| Men 200m Butterfly Swimming Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City, Mexico - Thursday, 24th October - Gold Medal: Carl Robbie, United States | 
| Final |   | time | gap | L | Y | 100m |  | 1. Carl Robie |   United States | 2:08.7 |   | 2 | 23 | 1:02.5 |  | 2. Martin Woodroffe |   Great Britain | 2:09.0 | +0.3s | 1 | 18 | 1:02.9 |  | 3. John Ferris |   United States | 2:09.3 | +0.6s | 4 | 19 | 1:04.3 |  | 4. Valentin Kuzmin |   Soviet Union | 2:10.6 | +1.9s | 7 | 27 | 1:03.7 |  | 5. Peter Feil |   Sweden | 2:10.9 | +2.2s | 8 | 21 | 1:03.3 |  | 6. Folkert Meeuw |   West Germany | 2:11.5 | +2.8s | 6 | 21 | 1:03.7 |  | 7. Viktor Sharygin |   Soviet Union | 2:11.9 | +3.2s | 3 | 19 | 1:03.9 |  | 8. Mark Spitz |   United States | 2:13.5 | +4.8s | 5 | 18 | 1:05.1 |   
| World Record: Mark Spitz, United States 2:05.7 West Berlin 8th October 1967 |  | Olympic Record: Kevin Berry, Australia 2:06.6 Tokyo, Japan 18 October 1964 |   
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Heats - Thursday, 24th October | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final.  | 
| Heat 1 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m |  | 1. Martin Woodroffe |   Great Britain | 2:11.6 | +1.0s | 7 | 18 | 7. | 1:03.6 |  | 2. Yasuo Takada |   Japan | 2:13.3 | +2.7s | 3 | 18 | 13. | 1:04.1 |  | 3. Abraham Melamed |   Israel | 2:15.4 | +4.8s | 2 | 24 | 15. | 1:04.2 |  | 4. Ron Jacks |   Canada | 2:18.1 | +7.5s | 5 | 20 | 20. | 1:05.6 |  | 5. Raul Villagomez |   Mexico | 2:22.4 | +11.8s | 6 | 18 | 25. | 1:07.0 |  | 6. Arturo Carranza |   El Salvador | 2:47.3 | +36.7s | 4 | 15 | 30. | 1:14.7 |  | -. Bo Westergren |   Sweden | DNS |   | - | 18 | -. |   |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m |  | 1. Peter Feil |   Sweden | 2:11.9 | +1.3s | 5 | 21 | 8. | 1:04.2 |  | 2. Gabriel Altamirano Tames |   Mexico | 2:12.1 | +1.5s | 4 | 22 | 9. | 1:02.9 |  | 3. Toomas Arusoo |   Canada | 2:12.7 | +2.1s | 3 | 20 | 11. | 1:04.3 |  | 4. Sergei Konov |   Soviet Union | 2:13.1 | +2.5s | 2 | 20 | 12. | 1:02.6 |  | 5. Eduardo Orejuela |   Ecuador | 2:23.4 | +12.8s | 6 | 16 | 26. | 1:05.0 |  | -. Joao Reynaldo Costa Lima Neto |   Brazil | DNS |   | - | 21 | -. |   |  | -. Tong-Shing Lee |   Taiwan | DNS |   | - | 20 | -. |   |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m |  | 1. John Ferris |   United States | 2:10.6 |   | 2 | 19 | 1. | 1:03.2 |  | 2. Folkert Meeuw |   West Germany | 2:11.1 | +0.5s | 5 | 21 | 4. | 1:02.1 |  | 3. John Thurley |   Great Britain | 2:12.5 | +1.9s | 3 | 20 | 10. | 1:02.9 |  | 4. Giampiero Fossati |   Italy | 2:18.2 | +7.6s | 6 | 24 | 21. | 1:05.7 |  | 5. Jacek Krawczyk |   Poland | 2:22.1 | +11.5s | 4 | 19 | 24. | 1:06.4 |  | -. Antonio Attanasio |   Italy | DNS |   | - | 18 | -. |   |  | -. Andrew Loh |   Hong Kong | DNS |   | - | 19 | -. |   |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m |  | 1. Mark Spitz |   United States | 2:10.6 |   | 3 | 18 | 1. | 1:02.6 |  | 2. Satoshi Maruya |   Japan | 2:14.2 | +3.6s | 5 | 21 | 14. | 1:02.1 |  | 3. Lutz Stoklasa |   West Germany | 2:16.4 | +5.8s | 7 | 18 | 16. | 1:03.0 |  | 4. Tomas Alberto Becerra |   Colombia | 2:16.8 | +6.2s | 1 | 15 | 17. | 1:05.2 |  | 5. Robert Cusack |   Australia | 2:19.4 | +8.8s | 2 | 17 | 22. | 1:05.9 |  | 6. Angelo Tozzi |   Italy | 2:20.9 | +10.3s | 4 | 19 | 23. | 1:06.1 |  | 7. Jose Ferraioli |   Puerto Rico | 2:23.4 | +12.8s | 6 | 20 | 26. | 1:06.0 |  | -. Robert Loh |   Hong Kong | DNS |   | - | 22 | -. |   |   
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| Heat 5 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 100m |  | 1. Viktor Sharygin |   Soviet Union | 2:10.9 | +0.3s | 5 | 19 | 3. | 1:03.3 |  | 2. Carl Robie |   United States | 2:11.1 | +0.5s | 3 | 23 | 4. | 1:03.5 |  | 3. Valentin Kuzmin |   Soviet Union | 2:11.5 | +0.9s | 4 | 27 | 6. | 1:03.7 |  | 4. Dirk Langerhorst |   Netherlands | 2:17.4 | +6.8s | 6 | 22 | 18. | 1:04.7 |  | 5. Graham Dunn |   Australia | 2:17.5 | +6.9s | 1 | 18 | 19. | 1:06.4 |  | 6. Ramiro Benavides |   Guatemala | 2:24.3 | +13.7s | 2 | 14 | 28. | 1:09.5 |  | 7. Leroy Goff |   Philippines | 2:25.3 | +14.7s | 7 | 22 | 29. | 1:06.0 |   
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