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Swimming At The 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 Metre Breaststroke
The men's 200 metre breaststroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place September 2. This swimming event used the breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s .... Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. Medalists Results Heats Heat 1 Heat 2 Heat 3 Heat 4 Heat 5 Heat 6 Final Key: WR = World record References External linksMen 200m Breaststroke Swimming Olympic Games 1972 Munich (FRG) {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming At The 1972 Summer Olympics - Men's 200 Metre Breaststroke Men's breaststroke 200 metre Men's events at the 1972 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Summer Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. The event was overshadowed by the Munich massacre in the second week, in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer at Olympic village were killed by Palestinian Black September members. The motivation for the attack was the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under the Nazi regime, and the most recent Olympics to be held in the country. The West German Government had been eager to have the Munich Olympics present a democratic and optimistic Germany to the world, as shown by the Games' official motto, ''"Die Heiteren Spiele"'', or "the cheerful Games". The logo of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
