Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

Men's 200 metre individual medley at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Medalists
Tamás Darnyi   Hungary   Greg Burgess   United States   Attila Czene   Hungary

Swimming events at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
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 metres Individual Medley event for the 1992 Summer Olympics was held in Barcelona, Spain. The event took place on 31 July.

Existing records at the time of the event were:

• World Record (WR): 1:59.36, Tamás Darnyi (Hungary); January 13, 1991, Perth, Australia.
• Olympic Record (OR): 2:00.17, Tamás Darnyi (Hungary); September 25, 1988, Seoul, South Korea.

Results

A Final

RANK	FINAL A	TIME
	Tamás Darnyi (HUN)	2:00.76
	Greg Burgess (USA)	2:00.97
	Attila Czene (HUN)	2:01.00
4	Jani Sievinen (FIN)	2:01.28
5	Christian Gessner (GER)	2:01.97
6	Ron Karnaugh (USA)	2:02.18
7	Matthew Dunn (AUS)	2:02.79
8	Gary Anderson (CAN)	2:04.30

B Final

RANK	FINAL B	TIME
9.	Martin López-Zubero (ESP)	2:03.34
10.	Serghei Mariniuc (EUN)	2:03.72
11.	Lars Sørensen (DEN)	2:03.81
12.	Frédéric Lefevre (FRA)	2:04.05
13.	Tatsuya Kinugasa (JPN)	2:04.29
14.	Darren Ward (CAN)	2:05.09
15.	Takahiro Fujimoto (JPN)	2:07.74
—	Manuel Guzmán (PUR)	DNS

Results from the preliminary heats

Note: Top-16 times from prelims advanced to swim-again in either the A (top-8) or B (#9-16) finals. Their times from those final heats are above, but their times from the prelims are missing from below.

RANK	HEATS RANKING	TIME
18.	John Davey (GBR)	2:05.07
19.	Aleksandr Savitsky (EUN)	2:05.09
20.	Marcin Maliński (POL)	2:05.32
21.	Petteri Lehtinen (FIN)	2:05.65
22.	Marcel Wouda (NED)	2:05.95
23.	Joaquín Fernández (ESP)	2:06.09
24.	Stefaan Maene (BEL)	2:06.16
25.	Marian Satnoianu (ROU)	2:06.45
26.	Denislav Kalchev (BUL)	2:06.51
27.	Clifford Lyne (RSA)	2:06.62
28.	Simon Percy (NZL)	2:06.76
29.	Igor Luczak (POL)	2:07.08
30.	José Carlos Souza (BRA)	2:07.09
31.	Desmond Koh (HKG)	2:07.16
32.	Josef Hladký (GER)	2:07.18
33.	Diogo Madeira (POR)	2:07.38
34.	Gary O'Toole (IRL)	2:07.67
35.	Renato Ramalho (BRA)	2:07.78
36.	Andy Rolley (GBR)	2:09.22
37.	Arthur Kai Yien Li (HKG)	2:09.32
38.	Joseph Eric Buhain (PHI)	2:09.33
39.	Ratapong Sirisanont (THA)	2:11.02
40.	Gary Tan (SIN)	2:11.14
41.	Ricardo Torres (PAN)	2:12.01
42.	Duncan Todd (HKG)	2:12.29
43.	Christophe Verdino (MON)	2:12.46
44.	Sultan Al-Otaibi (KUW)	2:13.68
45.	Alejandro Alvizuri (PER)	2:15.10
46.	Plutarco Castellanos (HON)	2:15.50
47.	Émile Lahoud (LIB)	2:22.08
48.	Carl Probert (FIJ)	2:22.09
49.	Mohamed Bin Abid (UAE)	2:22.95
50.	Mouhamedou Diop (SEN)	2:23.92
51.	Kenny Roberts (SEY)	2:30.35
52.	Jean-Paul Adam (SEY)	2:35.35

See also

• Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley
• Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

References

• Official Olympic Report