Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

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Swimming at the
1936 Summer Olympics
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Freestyle
100 m men   women
400 m men   women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men   women
Breaststroke
200 m men   women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m   women
4×200 m men  

The men's 200 metre breaststroke was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme. It was the seventh appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held from Thursday August 13, 1936 to Saturday August 15, 1936.

Twenty-five swimmers from eleven nations competed.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
Tetsuo Hamuro
 Japan		 Erwin Sietas
 Germany		 Reizo Koike
 Japan

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record 2:37.2 United States Jack Kasley New Haven (USA) March 28, 1936
Olympic Record 2:44.9 Japan Reizo Koike Los Angeles (USA) August 12, 1932

In the first heat of the first round Tetsuo Hamuro set a new Olympic record with 2:42.5 minutes. He bettered his own Olympic record in the final with 2:41.5 minutes.

Results

Heats

Thursday August 13, 1936: The fastest three in each heat and the fastest from across the heats advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:42.5 QQ OR
2  Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:44.6 QQ
3  Ray Kaye (USA) 2:48.5 QQ
4 22x20px Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI) 2:50.2 qq
5  Julius Edgar Arp (BRA) 3:02.6

Heat 2

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:45.8 QQ
2  Jochen Balke (GER) 2:46.4 QQ
3  Jack Kasley (USA) 2:54.4 QQ
4  Erik Skou (DEN) 2:57.6
5 22x20px Percy Belvin (BER) 3:09.8
6  Albert Puddy (CAN) 3:10.2

Heat 3

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  John Higgins (USA) 2:48.8 QQ
2 22x20px Arsad Alpad (PHI) 2:52.6 QQ
3  Finn Jensen (DEN) 2:55.7 QQ
4  Antônio Luiz dos Santos (BRA) 2:56.8
5 22x20px Mohamed Hassanein (EGY) 2:58.9
—  Jorge Berroeta (CHI) DSQ

Heat 4

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1 22x20px Leonard Spence (BER) 2:52.0 QQ
2  Gerald Clawson (CAN) 2:54.7 QQ
3  Felix Erbert (TCH) 2:55.7 QQ
—  Carlos Reed (CHI) DSQ

Heat 5

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:43.8 QQ
2 22x20px Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:47.4 QQ
3  Arthur Heina (GER) 2:48.5 QQ
4  Hans Malmström (DEN) 2:56.5

Semifinals

Wednesday August 14, 1936: The fastest three in each semi-final and the fastest fourth-placed advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:44.5 QQ
2  Jochen Balke (GER) 2:45.4 QQ
3  Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:45.5 QQ
4  Ray Kaye (USA) 2:49.2
5 22x20px Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI) 2:54.0
6 22x20px Arsad Alpad (PHI) 2:54.6
7  Finn Jensen (DEN) 2:54.8
8  Gerald Clawson (CAN) 2:55.6

Semifinal 2

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:43.4 QQ
2  John Higgins (USA) 2:44.0 QQ
3  Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:44.8 QQ
4 22x20px Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:46.8 qq
5  Arthur Heina (GER) 2:47.3
6  Jack Kasley (USA) 2:53.4
7  Felix Erbert (TCH) 2:53.5
— 22x20px Leonard Spence (BER) DSQ

Final

Saturday August 15, 1936:

Place Swimmer Time
1  Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:41.5
2  Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:42.9
3  Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:44.2
4  John Higgins (USA) 2:45.2
5  Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:47.6
6  Jochen Balke (GER) 2:47.8
7 22x20px Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:51.1

References

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