| Men 200m Medley Swimming V World Championship 1986 Madrid, Spain - Saturday, 23rd August - Gold Medal: Tamas Darnyi, Hungary | 
| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | pts |  | 1. Tamas Darnyi |   Hungary | 2:01.57 |   | CR | 4 | 19 | 896  |  | 2. Alex Baumann |   Canada | 2:02.34 |   | +0.77s | 7 | 22 | 880  |  | 3. Vadym Yaroshchuk |   Soviet Union | 2:02.61 |   | +1.04s | 5 | 20 | 874  |  | 4. Peter Bermel |   West Germany | 2:03.75 |   | +2.18s | 6 | 19 | 850  |  | 5. Pablo Morales |   United States | 2:03.88 |   | +2.31s | 2 | 21 | 847  |  | 6. Neil Cochran |   Great Britain | 2:03.98 |   | +2.41s | - | 21 | 845  |  | 7. Josef Hladky |   Czechoslovakia | 2:04.10 |   | +2.53s | - | 24 | 843  |  | 8. Rainer Sternal |   East Germany | 2:04.38 |   | +2.81s | 3 |   | 837  |   
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| Final |   | time |   | gap | L | ag |  | 9. Robert Woodhouse |   Australia | 2:05.81 |   |   | 6 | 20 |  | 10.Charalambos Papanikolaou |   Greece | 2:06.18 |   | +0.37s | 2 | 17 |  | 11.Ralf Diegel |   West Germany | 2:06.38 |   | +0.57s | 4 | 22 |  | 12.Dave Wharton |   United States | 2:06.41 |   | +0.60s | 7 | 17 |  | 13.Aleksandr Sidorenko |   Soviet Union | 2:06.42 |   | +0.61s | 3 | 26 |  | 14.Giovanni Franceschi |   Italy | 2:06.66 |   | +0.85s | 5 | 23 |  | 15.Bruno Gutzeit |   France | 2:08.10 |   | +2.29s | 8 | 20 |  | 16.Peter Rohde |   Denmark | 2:09.29 |   | +3.48s | 1 | 21 |   
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Heats - Saturday, 23rd August | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. Next 8 to Final B. | 
| Heat 7 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 6. Alex Baumann |   Canada | 2:05.35 |   | +1.17s | - | 22 | 1.  |  | 14.Anders Peterson |   Sweden | 2:06.78 |   | +2.60s | - | 21 | 2.  |  | 16.Peter Rohde |   Denmark | 2:07.09 |   | +2.91s | - | 21 | 3.  |  | 23.Joszef Szabo |   Hungary | 2:09.45 |   | +5.27s | - | 17 | 4.  |  | 27.Edvard Edvardsson |   Iceland | 2:10.95 |   | +6.77s | - | 19 | 5.  |  | 32.Benny Nielsen |   Denmark | 2:13.14 |   | +8.96s | - | 20 | 6.  |  | 42.Marc Seimetz |   Luxembourg | 2:18.37 |   | +14.19s | - |   | 7.  |  | 44.Samir Bouchlaghem |   Tunisia | 2:18.96 |   | +14.78s | - |   | 8.  |   
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| Heat 6 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 3. Rainer Sternal |   East Germany | 2:04.75 |   | +0.57s | - |   | 1.  |  | 5. Pablo Morales |   United States | 2:05.20 |   | +1.02s | - | 21 | 2.  |  | 9. Ralf Diegel |   West Germany | 2:05.77 |   | +1.59s | - | 22 | 3.  |  | 22.Rob Chernoff |   Canada | 2:09.42 |   | +5.24s | - | 21 | 4.  |  | 26.Eyal Shtigman |   Israel | 2:10.94 |   | +6.76s | - | 23 | 5.  |  | 31.Harri Garmendia |   Spain | 2:13.11 |   | +8.93s | - | 20 | 6.  |  | 41.Emad El-Shafei |   Egypt | 2:17.16 |   | +12.98s | - | 30 | 8.  |   
