Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
VenuePiscines Bernat Picornell
Date31 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors60 from 43 nations
Winning time2:00.76
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tamás Darnyi  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Greg Burgess  United States
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Attila Czene  Hungary
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Swimming at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.[1]

Records

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

World record  Tamás Darnyi (HUN) 1:59.36 Perth, Australia 13 January 1991
Olympic record  Tamás Darnyi (HUN) 2:00.17 Seoul, South Korea 25 September 1988

Results

Heats

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 7 5 Jani Sievinen  Finland 2:01.18 Q, NR
2 8 4 Tamás Darnyi  Hungary 2:01.29 Q
3 8 5 Greg Burgess  United States 2:01.35 Q
4 7 4 Ron Karnaugh  United States 2:01.64 Q
5 6 5 Attila Czene  Hungary 2:02.05 Q
6 7 3 Christian Geßner  Germany 2:02.43 Q
7 6 3 Gary Anderson  Canada 2:02.63 Q
8 8 7 Matthew Dunn  Australia 2:02.75 Q, OC
9 6 4 Martín López-Zubero  Spain 2:03.07 q
10 8 2 Tatsuya Kinugasa  Japan 2:03.32 q
11 6 6 Luca Sacchi  Italy 2:03.54 q, WD
12 8 6 Darren Ward  Canada 2:03.71 q
13 7 6 Frédéric Lefevre  France 2:03.82 q
14 7 8 Serghei Mariniuc  Unified Team 2:04.23 q
15 8 3 Lars Sørensen  Denmark 2:04.65 q
16 6 2 Takahiro Fujimoto  Japan 2:04.89 q
17 7 7 Manuel Guzmán  Puerto Rico 2:04.95 q
18 8 8 John Davey  Great Britain 2:05.07
19 5 2 Aleksandr Savitsky  Unified Team 2:05.09
20 4 5 Marcin Maliński  Poland 2:05.32
21 5 4 Petteri Lehtinen  Finland 2:05.65
22 6 7 Marcel Wouda  Netherlands 2:05.95
23 6 1 Joaquín Fernández  Spain 2:06.09
24 5 5 Stefaan Maene  Belgium 2:06.16
25 4 4 Marian Satnoianu  Romania 2:06.45
26 4 2 Denislav Kalchev  Bulgaria 2:06.51
27 1 8 Clifford Lyne  South Africa 2:06.62 AF
28 5 7 Simon Percy  New Zealand 2:06.76
29 3 6 Igor Łuczak  Poland 2:07.08
30 4 6 José Carlos Souza  Brazil 2:07.09
31 4 7 Desmond Koh  Singapore 2:07.16
32 7 2 Josef Hladký  Germany 2:07.18
33 3 4 Diogo Madeira  Portugal 2:07.38
34 5 6 Gary O'Toole  Ireland 2:07.67
35 5 3 Renato Ramalho  Brazil 2:07.78
36 3 5 Andy Rolley  Great Britain 2:09.22
37 3 7 Arthur Li Kai Yien  Hong Kong 2:09.32
38 4 3 Joseph Eric Buhain  Philippines 2:09.33
39 2 4 Ratapong Sirisanont  Thailand 2:11.02
40 3 2 Gary Tan  Singapore 2:11.14
41 3 1 Ricardo Torres  Panama 2:12.01
42 2 2 Duncan Todd  Hong Kong 2:12.29
43 2 6 Christophe Verdino  Monaco 2:12.46
44 4 1 Sultan Al-Otaibi  Kuwait 2:13.68
45 2 5 Alejandro Alvizuri  Peru 2:15.10
46 2 7 Plutarco Castellanos  Honduras 2:15.50
47 2 1 Émile Lahoud  Lebanon 2:22.08
48 1 4 Carl Probert  Fiji 2:22.09
49 1 3 Mohamed Bin Abid  United Arab Emirates 2:22.95
50 1 1 Mouhamed Diop  Senegal 2:23.92
51 1 6 Kenny Roberts  Seychelles 2:30.35
52 1 2 Jean-Paul Adam  Seychelles 2:35.35
2 3 Roberto Bonilla  Guatemala DSQ
5 1 Rodrigo González  Mexico DSQ
7 1 Jan Bidrman  Sweden DSQ
8 1 Martin Roberts  Australia DSQ
1 7 Bruno N'Diaye  Senegal DNS
1 5 Ziyad Kashmiri  Saudi Arabia DNS
3 3 Eran Groumi  Israel DNS
6 8 Stefano Battistelli  Italy DNS

Finals

[3]

Final B

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
9 4 Martín López-Zubero  Spain 2:03.34
10 2 Serghei Mariniuc  Unified Team 2:03.72
11 7 Lars Sørensen  Denmark 2:03.81
12 6 Frédéric Lefevre  France 2:04.05
13 5 Tatsuya Kinugasa  Japan 2:04.29
14 3 Darren Ward  Canada 2:05.09
15 1 Takahiro Fujimoto  Japan 2:07.74
8 Manuel Guzmán  Puerto Rico DNS

Final A

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Tamás Darnyi  Hungary 2:00.76
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3 Greg Burgess  United States 2:00.97
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2 Attila Czene  Hungary 2:01.00
4 4 Jani Sievinen  Finland 2:01.28
5 7 Christian Geßner  Germany 2:01.97
6 6 Ron Karnaugh  United States 2:02.18
7 8 Matthew Dunn  Australia 2:02.79
8 1 Gary Anderson  Canada 2:02.79

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Heats" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. pp. 367–368. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 200m Individual Medley Finals" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 368. Retrieved 1 September 2017.