Swimming World Championships 1978 at West-Berlin (wge) Men: 200 m Freestyle August 20: Final: 1. Billy Forrester (usa) 1:51.02 2. Rowdy Gaines (usa) 1:51.10 3. Sergey Kopliakov (sov) 1:51.33 4. Peter Szmidt (can) 1:51.94 5. Marcello Guarducci (ita) 1:52.82 6. Andrey Krylov (sov) 1:53.25 7. Ron McKeon (aus) 1:53.26 8. Andreas Schmidt (wge) 1:53.48