Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between October 11 and 13.[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Left-right:Bennett, Graef, Dilley

Gold	Jed Graef  United States
Silver	Gary Dilley  United States
Bronze	Bob Bennett  United States

Results

Heats

Five heats were held; the fastest sixteen swimmers advanced to the Semifinals. The swimmers that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bob Bennett	United States	2:16.1
2	Isagi Osumi	Japan	2:17.3
3	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:17.8
4	Henri van Osch	Netherlands	2:19.1
5	Lars Kraus Jensen	Denmark	2:23.3
6	Herman Verbauwen	Belgium	2:24.9
7	Michael Eu	Malaysia	2:35.8

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Shigeo Fukushima	Japan	2:14.7
2	Viktor Mazanov	Soviet Union	2:16.8
3	Jürgen Dietze	Germany	2:20.4
4	Jan Weeteling	Netherlands	2:20.4
5	John Byrom	Australia	2:27.0
6	Ákos Gulyás	Hungary	2:30.5
7	Eliot Chenaux	Puerto Rico	2:33.1

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jed Graef	United States	2:14.5
2	Keisuke Ito	Japan	2:16.7
3	Chiaffredo Rora	Italy	2:17.8
4	Jesús Cabrera	Spain	2:19.7
5	Pedro Diz	Argentina	2:24.9
6	Gerhard Wieland	Austria	2:25.9
7	Augusto Ferrero	Peru	2:29.9

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Ezio Della Savia	Italy	2:16.6
2	Ernst-Joachim Küppers	Germany	2:17.9
3	Ivan Ferák	Czechoslovakia	2:20.0
4	Friedrich Suda	Austria	2:20.7
5	Ron Jacks	Canada	2:21.3
6	Geoffrey Thwaites	Great Britain	2:22.0
7	Chan Kam Hong	Hong Kong	2:46.0

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gary Dilley	United States	2:14.2
2	Peter Reynolds	Australia	2:15.9
3	József Csikány	Hungary	2:18.3
4	Wolfgang Wagner	Germany	2:18.5
5	Carlos van der Maath	Argentina	2:19.6
6	Robert Christophe	France	2:22.5

Semifinals

Two heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. The swimmers that advanced are highlighted.

Semifinal One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gary Dilley	United States	2:13.8
2	Shigeo Fukushima	Japan	2:14.1
3	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:15.8
4	Bob Bennett	United States	2:16.3
5	Isagi Osumi	Japan	2:17.0
6	József Csikány	Hungary	2:17.5
7	Keisuke Ito	Japan	2:17.6
8	Henri van Osch	Netherlands	2:19.7

Semifinal Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jed Graef	United States	2:13.7
2	Ernst-Joachim Küppers	Germany	2:15.4
3	Viktor Mazanov	Soviet Union	2:15.4
4	Peter Reynolds	Australia	2:15.6
5	Chiaffredo Rora	Italy	2:16.7
6	Ezio Della Savia	Italy	2:18.4
7	Wolfgang Wagner	Germany	2:20.2
8	Carlos van der Maath	Argentina	2:21.3

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Jed Graef	United States	2:10.3	WR
	Gary Dilley	United States	2:10.5
	Bob Bennett	United States	2:13.1
4	Shigeo Fukushima	Japan	2:13.2
5	Ernst-Joachim Küppers	United Team of Germany	2:15.7
6	Viktor Mazanov	Soviet Union	2:15.9
7	Ralph Hutton	Canada	2:15.9
8	Peter Reynolds	Australia	2:16.6

Key: WR = World record

References

1. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2016.