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.^[1] 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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Igor Grivennikov	Soviet Union	1:00.05
2	Zoltán Verrasztó	Hungary	1:01.13
3	Clay Evans	Canada	1:01.69
4	Rômulo Arantes Filho	Brazil	1:03.18
5	Hsu Tung-hsiung	Chinese Taipei	1:03.31
6	Sergio Hasbún	El Salvador	1:06.53
7	Sarun Van	Khmer Republic	1:07.26

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bob Schoutsen	Netherlands	1:00.76
2	Lars Børgesen	Denmark	1:01.23
3	László Cseh Sr.	Hungary	1:01.63
4	José Joaquín Santibáñez	Mexico	1:02.46
5	Predrag Miloš	Yugoslavia	1:03.02
6	Gustavo González	Argentina	1:04.16
7	Gerardo Rosario	Philippines	1:06.85

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	John Murphy	United States	59.93
2	Ejvind Pedersen	Denmark	1:00.83
3	Tadashi Honda	Japan	1:00.89
4	Ian MacKenzie	Canada	1:01.11
5	Helmut Podolan	Austria	1:01.49
6	Piotr Dłucik	Poland	1:01.94
7	Andreas Weber	West Germany	1:02.49

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Mike Stamm	United States	58.63
2	Lutz Wanja	East Germany	1:00.62
3	Pierre Baehr	France	1:01.13
4	Colin Cunningham	Great Britain	1:01.28
5	Anders Sandberg	Sweden	1:01.41
6	Neil Martin	Australia	1:05.13

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Mitch Ivey	United States	58.15
2	Erik Fish	Canada	1:00.81
3	Nenad Miloš	Yugoslavia	1:00.94
4	Clive Rushton	Great Britain	1:01.07
5	Mark Crocker	Hong Kong	1:11.20

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Roland Matthes	East Germany	1:00.01
2	Jürgen Krüger	East Germany	1:00.65
3	Jean-Paul Berjeau	France	1:00.83
4	Mike Richards	Great Britain	1:01.03
5	Róbert Rudolf	Hungary	1:02.34
6	Amin Ahmed Adel Youssef	Egypt	1:04.40
7	Chiang Jin Choon	Malaysia	1:07.65

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Roland Matthes	East Germany	56.58	OR
	Mike Stamm	United States	57.70
	John Murphy	United States	58.35
4	Mitch Ivey	United States	58.48
5	Igor Grivennikov	Soviet Union	59.50
6	Lutz Wanja	East Germany	59.80
7	Jürgen Krüger	East Germany	59.80
8	Tadashi Honda	Japan	1:00.41

Key: OR = Olympic record

Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m		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
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 m	men	women
4 × 200 m	men
Medley relay
4 × 100 m	men	women