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

The men's 100 metre butterfly event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 20 and 21 July.[1]

Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Yevgeny Seredin   Soviet Union 56.95 Q
2 Bruce Robertson   Canada 57.06 Q
3 Pär Arvidsson   Sweden 57.17 Q
4 Cees Vervoorn   Netherlands 57.84
5 Rômulo Arantes Filho   Brazil 58.80
6 Adi Prag   Israel 59.99
- François Deley   Belgium - DQ

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jorge Delgado, Jr.   Ecuador 56.79 Q
2 Neil Rogers   Australia 57.08 Q
3 Miloslav Roľko   Czechoslovakia 57.79
4T Serge Buttet   France 58.37
4T Arnaldo Pérez   Puerto Rico 58.37
6 Riccardo Urbani   Italy 58.83
7 Carlos González   Panama 1:00.97

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Roger Pyttel   East Germany 55.25 Q
2 Klaus Steinbach   West Germany 56.10 Q
3 Hideaki Hara   Japan 56.57 Q
4 Jorge Jaramillo   Colombia 57.33
5 Jon Jon Park   Great Britain 57.42
6 Campari Knoepffler   Nicaragua 1:02.05

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Matt Vogel   United States 55.40 Q
2 Clay Evans   Canada 55.65 Q
3 Peter Broscienski   West Germany 57.15 Q
4T Paolo Barelli   Italy 57.64
4T Oleksandr Manachynskiy   Soviet Union 57.64
6 José Luis Prado   Mexico 59.16
7 Paulo Frischknecht   Portugal 1:01.97
8 Lawrence Kwoh   Hong Kong 1:02.47

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Gary Hall   United States 55.35 Q
2 John Mills   Great Britain 56.53 Q
3 Steve Pickell   Canada 56.59 Q
4 John Coutts   New Zealand 57.29
5 Hartmut Flöckner   East Germany 57.66
6 Luis Goicoechea   Venezuela 57.92
7 John Daly   Puerto Rico 58.04
8 Steven Newkirk   Virgin Islands 1:01.46

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Joe Bottom   United States 56.26 Q
2 Roland Matthes   East Germany 56.41 Q
3 Michael Kraus   West Germany 57.22
4 Ross Seymour   Australia 57.74
5 Richard Iredale   Great Britain 58.50
6 Shinsuke Kayama   Japan 58.55
7 Konstantinos Koskinas   Greece 1:00.20
8 Robert Howard   Ireland 1:00.92

Semifinals

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Joe Bottom   United States 55.26 Q
2 Gary Hall   United States 55.32 Q
3 Neil Rogers   Australia 55.72 Q
4 Clay Evans   Canada 55.86 Q
5 John Mills   Great Britain 56.54
6 Steve Pickell   Canada 56.66
7 Pär Arvidsson   Sweden 56.93
8 Yevgeny Seredin   Soviet Union 57.46

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Roger Pyttel   East Germany 54.75 Q
2 Matt Vogel   United States 54.80 Q
3 Roland Matthes   East Germany 55.88 Q
4 Klaus Steinbach   West Germany 55.90 Q
5 Hideaki Hara   Japan 56.52
6 Bruce Robertson   Canada 56.72
7 Peter Broscienski   West Germany 56.81
8 Jorge Delgado, Jr.   Ecuador 56.91

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Matt Vogel   United States 54.35
  Joe Bottom   United States 54.50
  Gary Hall   United States 54.65
4 Roger Pyttel   East Germany 55.09
5 Roland Matthes   East Germany 55.11
6 Clay Evans   Canada 55.81
7 Hideaki Hara   Japan 56.34
8 Neil Rogers   Australia 56.57

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Butterfly". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
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