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

Swimming at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

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

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

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

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Matt Vogel  United States 54.35
2 Joe Bottom  United States 54.50
3 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

  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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