Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

The Men's 200 metre Backstroke event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 24 July.

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mark Kerry	Australia	2:03.54	Q
2	Daryl Skilling	Canada	2:07.77
3	Igor Omelchenk'o	Soviet Union	2:07.95
4	Santiago Esteva	Spain	2:08.63
5	Carlos Berrocal	Puerto Rico	2:11.14
6	Ryszard Żugaj	Poland	2:12.53
7	António de Melo	Portugal	2:26.65

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Dan Harrigan	United States	2:02.25	Q, OR
2	Leif Ericsson	Sweden	2:07.57
3	Lutz Wanja	East Germany	2:08.02
4	Reinhold Becker	West Germany	2:09.54
5	Ivan Mikolutsky	Soviet Union	2:09.78
6	Nenad Miloš	Yugoslavia	2:11.25
7	Chiang Jin Choon	Malaysia	2:21.04

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Zoltán Verrasztó	Hungary	2:05.93	Q
2	Jim Carter	Great Britain	2:08.05
3	Steve Hardy	Canada	2:08.56
4	Krasimir Stoykov	Bulgaria	2:09.67
5	Ignacio Álvarez	Mexico	2:11.08
6	Karim Ressang	Netherlands	2:11.25

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Peter Rocca	United States	2:03.31	Q
2	Mark Tonelli	Australia	2:05.10	Q
3	Mike Scarth	Canada	2:07.16
4	José Urueta	Mexico	2:09.74
5	Predrag Miloš	Yugoslavia	2:12.21
6	Thomas Hofer	Switzerland	2:12.75

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	John Naber	United States	2:02.01	Q, OR
2	Miloslav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	2:05.33	Q
3	Róbert Rudolf	Hungary	2:06.37	Q
4	Rômulo Arantes Filho	Brazil	2:07.38
5	Conrado Porta	Argentina	2:09.75
6	Peter Lerpiniere	Great Britain	2:09.88
7	Gerardo Rosario	Philippines	2:13.89

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	John Naber	United States	1:59.19	WR
	Peter Rocca	United States	2:00.55
	Dan Harrigan	United States	2:01.35
4	Mark Tonelli	Australia	2:03.17
5	Mark Kerry	Australia	2:04.07
6	Miloslav Roľko	Czechoslovakia	2:05.81
7	Róbert Rudolf	Hungary	2:07.30
8	Zoltán Verrasztó	Hungary	2:08.23

References

• Official Olympic Report