Men's 200 metre individual medley at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 7, 1973
Competitors	27 from 20 nations
Winning time	2:08.36 CR
Medalists
Gunnar Larsson     Sweden   Stan Carper     United States   David Wilkie     Great Britain
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The men's 200 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 7.

Records [ edit ]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Gunnar Larsson   ( SWE )	2:07.17	Munich , West Germany	3 September 1972
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
7 September	Heat 1	Andras Hargitay	Hungary	2:09.54	CR
7 September	Final	Gunnar Larsson	Sweden	2:08.36	CR

Results [ edit ]

Heats [ edit ]

28 swimmers participated in 5 heats, qualified swimmers are listed: ^{[1] [2]}

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	-	Andras Hargitay	Hungary	2:09.54	Q , CR
2	3	-	David Wilkie	Great Britain	2:09.61	Q , CWR [3]
3	1	-	Christian Lietzmann	East Germany	2:09.91	Q
4	5	-	Gunnar Larsson	Sweden	2:10.13	Q
5	4	-	Stan Carper	United States	2:11.04	Q
6	3	-	Sergey Zakharov	Soviet Union	2:11.07	Q
7	2	-	Fred Tyler	United States	2:11.31	Q
8	5	-	Wolfram Sperling	East Germany	2:11.46	Q
9	2	-	Andrey Smirnov	Soviet Union	2:11.98
10	3	-	Zoltan Verraszto	Hungary	2:12.65
11	4	-	Brian Brinkley	Great Britain	2:14.31
12	5	-	David Brumwell	Canada	2:14.99
13	3	-	Nigel Cluer	Papua New Guinea	2:15.90
14	5	-	Tsuyoshi Yanagidate	Japan	2:16.01
15	2	-	Steve Badger	Australia	2:16.42
16	4	-	Jorge Delgado	Ecuador	2:16.47
17	2	-	Eduardo Orejuela	Ecuador	2:16.58
18	5	-	Neil Martin	Australia	2:17.01
19	3	-	Ignacio Alvarez	Mexico	2:17.05
20	4	-	Antonio Azevedo	Brazil	2:17.25
21	2	-	Gunnar Gundersen	Norway	2:19.07
22	1	-	Peter Tetlow	Australia	2:19.71
23	3	-	Ramon Volcan	Venezuela	2:20.84
24	1	-	Carlos Santiago	Puerto Rico	2:21.11
25	2	-	Jorge Jaramillo	Colombia	2:21.39
26	3	-	Helmut Podolan	Austria	2:21.72
27	1	-	Ali Gharbi	Tunisia	2:22.62
28	4	-	C. Manochehr	Iran	2:38.93
?	4	-	Patrick Moreau	France	Did not start
?	5	-	Michael Weiss	West Germany	Did not start
?	1	-	Bandi Wetternek	Romania	Did not start

Final [ edit ]

The results of the final are below. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Gunnar Larsson	Sweden	2:08.36	CR
	2	Stan Carper	United States	2:08.43
	5	David Wilkie	Great Britain	2:08.84	CWR [3]
4	4	Andras Hargitay	Hungary	2:09.52
5	3	Christian Lietzmann	East Germany	2:09.57
6	8	Wolfram Sperling	East Germany	2:10.54
7	1	Fred Tyler	United States	2:10.86
8	7	Sergey Zakharov	Soviet Union	2:10.86

References [ edit ]