Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 200 metre breaststroke
Competition:	1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	September 6, 1973
Competitors:	31
Nations:	24
Win Value:	2:19.28
Gold:	David Wilkie
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	John Hencken
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Nobutaka Taguchi
Bronzenoc:	JPN
Next:	1975

The men's 200 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 6.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Time	Record
6 September	Heat 1	2:24.85	CR
6 September	Heat 2	2:20.94	CR
6 September	Final	2:19.28	WR

31 swimmers participated in 4 heats. Th eight fastest times advanced to the final.^[1] ^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	-		2:20.94	Q, CR, CWR^[3]
2	4	-		2:21.50	Q
3	2	-		2:24.30	Q
4	1	-		2:24.85	Q, CR
5	1	-		2:25.45	Q
6	2	-		2:25.87	Q
7	3	-		2:26.17	Q
8	3	-		2:27.77	Q
9	4	-		2:28.34
10	2	-		2:29.08
11	3	-		2:29.46
12	2	-		2:30.52
13	4	-		2:31.01
14	1	-		2:31.34
15	3	-		2:31.56
16	4	-		2:32.50
17	3	-		2:32.66
18	2	-		2:33.15
19	1	-		2:33.34
20	1	-	G. Islas	2:33.99
21	4	-		2:34.07
22	1	-		2:34.78
23	3	-		2:35.29
24	4	-		2:35.34
25	2	-		2:38.50
26	2	-		2:40.14
27	1	-		2:43.79
28	3	-		2:44.12
29	4	-	H. Ashfin	2:48.80
	4	-		Did not start
	3	-		Did not start

The results of the final are below.^[4]

News: Cooper Heads 400m Finalist. The Sydney Morning Herald. AAP. John Fairfax Holdings. 7 September 1973. 19.
Web site: Official results. FINA.org. 19 July 2019.
News: Norman. Fox. Wilkie's world record and gold medal. The Times. London. 11. 7 September 1973.
Web site: Todor. Krastev. Men 200m Breastroke Swimming World Championship 1973 Belgrade (YUG). todor66.com. 29 May 2013.