Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   West Germany
Swimming events at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m women
4×200 m men
Medley relay
4×100 m men women

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1976 Olympic Games took place between July 24 and 25.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

This was the first time in history that the 100m freestyle was swum under 50 seconds.

Medalists

GoldJim Montgomery
 United States
SilverJack Babashoff
 United States
BronzePeter Nocke
 West Germany

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Jim Montgomery (USA) 50.59 Kansas City, United States 23 August 1975
Olympic record  Mark Spitz (USA) 51.22 Munich, West Germany 3 September 1972

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Andrey Bogdanov  Soviet Union 53.23 q
2 Stefan Georgiev  Bulgaria 53.85
3 Roger Pyttel  East Germany 53.93
4 Dirk Braunleder  West Germany 54.04
5 Jorge Comas  Spain 54.05
6 Mark Crocker  Hong Kong 54.14
7 Kozo Higuchi  Japan 54.67

Key: Q = Qualified, q = Qualified for Swim-Off, WR = World record

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Marello Guarducci  Italy 51.57 Q
2 Steve Pickell  Canada 52.65 Q
3 Martin Smith  Great Britain 53.17 Q
4 René Écuyer  France 53.20 Q
5 Ramón Volcan  Venezuela 53.53
6 Helmut Levy  Colombia 54.60
7 Kris Sumono  Indonesia 55.50

Key: Q = Qualified, q = Qualified for Swim-Off, WR = World record

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Klaus Steinbach  West Germany 51.47 Q
2 Jack Babashoff  United States 51.53 Q
3 Jorge Delgado, Jr.  Ecuador 53.91
4 Neil Rogers  Australia 53.96
5 Paul Jovanneau  Brazil 54.49
6 Campari Knoepffler  Nicaragua 58.48

Key: Q = Qualified, q = Qualified for Swim-Off, WR = World record

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Vladimir Bure  Soviet Union 51.81 Q
2 Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union 52.02 Q
3 Gary MacDonald  Canada 52.91 Q
4 Svante Rasmuson  Sweden 53.20 Q
5 Glenn Patching  Australia 53.29
6 Gerardo Rosario  Philippines 56.00

Key: Q = Qualified, q = Qualified for Swim-Off, WR = World record

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Joe Bottom  United States 51.47 Q
2 Peter Nocke  West Germany 51.59 Q
3 Bruce Robertson  Canada 53.37
4 Peter Coughlan  Australia 53.49
5 Dan Larsson  Sweden 53.81
6 Gianni Versari  Panama 54.11
7 Steven Newkirk  Virgin Islands 55.43

Key: Q = Qualified, q = Qualified for Swim-Off, WR = World record

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jim Montgomery  United States 52.13 Q
2 Michael Rousseau  France 52.43 Q
3 Roberto Pangaro  Italy 53.05 Q
4 Kevin Burns  Great Britain 53.23 q
5 Fritz Warncke  Norway 53.55
6 Fernando Cañales  Puerto Rico 55.31
7 José Pereira  Portugal 55.46
8 Sigurður Ólafsson  Iceland 56.01

Key: Q = Qualified, q = Qualified for Swim-Off, WR = World record

Swim-Off for 16th Place

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Andrey Bogdanov  Soviet Union 52.82 Q
2 Kevin Burns  Great Britain 53.11

Key: Q = Qualified, q = Qualified for Swim-Off, WR = World record

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jim Montgomery  United States 50.39 Q, WR
2 Marcello Guarducci  Italy 51.35 Q
3 Klaus Steinbach  West Germany 51.62 Q
4 Vladimir Bure  Soviet Union 51.93 Q
5 Roberto Pangaro  Italy 52.68
6 Stephen Pickell  Canada 52.89
7 René Ecuyer  France 52.92
8 Andrei Bogdanov  Soviet Union 53.05

Key: Q = Qualified, WR = Olympic record

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jack Babashoff  United States 51.46 Q
2 Peter Nocke  West Germany 51.83 Q
3 Joe Bottom  United States 51.92 Q
4 Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union 52.32 Q
5 Michel Rousseau  France 52.36
6 Gary MacDonald  Canada 52.96
7 Martin Smith  Great Britain 53.11
8 Svante Rasmussen  Sweden 53.34

Key: Q = Qualified

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Jim Montgomery  United States 49.99 WR
Jack Babashoff  United States 50.81
Peter Nocke  West Germany 51.31
4 Klaus Steinbach  West Germany 51.68
5 Marcello Guarducci  Italy 51.70
6 Joe Bottom  United States 51.79
7 Vladimir Bure  Soviet Union 52.03
8 Andrey Krylov  Soviet Union 52.15

Key: WR = World record

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.