# Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre butterfly

The men's 200 metre butterfly event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on 16 and 18 October. This 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.

## Results
### Heats

Heat 1
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
| 1 | Carl Robie | United States | 2:10.0 | Q, OR |
| 2 | Atsushi Obayashi | Japan | 2:15.1 | Q |
| 3 | Antonio Rastrelli | Italy | 2:17.3 | |
| 4 | Hermann Lotter | United Team of Germany | 2:18.2 | |
| 5 | Vítor da Fonseca | Portugal | 2:18.3 | |
| 6 | Narong Chok-Umnuay | Thailand | 2:32.5 | |
Heat 2
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
| 1 | Kevin Berry | Australia | 2:11.0 | Q |
| 2 | Kosuke Sato | Japan | 2:12.4 | Q |
| 3 | Daniel Sherry | Canada | 2:12.9 | Q |
| 4 | David Gerrard | New Zealand | 2:16.3 | Q |
| 5 | Avraham Melamed | Israel | 2:20.7 | |
| 6 | Carlos Canepa | Peru | 2:24.9 | |
| 7 | Joaquín Pujol | Spain | 2:28.3 | |
Heat 3
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
| 1 | Luis Nicolao | Argentina | 2:15.0 | Q |
| 2 | John Stark | Australia | 2:15.3 | Q |
| 3 | Valentin Kuzmin | Soviet Union | 2:15.5 | Q |
| 4 | Werner Freitag | United Team of Germany | 2:16.9 | Q |
| 5 | Juan Alanís | Mexico | 2:23.9 | |
| 6 | Bernard Chan | Malaysia | 2:26.6 | |
Heat 4
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
| 1 | Phil Riker | United States | 2:12.6 | Q |
| 2 | Brian Jenkins | Great Britain | 2:15.5 | Q |
| 3 | Oleg Fotin | Soviet Union | 2:17.3 | |
| 4 | Gabriel Altamirano | Mexico | 2:17.9 | |
| 5 | Wolfgang Platzeck | United Team of Germany | 2:18.7 | |
| 6 | Volker Deckardt | Austria | 2:21.3 | |
| 7 | Dick Langerhorst | Netherlands | 2:22.5 | |
Heat 5
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Note |
| 1 | Brett Hill | Australia | 2:12.8 | Q |
| 2 | Fred Schmidt | United States | 2:13.3 | Q |
| 3 | Yoshinori Kadonaga | Japan | 2:14.5 | Q |
| 4 | Giampiero Fossati | Italy | 2:17.2 | Q |
| 5 | Ralph Hutton | Canada | 2:20.8 | |
| 6 | Gustavo Ocampo | Peru | 2:31.4 | |

### Semifinals
#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Carl Robie | United States | 2:09.3 | Q, OR |
| 2 | Fred Schmidt | United States | 2:11.5 | Q |
| 3 | Brett Hill | Australia | 2:11.9 | Q |
| 4 | Valentin Kuzmin | Soviet Union | 2:11.9 | Q |
| 5 | Kosuke Sato | Japan | 2:13.4 | |
| 6 | Werner Freitag | United Team of Germany | 2:13.5 | |
| 7 | Luis Nicolao | Argentina | 2:13.7 | |
| 8 | John Stark | Australia | 2:18.4 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Kevin Berry | Australia | 2:09.8 | Q |
| 2 | Phil Riker | United States | 2:09.9 | Q |
| 3 | Yoshinori Kadonaga | Japan | 2:12.3 | Q |
| 4 | Daniel Sherry | Canada | 2:12.9 | Q |
| 5 | Atsushi Obayashi | Japan | 2:14.1 | |
| 6 | David Gerrard | New Zealand | 2:15.4 | |
| 7 | Brian Jenkins | Great Britain | 2:15.5 | |
| 8 | Giampiero Fossati | Italy | 2:18.1 | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| | Kevin Berry | Australia | 2:06.6 | WR |
| | Carl Robie | United States | 2:07.5 | |
| | Fred Schmidt | United States | 2:09.3 | |
| 4 | Philip Riker | United States | 2:11.0 | |
| 5 | Valentin Kuzmin | Soviet Union | 2:11.3 | |
| 6 | Yoshinori Kadonaga | Japan | 2:12.6 | |
| 7 | Brett Hill | Australia | 2:12.8 | |
| 8 | Daniel Sherry | Canada | 2:14.6 | |
Key: WR = World record