| Men 200m Freestyle Swimming V World Championship 1986 Madrid, Spain - Sunday, 17th August - Gold Medal: Michael Gross, West Germany |
| Final | | time | | gap | L | ag | pts | | 1. Michael Gross |  West Germany | 1:47.92 | | CR | 4 | 22 | 923 | | 2. Sven Lodziewski |  East Germany | 1:49.12 | | +1.20s | 2 | 21 | 893 | | 3. Matt Biondi |  United States | 1:49.43 | | +1.51s | 6 | 20 | 885 | | 4. Thomas Fahrner | West Germany | 1:49.69 | | +1.77s | 5 | 23 | 879 | | 5. Marcel Gery |  Czechoslovakia | 1:50.06 | | +2.14s | 3 | 21 | 870 | | 6. Duncan Armstrong |  Australia | 1:50.17 | | +2.25s | 7 | 18 | 867 | | 7. Alberto Mestre |  Venezuela | 1:50.56 | | +2.64s | 1 | 21 | 858 | | 8. Uwe Dassler | East Germany | 1:50.68 | | +2.76s | 8 | 19 | 856 |
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| World Record: Michael Gross, West Germany 1:47.44 OG Los Angeles, United States 29th July 1984 |
| Final | | time | | gap | L | ag | | 9. Roberto Gleria | Australia | 1:50.62 | | | 2 | 17 | | 10.Nikolay Yevseyev |  Soviet Union | 1:50.82 | | +0.20s | 1 | 20 | | 11.Stephan Caron |  France | 1:51.08 | | +0.46s | 4 | 20 | | 12.Artur Wojdat |  Poland | 1:51.61 | | +0.99s | 6 | 18 | | 12.Carlos Scanavino |  Uruguay | 1:51.61 | | +0.99s | 8 | 22 | | 14.Juan Carlos Vallejo |  Spain | 1:51.64 | | +1.02s | 5 | 23 | | 15.Kevin Boyd |  Great Britain | 1:51.71 | | +1.09s | 7 | | | 16.Giorgio Lamberti |  Italy | 1:52.28 | | +1.66s | 3 | 17 |
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Heats - Sunday, 17th August |
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. Next 8 to Final B. |
| Heat 8 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | | 1. Michael Gross | West Germany | 1:48.70 | CR | | - | 22 | 1. | | 13.Roberto Gleria | Australia | 1:51.69 | | +2.99s | - | 17 | 2. | | 20.Zoltan Szilagyi |  Hungary | 1:52.26 | | +3.56s | - | 19 | 3. | | 30.Luiz Anchieta |  Brazil | 1:54.01 | | +5.31s | - | | 4. | | 32.Michael Soderlund |  Sweden | 1:54.24 | | +5.54s | - | 24 | 5. | | 41.Luis I Morell |  Puerto Rico | 1:56.21 | | +7.51s | - | | 6. | | 48.Ahmet Nakkas |  Turkey | 1:58.99 | | +10.29s | - | 23 | 7. | | 60.Ronald Pickard |  US Virgin Islands | 2:11.85 | | +23.15s | - | 16 | 8. |
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| Heat 7 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | | 5. Sven Lodziewski | East Germany | 1:50.77 | | +2.07s | - | 21 | 1. | | 14.Kevin Boyd | Great Britain | 1:51.75 | | +3.05s | - | 20 | 2. | | 19.Anders Holmertz | Sweden | 1:52.07 | | +3.37s | - | 17 | 3. | | 23.Laurent Neuville | France | 1:52.58 | | +3.88s | - | 21 | 4. | | 29.Frantz Mortensen |  Denmark | 1:53.70 | | +5.00s | - | 22 | 5. | | 45.Gokhan Attaroglu | Turkey | 1:58.24 | | +9.54s | - | 21 | 6. | | 52.Mohamed Youssef |  Egypt | 2:00.92 | | +12.22s | - | 23 | 7. | | 53.Mark Millar |  Ireland | 2:00.96 | | +12.26s | - | | 8. |
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| Heat 6 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | | 2. Matt Biondi | United States | 1:49.22 | | +0.52s | - | 20 | 1. | | 6. Duncan Armstrong | Australia | 1:50.94 | | +2.24s | - | 18 | 2. | | 12.Artur Wojdat | Poland | 1:51.64 | | +2.94s | - | 18 | 3. | | 35.Scott Flowers |  Canada | 1:54.44 | | +5.74s | - | | 4. | | 43.Carlos Romo |  Mexico | 1:57.73 | | +9.03s | - | 19 | 5. | | 43.Stefan Opatril |  Austria | 1:57.73 | | +9.03s | - | 19 | 6. | | 46.Richard Patino |  Colombia | 1:58.78 | | +10.08s | - | | 7. | | 51.Moustafa Ahmed | Egypt | 2:00.80 | | +12.10s | - | 2 | 8. |
