Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 metre individual medley


The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
7 SeptemberHeat 1András Hargitay2:09.54CR
7 SeptemberFinalGunnar Larsson2:08.36CR

Results

Heats

28 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:

Final

The results of the final are below.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
6Gunnar Larsson2:08.36CR
2Stan Carper2:08.43
5David Wilkie2:08.84CWR
4András Hargitay2:09.52
3Christian Lietzmann2:09.57
8Wolfram Sperling2:10.54
1Fred Tyler2:10.86
7Sergey Zakharov2:10.86