Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place between 21 and 22 October.^[1] This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Felipe Muñoz Mexico
Silver	Vladimir Kosinsky Soviet Union
Bronze	Brian Job United States

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bill Mahony	Canada	2:36.4
2	Ian O'Brien	Australia	2:36.8
3	Theo Bolkart	West Germany	2:36.8
4	Thomas Aretz	West Germany	2:39.0
5	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	2:42.1
6	Nicolas Gilliard	Switzerland	2:44.0
7	Rafael Hernández Rojas	Mexico	2:44.8
8	Eduardo Moreno	Mexico	2:46.7

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Philip Long	United States	2:33.1
2	Egon Henninger	East Germany	2:34.2
3	Michael Günther	West Germany	2:40.7
4	Alberto Forelli	Argentina	2:41.7
5	Roger Roberts	Great Britain	2:42.2
6	Leiknir Jónsson	Iceland	2:48.8

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:31.9
2	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	2:35.5
3	Ken Merten	United States	2:37.0
4	Liam Ball	Ireland	2:39.8
5	José Durán	Spain	2:40.3
6	Józef Klukowski	Poland	2:41.6
7	Gershon Shefa	Israel	2:42.6
8	Abel Muñoz	El Salvador	3:02.8

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Brian Job	United States	2:31.5
2	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	2:33.1
3	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:33.9
4	Ladislau Koszta	Romania	2:36.4
5	Osvaldo Boretto	Argentina	2:38.8
6	Stuart Roberts	Great Britain	2:39.1
7	Slavko Kurbanović	Yugoslavia	2:39.9
8	Yohan Kende	Israel	2:44.3

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Felipe Muñoz	Mexico	2:31.1
2	Yevhen Mykhailov	Soviet Union	2:32.8
3	Klaus Katzur	East Germany	2:36.2
4	Thomas Johnsson	Sweden	2:38.0
5	Amman Jalmaani	Philippines	2:42.6
6	Ivan Gomina	Colombia	2:45.0

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Felipe Muñoz	Mexico	2:28.7
	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:29.2
	Brian Job	United States	2:29.9
4	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	2:30.3
5	Yevgeny Mikhaylov	Soviet Union	2:32.8
6	Egon Henninger	East Germany	2:33.2
7	Philip Long	United States	2:33.6
8	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:34.9

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Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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