| Men 200m Freestyle Swimming II World Championship 1975 Cali, Colombia - Tuesday, 22nd July - Gold Medal: Tim Shaw, United States | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag |  | 1. Tim Shaw |   United States | 1:51.04 | CR |   | 5 | 17 |  | 2. Bruce Furniss |   United States | 1:51.72 |   | +0.68s | 4 | 18 |  | 3. Brian Brinkley |   Great Britain | 1:53.56 |   | +2.52s | 3 | 21 |  | 4. Andrey Krylov |   Soviet Union | 1:54.23 |   | +3.19s | 7 | 19 |  | 5. Peter Nocke |   West Germany | 1:54.81 |   | +3.77s | 6 | 19 |  | 6. Gordon Downie |   Great Britain | 1:55.08 |   | +4.04s | 2 | 20 |  | 7. Jorge Delgado Jr |   Ecuador | 1:55.27 |   | +4.23s | 8 | 21 |  | 8. Graham Windeatt |   Australia | 1:56.23 |   | +5.19s | 1 | 20 |   
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 Heats - Tuesday, 22nd July |  | Best 8 times advanced to Final>.  |   
| Heat 5 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 1. Bruce Furniss |   United States | 1:52.35 | CR |   | - | 18 | 1. |  | 3. Brian Brinkley |   Great Britain | 1:54.15 | NR | +1.80s | - | 21 | 2. |  | 14.Werner Lampe |   West Germany | 1:57.99 |   | +5.64s | - | 22 | 3. |  | 15.Brett Naylor |   New Zealand | 1:58.01 |   | +5.66s | - | 18 | 4. |  | 22.Paul Jouanneau |   Brazil | 2:02.23 |   | +9.88s | - | 16 | 5. |  | 25.Tomas Alberto Becerra |   Colombia | 2:03.52 |   | +11.17s | - | 21 | 6. |  | 29.Chang-Cheng Lee |   Taiwan | 2:10.48 |   | +18.13s | - | - | 7. |   
| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 2. Tim Shaw |   United States | 1:52.77 | CR | +0.42 | - | 17 | 2. |  | 5. Gordon Downie |   Great Britain | 1:54.61 | NR | +2.26s | - | 20 | 2. |  | 9. Roberto Pangaro |   Italy | 1:57.00 |   | +4.65s | - | 25 | 3.  |  | 11.Andreas Meier |   East Germany | 1:57.25 |   | +4.90s | - | _ | 4. |  | 18.Colin Ress |   France | 1:58.38 |   | +6.03s | - | 19 | 5. |  | 27.Freddy Clavijo |   Colombia | 2:06.87 |   | +14.52s | - | _ | 6. |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 4. Peter Nocke |   West Germany | 1:54.50 |   | +2.15s | - | 19 | 1. |  | 7. Graham Windeatt |   Australia | 1:55.73 |   | +3.38s | - | 20 | 2. |  | 8. Jorge Delgado Jr |   Ecuador | 1:55.79 |   | +3.44s | - | 21 | 3. |  | 20.Michael Ker |   Canada | 2:00.70 |   | +8.35s | - | 18 | 4. |  | 23.Guillermo Pacheco |   Peru | 2:02.86 |   | +10.51s | - | 20 | 5. |  | 26.Leonardo Parafita |   Argentina | 2:06.36 |   | +14.01s | - | _ | 6. |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 10.Marcello Guarducci |   Italy | 1:57.08 |   | +4.73s | - | 19 | 1. |  | 12.Aleksandr Samsonov |   Soviet Union | 1:57.48 |   | +5.13s | - | 22 | 2. |  | 16.Wilfried Hartung |   East Germany | 1:58.12 |   | +5.77s | - | 21 | 3. |  | 21.Bruce Robertson |   Canada | 2:00.77 |   | +8.42s | - | 22 | 4. |  | 28.Alfredo Mackliff |   Ecuador | 2:09.92 |   | +17.57s | - | _ | 5. |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk  |  | 6. Andrey Krylov |   Soviet Union | 1:55.62 |   | +3.27s | - | 19 | 1. |  | 13.Bengt Gingsjo |   Sweden | 1:57.81 |   | +5.46s | - | 23 | 2. |  | 17.Marc Lazzaro |   France | 1:58.31 |   | +5.96s | - | 19 | 3. |  | 19.Toni Statelov |   Bulgaria | 2:00.02 |   | +7.67s | - | 25 | 4. |  | 24.Josy Wilwert |   Luxembourg | 2:03.23 |   | +10.88s | - | _ | 5. |  | 30.Gianni Versari |   Panama | 2:10.91 |   | +18.56s | - | 17 | 6. |   
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