Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Men's 200 metre butterfly; at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Date	16 October 1964 (heats); 17 October 1964 (semifinals); 18 October 1964 (final)
Competitors	32 from 19 nations
Winning time	2:06.6 (WR)
Medalists

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on 16 and 18 October.^[1] This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Results

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Carl Robie	United States	2:10.0	Q, OR
2	Atsushi Obayashi	Japan	2:15.1	Q
3	Antonio Rastrelli	Italy	2:17.3
4	Hermann Lotter	United Team of Germany	2:18.2
5	Vítor da Fonseca	Portugal	2:18.3
6	Narong Chok-Umnuay	Thailand	2:32.5

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Kevin Berry	Australia	2:11.0	Q
2	Kosuke Sato	Japan	2:12.4	Q
3	Daniel Sherry	Canada	2:12.9	Q
4	David Gerrard	New Zealand	2:16.3	Q
5	Avraham Melamed	Israel	2:20.7
6	Carlos Canepa	Peru	2:24.9
7	Joaquín Pujol	Spain	2:28.3

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Luis Nicolao	Argentina	2:15.0	Q
2	John Stark	Australia	2:15.3	Q
3	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	2:15.5	Q
4	Werner Freitag	United Team of Germany	2:16.9	Q
5	Juan Alanís	Mexico	2:23.9
6	Bernard Chan	Malaysia	2:26.6

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Phil Riker	United States	2:12.6	Q
2	Brian Jenkins	Great Britain	2:15.5	Q
3	Oleg Fotin	Soviet Union	2:17.3
4	Gabriel Altamirano	Mexico	2:17.9
5	Wolfgang Platzeck	United Team of Germany	2:18.7
6	Volker Deckardt	Austria	2:21.3
7	Dick Langerhorst	Netherlands	2:22.5

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Brett Hill	Australia	2:12.8	Q
2	Fred Schmidt	United States	2:13.3	Q
3	Yoshinori Kadonaga	Japan	2:14.5	Q
4	Giampiero Fossati	Italy	2:17.2	Q
5	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:20.8
6	Gustavo Ocampo	Peru	2:31.4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Carl Robie	United States	2:09.3	Q, OR
2	Fred Schmidt	United States	2:11.5	Q
3	Brett Hill	Australia	2:11.9	Q
4	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	2:11.9	Q
5	Kosuke Sato	Japan	2:13.4
6	Werner Freitag	United Team of Germany	2:13.5
7	Luis Nicolao	Argentina	2:13.7
8	John Stark	Australia	2:18.4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kevin Berry	Australia	2:09.8	Q
2	Phil Riker	United States	2:09.9	Q
3	Yoshinori Kadonaga	Japan	2:12.3	Q
4	Daniel Sherry	Canada	2:12.9	Q
5	Atsushi Obayashi	Japan	2:14.1
6	David Gerrard	New Zealand	2:15.4
7	Brian Jenkins	Great Britain	2:15.5
8	Giampiero Fossati	Italy	2:18.1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kevin Berry	Australia	2:06.6	WR
	Carl Robie	United States	2:07.5
	Fred Schmidt	United States	2:09.3
4	Philip Riker	United States	2:11.0
5	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	2:11.3
6	Yoshinori Kadonaga	Japan	2:12.6
7	Brett Hill	Australia	2:12.8
8	Daniel Sherry	Canada	2:14.6

Key: WR = World record

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Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m		women
200 m	men
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Individual medley
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women