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Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

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The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 31 July and 2 August at the Swimming Stadium.[1] This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

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Gold John Davies
 Australia
Silver Bowen Stassforth
 United States
Bronze Herbert Klein
 Germany

Results

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Heats

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16 fastest swimmer advanced to semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Monte Nitzkowski  United States 2:40.6
2 Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil  France 2:43.4
3 Marek Petrusewicz  Poland 2:44.0
4 Juha Tikka  Finland 2:46.3
5 Brian Barnes  Great Britain 2:48.6
6 René Kohn  Luxembourg 2:59.3

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 John Davies  Australia 2:39.7
2 Jiro Nagasawa  Japan 2:40.4
3 Nikola Trojanović  Yugoslavia 2:42.4
4 Bengt Rask  Sweden 2:45.3
5 Ludovicus Schoenmaekers  Belgium 2:46.5
6 Yury Kurchashov  Soviet Union 2:47.3
7 Alfons Oehy  Switzerland 2:54.8
8 Muhammad Bashir  Pakistan 3:01.3

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ľudovít Komadel  Czechoslovakia 2:38.9
2 Orlando Cossani  Argentina 2:39.6
3 Takayoshi Kajikawa  Japan 2:39.6
4 Walter Ocampo  Mexico 2:44.8
5 Octavio Mobiglia  Brazil 2:46.1
6 Giorgio Grilz  Italy disqualified

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Bowen Stassforth  United States 2:39.3
2 David Hawkins  Australia 2:41.2
3 George Portelance  Canada 2:42.5
4 Pyotr Skripchenkov  Soviet Union 2:47.3
5 Blago Barbieri  Yugoslavia 2:47.3
6 Knud Gleie  Denmark 2:51.4
7 Vladimír Skovajsa  Czechoslovakia 2:53.3

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jerry Holan  United States 2:36.8
2 Maurice Lusien  France 2:40.9
3 Nobuyasu Hirayama  Japan 2:41.5
4 Adhemar Grijó Filho  Brazil 2:47.6
5 Habib Suharko  Indonesia 2:51.3

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Herbert Klein  Germany 2:37.0
2 Daan Buijze  Netherlands 2:41.9
3 Vladimir Borisenko  Soviet Union 2:43.2
4 Aulis Kähkönen  Finland 2:43.8
5 Manuel Sanguily  Cuba 2:44.5
6 Vlastimil Linhart  Czechoslovakia 2:48.0
7 Awad Moukhtar Halloudah  Egypt 2:50.5
8 Eduardo Barbeiro  Portugal 3:04.6

Semifinals

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Eight fastest swimmers advanced to final.

Semifinal 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 John Davies  Australia 2:36.8
2 Ľudovít Komadeľ  Czechoslovakia 2:38.8
3 Nobuyasu Hirayama  Japan 2:39.1
4 Gerald Holan  United States 2:39.2
5 Monte Nitzkowski  United States 2:41.4
6 Daan Buijze  Netherlands 2:42.6
7 Orlando Cossani  Argentina 2:43.1
8 George Portelance  Canada 2:43.8

Semifinal 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Herbert Klein  Germany 2:37.0
2 Takayoshi Kajikawa  Japan 2:37.3
3 Bowen Stassforth  United States 2:38.7
4 Jiro Nagasawa  Japan 2:39.0
5 Maurice Lusien  France 2:39.1
6 David Hawkins  Australia 2:39.8
7 Nikola Trojanović  Yugoslavia 2:41.8
8 Vladimir Borisenko  Soviet Union 2:46.2

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 John Davies  Australia 2:34.4 OR
2 Bowen Stassforth  United States 2:34.7
3 Herbert Klein  Germany 2:35.9
4 Nobuyasu Hirayama  Japan 2:37.4
5 Takayoshi Kajikawa  Japan 2:38.6
6 Jiro Nagasawa  Japan 2:39.1
7 Maurice Lusien  France 2:39.8
8 Ľudovít Komadeľ  Czechoslovakia 2:40.1

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
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