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


The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 28 and 29. This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Igor Grivennikov1:00.05
2Zoltán Verrasztó1:01.13
3Clay Evans1:01.69
4Rômulo Arantes Filho1:03.18
5Hsu Tung-hsiung1:03.31
6Sergio Hasbún1:06.53
7Sarun Van1:07.26

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Bob Schoutsen1:00.76
2Lars Børgesen1:01.23
3László Cseh Sr.1:01.63
4José Joaquín Santibáñez1:02.46
5Predrag Miloš1:03.02
6Gustavo González1:04.16
7Gerardo Rosario1:06.85

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1John Murphy59.93
2Ejvind Pedersen1:00.83
3Tadashi Honda1:00.89
4Ian MacKenzie1:01.11
5Helmut Podolan1:01.49
6Piotr Dłucik1:01.94
7Andreas Weber1:02.49

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Mike Stamm58.63
2Lutz Wanja1:00.62
3Pierre Baehr1:01.13
4Colin Cunningham1:01.28
5Anders Sandberg1:01.41
6Neil Martin1:05.13

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Mitch Ivey58.15
2Erik Fish1:00.81
3Nenad Miloš1:00.94
4Clive Rushton1:01.07
5Mark Crocker1:11.20

Heat 6
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Roland Matthes1:00.01
2Jürgen Krüger1:00.65
3Jean-Paul Berjeau1:00.83
4Mike Richards1:01.03
5Róbert Rudolf1:02.34
6Amin Ahmed Adel Youssef1:04.40
7Chiang Jin Choon1:07.65

Semifinals

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Roland Matthes56.58OR
Mike Stamm57.70
John Murphy58.35
4Mitch Ivey58.48
5Igor Grivennikov59.50
6Lutz Wanja59.80
7Jürgen Krüger59.80
8Tadashi Honda1:00.41

Key: OR = Olympic record