Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly
Introduction The '''men's 200 metre butterfly''' event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place 24 October. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.
Medalists
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Martyn Woodroffe    2:11.6   2  Yasuo Takada    2:13.3   3  Avraham Melamed    2:15.4   4  Ron Jacks    2:18.1   5  Raúl Villagómez    2:22.4   6  Arturo Carranza    2:47.3  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Peter Feil    2:11.9   2  Gabriel Altamirano    2:12.1   3  Tom Arusoo    2:12.7   4  Sergey Konov    2:13.1   5  Eduardo Orejuela    2:23.4  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  John Ferris    2:10.6   2  Folkert Meeuw    2:11.1   3  John Thurley    2:12.5   4  Giampiero Fossati    2:18.2   5  Jacek Krawczyk    2:22.1  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Mark Spitz    2:10.6   2  Satoshi Maruya    2:14.2   3  Lutz Stoklasa    2:16.4   4  Tomas Becerra    2:16.8   5  Robert Cusack    2:19.4   6  Angelo Tozzi    2:20.9   7  José Ferraioli    2:23.4  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Viktor Sharygin    2:10.9   2  Carl Robie    2:11.1   3  Valentin Kuzmin    2:11.5   4  Dick Langerhorst    2:17.4   5  Graham Dunn    2:17.5   6  Ramiro Benavides    2:24.3   7  Leroy Goff    2:25.3  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Carl Robie   2:08.7  ''' '''  2 Martyn Woodroffe   2:09.0  '''  '''  3  John Ferris   2:09.3  ''' ''' 4  Valentin Kuzmin   2:10.6  ''' ''' 5   Peter Feil   2:10.9  ''' ''' 6   Folkert Meeuw   2:11.5  ''' ''' 7  Viktor Sharygin   2:11.9  ''' ''' 8  Mark Spitz   2:13.5  ''' '''
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