Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between 26 and 30 August.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Bill Mulliken  United States
Silver	Yoshihiko Osaki  Japan
Bronze	Wieger Mensonides  Netherlands

Results

Heats

Six heats were held; the swimmers with the sixteen fastest times advanced to the Semifinals. Because there were three swimmers with a time of 2:42.4, a swim-off was held to determine the two that would advance.

Key

Advanced to Semifinal

See Swim-Off

Did Not Advance

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bill Mulliken	United States	2:38.0
2	Georgy Prokopenko	Soviet Union	2:39.2
3	Gerard Rowlinson	Great Britain	2:45.0
4	Engin Ünal	Turkey	2:49.0
5	Antonio Saloso	Philippines	2:53.3
–	László Felkai	Hungary	DQ
–	Gerald Brauner	Austria	DQ

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Arkadiy Holovchenko	Soviet Union	2:41.0
2	Đorđe Perišić	Yugoslavia	2:41.1
3	Christopher Walkden	Great Britain	2:41.5
4	Mihai Mitrofan	Romania	2:41.8
5	Farid Zablith Filho	Brazil	2:48.6
6	Roland Boullanger	France	2:54.4
7	Nicolas Wildhaber	Switzerland	2:58.7

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Wieger Mensonides	Netherlands	2:39.0
2	Roberto Lazzari	Italy	2:41.2
3	Konrad Enke	Germany	2:44.6
4	Richard Audoly	France	2:46.5
5	Pierpaolo Spangaro	Italy	2:53.8
6	Tony Williams	Sri Lanka	2:59.8

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Isao Masuda	Japan	2:41.2
2	Terry Gathercole	Australia	2:41.7
3	Pekka Lairola	Finland	2:43.3
4	Bernt Nilsson	Sweden	2:45.7
5	Steve Rabinovitch	Canada	2:47.2
6	Laurel Lee	Chinese Taipei	2:52.8
7	Werner Risi	Switzerland	2:56.6

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Paul Hait	United States	2:40.8
2	Andrzej Kłopotowski	Poland	2:41.4
3	György Kunsági	Hungary	2:42.2
4	Egon Henninger	Germany	2:42.4
5	Vítězslav Svozil	Czechoslovakia	2:42.4
6	Emilio Díaz	Spain	2:52.9
7	Trương Ke Nhon	South Vietnam	2:53.0
–	Erny Schweitzer	Luxembourg	DQ

Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Yoshihiko Osaki	Japan	2:39.1
2	Gilbert Desmit	Belgium	2:42.4
3	Tommie Lindström	Sweden	2:42.8
4	William Burton	Australia	2:43.9
5	Guillermo Alsina	Spain	2:51.4
6	Gershon Shefa	Israel	2:51.7
7	Nikolaos Zakharopoulos	Greece	2:56.4

Swim-Off

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Egon Henninger	Germany	2:39.5
2	Gilbert Desmit	Belgium	2:41.1
3	Vítězslav Svozil	Czechoslovakia	2:41.7

Semifinals

Two heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. Those that advanced are highlighted.

Semifinal One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bill Mulliken	United States	2:37.2
2	Yoshihiko Osaki	Japan	2:38.2
3	Egon Henninger	Germany	2:38.5
4	Roberto Lazzari	Italy	2:40.3
5	Arkady Golovchenko	Soviet Union	2:40.9
6	Mihai Mitrofan	Romania	2:41.6
7	Christopher Walkden	Great Britain	2:41.7
8	Đorđe Perišić	Yugoslavia	2:44.2

Semifinal Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Terry Gathercole	Australia	2:39.1
2	Wieger Mensonides	Netherlands	2:39.3
3	Paul Hait	United States	2:39.6
4	Andrzej Kłopotowski	Poland	2:40.8
5	Georgy Prokopenko	Soviet Union	2:41.0
6	Gilbert Desmit	Belgium	2:41.8
7	Isao Masuda	Japan	2:42.3
8	György Kunsági	Hungary	2:42.4

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Bill Mulliken	United States	2:37.4
	Yoshihiko Osaki	Japan	2:38.0
	Wieger Mensonides	Netherlands	2:39.7
4	Egon Henninger	United Team of Germany	2:40.1
5	Roberto Lazzari	Italy	2:40.1
6	Terry Gathercole	Australia	2:40.2
7	Andrzej Kłopotowski	Poland	2:41.2
8	Paul Hait	United States	2:41.4