Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Introduction The '''men's 200 metre breaststroke''' event at the 1968 Summer Olympics was held from 21 to 22 October 1968 at the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
Competition format The competition consists of two rounds: heats and a final. The swimmers with the best eight times in the heats advance to the final.
Schedule All times are Central Time Zone (UTC-6)DateTimeRound 21 October 10:00  Heats 22 October '''17:00'''  '''Final'''
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Lane  Swimmer  Nation  Time  Note 1  3 Bill Mahony   2:36.4  2  6 Ian O'Brien  2:36.8   4 Theo Bolkart    4  5 Thomas Aretz   2:39.0   5  8 José Sylvio Fiolo   2:42.1   6  1 Nicolas Gilliard   2:44.0   7  7 Rafael Hernández Rojas   2:44.8   8  2 Eduardo Moreno   2:46.7  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Lane  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  5 Philip Long   2:33.1   2  6 Egon Henninger   2:34.2   3  3 Michael Günther   2:40.7   4  7 Alberto Forelli   2:41.7   5  4 Roger Roberts   2:42.2   6  2 Leiknir Jónsson   2:48.8  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Lane  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  2 Vladimir Kosinsky   2:31.9   2  5 Nobutaka Taguchi   2:35.5   3  6 Ken Merten   2:37.0   4  8 Liam Ball   2:39.8   5  1 José Durán   2:40.3   6  3 Józef Klukowski   2:41.6   7  4 Gershon Shefa   2:42.6   8  7 Abel Muñoz   3:02.8  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Lane  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  2 Brian Job   2:31.5   2  4 Nikolay Pankin   2:33.1   3  7 Osamu Tsurumine   2:33.9   4  6 Ladislau Koszta   2:36.4   5  5 Osvaldo Boretto   2:38.8   6  8 Stuart Roberts   2:39.1   7  1 Slavko Kurbanović   2:39.9   8  3 Yohan Kende   2:44.3  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Lane  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  3 Felipe Muñoz   2:31.1   2  2 Yevhen Mykhailov   2:32.8   3  5 Klaus Katzur   2:36.2   4  7 Thomas Johnsson   2:38.0   5  6 Amman Jalmaani   2:42.6   6  4 Ivan Gomina   2:45.0  ===Final=== Rank  Lane  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1 4 Felipe Muñoz   2:28.7  ''' '''  2 3 Vladimir Kosinsky   2:29.2  '''  '''  3 5 Brian Job   2:29.9  ''' ''' 4  7 Nikolay Pankin   2:30.3  ''' ''' 5  6 Yevgeny Mikhaylov   2:32.8  ''' ''' 6  8 Egon Henninger   2:33.2  ''' ''' 7  2 Philip Long   2:33.6  ''' ''' 8  1 Osamu Tsurumine   2:34.9  ''' '''
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