Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 20 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue	Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date	20 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors	45 from 41 nations
Winning time	1:00.65
Medalists
Frédérik Deburghgraeve  Belgium Jeremy Linn  United States Mark Warnecke  Germany

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Károly Güttler (HUN)	1:00.95	Sheffield, United Kingdom	3 August 1993
Olympic record	Nelson Diebel (USA)	1:01.50	Barcelona, Spain	26 July 1992

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
20 July	Heat 6	Frédérik Deburghgraeve	Belgium	1:00.60	WR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Frédérik Deburghgraeve	Belgium	1:00.60	Q, WR
2	4	3	Jeremy Linn	United States	1:01.53	Q
3	5	3	Mark Warnecke	Germany	1:01.79	Q
4	5	4	Károly Güttler	Hungary	1:01.80	Q
	5	5	Phil Rogers	Australia		Q
6	6	6	Stanislav Lopukhov	Russia	1:02.00	Q
7	4	5	Kurt Grote	United States	1:02.01	Q
8	5	2	Zeng Qiliang	China	1:02.26	Q
9	5	1	Daniel Málek	Czech Republic	1:02.46	q, NR
10	5	6	Akira Hayashi	Japan	1:02.63	q
11	5	8	Marc Capdevila	Spain	1:02.69	q
	6	5	Roman Ivanovsky	Russia		q
13	4	4	Oleksandr Dzhaburiya	Ukraine	1:02.70	q
14	6	3	Norbert Rózsa	Hungary	1:02.72	q, WD
15	4	6	Paul Kent	New Zealand	1:02.76	q
16	4	7	Richard Maden	Great Britain	1:02.78	q
17	6	2	Vladimir Latocha	France	1:02.80	q
18	4	2	Vadim Alexeev	Israel	1:02.92
	6	1	Benno Kuipers	Netherlands
20	3	1	Mario González	Cuba	1:03.05	NR
21	5	7	Todd Torres	Puerto Rico	1:03.08
22	6	7	Yoshinobu Miyazaki	Japan	1:03.13
23	6	8	Jonathan Cleveland	Canada	1:03.14
24	4	8	Cho Kwang-jea	South Korea	1:03.39
25	4	1	Marek Krawczyk	Poland	1:03.57
26	3	3	Ratapong Sirisanont	Thailand	1:03.81
27	3	4	Aleksey Kriventsov	Belarus	1:04.20
28	3	5	Nerijus Beiga	Lithuania	1:04.45
29	3	8	Elvin Chia	Malaysia	1:04.46	NR
30	2	4	Vadim Tatarov	Moldova	1:04.87
31	3	7	Børge Mørk	Norway	1:04.92
32	2	3	Mauricio Moreno	Colombia	1:05.22
33	3	2	Huang Chih-yung	Chinese Taipei	1:05.26
34	2	7	Juan José Madrigal	Costa Rica	1:05.47	NR
35	2	2	Jörg Lindemeier	Namibia	1:05.50
36	2	6	Christophe Verdino	Monaco	1:05.66
37	2	5	Francisco Suriano	El Salvador	1:05.82
38	3	6	Aleksandr Savitsky	Kazakhstan	1:05.85
39	1	3	Jorge Arias	Peru	1:06.03	NR
40	2	8	Desmond Koh	Singapore	1:06.97
41	1	6	Jean Luc Razakarivony	Madagascar	1:07.34
42	2	1	Yevgeny Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	1:07.44
43	1	5	Bernard Desmarais	Mauritius	1:09.05
44	1	2	Karar Rahman	Bangladesh	1:11.47
45	1	4	Sultan Al-Otaibi	Kuwait	1:12.65

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	8	Vladimir Latocha	France	1:02.28
10	4	Daniel Málek	Czech Republic	1:02.39	NR
11	1	Richard Maden	Great Britain	1:02.51
12	5	Akira Hayashi	Japan	1:02.75
13	2	Oleksandr Dzhaburiya	Ukraine	1:02.91
14	7	Paul Kent	New Zealand	1:03.05
15	3	Marc Capdevila	Spain	1:03.51
	6	Roman Ivanovsky	Russia	DSQ

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Frédérik Deburghgraeve	Belgium	1:00.65
	5	Jeremy Linn	United States	1:00.77	AM
	3	Mark Warnecke	Germany	1:01.33	NR
4	2	Károly Güttler	Hungary	1:01.49
5	6	Phil Rogers	Australia	1:01.64	OC
6	1	Kurt Grote	United States	1:01.69
7	8	Zeng Qiliang	China	1:02.01
8	7	Stanislav Lopukhov	Russia	1:02.13

External links

• Official Report
• USA Swimming