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

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 individual medley event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 3. This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. The first length was swum using the butterfly stroke, the second with the backstroke, the third length in breaststroke, and the fourth freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events anyway.

Medalists

Gold	Gunnar Larsson Sweden (SWE)
Silver	Tim McKee United States (USA)
Bronze	Steve Furniss United States (USA)

Results

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Gunnar Larsson	Sweden	2:07.17	WR
	Tim McKee	United States	2:08.37
	Steve Furniss	United States	2:08.45
4	Gary Hall, Sr.	United States	2:08.49
5	András Hargitay	Hungary	2:09.66
6	Mikhail Sukharev	Soviet Union	2:11.78
7	Juan Carlos Bello	Peru	2:11.87
8	Hans Ljungberg	Sweden	2:13.56

Key: WR = World record

References

• 1972 Summer Olympics results: Men's 200 m individual medley, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-12-09.