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:
Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 7 September Heat 1 András Hargitay 2:09.54 CR 7 September Final Gunnar Larsson 2:08.36 CR
Results
Heats 28 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed: Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 - András Hargitay 2:09.54 Q, CR 2 3 - David Wilkie 2:09.61 Q, CWR 3 1 - Christian Lietzmann 2:09.91 Q 4 5 - Gunnar Larsson 2:10.13 Q 5 4 - Stan Carper 2:11.04 Q 6 3 - Sergey Zakharov 2:11.07 Q 7 2 - Fred Tyler 2:11.31 Q 8 5 - Wolfram Sperling 2:11.46 Q 9 2 - Andrey Smirnov 2:11.98 10 3 - Zoltán Verrasztó 2:12.65 11 4 - Brian Brinkley 2:14.31 12 5 - David Brumwell 2:14.99 13 3 - Nigel Cluer 2:15.90 14 5 - Tsuyoshi Yanagidate 2:16.01 15 2 - Steve Badger 2:16.42 16 4 - Jorge Delgado 2:16.47 17 2 - Eduardo Orejuela 2:16.58 18 5 - Neil Martin 2:17.01 19 3 - Ignacio Álvarez 2:17.05 20 4 - Antônio Azevedo 2:17.25 21 2 - Gunnar Gundersen 2:19.07 22 1 - Peter Tetlow 2:19.71 23 3 - Ramón Volcán 2:20.84 24 1 - Carlos Santiago 2:21.11 25 2 - Jorge Jaramillo 2:21.39 26 3 - Helmut Podolan 2:21.72 27 1 - Ali Gharbi 2:22.62 28 4 - C. Manochehr 2:38.93 4 - Patrick Moreau Did not start 5 - Michael Weiss Did not start 1 - Bandi Wetternek Did not start
Final The results of the final are below. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Gunnar Larsson 2:08.36 CR 2 Stan Carper 2:08.43 5 David Wilkie 2:08.84 CWR 4 András Hargitay 2:09.52 3 Christian Lietzmann 2:09.57 8 Wolfram Sperling 2:10.54 1 Fred Tyler 2:10.86 7 Sergey Zakharov 2:10.86
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