| Men 200m Freestyle Swimming World Championship 1973 Beograd, Yugoslavia - Tuesday, 4th September - Gold Medal: Jim Montgomery, United States | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | pts | age | L | 200m |  | 1. Jim Montgomery |   United States | 1:53.027 |   |   | 803 | 18 | 5 | 54.81s |  | 2. Kurt Krumhols |   United States | 1:53.617 |   | +0.59s | 791 |   | 4 | 55.54s |  | 3. Roger Pyttel |   East Germany | 1:53.975 |   | +0.95s | 784 | 16 | 3 | 55.76s |  | 4. Stephen Badger |   Australia | 1:55.669 |   | +2.64s | 750 | 16 | 1 |   |  | 5. Brian Brinkley |   Great Britain | 1:56.424 |   | +3.40s | 735 | 19 | 7 |   |  | 6. Vladimir Bure |   Soviet Union | 1:56.462 |   | +3.43s | 735 | 22 | 6 |   |  | 7. Benrt Zarnowiecki |   Sweden | 1:56.588 |   | +3.56s | 732 | 19 | 8 |   |  | 8. Peter Nocke |   West Germany | 1:58.973 |   | +5.95s | 689 | 17 | 2 |   |   
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| World Record: Mark Spitz, United States 1:52.78 OG Munchen, West Germany 29th August 1972 |   
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 Heats - Tuesday, 4th September |  | Best 8 times advanced to Final>.  |   
| Heat 6 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 2. Jim Montgomery |   United States | 1:56.737 |   | +2.15s | - | 18 | 1. |  | 6. Brian Brinkley |   Great Britain | 1:57.423 |   | +2.84s | - | 19 | 2. |  | 8. Bernt Zarnowiecki |   Sweden | 1:57.509 |   | +2.92s | - | 19 | 3. |  | 17.Britz Pangaro |   Italy | 1:58.855 |   | +4.27s | - |   | 4. |  | 18.M. Hrouda |   Czechoslovakia | 1:58.966 |   | +4.48s | - |   | 5. |  | 29.Ali Gharbi |   Tunisia | 2:01.864 |   | +7.28s | - |   | 6. |  | 39.L. Wilwert |   Luxembourg | 2:10.545 |   | 15.96s | - |   | 7. |   
| Heat 5 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 1. Kurt Krumpholz |   United States | 1:54.582 | CR |   | - |   | 1. |  | 7. Stephen Badger |   Australia | 1:57.433 |   | +2.85s | - | 16 | 2. |  | 16.Arnaldo Cinquetti |   Italy | 1:58.407 |   | +3.82s | - | 19 | 3. |  | 19.O. Middleton |   France | 1:58.998 |   | +4.51s | - |   | 4. |  | 25.O. Aquino |   Brazil | 1:59.813 |   | +5.33s | - |   | 5. |  | 28.S. Rudan |   Yugoslavia | 2:01.783 |   | +7.20s | - |   | 6. |  | 38.Carlos A Santiago Bermudez |   Puerto Rico | 2:05.862 |   | 11.28s | - | _ | 7. |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 3. Roger Pyttel |   East Germany | 1:57.090 | CR | +2.51s | - | 16 | 1. |  | 11.Jorge Delgado |   Ecuador | 1:57.750 |   | +3.17s | - | 19 | 2. |  | 13.Jose Luciano Namorado |   Brazil | 1:57.820 |   | +3.24s | - | 21 | 3. |  | 22.M. Slavic |   Romania | 1:59.570 |   | +4.99s | - |   | 4. |  | 26.Jorge Comas Lopez |   Spain | 2:00.340 |   | +5.76s | - | 19 | 5. |  | 35.T. Yanagidate |   Japan | 2:04.010 |   | +9.52s | - |   | 6. |  | 36.A. Vivoni |   Puerto Rico | 2:04.200 |   | +9.62s | - |   | 7. |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 5. Peter Nocke |   West Germany | 1:57.346 |   | +2.76s | - | 17 | 1. |  | 12.Aleksandar Samsonov |   Soviet Union | 1:57.819 |   | +3.23s | - | 20 | 2. |  | 21.Ian MacKenzie |   Canada | 1:59.510 |   | +4.93s | - | 19 | 3. |  | 33.Stefan Georgiev |   Bulgaria | 2:02.932 |   | +8.35s | - | 18 | 4. |  | 34.Eduardo Orejuela |   Ecuador | 2:03.195 |   | +8.61s | - |   | 5. |  | 37.Hideaki Hara |   Japan | 2:05.812 |   | 11.23s | - | 17 | 6. |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 4. Vladimir Bure |   Soviet Union | 1:57.145 | CR | +2.56s | - | 22 | 1. |  | 9. Wilfred Hartung |   East Germany | 1:57.518 |   | +2.93s | - | 20 | 2. |  | 20.Fritz Warncke |   Norway | 1:59.408 |   | +4.82s | - | 17 | 3. |  | 24.B. Holmberg |   Sweden | 1:59.787 |   | +5.20s | - |   | 4. |  | 31.B. Linhard |   Yugoslavia | 2:02.547 |   | +7.96s | - |   | 5. |  | 32.Gianni Versari |   Panama | 2:02.677 |   | +8.09s | - |   | 6. |  | -. Zoltan Verraszto |   Hungary | DNS |   |   | - |   | -. |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 10.Werner Lampe |   West Germay | 1:57.621 | CR | +3.04s | - | 20 | 1. |  | 14.Bruce Robertson |   Canada | 1:58.211 |   | +3.63s | - | 20 | 2. |  | 15.Michael Wenden |   Australia | 1:58.260 |   | +3.68s | - | 23 | 3. |  | 23.P. Amardeilm |   France | 1:59.596 |   | +5.01s | - |   | 4. |  | 27.Lyudmil Stoev |   Bulgaria | 2:01.381 |   | +6.80s | - |   | 5. |  | 30.Ali Kunawi |   Egypt | 2:02.196 |   | +7.61s | - |   | 6. |  | 40.A. Bozdogan |   Turkey | 2:12.614 |   | 18.03s | - |   | 7. |   
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