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| Heat 5 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 2. Vadym Yaroshchuk |   Soviet Union | 2:04.26 |   | +0.08s | - | 20 | 1.  |  | 7. Neil Cochran |   Great Britain | 2:05.55 |   | +1.37s | - | 21 | 2.  |  | 11.Aleksandr Sidorenko |   Soviet Union | 2:05.99 |   | +1.81s | - | 26 | 3.  |  | 20.Roberto Cassio |   Italy | 2:08.11 |   | +3.93s | - | 18 | 4.  |  | 28.Julio Lopez |   Brazil | 2:11.56 |   | +7.38s | - | 19 | 6.  |  | 43.Danilo Vicioso |   Dominicana | 2:18.60 |   | +14.42s | - |   | 7.  |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 10.Giovanni Franceschi |   Italy | 2:05.83 |   | +1.65s | - | 23 | 1.  |  | 15.Dave Wharton |   United States | 2:07.03 |   | +2.85s | - | 17 | 2.  |  | 17.John Davey |   Great Britain | 2:07.30 |   | +3.12s | - | 21 | 3.  |  | 24.Vasco Sousa |   Portugal | 2:10.23 |   | +6.05s | - | 22 | 5.  |  | 25.Edsard Schlingemann |   Netherlands | 2:10.53 |   | +6.35s | - | 19 | 3.  |  | 33.David Lim |   Singapore | 2:13.32 |   | +9.14s | - | 19 | 5.  |  | 45.Darryl Smith |   Zimbabwe | 2:19.27 |   | +15.09s | - |   | 6.  |  | 46.Juan Cabrera |   Dominicana | 2:19.33 |   | +15.15s | - |   | 7.  |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 1. Tamas Darnyi |   Hungary | 2:04.18 |   |   | - | 19 | 1.  |  | 4. Peter Bermel |   West Germany | 2:04.79 |   | +0.61s | - | 19 | 2.  |  | 19.Bruno Gutzeit |   France | 2:07.86 |   | +3.68s | - | 20 | 3.  |  | 21.Rodrigo Gonzalez |   Mexico | 2:08.75 |   | +4.57s | - | 18 | 4.  |  | 30.Manuel Guzman |   Puerto Rico | 2:13.10 |   | +8.92s | - | 16 | 5.  |  | 36.Manuel Gutierrez |   Panama | 2:13.84 |   | +9.66s | - | 21 | 6.  |  | 47.Lee-Ta Lin |   Chinese Taipei | 2:19.59 |   | +15.41s | - |   | 7.  |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 7. Josef Hladky |   Czechoslovakia | 2:05.55 |   | +1.37s | - | 24 | 1.  |  | 18.Raik Hannemann |   East Germany | 2:07.52 |   | +3.34s | - | 18 | 2.  |  | 35.Brent Foster |   New Zealand | 2:13.51 |   | +9.33s | - |   | 3.  |  | 38.Ahmet Nakkas |   Turkey | 2:15.91 |   | +11.73s | - | 23 | 4.  |  | 40.Pavel Bello |   Cuba | 2:17.03 |   | +12.85s | - |   | 5.  |  | 48.Shih-Hung Lee |   Chinese Taipei | 2:21.80 |   | +17.62s | - |   | 6.  |   
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| Heat 1 |   | time |   | gap | L | ag | Rk |  | 12.Robert Woodhouse |   Australia | 2:06.16 |   | +1.98s | - | 20 | 1.  |  | 13.Charalambos Papanikolaou |   Greece | 2:06.62 |   | +2.44s | - | 17 | 2.  |  | 29.Rui Borges |   Portugal | 2:12.45 |   | +8.27s | - | 19 | 3.  |  | 34.Sergio Lopez |   Spain | 2:13.49 |   | +9.31s | - | 18 | 4.  |  | 37.Janne Soininen |   Finland | 2:14.65 |   | +10.47s | - |   | 5.  |  | 49.Jaime Lipszyc |   Costa Rica | 2:30.97 |   | +26.79s | - |   | 6.  |   
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