek (NED)	3:04.0
4	Reginald Flint (GBR)
5	José Francesch (ESP)
6	Tage Wissnell (SWE)

Semifinals

Tuesday August 7, 1928: The fastest three in each semi-final advanced.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)	2:49.2	QF OR
2	Walter Spence (CAN)	2:53.0	QF
3	Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI)	2:53.2	QF
4	Robert Wyss (SUI)
5	Thomas Blankenburg (USA)

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Erich Rademacher (GER)	2:56.6	QF
2	Erik Harling (SWE)	2:57.2	QF
3	Erwin Sietas (GER)	2:57.8	QF
4	Karl Schäfer (AUT)

Final

Wednesday August 8, 1928:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)	2:48.8 OR
2	Erich Rademacher (GER)	2:50.6
3	Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI)	2:56.4
4	Erwin Sietas (GER)	2:56.6
5	Erik Harling (SWE)	2:56.8
6	Walter Spence (CAN)	2:57.2

References

External links

• Olympic Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 5 October 2008.