Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke

Swimming events at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 200 metre backstroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 2. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Roland Matthes East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Mike Stamm United States (USA)
Bronze	Mitch Ivey United States (USA)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Roland Matthes	East Germany	2:02.82	=WR
	Mike Stamm	United States	2:04.09
	Mitch Ivey	United States	2:04.33
4	Brad Cooper	Australia	2:06.59
5	Tim McKee	United States	2:07.29
6	Lothar Noack	East Germany	2:08.67
7	Zoltán Verrasztó	Hungary	2:10.09
8	Jean-Paul Berjeau	France	2:11.77

Key: =WR = Equalled world record

References

• 1972 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 m backstroke, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-07.