Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley event was part of the swimming competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics. It took place in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California on August 4, 1984. This exciting race combined four different swimming styles: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle.

Forty-six athletes from many countries took part in the preliminary heats. Only the eight fastest swimmers from these heats advanced to the final race. The event tested the athletes' skills in all four swimming techniques, making it one of the more challenging races in swimming.

Records

Before this swimming event, there were already some very fast times set in the world and in the Olympics. During the competition, new records were set.

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	Record
4 August	Heat 5	Alex Baumann	Canada	2:03.60	OR
4 August	Final A	Alex Baumann	Canada	2:01.42	WR

Results

In the 1984 Summer Olympics, swimmers from around the world competed in the men's 200 metre individual medley event. The competition took place in Los Angeles, California, on August 4, 1984. Forty-six swimmers started in the preliminary rounds, and the top eight times moved on to the final round.

The final had two groups: Final A for the fastest swimmers and Final B for the next group. The winners were decided in these final races.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
1	5	4	Alex Baumann	Canada	2:03.60
2	3	5	Robin Brew	Great Britain	2:04.13
3	3	4	Pablo Morales	United States	2:04.32
4	1	4	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	2:05.39
5	6	6	Nicolai Klapkarek	West Germany	2:06.07
6	4	4	Steve Lundquist	United States	2:06.10
7	3	3	Ralf Diegel	West Germany	2:06.41
8	4	5	Andrew Phillips	Jamaica	2:06.43
9	1	5	Rob Woodhouse	Australia	2:06.45
10	6	4	Giovanni Franceschi	Italy	2:06.76
11	2	4	Ricardo Prado	Brazil	2:07.16
12	6	3	Maurizio Divano	Italy	2:07.19
13	5	5	Mikael Örn	Sweden	2:07.56
14	4	3	Shinji Ito	Japan	2:07.76
15	2	6	Peter Rohde	Denmark	2:07.93
16	1	3	Arne Borgstrøm	Norway	2:08.09
17	4	6	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	2:08.12
18	5	3	Edsard Schlingemann	Netherlands	2:08.27
19	5	6	Harri Garmendia	Spain	2:08.30
20	6	5	Anders Peterson	Sweden	2:08.35
21	2	5	Rob Chernoff	Canada	2:08.47
22	2	3	Glenn Beringen	Australia	2:08.65
23	4	2	Eduardo Morillo	Mexico	2:09.87
24	6	2	Chen Qin	China	2:10.30
25	3	6	Feng Dawei	China	2:11.30
26	1	6	Andrey Aguilar	Costa Rica	2:11.63
27	5	2	Yoram Kochavy	Israel	2:11.81
28	4	7	Jairulla Jaitulla	Philippines	2:12.82
29	1	2	Luis Juncos	Argentina	2:12.83
30	1	7	Emad El-Shafei	Egypt	2:14.87
31	2	2	David Morley	Bahamas	2:16.85
32	2	7	Tsang Yi Ming	Hong Kong	2:17.75
33	6	1	Ng Wing Hon	Hong Kong	2:18.64
34	6	8	Samuela Tupou	Fiji	2:19.79
35	4	1	Brian Farlow	Virgin Islands	2:20.53
36	3	8	Salvador Corelo	Honduras	2:22.29
37	5	1	Harry Wozniak	Barbados	2:22.49
38	2	1	Roberto Granados	Guatemala	2:22.73
39	1	1	Warren Sorby	Fiji	2:22.74
40	3	1	Harrell Woolard	Virgin Islands	2:27.51
41	4	8	Michele Piva	San Marino	2:29.81
42	5	8	Joaquim Cruz	Mozambique	2:35.99
	3	7	Fernando Rodríguez	Peru	DSQ
	5	7	Manuel Gutiérrez	Panama	DSQ
	6	7	Gökhan Attaroglu	Turkey	DSQ
	3	2	Alexander Pilhatsch	Austria	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
9	4	Rob Woodhouse	Australia	2:04.86
10	2	Shinji Ito	Japan	2:06.07
11	5	Giovanni Franceschi	Italy	2:06.10
12	3	Maurizio Divano	Italy	2:06.72
13	7	Peter Rohde	Denmark	2:07.10
14	2	Arne Borgstrøm	Norway	2:08.03
15	8	Pablo Restrepo	Colombia	2:08.35
16	6	Mikael Örn	Sweden	2:11.79

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Alex Baumann	Canada	2:01.42
	3	Pablo Morales	United States	2:03.05
	6	Neil Cochran	Great Britain	2:04.38
4	5	Robin Brew	Great Britain	2:04.52
5	7	Steve Lundquist	United States	2:04.91
6	8	Andrew Phillips	Jamaica	2:05.60
7	2	Nicolai Klapkarek	West Germany	2:05.88
8	1	Ralf Diegel	West Germany	2:06.66