Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 29 and August 30.[1] This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

GoldNobutaka Taguchi
 Japan
SilverTom Bruce
 United States
BronzeJohn Hencken
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Mark Chatfield United States1:05.89
2Bill Mahony Canada1:07.14
3Bernard Combet France1:08.08
4Paul Jarvie Australia1:09.26
5Sokhon Yi Cambodia1:11.00
6Edmondo Mingione Italy1:11.75
7Morkal Faruk Turkey1:13.86

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Nikolay Pankin Soviet Union1:07.31
2Robert Stoddart Canada1:08.44
3Malcolm O'Connell Great Britain1:09.33
4Sándor Szabó Hungary1:09.68
5Gustavo Salcedo Mexico1:10.17
6Jean-Pierre Dubey Switzerland1:10.31
7Cezary Śmiglak Poland1:10.53

Heat 3

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1David Wilkie Great Britain1:06.35
2Tom Bruce United States1:06.45
3Klaus Katzur East Germany1:07.36
4Vladimir Kosinsky Soviet Union1:07.39
5Amman Jalmaani Philippines1:09.28
6Steffen Kriechbaum Austria1:09.87
7Bruno Bassoul Lebanon1:19.94

Heat 4

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Nobutaka Taguchi Japan1:06.07
2José Sylvio Fiolo Brazil1:06.23
3Rainer Hradetzky East Germany1:08.67
4Liam Ball Ireland1:09.68
5Andreas Hellmann West Germany1:10.13
6Karl Christian Koch Denmark1:11.27
7Piero Ferracuti El Salvador1:16.74

Heat 5

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1John Hencken United States1:05.96
2Roger-Philippe Menu France1:08.63
3Mike Whitaker Canada1:08.86
4Felipe Muñoz Mexico1:08.95
5Pedro Balcells Spain1:09.37
6Alfredo Hunger Peru1:11.44
7Theodoros Koutoumanis Greece1:12.05
8Rudi Vingerhoets Belgium1:12.59

Heat 6

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Walter Kusch West Germany1:06.95
2Viktor Stulikov Soviet Union1:08.18
3Michael Günther West Germany1:08.93
4Osvaldo Boretto Argentina1:09.64
5János Tóth Hungary1:10.02
6Angel Chakarov Bulgaria1:10.34
7Paul Naisby Great Britain1:11.05
8Guðjón Guðmundsson Iceland1:11.11

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Nobutaka Taguchi Japan1:04.94WR
Tom Bruce United States1:05.43
John Hencken United States1:05.61
4Mark Chatfield United States1:06.01
5Walter Kusch West Germany1:06.23
6José Sylvio Fiolo Brazil1:06.24
7Nikolay Pankin Soviet Union1:06.36
8David Wilkie Great Britain1:06.52

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
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