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

The Men's 200 metre Butterfly event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event took place on 18 July.

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sean Maher	Great Britain	2:05.95
2	András Hargitay	Hungary	2:06.20
3	Csaba Sós	Hungary	2:06.71
4	Shinsuke Kayama	Japan	2:07.46
5	Gordon Hewit	Great Britain	2:07.60
6	Hugo Cuenca	Venezuela	2:11.06
-	Lawrence Kwoh	Hong Kong	-	DQ

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Michael Kraus	West Germany	2:01.91	Q
2	Jorge Jaramillo	Colombia	2:04.30
3	Jeff Van de Graaf	Australia	2:05.58
4	Doug Martin	Canada	2:06.81
5	Adi Prag	Israel	2:09.91
6	Steven Newkirk	Virgin Islands	2:17.84

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Steve Gregg	United States	2:00.24	Q, OR
2	Brian Brinkley	Great Britain	2:01.93	Q
3	Hideaki Hara	Japan	2:04.68
4	Anders Bellbring	Sweden	2:07.03
5	John Daly	Puerto Rico	2:07.13
6	Carlos González	Panama	2:20.92

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bill Forrester	United States	2:01.95	Q
2	George Nagy	Canada	2:03.33
3	Hartmut Flöckner	East Germany	2:05.71
4	Ricardo Marmolejo	Mexico	2:08.88
5	Paulo Frischknecht	Portugal	2:20.51
-	Ross Seymour	Australia	-	DQ

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mike Bruner	United States	2:01.35	Q
2	Jorge Delgado, Jr.	Ecuador	2:01.70	Q
3	Mikhail Gorelik	Soviet Union	2:02.96
4	Bruce Rogers	Canada	2:04.51
5	Miguel Lang-Lenton	Spain	2:08.51
6	Anatoly Smirnov	Soviet Union	2:10.50
7	François Deley	Belgium	2:12.99
8	Julio Abreu	Paraguay	2:13.54

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	2:00.28	Q
2	Oleksandr Manachynskiy	Soviet Union	2:02.91	Q
3	Pär Arvidsson	Sweden	2:03.79
4	Peter Broscienski	West Germany	2:04.17
5	John Coutts	New Zealand	2:05.05
6	Ronald Woutering	Netherlands	2:07.31
7	Edwin Borja	Philippines	2:10.61

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Mike Bruner	United States	1:59.23	WR
	Steve Gregg	United States	1:59.54
	Bill Forrester	United States	1:59.96
4	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	2:00.02
5	Michael Kraus	West Germany	2:00.46
6	Brian Brinkley	Great Britain	2:01.49
7	Jorge Delgado, Jr.	Ecuador	2:01.95
8	Oleksandr Manachynskiy	Soviet Union	2:04.61

References

• Official Olympic Report