Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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 event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between August 5 and 7 at the Empire Pool. This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

John Davies' time was recorded by the timekeepers to be 0.2s faster than the bronze medallist Bob Sohl of the United States. However, the judges believed that Sohl had touched first and awarded him the bronze.

Medalists

Gold	Joe Verdeur United States (USA)
Silver	Keith Carter United States (USA)
Bronze	Bob Sohl United States (USA)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Joe Verdeur	United States	2:39.3	OR
	Keith Carter	United States	2:40.2
	Bob Sohl	United States	2:43.9
4	John Davies	Australia	2:43.7
5	Antun Cerer	Yugoslavia	2:46.1
6	Willy Otto Jordan	Brazil	2:46.4
7	Ahmed Kandil	Egypt	2:47.5
8	Bob Bonte	Netherlands	2:47.6

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 m breaststroke, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-01.