Men 200m Breaststroke Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Thursday, 6th December - Gold Medal: Masaru Furukawa, Japan |
Final | | time | gap | L | Y | 1. Masaru Furukawa | Japan | 2:34.7 | | 4 | 20 | 2. Masahiro Yoshimura | Japan | 2:36.7 | +2.0s | 3 | 20 | 3. Kharis Yunichev | Soviet Union | 2:36.8 | +2.1s | 7 | 25 | 4. Terry Gathercole | Australia | 2:38.7 | +4.0s | 2 | 21 | 5. Igor Zaseda | Soviet Union | 2:39.0 | +4.3s | 6 | 24 | 6. Knud Gleie | Denmark | 2:40.0 | +5.3s | 5 | 21 | 7. Manuel Sanguily | Cuba | 2:42.0 | +7.3s | 1 | 23 | 8. Hugues Broussard | France | DSQ | | 8 | _ |
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Heats - Friday, 30th November |
Best 8 times advanced to Final. |
Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Masaru Furukawa | Japan | 2:36.1 | | 5 | 20 | 1. | 2. Knud Gleie | Denmark | 2:36.4 | +0.3s | 6 | 21 | 2. | 3. Farid Dosaiev | Soviet Union | 2:43.9 | +7.8s | 3 | 23 | 10. | 4. Louis Kozma | Belgium | 2:48.4 | +12.3s | 4 | 18 | 12. | 5. Shamsher Khan | India | 3:17.0 | +40.9s | 7 | _ | 14. | -. Octavio Mobiglia | Brazil | DSQ | | 1 | 25 | | -. Palsons Nabiula | Philippines | DSQ | | 2 | _ | |
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Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Igor Zaseda | Soviet Union | 2:40.1 | +4.0s | 3 | 24 | 4. | 2. Terry Gathercole | Australia | 2:40.2 | +4.1s | 6 | 21 | 5. | 3. Manuel Sanguily | Cuba | 2:41.8 | +5.7s | 2 | 23 | 7. | 4. Rene Kohn | Luxembourg | 2:50.9 | +14.8s | 4 | 23 | 13. | 5. Istvan Szivos, Sr. | Hungary | 3:18.7 | +42.6s | 7 | 36 | 15. | -. Alvaro Gomez | Colombia | DSQ | | 1 | _ | | -. Herbert Klein | UT Germany | DSQ | | 5 | 33 | |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Masahiro Yoshimura | Japan | 2:38.6 | +2.5s | 6 | 20 | 3. | 2. Kharis Yunichev | Soviet Union | 2:41.2 | +5.1s | 3 | 25 | 6. | 3. Hugues Broussard | France | 2:43.0 | +6.9s | 5 | _ | 8. | 4. Gilbert Desmit | Belgium | 2:43.5 | +7.4s | 4 | 19 | 9. | 5. Christopher Walkden | Great Britain | 2:47.1 | +11.0s | 7 | 18 | 11. | 6. Robert Hughes | United States | 2:52.2 | +16.1s | | _ | 14. | -. Rasul Ghulam | Pakistan | DSQ | | 1 | _ | |
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