| Men 200m Breaststroke Swimming V World Championship 1986 Madrid, Spain - Thursday, 21th August - Gold Medal: Jozsef Szabo, Hungary | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | pts |  | 1. Joszef Szabo |   Hungary | 2:14.27 | CR |   | 4 | 17 | 883  |  | 2. Victor Davis |   Canada | 2:14.93 |   | +0.66s | 3 | 22 | 870  |  | 3. Steven Bentley |   United States | 2:16.51 |   | +2.24s | 5 |   | 840  |  | 4. Adrian Moorhouse |   Great Britain | 2:17.97 |   | +3.70s | 1 | 22 | 814  |  | 5. Alexandre Yokochi |   Portugal | 2:17.99 |   | +3.72s | 2 | 21 | 813  |  | 6. Pablo Restrepo |   Colombia | 2:19.74 |   | +5.47s | 7 | 26 | 783  |  | 7. Hartmut Wedekind |   West Germany | 2:20.51 |   | +6.24s | 8 | 22 | 770  |  | 8. Thierry Pata |   France | 2:20.61 |   | +6.34s | 6 | 21 | 769  |   
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| Final B |   | time |   | gap | L | ag |  | 9. Dmitry Volkov |   Soviet Union | 2:19.25 |   |   | 4 | 20 |  | 10.Marco Del Prete |   Italy | 2:19.35 |   | +0.10s | 3? | 21 |  | 11.Valeriy Lozik |   Soviet Union | 2:19.88 |   | +0.63s | 6? | 18 |  | 12.Etienne Dagon |   Switzerland | 2:20.10 |   | +0.85s | 7? | 25 |  | 13.Peter Szabo |   Hungary | 2:20.24 |   | +0.99s | 5 | 18 |  | 14.Bert Gobel |   West Germany | 2:20.57 |   | +1.32s | 8 | 23 |  | 15.Sergio Lopez |   Spain | 2:21.46 |   | +2.21s | 2? | 18 |  | 16.Peter Boden |   United States | 2:23.07 |   | +3.82s | 1 |   |   
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Heats - Thursday, 21th August | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. Next 8 to Final B. | 
| Heat 6 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 3. Victor Davis |   Canada | 2:18.43 |   | +1.13s | - | 22 | 1.  |  | 11.Valeriy Lozik |   Soviet Union | 2:20.42 |   | +3.12s | - | 18 | 2.  |  | 13.Etienne Dagon |   Switzerland | 2:20.99 |   | +3.69s | - | 25 | 3.  |  | 19.Rob Chernoff |   Canada | 2:22.75 |   | +5.45s | - | 21 | 5.  |  | 30.Anders Peterson |   Sweden | 2:25.63 |   | +8.33s | - | 21 | 5.  |  | 37.Andreas Void |   Norway | 2:32.23 |   | +14.93s | - |   | 6.  |  | 38.Declan Connaughton |   Ireland | 2:33.65 |   | +16.35s | - |   | 7.  |   
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| Heat 5 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 5. Alexandre Yokochi |   Portugal | 2:19.27 |   | +1.97s | - | 21 | 1.  |  | 7. Adrian Moorhouse |   Great Britain | 2:19.60 |   | +2.30s | - | 22 | 2.  |  | 11.Marco Del Prete |   Italy | 2:20.42 |   | +3.12s | - | 21 | 3.  |  | 17.Enrique Romero |   Spain | 2:21.58 |   | +4.28s | - | 22 | 4.  |  | 26.Giannis Milidakis |   Greece | 2:24.61 |   | +7.31s | - |   | 5.  |  | 35.Frank Vijver |   Netherlands | 2:29.18 |   | +11.88s | - |   | 6.  |  | -. Eduard Edvardsson |   Iceland | DNS |   |   | - |   |   |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 6. Pablo Restrepo |   Colombia | 2:19.58 |   | +2.28s | - | 26 | 1.  |  | 9. Dmitry Volkov |   Soviet Union | 2:20.20 |   | +2.90s | - | 20 | 2.  |  | 18.Kenji Watanabe |   Japan | 2:22.19 |   | +4.89s | - | 17 | 3.  |  | 21.Eyal Shtigman |   Israel | 2:23.21 |   | +5.91s | - | 23 | 4.  |  | 22.Lorenzo Carbonari |   Italy | 2:23.34 |   | +6.04s | - | 20 | 5.  |  | 24.Ron Dekker |   Netherlands | 2:24.00 |   | +6.70s | - | 20 | 6.  |  | 34.Hsin-Yen Tsai |   Chinese Taipei | 2:28.36 |   | +11.06s | - | 15 | 7.  |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 2. Steven Bentley |   United States | 2:17.88 |   | +0.58s | - |   | 1.  |  | 4. Thierry Pata |   France | 2:19.16 |   | +1.86s | - | 21 | 2.  |  | 8. Hartmut Wedekind |   West Germany | 2:20.11 |   | +2.81s | - | 22 | 3.  |  | 19.Thomas Bohm |   Austria | 2:22.75 |   | +5.45s | - | 20 | 4.  |  | 25.Cicero Tortelli |   Brazil | 2:24.23 |   | +6.93s | - | 19 | 5.  |  | 29.Manuel Gutierrez |   Panama | 2:25.57 |   | +8.27s | - | 21 | 6.  |  | 39.Ayman Nadim |   Egypt | 2:36.63 |   | +19.33s | - | 22 | 7.  |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 1. Joszef Szabo |   Hungary | 2:17.30 |   |   | - | 17 | 1.  |  | 16.Bert Gobel |   West Germany | 2:21.45 |   | +4.15s | - | 23 | 2.  |  | 23.Richard Lockhart |   New Zealand | 2:23.94 |   | +6.64s | - | 23 | 3.  |  | 27.Nick Gillingham |   Great Britain | 2:24.80 |   | +7.50s | - | 19 | 4.  |  | 31.Jan-Erick Olsen |   Norway | 2:26.02 |   | +8.72s | - | 20 | 5.  |  | 33.Jorge Henao |   Venezuela | 2:28.04 |   | +10.74s | - | 24 | 6.  |  | 41.Hailin Zhou |   China | 2:39.07 |   | +21.77s | - |   | 7.  |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 10.Peter Szabo |   Hungary | 2:20.35 |   | +3.05s | - | 18 | 1.  |  | 13.Sergio Lopez |   Spain | 2:20.99 |   | +3.69s | - | 18 | 2.  |  | 15.Peter Boden |   United States | 2:21.15 |   | +3.85s | - |   | 3.  |  | 28.Pedro Manu Hernandez |   Cuba | 2:25.48 |   | +8.18s | - | - | 4.  |  | 32.Fransisco Carvalho |   Brazil | 2:27.19 |   | +9.89s | - |   | 5.  |  | 36.Mario Vela |   Mexico | 2:31.85 |   | +14.55s | - |   | 6.  |  | 40.Zhong Lai |   China | 2:37.01 |   | +19.71s | - |   | 7.  |   
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