| Men 200m Breaststroke Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Thursday, 6th December - Gold Medal: Masaru Furukawa, Japan | 
| Final |   | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Masaru Furukawa |   Japan | 2:34.7 |   | 4 | 20 |  | 2. Masahiro Yoshimura |   Japan | 2:36.7 | +2.0s | 3 | 20 |  | 3. Kharis Yunichev |   Soviet Union | 2:36.8 | +2.1s | 7 | 25 |  | 4. Terry Gathercole |   Australia | 2:38.7 | +4.0s | 2 | 21 |  | 5. Igor Zaseda |   Soviet Union | 2:39.0 | +4.3s | 6 | 24 |  | 6. Knud Gleie |   Denmark | 2:40.0 | +5.3s | 5 | 21 |  | 7. Manuel Sanguily |   Cuba | 2:42.0 | +7.3s | 1 | 23 |  | 8. Hugues Broussard |   France | DSQ |   | 8 | _ |   
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Heats - Friday, 30th November | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| Heat 1 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Masaru Furukawa |   Japan | 2:36.1 |   | 5 | 20 | 1. |  | 2. Knud Gleie |   Denmark | 2:36.4 | +0.3s | 6 | 21 | 2. |  | 3. Farid Dosaiev |   Soviet Union | 2:43.9 | +7.8s | 3 | 23 | 10. |  | 4. Louis Kozma |   Belgium | 2:48.4 | +12.3s | 4 | 18 | 12. |  | 5. Shamsher Khan |   India | 3:17.0 | +40.9s | 7 | _ | 14. |  | -. Octavio Mobiglia |   Brazil | DSQ |   | 1 | 25 |   |  | -. Palsons Nabiula |   Philippines | DSQ |   | 2 | _ |   |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Igor Zaseda |   Soviet Union | 2:40.1 | +4.0s | 3 | 24 | 4. |  | 2. Terry Gathercole |   Australia | 2:40.2 | +4.1s | 6 | 21 | 5. |  | 3. Manuel Sanguily |   Cuba | 2:41.8 | +5.7s | 2 | 23 | 7. |  | 4. Rene Kohn |   Luxembourg | 2:50.9 | +14.8s | 4 | 23 | 13. |  | 5. Istvan Szivos, Sr. |   Hungary | 3:18.7 | +42.6s | 7 | 36 | 15. |  | -. Alvaro Gomez |   Colombia | DSQ |   | 1 | _ |   |  | -. Herbert Klein |   UT Germany | DSQ |   | 5 | 33 |   |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Masahiro Yoshimura |   Japan | 2:38.6 | +2.5s | 6 | 20 | 3. |  | 2. Kharis Yunichev |   Soviet Union | 2:41.2 | +5.1s | 3 | 25 | 6. |  | 3. Hugues Broussard |   France | 2:43.0 | +6.9s | 5 | _ | 8. |  | 4. Gilbert Desmit |   Belgium | 2:43.5 | +7.4s | 4 | 19 | 9. |  | 5. Christopher Walkden |   Great Britain | 2:47.1 | +11.0s | 7 | 18 | 11. |  | 6. Robert Hughes |   United States | 2:52.2 | +16.1s |   | _ | 14. |  | -. Rasul Ghulam |   Pakistan | DSQ |   | 1 | _ |   |   
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