Jump to content

Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The men's 200 metre breaststroke was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.[1] It was the seventh appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held from Thursday to Saturday, 13 to 15 August 1936.

Twenty-five swimmers from eleven nations competed. Several of the swimmers used butterfly-swimming strokes; the butterfly stroke was only developed in the early 1930s and was still regarded as a variant of breaststroke in 1936.

Medalists

[edit]
Gold Silver Bronze
Tetsuo Hamuro
 Japan
Erwin Sietas
 Germany
Reizo Koike
 Japan

Records

[edit]

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record 2:37.2 United States Jack Kasley New Haven (USA) 28 March 1936
Olympic Record 2:44.9 Japan Reizo Koike Los Angeles (USA) 12 August 1932

In the first heat of the first round Tetsuo Hamuro set a new Olympic record with 2:42.5 minutes. He bettered his own Olympic record in the final with 2:41.5 minutes.

Results

[edit]

Heats

[edit]

Thursday 13 August 1936: The fastest three in each heat and the fastest from across the heats advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:42.5 QQ OR
2  Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:44.6 QQ
3  Ray Kaye (USA) 2:48.5 QQ
4  Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI) 2:50.2 qq
5  Julius Edgar Arp (BRA) 3:02.6

Heat 2

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:45.8 QQ
2  Jochen Balke (GER) 2:46.4 QQ
3  Jack Kasley (USA) 2:54.4 QQ
4  Erik Skou (DEN) 2:57.6
5  Percy Belvin (BER) 3:09.8
6  Albert Puddy (CAN) 3:10.2

Heat 3

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  John Higgins (USA) 2:48.8 QQ
2  Arsad Alpad (PHI) 2:52.6 QQ
3  Finn Jensen (DEN) 2:55.7 QQ
4  Antônio Luiz dos Santos (BRA) 2:56.8
5  Mohamed Hassanein (EGY) 2:58.9
 Jorge Berroeta (CHI) DSQ

Heat 4

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Leonard Spence (BER) 2:52.0 QQ
2  Gerald Clawson (CAN) 2:54.7 QQ
3  Felix Erbert (TCH) 2:55.7 QQ
 Carlos Reed (CHI) DSQ

Heat 5

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:43.8 QQ
2  Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:47.4 QQ
3  Arthur Heina (GER) 2:48.5 QQ
4  Hans Malmström (DEN) 2:56.5

Semifinals

[edit]

Wednesday 14 August 1936: The fastest three in each semi-final and the fastest fourth-placed advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:44.5 QQ
2  Jochen Balke (GER) 2:45.4 QQ
3  Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:45.5 QQ
4  Ray Kaye (USA) 2:49.2
5  Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI) 2:54.0
6  Arsad Alpad (PHI) 2:54.6
7  Finn Jensen (DEN) 2:54.8
8  Gerald Clawson (CAN) 2:55.6

Semifinal 2

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:43.4 QQ
2  John Higgins (USA) 2:44.0 QQ
3  Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:44.8 QQ
4  Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:46.8 qq
5  Arthur Heina (GER) 2:47.3
6  Jack Kasley (USA) 2:53.4
7  Felix Erbert (TCH) 2:53.5
 Leonard Spence (BER) DSQ

Final

[edit]

Saturday 15 August 1936:

Place Swimmer Time
1  Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN) 2:41.5
2  Erwin Sietas (GER) 2:42.9
3  Reizo Koike (JPN) 2:44.2
4  John Higgins (USA) 2:45.2
5  Saburo Ito (JPN) 2:47.6
6  Jochen Balke (GER) 2:47.8
7  Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI) 2:51.1

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
[edit]