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

Men's 200 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Men's 200 metre butterfly; at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium
Date	3 August 1984 (heats & final)
Competitors	38 from 28 nations
Winning time	1:57.04 WR
Medalists
	← 1980 1988 →

The final of the men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on August 3, 1984.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Michael Gross (FRG)	1:57.05	Rome, Italy	26 August 1983
Olympic record	Mike Bruner (USA)	1:59.23	Montreal, Canada	18 July 1976

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
3 August	Heat 5	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:58.72	OR
3 August	Final A	Jon Sieben	Australia	1:57.04	WR

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	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:58.72	Q, OR
2	5	5	Rafael Vidal	Venezuela	1:59.15	Q, AM
3	4	4	Pablo Morales	United States	1:59.19	Q
4	4	3	Jon Sieben	Australia	1:59.63	Q
5	3	5	Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	1:59.76	Q
6	3	4	Tom Ponting	Canada	1:59.78	Q
7	3	3	Peter Ward	Canada	1:59.99	Q
8	1	4	Patrick Kennedy	United States	2:00.28	Q
9	4	5	Paolo Revelli	Italy	2:00.38	q
10	2	4	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	2:00.59	q, WD
11	4	6	Taihei Saka	Japan	2:00.66	q
12	1	5	Gérard de Kort	Netherlands	2:00.83	q
13	2	5	Frank Drost	Netherlands	2:01.18	q
14	5	6	Nick Hodgson	Great Britain	2:01.64	q
15	5	3	Filiberto Colon	Puerto Rico	2:01.80	q
16	3	6	Harri Garmendia	Spain	2:02.37	q
17	1	3	Philip Hubble	Great Britain	2:02.76	q
18	3	2	Kristofer Stivenson	Greece	2:02.94
19	4	2	Shudo Kawawa	Japan	2:03.07
20	1	6	Théophile David	Switzerland	2:03.21
21	2	3	Thomas Lejdström	Sweden	2:03.81
22	2	2	Yoram Kochavy	Israel	2:04.08
23	5	7	João Santos	Portugal	2:04.72
24	1	2	Alberto José Umana	Venezuela	2:05.29
25	2	6	Andreas Behrend	West Germany	2:06.06
26	3	7	Søren Østberg	Denmark	2:06.12
27	4	7	İhsan Sabri Özün	Turkey	2:07.45
28	1	7	Bang Jun-young	South Korea	2:07.80
29	2	7	Tsang Yi Ming	Hong Kong	2:08.44
30	5	1	Andrey Aguilar	Costa Rica	2:08.74
31	4	1	Mohamed Youssef	Egypt	2:08.88
32	3	1	Harry Wozniak	Barbados	2:13.17
33	1	1	Roberto Granados	Guatemala	2:13.79
34	3	8	Juan José Piro	Honduras	2:22.80
35	5	8	Juan Miranda Trejo	El Salvador	2:38.32
	2	1	Ahmed Said	Egypt	DNS
	4	8	Marcelo Jucá	Brazil	DNS
	5	2	Fabrizio Rampazzo	Italy	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	5	Taihei Saka	Japan	2:00.31	NR
10	6	Frank Drost	Netherlands	2:01.23
11	2	Nick Hodgson	Great Britain	2:01.24
12	7	Filiberto Colon	Puerto Rico	2:01.27
13	3	Gérard de Kort	Netherlands	2:01.30
14	4	Paolo Revelli	Italy	2:01.58
15	1	Harri Garmendia	Spain	2:01.82
16	8	Philip Hubble	Great Britain	2:03.06

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Jon Sieben	Australia	1:57.04	WR
	4	Michael Gross	West Germany	1:57.40
	5	Rafael Vidal	Venezuela	1:57.51	AM
4	3	Pablo Morales	United States	1:57.75	NR
5	2	Anthony Mosse	New Zealand	1:58.75	NR
6	7	Tom Ponting	Canada	1:59.37
7	1	Peter Ward	Canada	2:00.39
8	8	Patrick Kennedy	United States	2:01.03