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 October 21 and October 22. 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  Mexiko
Silver	Vladimir Kosinsky  Soviet Union
Bronze	Brian Job  Vereinigte Staaten

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Land	Zeit	Note
1	Bill Mahony	Kanada	2:36.4
2	Ian O'Brien	Australien	2:36.8
3	Theo Bolkart	West Germany	2:36.8
4	Thomas Aretz	West Germany	2:39.0
5	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brasilien	2:42.1
6	Nicolas Gilliard	Schweiz	2:44.0
7	Rafael Hernández Rojas	Mexiko	2:44.8
8	Eduardo Moreno	Mexiko	2:46.7

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Land	Zeit	Note
1	Philip Long	Vereinigte Staaten	2:33.1
2	Egon Henninger	East Germany	2:34.2
3	Michael Günther	West Germany	2:40.7
4	Alberto Forelli	Argentinien	2:41.7
5	Roger Roberts	Great Britain	2:42.2
6	Leiknir Jónsson	Island	2:48.8

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Land	Zeit	Note
1	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:31.9
2	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	2:35.5
3	Ken Merten	Vereinigte Staaten	2:37.0
4	Liam Ball	Irland	2:39.8
5	José Durán	Spanien	2:40.3
6	Józef Klukowski	Polen	2:41.6
7	Gershon Shefa	Israel	2:42.6
8	Abel Muñoz	El Salvador	3:02.8

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Land	Zeit	Note
1	Brian Job	Vereinigte Staaten	2:31.5
2	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	2:33.1
3	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:33.9
4	Ladislau Koszta	Rumänien	2:36.4
5	Osvaldo Boretto	Argentinien	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	Land	Zeit	Note
1	Felipe Muñoz	Mexiko	2:31.1
2	Yevhen Mykhailov	Soviet Union	2:32.8
3	Klaus Katzur	East Germany	2:36.2
4	Thomas Johnsson	Schweden	2:38.0
5	Amman Jalmaani	Philippinen	2:42.6
6	Ivan Gomina	Kolumbien	2:45.0

Final

Rank	Athlete	Land	Zeit	Notes
	Felipe Muñoz	Mexiko	2:28.7
	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	2:29.2
	Brian Job	Vereinigte Staaten	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	Vereinigte Staaten	2:33.6
8	Osamu Tsurumine	Japan	2:34.9