Men 200m Medley Swimming III World Championship 1978 West Berlin - Thursday, 24th August - Gold Medal: Graham Smith, Canada |
Final | | time | | gap | L | ag | 50m | 100m | 150m | 1. Graham Smith | Canada | 2:03.65 | WR | | 4 | 20 | 27.59s | 1:00.08 | 1:33.87 | 2. Jesse Vassallo | United States | 2:04.99 | | +1.34s | 5 | 17 | 27.77s | 58.18s | 1:35.53 | 3. Aleksandr Sidorenko | Soviet Union | 2:05.29 | | +1.64s | 6 | 18 | 27.71s | 58.76s | 1:35.27 | 4. Steve Lundquist | United States | 2:05.80 | | +2.15s | 3 | 17 | 26.51s | 57.91s | 1:34.87 | 5. Bill Sawchuk | Canada | 2:06.65 | | +3.00s | 7 | 19 | 26.83s | 1:00.20 | 1:37.21 | 6. Serhiy Fesenko | Soviet Union | 2:06.96 | | +3.31s | 2 | 19 | 27.30s | 59.98s | 1:36.97 | 7. Arne Borgstrom | Norway | 2:08.18 | NR | +4.53s | 8 | 19 | 28.47s | 1:01.61 | 1:38.13 | 8. Miloslav Rolko | Czechoslovakia | 2:09.26 | | +5.61s | 1 | 17 | 26.41s | 59.14s | 1:39.09 |
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World Record: Steve Lundquist, United States 2:04.39 (26.57s, 57.87s, 1:34.00) | Championship Record: Andras Hargitay, Hungary 2:07.72 (27.54s, 59.86s, 1:38.20) 1975 |
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Heats - Thursday, 24th August | Best 8 times advanced to Final>. |
Heat 5 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 3. Steve Lundquist | United States | 2:07.64 | | +1.14s | - | 17 | 1. | 5. Serhiy Fesenko | Soviet Union | 2:07.94 | | +1.44s | - | 19 | 2. | 9. Jorg Walter | East Germany | 2:09.22 | | +2.72s | - | 21 | 3. |
Heat 4 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 4. Aleksandr Sidorenko | Soviet Union | 2:07.66 | | +1.16s | - | 18 | 1. | 9. Andras Hargitay | Hungary | 2:09.22 | | +2.72s | - | 22 | 2. | 12.Hans-Joachim Geisler | West Germany | 2:10.63 | | +4.13s | - | 23 | 3. |
Heat 3 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 1. Graham Smith | Canada | 2:06.50 | CR | | - | 20 | 1. | 8. Arne Borgstrom | Norway | 2:08.58 | | +2.08s | - | 19 | 2. | 11.David Lopez-Zubero | Spain | 2:10.01 | | +3.51s | - | 19 | 3. |
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Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 6. Bill Sawchuk | Canada | 2:08.06 | | +1.56s | - | 19 | 1. | 15.Zoltan Verraszto | Hungary | 2:11.91 | | +5.41s | - | 22 | 2. | 21.Leszek Gorski | Poland | 2:13.86 | | +7.36s | - | 17 | 3. |
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Heat 1 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 2. Jesse Vassallo | United States | 2:07.16 | | +0.66s | - | 17 | 1. | 7. Miloslav Rolko | Czechoslovakia | 2:08.31 | NR | +1.81s | - | 17 | 2. | 13.Guillermo Zavala | Mexico | 2:10.81 | NR | +4.31s | - | 20 | 3. |
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Heat - | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | 14.Reinhold Becker | West Germany | 2:11.43 | | +4.93s | - | 19 | | 16.Georgy Dangalakov | Bulgaria | 2:11.97 | | +5.47s | - | _ | | 17.Helmuth Levy | Colombia | 2:12.59 | | +6.09s | - | 19 | | 18.Rui Abreu | Portugal | 2:12.87 | NR | +6.37s | - | 17 | | 19.Andres Aguilar | Costa Rica | 2:13.61 | NR | +7.11s | - | 17 | | 20.Pablo Restrepo | Colombia | 2:13.69 | | +7.19s | - | 18 | | 22.Bill Chao | Taiwan | 2:14.14 | | +7.64s | - | _ | | 23.Murat Ozuak | Turkey | 2:14.34 | | +7.84s | - | _ | | 24.Kurt Dittrich | Austria | 2:14.37 | NR | +7.87s | - | 20 | | 25.Jose-Ricardo De Jesus | Puerto Rico | 2:14.56 | | +8.06s | - | 18 | | 26.Tung-Hsiung Hsu | Taiwan | 2:15.04 | | +8.54s | - | 23 | | 27.David Cummins | Ireland | 2:15.53 | | +9.03s | - | 16 | | 28.David Lindquist | US Virgin Islands | 2:17.81 | NR | +11.31s | - | _ | | 29.Samir Bouchlaghem | Tunisia | 2:18.60 | | +12.10s | - | _ | | 30.Luki Niode | Indonesia | 2:21.69 | NR | +15.19s | - | 14 | | 31.Enrique Ledesma Jr | Ecuador | 2:26.31 | | +19.81s | - | 19 | | -. Gary Andersson | Sweden | DNS | | - | - | 19 | | -. Jasim Sadeq | Kuwait | DNS | | - | - | _ | |
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