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

Men's 100 metre freestyle; at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Pool
Date	24–25 July
Competitors	41 from 27 nations
Medalists

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1976 Olympic Games took place between July 24 and 25.[1] This was the first time in history that the 100m freestyle was swum under 50 seconds.

Competition format

The competition used a three-round (heats, semifinals, final) format. The advancement rule followed the format introduced in 1952, though with 2 semifinals. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties. A swimmer's place in the heat was not used to determine advancement; instead, the fastest times from across all heats in a round were used. There were 6 heats, with between 6 and 8 swimmers each. The top 16 swimmers advanced to the semifinals. There were 2 semifinals of 8 swimmers each. The top 8 swimmers advanced to the final.

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.

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

Rank	Heat	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	5	Joe Bottom	United States	51.47	Q
1	3	Klaus Steinbach	West Germany	51.47	Q
3	3	Jack Babashoff	United States	51.53	Q
4	2	Marcello Guarducci	Italy	51.57	Q
5	5	Peter Nocke	West Germany	51.59	Q
6	4	Vladimir Bure	Soviet Union	51.81	Q
7	4	Andrey Krylov	Soviet Union	52.02	Q
8	6	Jim Montgomery	United States	52.13	Q
9	6	Michel Rousseau	France	52.43	Q
10	2	Steve Pickell	Canada	52.65	Q
11	4	Gary MacDonald	Canada	52.91	Q
12	6	Roberto Pangaro	Italy	53.05	Q
13	2	Martin Smith	Great Britain	53.17	Q
14	2	René Écuyer	France	53.20	Q
14	4	Svante Rasmuson	Sweden	53.20	Q
16	1	Andrey Bogdanov	Soviet Union	53.23	QSO
16	6	Kevin Burns	Great Britain	53.23	QSO
18	4	Glenn Patching	Australia	53.29
19	5	Bruce Robertson	Canada	53.37
20	5	Peter Coughlan	Australia	53.49
21	2	Ramón Volcan	Venezuela	53.53
22	6	Fritz Warncke	Norway	53.55
23	5	Dan Larsson	Sweden	53.81
24	1	Stefan Georgiev	Bulgaria	53.85
25	3	Jorge Delgado, Jr.	Ecuador	53.91
26	1	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	53.93
27	3	Neil Rogers	Australia	53.96
28	1	Dirk Braunleder	West Germany	54.04
29	1	Jorge Comas	Spain	54.05
30	5	Gianni Versari	Panama	54.11
31	1	Mark Crocker	Hong Kong	54.14
32	3	Paul Jouanneau	Brazil	54.49
33	2	Helmut Levy	Colombia	54.60
34	1	Kozo Higuchi	Japan	54.67
35	6	Fernando Cañales	Puerto Rico	55.31
36	5	Steven Newkirk	Virgin Islands	55.43
37	6	José Pereira	Portugal	55.46
38	2	Kris Sumono	Indonesia	55.50
39	4	Gerardo Rosario	Philippines	56.00
40	6	Sigurður Ólafsson	Iceland	56.01
41	3	Campari Knoepffler	Nicaragua	58.48

Swim-off

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

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	Jim Montgomery	United States	50.39	Q, WR
2	1	Marcello Guarducci	Italy	51.35	Q
3	2	Jack Babashoff	United States	51.46	Q
4	1	Klaus Steinbach	West Germany	51.62	Q
5	2	Peter Nocke	West Germany	51.83	Q
6	2	Joe Bottom	United States	51.92	Q
7	1	Vladimir Bure	Soviet Union	51.93	Q
8	2	Andrey Krylov	Soviet Union	52.32	Q
9	2	Michel Rousseau	France	52.36
10	1	Roberto Pangaro	Italy	52.68
11	1	Stephen Pickell	Canada	52.89
12	1	René Ecuyer	France	52.92
13	2	Gary MacDonald	Canada	52.96
14	1	Andrei Bogdanov	Soviet Union	53.05
15	2	Martin Smith	Great Britain	53.11
16	2	Svante Rasmussen	Sweden	53.34

Final

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	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

References

"Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2016.

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[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2016.

Swimming 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