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


The men's 100 metre breaststroke event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 19 and 20 July.

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Duncan Goodhew1:04.92Q, OR
2Nikolay Pankin1:05.38Q
3Ove Wisløff1:06.85
4Tateki Shinya1:07.59
5Cezary Śmiglak1:08.02
6Mel Zajac1:08.52
7Campari Knoepffler1:15.18

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Arvydas Juozaitis1:04.78Q, OR
2Peter Lang1:05.25Q
3Walter Kusch1:05.88Q
4Steffen Kriechbaum1:08.09
5Tuomo Kerola1:08.22
6Carlos Nazario1:08.33
7Henrique Vicêncio1:13.55

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1David Leigh1:06.12Q
2Giorgio Lalle1:06.38Q
3Anders Norling1:06.52
4Vladimir Dementyev1:06.96
5Gustavo Lozano1:08.89

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1TDavid Wilkie1:05.19Q
1TGraham Smith1:05.19Q
3Larry Dowler1:05.32Q
4Sérgio Ribeiro1:06.07Q
5Pedro Balcells1:07.98
6Bruce Knowles1:11.65

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1John Hencken1:03.88Q, =WR
2Nobutaka Taguchi1:04.65Q
3Chris Woo1:05.39Q
4José Sylvio Fiolo1:06.18Q
5Paul Jarvie1:06.22Q
6Zdravko Divjak1:08.31
7Fred Nevin1:09.93

Semifinals

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1David Wilkie1:04.29Q
2Giorgio Lalle1:04.35Q
3Duncan Goodhew1:04.59Q
4Chris Woo1:04.86Q
5Larry Dowler1:05.19
6Nobutaka Taguchi1:05.69
7José Sylvio Fiolo1:06.38
8Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro1:06.69

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1John Hencken1:03.62Q, WR
2Graham Smith1:03.92Q
3Walter Kusch1:04.28Q
4Arvydas Juozaitis1:04.76Q
5Peter Lang1:05.19
6Nikolay Pankin1:05.59
7David Leigh1:05.91
8Paul Jarvie1:06.20

Final