Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke

The men's 200 metre breaststroke was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics programme.[1] It was the sixth appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held from Thursday August 11, 1932 to Saturday August 13, 1932.

Eighteen swimmers from eleven nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yoshiyuki Tsuruta  Japan	Reizo Koike  Japan	Teófilo Yldefonso  Philippines

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1932 Summer Olympics.

World Record	2:44.0	Leonard Spence	New Haven (USA)	April 1, 1932
Olympic Record	2:48.8	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta	Amsterdam (NED)	August 8, 1928

In the first heat Yoshiyuki Tsuruta improved his own Olympic record with 2:46.2 minutes. In the first semi-final Reizo Koike bettered the Olympic record with 2:44.9 minutes.

Results

Heats

Thursday August 11, 1932: The fastest two in each heat and the fastest third-placed from across the heats advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)	2:46.2	QQ OR
2	Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI)	2:49.9	QQ
3	Ulysse Cartonnet (FRA)	2:50.8	qq
4	Basil Francis (USA)	2:57.2
5	Sigfrid Heyner (SWE)	3:00.7
6	Harry Forssell (BRA)	3:14.6

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Reizo Koike (JPN)	2:46.2	QQ
2	Erwin Sietas (GER)	2:51.0	QQ
3	Justo José Caraballo (ARG)	2:55.2
4	Edwin Moles (USA)	2:56.8
5	Richard Wyndham (CAN)	3:12.4

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI)	2:53.7	QQ
2	Walter Spence (CAN)	2:56.5	QQ
3	Alfred Schoebel (FRA)	2:56.6
4	John Paulsen (USA)	3:00.1
5	Pablo Zierold (MEX)	3:15.2

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Toivo Reingoldt (FIN)	2:53.6	QQ
2	Shigeo Nakagawa (JPN)	2:55.0	QQ

Semifinals

Friday August 12, 1932: The fastest three in each semi-final advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Reizo Koike (JPN)	2:44.9	QQ OR
2	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)	2:45.4	QQ
3	Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI)	2:50.2	QQ
4	Ulysse Cartonnet (FRA)	2:50.9
5	Toivo Reingoldt (FIN)	2:54.9

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Erwin Sietas (GER)	2:47.6	QQ
2	Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI)	2:48.4	QQ
3	Shigeo Nakagawa (JPN)	2:52.4	QQ
4	Walter Spence (CAN)	2:52.7

Final

Saturday August 13, 1932:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)	2:45.4
2	Reizo Koike (JPN)	2:46.6
3	Teófilo Yldefonso (PHI)	2:47.1
4	Erwin Sietas (GER)	2:48.0
5	Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI)	2:49.2
6	Shigeo Nakagawa (JPN)	2:52.8

References

1. "Swimming at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's 200 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2016.

External links

• Olympic Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 7 November 2008.