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Date: 19 October 1968 / 20 October 1968
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Charles Hickcox | USA | 2:12.0 |
| 2 | Greg Buckingham | USA | 2:13.0 |
| 3 | John Ferris | USA | 2:13.3 |
| 4 | Juan Bello | PER | 2:13.7 |
| 5 | George Smith | CAN | 2:15.9 |
| 6 | John Gilchrist | CAN | 2:16.6 |
| 7 | Michael Holthaus | FRG | 2:16.8 |
| 8 | Peter Lazar | HUN | 2:18.3 |
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| 9 | Hans Ljungberg | SWE | 2:17.8 |
| 9 | Reinhard Markel | FRG | 2:17.8 |
| 11 | Frank Wiegand | GDR | 2:18.0 |
| 12 | Michele D'Oppido | ITA | 2:18.5 |
| 13 | Vladimir Kravchenko | URS | 2:18.6 |
| 14 | Juan Fortuny | ESP | 2:20.6 |
| 15 | Jurgen Schiller | FRG | 2:20.8 |
| 16 | Ken Campbell | CAN | 2:20.9 |
| 17 | Istvan Szentirmay | HUN | 2:21.0 |
| 18 | Lars Jensen | DEN | 2:21.2 |
| 19 | Martyn Woodroffe | GBR | 2:22.0 |
| 20 | Francois Simons | BEL | 2:22.5 |
| 21 | Yulian Rusev | BUL | 2:22.7 |
| 22 | Eduardo Alanis | MEX | 2:23.0 |
| 23 | Zbigniew Pacelt | POL | 2:23.3 |
| 24 | Raymond Terrell | GBR | 2:23.5 |
| 25 | Jacek Krawczyk | POL | 2:23.8 |
| 26 | Angel Tchakarov | BUL | 2:24.0 |
| 27 | Gudmundur Gislason | ISL | 2:24.1 |
| 28 | Tony Asamali | PHI | 2:24.6 |
| 28 | Jose Joaquin Santibanez | MEX | 2:24.6 |
| 30 | Rafael Hernandez | MEX | 2:24.7 |
| 31 | Andrei Dunaev | URS | 2:25.9 |
| 32 | Gershon Shefa | ISR | 2:26.6 |
| 33 | Sven Ferm | SWE | 2:27.5 |
| 34 | Karl Byrom | AUS | 2:28.0 |
| 35 | Jose Martinez | CUB | 2:31.4 |
| 36 | Francisco Ramis | PUR | 2:31.9 |
| 37 | Salvador Vilanova | ESA | 2:33.8 |
| 38 | Wong Man-Chiu | HKG | 2:36.1 |
| 39 | Peter Schmid | AUT | 2:36.4 |
| 40 | Donnacha O'Dea | IRL | 2:36.6 |
| 41 | Ruben Guerrero | ESA | 2:37.5 |
| 42 | Robert Loh | HKG | 2:39.3 |
| 43 | Friedrich Jokisch | ESA | 2:41.6 |
| 44 | Andrew Loh | HKG | 2:42.0 |
| 45 | Chan King-Ming | TPE | 2:44.9 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Lee Tong-Shing | TPE | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Orjan Madsen | NOR | ||
| Jose Ferriouli | PUR | ||