Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre individual medley

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The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 31 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

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

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q). Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 5 Jani Sievinen 2:01.18 Q, NR 2 8 4 Tamás Darnyi 2:01.29 Q 3 8 5 Greg Burgess 2:01.35 Q 4 7 4 Ron Karnaugh 2:01.64 Q 5 6 5 Attila Czene 2:02.05 Q 6 7 3 Christian Geßner 2:02.43 Q 7 6 3 Gary Anderson 2:02.63 Q 8 8 7 Matthew Dunn 2:02.75 Q 9 6 4 Martín López Zubero 2:03.07 q 10 8 2 Tatsuya Kinugasa 2:03.32 q 11 6 6 Luca Sacchi 2:03.54 q, WD (Withdrew) 12 8 6 Darren Ward 2:03.71 q 13 7 6 Frédéric Lefevre 2:03.82 q 14 7 8 Serghei Mariniuc 2:04.23 q 15 8 3 Lars Sørensen 2:04.65 q 16 6 2 Takahiro Fujimoto 2:04.89 q 17 7 7 Manuel Guzmán 2:04.95 q 18 8 8 John Davey 2:05.07 19 5 2 Aleksandr Savitsky 2:05.09 20 4 5 Marcin Maliński 2:05.32 21 5 4 Petteri Lehtinen 2:05.65 22 6 7 Marcel Wouda 2:05.95 23 6 1 Joaquín Fernández 2:06.09 24 5 5 Stefaan Maene 2:06.16 25 4 4 Marian Satnoianu 2:06.45 26 4 2 Denislav Kalchev 2:06.51 27 1 8 Clifford Lyne 2:06.62 AF 28 5 7 Simon Percy 2:06.76 29 3 6 Igor Łuczak 2:07.08 30 4 6 José Carlos Souza 2:07.09 31 4 7 Desmond Koh 2:07.16 32 7 2 Josef Hladký 2:07.18 33 3 4 Diogo Madeira 2:07.38 34 5 6 Gary O'Toole 2:07.67 35 5 3 Renato Ramalho 2:07.78 36 3 5 Andy Rolley 2:09.22 37 3 7 Arthur Li Kai Yien 2:09.32 38 4 3 Joseph Eric Buhain 2:09.33 39 2 4 Ratapong Sirisanont 2:11.02 40 3 2 Gary Tan 2:11.14 41 3 1 Ricardo Torres 2:12.01 42 2 2 Duncan Todd 2:12.29 43 2 6 Christophe Verdino 2:12.46 44 4 1 Sultan Al Otaibi 2:13.68 45 2 5 Alejandro Alvizuri 2:15.10 46 2 7 Plutarco Castellanos 2:15.50 47 2 1 Émile Lahoud 2:22.08 48 1 4 Carl Probert 2:22.09 49 1 3 Mohamed Bin Abid 2:22.95 50 1 1 Mouhamed Diop 2:23.92 51 1 6 Kenny Roberts 2:30.35 52 1 2 Jean Paul Adam 2:35.35 2 3 Roberto Bonilla DSQ (Disqualified) 5 1 Rodrigo González DSQ (Disqualified) 7 1 Jan Bidrman DSQ (Disqualified) 8 1 Martin Roberts DSQ (Disqualified) 1 7 Bruno N'Diaye DNS (Did not start) 1 5 Ziyad Kashmiri DNS (Did not start) 3 3 Eran Groumi DNS (Did not start) 6 8 Stefano Battistelli DNS (Did not start)

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 4 Martín López Zubero 2:03.34 10 2 Serghei Mariniuc 2:03.72 11 7 Lars Sørensen 2:03.81 12 6 Frédéric Lefevre 2:04.05 13 5 Tatsuya Kinugasa 2:04.29 14 3 Darren Ward 2:05.09 15 1 Takahiro Fujimoto 2:07.74 8 Manuel Guzmán DNS (Did not start)

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Tamás Darnyi 2:00.76 3 Greg Burgess 2:00.97 2 Attila Czene 2:01.00 4 4 Jani Sievinen 2:01.28 5 7 Christian Geßner 2:01.97 6 6 Ron Karnaugh 2:02.18 7 8 Matthew Dunn 2:02.79 8 1 Gary Anderson 2:02.79