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| Heat 5 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | | 4. Thomas Fahrner | West Germany | 1:50.67 | | +1.97s | - | 23 | 1. | | 9. Stephan Caron | France | 1:51.19 | | +2.49s | - | 20 | 2. | | 10.Juan Carlos Vallejo | Spain | 1:51.42 | | +2.72s | - | 23 | 3. | | 16.Carlos Scanavino | Uruguay | 1:51.93 | | +3.23s | - | 22 | 3. | | 27.Tzvetan Golomeev |  Bulgaria | 1:53.01 | | +4.31s | - | 25 | 5. | | 34.Segev Porat |  Israel | 1:54.36 | | +5.66s | - | | 6. | | 54.Sofiane Benchekor |  Algeria | 2:01.46 | | +12.76s | - | | 7. | | 56.Juan Tavares |  Dominicana | 2:01.88 | | +13.18s | - | | 8. |
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| Heat 4 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | | 17.Craig Oppel | United States | 1:51.95 | | +3.25s | - | 19 | 1. | | 18.Frank Drost |  Netherlands | 1:52.01 | | +3.31s | - | 23 | 2. | | 25.Massimo Trevisan | Italy | 1:52.70 | | +4.00s | - | 18 | 3. | | 38.Katsunori Fujiwara |  Japan | 1:55.13 | | +6.43s | - | | 4. | | 40.Shigeo Ogata | Japan | 1:55.94 | | +7.24s | - | 17 | 5. | | 49.Sergio Esteves |  Portugal | 1:59.39 | | +10.69s | - | 18 | 6. | | 50.Declan Connaughton | Ireland | 2:00.36 | | +11.66s | - | | 7. |
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| Heat 3 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | | 3. Marcel Gery | Czechoslovakia | 1:50.62 | | +1.92s | - | 21 | 1. | | 8. Uwe Dassler | East Germany | 1:51.02 | | +2.32s | - | 19 | 2. | | 28.Tom Ponting | Canada | 1:53.26 | | +4.56s | - | 21 | 3. | | 33.Jorge Fernandes | Brazil | 1:54.31 | | +5.61s | - | 24 | 4. | | 37.Magnus Olafsson |  Iceland | 1:55.09 | | +6.39s | - | 18 | 5. | | 42.Claus Hansen | Denmark | 1:57.06 | | +8.36s | - | | 6. | | 58.Jaime Lipszyc |  Costa Rica | 2:03.93 | | +15.23s | - | | 7. |
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| Heat 2 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | | 7. Alberto Mestre | Venezuela | 1:51.01 | | +2.31s | - | 21 | 1. | | 11.Giorgio Lamberti | Italy | 1:51.57 | | +2.87s | - | 17 | 2. | | 20.Neil Cochran | Great Britain | 1:52.26 | | +3.56s | - | 21 | 3. | | 22.Stefan Volery |  Switzerland | 1:52.47 | | +3.77s | - | 24 | 4. | | 39.Darjan Petric |  Yugoslavia | 1:55.58 | | +6.88s | - | 21 | 5. | | 55.Darryl Smith |  Zimbabwe | 2:01.51 | | +12.81s | - | | 7. | | 59.Danilo Vicioso | Dominicana | 2:05.08 | | +16.38s | - | | 8. |
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| Heat 1 | | time | | gap | L | ag | Rk | | 15.Nikolay Yevseyev | Soviet Union | 1:51.81 | | +3.11s | - | 20 | 1. | | 24.Veniamin Tayanovich | Soviet Union | 1:52.61 | | +3.91s | - | 19 | 2. | | 26.Edsard Schlingemann | Netherlands | 1:52.71 | | +4.01s | - | 19 | 3. | | 31.Zdenek Kolar | Czechoslovakia | 1:54.09 | | +5.39s | - | | 4. | | 36.Xavier Miralpeix | Spain | 1:54.65 | | +5.95s | - | 20 | 5. | | 47.Mika Lohi |  Finland | 1:58.82 | | +10.12s | - | | 6. | | 57.Hans Foerster | US Virgin Islands | 2:03.10 | | +14.40s | - | 21 | 7. |
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