Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly
The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 24 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 24 July | Heat 7 | Scott Miller | | 52.89 | |
| 24 July | Final A | Denis Pankratov | | 52.27 | |
Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Scott Miller | | 52.89 | Q, |
| 2 | 8 | 4 | Denis Pankratov | | 52.96 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 7 | Pavlo Khnykin | | 53.25 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 8 | 2 | Jiang Chengji | | 53.40 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 2 | Stephen Clarke | | 53.41 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | 3 | Rafał Szukała | | 53.41 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 5 | Michael Klim | | 53.42 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 4 | Vladislav Kulikov | | 53.54 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 3 | Mark Henderson | | 53.58 | q |
| 10 | 8 | 6 | Péter Horváth | | 53.69 | q |
| 11 | 7 | 6 | James Hickman | | 53.73 | q |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | Franck Esposito | | 53.77 | q |
| 13 | 4 | 5 | Ricardo Busquets | | 53.90 | q, NR |
| 13 | 4 | 3 | Francisco Sánchez | | 53.90 | q,, NR |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Takashi Yamamoto | | 53.95 | q |
| 16 | 7 | 1 | Edward Parenti | | 54.03 | q |
| 17 | 6 | 5 | John Hargis | | 54.06 | q |
| 18 | 8 | 5 | Denys Sylantyev | | 54.33 | |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | Lars Frölander | | 54.37 | |
| 20 | 8 | 8 | Yukihiro Matsushita | | 54.50 | |
| 21 | 5 | 6 | Andrey Gavrilov | | 54.56 | NR |
| 21 | 6 | 7 | Oliver Lampe | | 54.56 | |
| 23 | 5 | 4 | Miloš Milošević | | 54.62 | |
| 23 | 8 | 1 | Stefan Aartsen | | 54.62 | |
| 25 | 5 | 1 | Vesa Hanski | | 54.73 | |
| 26 | 7 | 8 | Denislav Kalchev | | 54.81 | |
| 27 | 4 | 4 | Derya Büyükuncu | | 54.89 | |
| 28 | 4 | 2 | Vladan Marković | | 54.90 | |
| 29 | 5 | 2 | Jesús González | | 54.94 | |
| 30 | 6 | 1 | Diego Perdomo | | 55.08 | |
| 31 | 5 | 8 | Dan Kutler | | 55.11 | |
| 32 | 3 | 4 | André Teixeira | | 55.23 | |
| 33 | 4 | 1 | Javier Golovchenko | | 55.26 | NR |
| 34 | 5 | 7 | Danyon Loader | | 55.39 | |
| 35 | 4 | 8 | Răzvan Petcu | | 55.50 | |
| 36 | 5 | 3 | Peter Mankoč | | 55.59 | |
| 37 | 2 | 3 | Rubén Piñeda | | 56.01 | |
| 38 | 8 | 7 | José Meolans | | 56.02 | |
| 39 | 5 | 5 | Andrea Oriana | | 56.04 | |
| 40 | 3 | 3 | Giovanni Linscheer | | 56.09 | |
| 41 | 3 | 6 | Janko Gojković | | 56.11 | NR |
| 42 | 1 | 4 | Kire Filipovski | | 56.13 | NR |
| 43 | 4 | 7 | Georgios Popotas | | 56.16 | |
| 44 | 3 | 1 | Roberto Delgado | | 56.29 | NR |
| 45 | 3 | 5 | Anthony Ang | | 56.41 | |
| 46 | 3 | 7 | Maxim Cazmirciuc | | 56.46 | |
| 46 | 4 | 6 | Tamer Hamed | | 56.46 | |
| 48 | 2 | 4 | Ravil Nachaev | | 56.61 | |
| 49 | 2 | 6 | Artūrs Jakovļevs | | 56.62 | |
| 50 | 2 | 1 | Arthur Li Kai Yien | | 56.92 | |
| 51 | 3 | 8 | Patrick Sagisi | | 56.93 | |
| 52 | 1 | 5 | Yang Dae-chul | | 57.05 | |
| 53 | 2 | 7 | Thum Ping Tjin | | 57.07 | |
| 54 | 1 | 3 | Mindaugas Bružas | | 57.10 | |
| 55 | 2 | 2 | José Isaza | | 57.62 | |
| 56 | 2 | 8 | Alain Sergile | | 58.23 | |
| 57 | 1 | 6 | Kamal Salman Masud | | 58.59 | |
| 58 | 1 | 2 | David Pereyra | | 1:01.63 | |
| 2 | 5 | Salim Iles | | | |
| 3 | 2 | Indrek Sei | | | |
| 6 | 8 | Martín López-Zubero | | | |
Finals
Final B
Final A
