200-Meter Breaststroke
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1908 | Frederick Holman, Great Britain | 3:09.20 |
| 1912 | Walter Bathe, Germany | 3:01.80 |
| 1920 | Haken Malmroth, Sweden | 3:04.40 |
| 1924 | Robert Skelton, United States | 2:56.60 |
| 1928 | Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Japan | 2:48.80 |
| 1932 | Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Japan | 2:45.40 |
| 1936 | Tetsuo Hamuro, Japan | 2:41.50 |
| 1948 | Joseph Verdeur, United States | 2:39.30 |
| 1952 | John Davies, Australia | 2:34.40 |
| 1956 | Masaura Furukawa, Japan | 2:34.70 |
| 1960 | Bill Muliken, United States | 2:37.40 |
| 1964 | Ian O'Brien, Australia | 2:07.80 |
| 1968 | Felipe Munoz, Mexico | 2:28.70 |
| 1972 | John Hencken, United States | 2:21.55 |
| 1976 | David Willkie, Britain | 2:15.11 |
| 1980 | Robertas Zulpa, USSR | 2:15.85 |
| 1984 | Victor Davis, Canada | 2:13.34 |
| 1988 | Jozef Szabo, Hungary | 2:13.52 |
| 1992 | Mike Barrowman, United States | 2:10.16 |
| 1996 | Norbert Rozsa, Hungary | 2:12.57 |
| 2000 | Domenico Fioravanti, Italy | 2:10.87 |
| 2004 | Kosuke Kitajima, Japan | 2:09.44 |
| 20081 | Kosuke Kitajima, Japan | 2:07.64 |
1. Olympic record.
