Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly


The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 21–22 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.
Competing at his third Games, Lars Frölander ended Sweden's 20-year drought to become an Olympic champion in the event, since Pär Arvidsson did so in 1980. Surprised by a massive home crowd, he overhauled Australia's top favorites Michael Klim and Geoff Huegill on the final 25 metres to snatch a gold medal in a new European record of 52.00. Klim added a silver to his two relay golds from the Games, in a time of 52.18, while Huegill took home the bronze in 52.22, handing an entire medal pool for the Aussies with an unexpected two–three finish.
At 18 years of age, U.S. teenage swimmer Ian Crocker came up with a spectacular swim to earn a fourth spot in an American record of 52.44. Meanwhile, Canada's Mike Mintenko shared a fifth-place tie with Japan's Takashi Yamamoto in a matching standard of 52.58. Germany's Thomas Rupprath and Russia's Anatoly Polyakov closed out the field with a joint seventh-place finish.
Earlier in the semifinals, Huegill became the second fastest of all-time in swimming history to break a 52-second barrier, establishing a new Olympic record of 51.96.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
21 SeptemberSemifinal 1Geoff Huegill51.96

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
174Michael Klim52.73Q
284Geoff Huegill52.79Q
386Mike Mintenko52.90Q, NR
466Takashi Yamamoto52.91Q
564Lars Frölander53.14Q
673Zsolt Gáspár53.29Q
762Anatoly Polyakov53.30Q
876Denys Sylantyev53.34Q
965Ian Crocker53.45Q
1063James Hickman53.48Q
1183Franck Esposito53.54Q
1185Tommy Hannan53.54Q
1375Thomas Rupprath53.57Q
1467Joris Keizer53.66Q
1578Jere Hård53.67Q
1655Stefan Aartsen53.81Q
1771Andriy Serdinov53.90
1856Theo Verster53.95
1961Igor Marchenko53.98
2054Ouyang Kunpeng54.12
2177Ioan Gherghel54.13
2272Shamek Pietucha54.14
2368Peter Mankoč54.15
2381Daniel Carlsson54.15
2588Tero Välimaa54.24
2652Marcin Kaczmarek54.32
2757Jan Vítazka54.34
2858Pablo Martín Abal54.45
2982Francisco Sánchez54.56
3044Simão Morgado54.75
3142Philippe Meyer54.85NR
3246Andrew Livingston55.03
3351Joshua Ilika Brenner55.07
3434Ravil Nachaev55.21
3535Konstantin Ushkov55.25
3615Anthony Ang55.26NR
3747Yoav Meiri55.38
3837Simeon Makedonski55.49
3924Janko Gojković55.55NR
3953Oswaldo Quevedo55.55
4123Aleksandar Miladinovski55.62
4241Dennis Otzen Jensen55.70
4343Yohan García55.74
4426Mehdi Addadi56.04
4527Daniel O'Keeffe56.05
4628Roberto Delgado56.07
4736Luc Decker56.10
4825Ríkardur Ríkardsson56.11NR
4914Andrey Gavrilov56.14
5048Ivan Mladina56.17
5113Ioannis Drymonakos56.36
5232Tseng Cheng-hua56.39
5333Haitham Hassan56.42
5422Stephen Fahy56.46
5538Albert Christiadi Sutanto56.50
5616Artūrs Jakovļevs56.63
5721Nicholas Rees57.23
5812Conrad Francis57.44
5931Dumitru Zastoico58.55
6011Kim Jin-woo59.55
6117Kamal Salman Masud1:00.60
45Milorad Čavić
87Christian Keller

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final