Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
Breaststroke
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m			women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m			women
4×200 m	men

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place between November 30 and December 6. 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.

Medalists

Gold	Masaru Furukawa Japan (JPN)
Silver	Masahiro Yoshimura Japan (JPN)
Bronze	Kharis Yunichev Soviet Union (URS)

Results

Heats

Three heats were held; the swimmers with the fastest eight times advanced to the Finals. The athletes that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Masaru Furukawa	Japan	2:36.1
2	Knud Gleie	Denmark	2:36.4
3	Farid Dosayev	Soviet Union	2:43.9
4	Louis Kozma	Belgium	2:48.4
5	Shamsher Khan	India	3:19.0
-	Octávio Mobiglia	Brazil	DSQ
-	Palsons Naibula	Philippines	DSQ

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Igor Zaseda	Soviet Union	2:40.1
2	Terry Gathercole	Australia	2:40.2
3	Manuel Sanguily	Cuba	2:41.8
4	Ren Kohn	Luxembourg	2:50.9
5	István Szívós	Hungary	3:18.7
-	lvaro Gomez	Colombia	DSQ
-	Herbert Klein	Germany	DSQ

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Masahiro Yoshimura	Japan	2:38.6
2	Kharis Yunichev	Soviet Union	2:41.2
3	Henri Broussard	France	2:43.0
4	Gilbert Desmit	Belgium	2:43.5
5	Christopher Walkden	Great Britain	2:47.1
6	Robert Hughes	United States	2:52.2
-	Ghulam Rasul	Pakistan	DSQ

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Masaru Furukawa	Japan	2:34.7
	Masahiro Yoshimura	Japan	2:36.7
	Kharis Yunichev	Soviet Union	2:36.8
4	Terry Gathercole	Australia	2:38.7
5	Igor Zaseda	Soviet Union	2:39.0
6	Knud Gleie	Denmark	2:40.0
7	Manuel Sanguily	Cuba	2:42.0
	Henri Broussard	France		DSQ

Key: DSQ = Disqualified

References

• 1956 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 m breaststroke, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-28.