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Swimming At The 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 Metre Butterfly
The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place on 30 November and 1 December in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre, Olympic Park Swimming and Diving Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. This Swimming (sport), swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of four lengths of the pool. This was the first time that the butterfly stroke had appeared in the Olympic Games as a separate event, following its introduction as a superior variant of breaststroke in the Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke, 1936 Olympics Men's 200 metre Breaststroke and subsequent dominance in the 200 metre breaststroke events at the Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke, 1948 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre breaststroke, 1952 Summer Olympics. Medalists Results Heats Three heats were held. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956. These Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania, as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America. Melbourne is the most southerly city ever to host the Olympics. Due to the Southern Hemisphere's seasons being different from those in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1956 Games did not take place at the usual time of year, because of the need to hold the events during the warmer weather of the host's spring/summer (which corresponds to the Northern Hemisphere's autumn/winter), resulting in the only summer games ever to be held in November and December. Australia did not host the Games again until 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, and will host them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
