Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men

The men's 100 metre backstroke was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme.^[1] It was the fifth appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held from Tuesday August 7, 1928 to Thursday August 9, 1928.

Nineteen swimmers from twelve nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
George Kojac  United States	Walter Laufer  United States	Paul Wyatt  United States

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	1:09.0	George Kojac	Detroit (U.S.)	June 23, 1928
Olympic Record	1:13.2	Warren Kealoha	Paris (FRA)	July 18, 1924

In the first heat George Kojac set a new Olympic record with 1:09.2 minutes. In the final he set a new world record with 1:08.2 minutes.

Results

Heats

Tuesday August 7, 1928: The fastest two in each heat and the fastest third-placed from across the heats advanced. As there was a tie for second place in the fifth heat both swimmers advanced instead of a third placed.

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	George Kojac (USA)	1:09.2	QQ OR
2	Toshio Irie (JPN)	1:13.4	QQ
3	Albert Schumberg (GER)	1:16.6
4	Roland Johansson (SWE)	1:17.4

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Walter Laufer (USA)	1:12.8	QQ
2	John Besford (GBR)	1:15.0	QQ
3	Aladár Bitskey (HUN)	1:15.6
4	Johann Schulz (GER)	1:17.2

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Tom Boast (AUS)	1:17.0	QQ
2	Gérard Blitz (BEL)	1:18.8	QQ
3	Len Moorhouse (NZL)	1:20.4

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Ernst Küppers (GER)	1:14.0	QQ
2	Willie Francis (GBR)	1:16.4	QQ
3	Émile Zeibig (FRA)	1:20.0
4	Eugène Kuborn (LUX)

Heat 5

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Paul Wyatt (USA)	1:14.0	QQ
2	Eskil Lundahl (SWE)	1:14.4	QQ
	Munroe Bourne (CAN)	1:14.4
4	Shourai Kimura (JPN)

Semifinals

Wednesday August 8, 1928: The fastest three in each semi-final advanced.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	George Kojac (USA)	1:10.0	QF
2	Toshio Irie (JPN)	1:14.0	QF
3	John Besford (GBR)	1:14.8	QF
4	Munroe Bourne (CAN)
5	Eskil Lundahl (SWE)
6	Willie Francis (GBR)

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Walter Laufer (USA)	1:12.6	QF
2	Paul Wyatt (USA)	1:14.2	QF
	Ernst Küppers (GER)	1:14.2	QF
4	Tom Boast (AUS)
—	Gérard Blitz (BEL)	DNS

Final

Thursday August 9, 1928:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	George Kojac (USA)	1:08.2 WR
2	Walter Laufer (USA)	1:10.0
3	Paul Wyatt (USA)	1:12.0
4	Toshio Irie (JPN)	1:13.6
5	Ernst Küppers (GER)	1:13.8
6	John Besford (GBR)	1:15.4

References

External links

• Olympic Report
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 5 October 2008.