Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Men's 200 metre backstroke; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium
Date	31 July 1984 (heats & final)
Competitors	37 from 26 nations
Winning time	2:00.23
Medalists

The final of the men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on July 31, 1984.^[1] The first eight qualified for the final, the next for the B-final.

Records

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

World record	Rick Carey (USA)	1:58.86	Indianapolis, United States	27 June 1984
Olympic record	John Naber (USA)	1:59.19	Montreal, Canada	24 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
31 July	Heat 5	Rick Carey	United States	1:58.99	OR

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	5	4	Rick Carey	United States	1:58.99	Q, OR
2	5	5	Frédéric Delcourt	France	2:02.59	Q
3	4	5	Gary Hurring	New Zealand	2:03.29	Q
4	2	4	Cameron Henning	Canada	2:03.36	Q
5	2	2	Ricardo Aldabe	Spain	2:03.94	Q
6	3	5	David Orbell	Australia	2:04.00	Q
7	2	5	Nicolai Klapkarek	West Germany	2:04.45	Q
8	1	4	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	2:04.46	Q
9	3	4	Jesse Vassallo	United States	2:04.51	q, WD
10	3	3	Paolo Falchini	Italy	2:04.59	q, NR
11	4	4	Mike West	Canada	2:04.93	q
12	2	3	Stefan Peter	West Germany	2:05.22	q
13	2	6	Djan Madruga	Brazil	2:05.23	q
14	4	6	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	2:05.58	q
15	4	3	Michael Söderlund	Sweden	2:05.85	q
16	1	6	Daichi Suzuki	Japan	2:06.24	q
17	3	6	Fabrizio Bortolon	Italy	2:06.46	q
18	1	3	Hans Fredin	Sweden	2:06.50
19	5	3	Kim Terrell	Australia	2:06.56
20	1	5	Paul Kingsman	New Zealand	2:06.87
21	3	2	Giovanni Frigo	Venezuela	2:07.56	NR
22	4	2	Patrick Ferland	Switzerland	2:08.31	NR
23	1	2	Kristofer Stivenson	Greece	2:08.38	NR
24	5	6	Neil Harper	Great Britain	2:09.48
25	5	1	Lukman Niode	Indonesia	2:09.79
26	4	7	Ernesto Vela	Mexico	2:10.30
27	3	7	Allan Marsh	Jamaica	2:11.57
28	5	2	Wang Hao	China	2:12.28
29	4	1	Emad El-Shafei	Egypt	2:12.90
30	1	7	Alejandro Alvizuri	Peru	2:13.30
31	2	7	David Morley	Bahamas	2:18.87
32	4	8	Salvador Salguero	El Salvador	2:21.75
33	1	1	Ernesto José Degenhart	Guatemala	2:24.08
34	3	8	Juan José Piro	Honduras	2:32.48
	2	1	Ng Wing Hon	Hong Kong	DNS
	3	1	Sharif Nour	Egypt	DNS
	5	7	Ilias Malamas	Greece	DNS
	5	8	Gordon Petersen	Fiji	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Paolo Falchini	Italy	2:04.64
10	5	Mike West	Canada	2:04.73
11	7	Michael Söderlund	Sweden	2:05.02
12	6	Djan Madruga	Brazil	2:05.33
13	3	Stefan Peter	West Germany	2:05.66
14	2	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	2:05.72
15	8	Fabrizio Bortolon	Italy	2:05.86
16	1	Daichi Suzuki	Japan	2:06.02

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Rick Carey	United States	2:00.23
	5	Frédéric Delcourt	France	2:01.75	NR
	6	Cameron Henning	Canada	2:02.37
4	8	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	2:03.05
5	3	Gary Hurring	New Zealand	2:03.10	NR
6	1	Nicolai Klapkarek	West Germany	2:03.95
7	2	Ricardo Aldabe	Spain	2:04.53
8	7	David Orbell	Australia	2:04.67

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Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics

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