Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre freestyle
The ??men's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 4.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
4 September | Heat | Werner Lampe | | 1:57.621 | CR |
4 September | Heat | Vladimir Bure | | 1:57.145 | CR |
4 September | Heat | Roger Pyttel | | 1:57.090 | CR |
4 September | Heat | Kurt Krumpholz | | 1:54.582 | CR |
4 September | Final | Jim Montgomery | | 1:53.02 | CR |
Results
Heats
?? swimmers participated in 6 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
1 | 5 | - | Kurt Krumpholz | | 1:54.582 | Q, CR |
2 | 6 | - | Jim Montgomery | | 1:56.737 | Q |
3 | 4 | - | Roger Pyttel | | 1:57.090 | Q, CR |
4 | 2 | - | Vladimir Bure | | 1:57.145 | Q, CR |
5 | 3 | - | Peter Nocke | | 1:57.346 | Q |
6 | 6 | - | Brian Brinkley | | 1:57.423 | Q |
7 | 5 | - | Steve Badger | | 1:57.433 | Q |
8 | 6 | - | Bernt Zarnowiecki | | 1:57.509 | Q |
9 | 2 | - | Wilfried Hartung | | 1:57.518 | |
10 | 1 | - | Werner Lampe | | 1:57.621 | CR |
11 | 4 | - | Jorge Delgado | | 1:57.750 | |
12 | 3 | - | Aleksandr Samsonov | | 1:57.819 | |
13 | 4 | - | José Namorado | | 1:57.820 | |
14 | 1 | - | Bruce Robertson | | 1:58.211 | |
15 | 1 | - | Michael Wenden | | 1:58.260 | |
16 | 5 | - | Arnaldo Cinquetti | | 1:58.407 | |
17 | 2 | - | Fritz Warncke | | 1:59.408 | |
18 | 3 | - | Ian MacKenzie | | 1:59.510 | |
Final
The results of the final are below.
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | Jim Montgomery | | 1:53.02 | CR |
| - | Kurt Krumpholz | | 1:53.61 | |
| - | Roger Pyttel | | 1:53.97 | |
| - | Steve Badger | | 1:55.66 | |
| - | Brian Brinkley | | 1:56.42 | NR |
| - | Vladimir Bure | | 1:56.45 | |
| - | Bernt Zarnowiecki | | 1:56.58 | |
| - | Peter Nocke | | 1:58.97 | |