Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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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

Gold Roland Matthes
 East Germany
Silver Mike Stamm
 United States
Bronze John Murphy
 United States

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
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 Notes
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 Notes
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 Notes
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 Notes
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 Notes
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

Semifinals

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Roland Matthes  East Germany 56.58 OR
2 Mike Stamm  United States 57.70
3 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

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2016.