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

Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m		women
4 × 200 m	men
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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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