Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

Left-right:Neville Hayes, Mike Troy and Dave Gillanders at the 1960 Olympics

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 31 and September 2 in Rome, Italy. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. This race consisted of four lengths of the Stadio Olympico del Nuoto, a 50m Olympic size swimming pool.

Medalists

Gold	Mike Troy  United States
Silver	Neville Hayes  Australia
Bronze	Dave Gillanders  United States

Results

Heats

Five heats were held; the fastest sixteen swimmers advanced to the Semifinals. Because there was a tie for sixteenth place, a swim-off was held to determine the sixteenth swimmer to advance.

Key

Advanced to Semifinals

See Swim-Off

Did Not Advance

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Mike Troy	United States	2:15.5
2	Kenzo Izutsu	Japan	2:20.3
3	Grigory Kiselyov	Soviet Union	2:24.6
4	Alexandru Popescu	Romania	2:24.6
5	Ian Blyth	Great Britain	2:24.9
6	Giampiero Fossati	Italy	2:31.9
7	Bert Sitters	Netherlands	2:36.6

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Fritz Dennerlein	Italy	2:18.3
2	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	2:19.3
3	Eulalio Ríos Alemán	Mexico	2:22.7
4	Håkan Bengtsson	Sweden	2:25.0
5	Wolfgang Sieber	Germany	2:25.4
6	Gerrit Korteweg	Netherlands	2:26.4
7	Cam Grout	Canada	2:27.7

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Dave Gillanders	United States	2:16.2
2	Luis Nicolao	Argentina	2:23.9
3	Pavel Pazdírek	Czechoslovakia	2:24.2
4	Amir Hussin Hamsain	Philippines	2:27.9
5	Luís Vaz Jorge	Portugal	2:28.9
6	Aldo Perseke	Brazil	2:50.8
7	Lovro Radonjić	Yugoslavia	3:00.6

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Neville Hayes	Australia	2:18.1
2	Ilkka Suvanto	Finland	2:23.9
3	Jürgen Bachmann	Germany	2:25.0
4	Henri Vidil	France	2:36.0
5	Heriberto de la Fe	Spain	2:37.0
6	Ahiron Radjae	Philippines	2:39.8

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Kevin Berry	Australia	2:18.9
2	Haruo Yoshimuta	Japan	2:19.4
3	Fernando Fanjul	Argentina	2:25.2
4	László Kiss	Hungary	2:31.0
5	José Vicente León	Spain	2:31.4
6	Veljko Rogošić	Yugoslavia	2:35.5
7	Fong Seow Hor	Malaya	2:56.4

Swim-Off

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jürgen Bachmann	Germany	2:23.1
2	Håkan Bengtsson	Sweden	2:25.1

Semifinals

Two heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. Those that advanced are highlighted.

Semifinal One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Mike Troy	United States	2:18.0
2	Neville Hayes	Australia	2:21.6
3	Haruo Yoshimuta	Japan	2:21.7
4	Kevin Berry	Australia	2:23.1
5	Eulalio Ríos Alemán	Mexico	2:24.2
6	Grigory Kiselyov	Soviet Union	2:24.8
7	Luis Nicolao	Argentina	2:26.8
8	Ian Blyth	Great Britain	2:26.8

Semifinal Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Dave Gillanders	United States	2:18.7
2	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	2:19.1
3	Fritz Dennerlein	Italy	2:20.5
4	Kenzo Izutsu	Japan	2:21.5
5	Pavel Pazdírek	Czechoslovakia	2:23.5
6	Jürgen Bachmann	Germany	2:28.4
7	Alexandru Popescu	Romania	2:28.5
-	Ilkka Suvanto	Finland	DNF

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Mike Troy	United States	2:12.8	WR
	Neville Hayes	Australia	2:14.6
	Dave Gillanders	United States	2:15.3
4	Fritz Dennerlein	Italy	2:16.0
5	Haruo Yoshimuta	Japan	2:18.3
6	Kevin Berry	Australia	2:18.5
7	Valentin Kuzmin	Soviet Union	2:18.9
8	Kenzo Izutsu	Japan	2:19.4

Key: WR = World record