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

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	26 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	56 from 39 nations
Winning time	1:46.70 OR
Medalists
Yevgeny Sadovyi  Unified Team Anders Holmertz  Sweden Antti Kasvio  Finland

The men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

Records

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

World record	Giorgio Lamberti (ITA)	1:46.69	Bonn, West Germany	15 August 1989
Olympic record	Duncan Armstrong (AUS)	1:47.25	Seoul, South Korea	19 September 1988

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 July	Heat 8	Yevgeny Sadovyi	Unified Team	1:46.74	OR
26 July	Final A	Yevgeny Sadovyi	Unified Team	1:46.70	OR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	5	Yevgeny Sadovyi	Unified Team	1:46.74	Q, OR
2	6	4	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	1:46.76	Q, NR
3	7	6	Vladimir Pyshnenko	Unified Team	1:47.94	Q
4	6	3	Steffen Zesner	Germany	1:48.12	Q
5	8	6	Antti Kasvio	Finland	1:48.31	Q
6	8	5	Joe Hudepohl	United States	1:48.52	Q
7	8	4	Artur Wojdat	Poland	1:48.60	Q
8	8	3	Doug Gjertsen	United States	1:48.65	Q
9	7	5	Roberto Gleria	Italy	1:49.19	q, WD
10	8	1	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	1:49.21	q
11	7	3	Kieren Perkins	Australia	1:49.26	q
12	8	2	Ian Brown	Australia	1:49.32	q
13	7	4	Massimo Trevisan	Italy	1:49.80	q
14	7	1	Paul Howe	Great Britain	1:49.86	q
15	6	8	Tommy Werner	Sweden	1:50.01	q, WD
16	7	2	Christian Keller	Germany	1:50.07	q
17	8	8	Turlough O'Hare	Canada	1:50.42	q
18	4	6	John Steel	New Zealand	1:50.56	q
19	8	7	Jarl Inge Melberg	Norway	1:50.70
20	6	6	Uğur Taner	Turkey	1:50.95
21	6	1	Cristiano Michelena	Brazil	1:51.04
22	6	2	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	1:51.42
23	7	7	Darren Ward	Canada	1:51.62
24	7	8	Stefaan Maene	Belgium	1:51.85
25	5	2	Robert Pinter	Romania	1:52.24
26	5	4	Trent Bray	New Zealand	1:52.49
27	6	7	Béla Szabados	Hungary	1:52.50
28	4	3	Vesa Hanski	Finland	1:53.17
29	5	3	Jure Bučar	Slovenia	1:53.19
30	5	6	Shigeo Ogata	Japan	1:53.42
31	5	1	Toshiaki Kurasawa	Japan	1:53.75
32	4	4	Franz Mortensen	Denmark	1:53.86
33	3	4	Arthur Li Kai Yien	Hong Kong	1:54.35
34	4	7	Yves Clausse	Luxembourg	1:54.45
35	4	1	Nace Majcen	Slovenia	1:54.57
36	3	3	Jeffrey Ong	Malaysia	1:55.37
37	5	5	Xie Jun	China	1:55.51
38	4	2	Ivor Le Roux	Zimbabwe	1:56.17
39	3	5	Kenneth Yeo	Singapore	1:57.80
40	3	7	Gustavo Bucaro	Guatemala	1:58.13
41	3	1	Kelvin Li	Hong Kong	1:59.40
42	3	6	Benoît Fleurot	Mauritius	1:59.73
43	2	6	Plutarco Castellanos	Honduras	1:59.91
44	2	3	Helder Torres	Guatemala	2:00.04
45	2	5	Frank Flores	Guam	2:00.48
46	3	2	Luis Medina	Bolivia	2:00.87
47	1	3	Émile Lahoud	Lebanon	2:01.06
48	1	4	Hussein Al-Sadiq	Saudi Arabia	2:01.31
49	2	2	Julian Bolling	Sri Lanka	2:02.01
50	1	6	Carl Probert	Fiji	2:04.52
51	2	7	Laurent Alfred	Virgin Islands	2:04.59
52	1	5	Daniele Casadei	San Marino	2:06.14
53	1	2	Ahmad Faraj	United Arab Emirates	2:07.61
54	1	7	Jean-Paul Adam	Seychelles	2:09.99
	5	7	Zoltán Szilágyi	Hungary	DSQ
	2	4	Nayef Al-Hasawi	Kuwait	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Paul Palmer	Great Britain	1:48.92
10	5	Kieren Perkins	Australia	1:49.75
11	3	Ian Brown	Australia	1:49.77
12	6	Massimo Trevisan	Italy	1:49.85
13	2	Paul Howe	Great Britain	1:50.15
14	7	Christian Keller	Germany	1:50.46
15	1	Turlough O'Hare	Canada	1:51.01
16	8	John Steel	New Zealand	1:51.12

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Yevgeny Sadovyi	Unified Team	1:46.70	OR
	5	Anders Holmertz	Sweden	1:46.86
	2	Antti Kasvio	Finland	1:47.63	NR
4	1	Artur Wojdat	Poland	1:48.24
5	3	Vladimir Pyshnenko	Unified Team	1:48.32
6	7	Joe Hudepohl	United States	1:48.36
7	6	Steffen Zesner	Germany	1:48.84
8	8	Doug Gjertsen	United States	1:50.57

External links

• Official Report