Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly
The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on 16 and 18 October. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.Results
Heats
Heat 1
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
1 | Carl Robie | | 2:10.0 | Q, |
2 | Atsushi Obayashi | | 2:15.1 | Q |
3 | Antonio Rastrelli | | 2:17.3 | |
4 | Hermann Lotter | | 2:18.2 | |
5 | Vítor da Fonseca | | 2:18.3 | |
6 | Narong Chok-Umnuay | | 2:32.5 | |
Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
1 | Kevin Berry | | 2:11.0 | Q |
2 | Kosuke Sato | | 2:12.4 | Q |
3 | Daniel Sherry | | 2:12.9 | Q |
4 | David Gerrard | | 2:16.3 | Q |
5 | Avraham Melamed | | 2:20.7 | |
6 | Carlos Canepa | | 2:24.9 | |
7 | Joaquín Pujol | | 2:28.3 | |
Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
1 | Luis Nicolao | | 2:15.0 | Q |
2 | John Stark | | 2:15.3 | Q |
3 | Valentin Kuzmin | | 2:15.5 | Q |
4 | Werner Freitag | | 2:16.9 | Q |
5 | Juan Alanís | | 2:23.9 | |
6 | Bernard Chan | | 2:26.6 | |
Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
1 | Phil Riker | | 2:12.6 | Q |
2 | Brian Jenkins | | 2:15.5 | Q |
3 | Oleg Fotin | | 2:17.3 | |
4 | Gabriel Altamirano | | 2:17.9 | |
5 | Wolfgang Platzeck | | 2:18.7 | |
6 | Volker Deckardt | | 2:21.3 | |
7 | Dick Langerhorst | | 2:22.5 | |
Heat 5
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
1 | Brett Hill | | 2:12.8 | Q |
2 | Fred Schmidt | | 2:13.3 | Q |
3 | Yoshinori Kadonaga | | 2:14.5 | Q |
4 | Giampiero Fossati | | 2:17.2 | Q |
5 | Ralph Hutton | | 2:20.8 | |
6 | Gustavo Ocampo | | 2:31.4 | |
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
Semifinal 2
Final
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| Kevin Berry | | 2:06.6 | WR |
| Carl Robie | | 2:07.5 | |
| Fred Schmidt | | 2:09.3 | |
4 | Philip Riker | | 2:11.0 | |
5 | Valentin Kuzmin | | 2:11.3 | |
6 | Yoshinori Kadonaga | | 2:12.6 | |
7 | Brett Hill | | 2:12.8 | |
8 | Daniel Sherry | | 2:14.6 | |
Key: WR = World record