Men's Olympic Swimming: 200-meter Freestyle

Updated August 28, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

200-meter Freestyle

Year Time
1900 Frederick Lane, AUS (220 yds) 2:25.2 OR
1904 Charles Daniels, USA (220 yds) 2:44.2
1968 Michael Wenden, AUS 1:55.2 OR
1972 Mark Spitz, USA 1:52.78 WR
1976 Bruce Furniss, USA 1:50.29 WR
1980 Sergei Kopliakov, USSR 1:49.81 OR
1984 Michael Gross, W. Ger 1:47.44 WR
1988 Duncan Armstrong, AUS 1:47.25 WR
1992 Yevgeny Sadovyi, UT 1:46.70 OR
1996 Danyon Loader, NZE 1:47.63
2000 Pieter van den Hoogenband, NED 1:45.35 WR
2004 Ian Thorpe, AUS 1:44.71 OR
2008 Michael Phelps, USA 1:42.96 WR

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