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Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly

The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 20 and 21 October.[1] This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists edit

Results edit

Heats edit

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Doug Russell   United States 57.3
2 Vladimir Nemshilov   Soviet Union 59.1
3 Antonio Attanasio   Italy 1:00.0
4 John Thurley   Great Britain 1:00.7
5 Ayis Capéronis   Switzerland 1:00.9
6 Joseph Meyten   Belgium 1:02.2
7 Andrew Loh   Hong Kong 1:06.5

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Joseph Jackson   Great Britain 59.7
2 Gary Goodner   Puerto Rico 1:00.3
3 Ron Jacks   Canada 1:00.5
4 Sergey Konov   Soviet Union 1:00.8
5 João Lima Neto   Brazil 1:02.3
6 Ramiro Benavides   Guatemala 1:03.1

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Ross Wales   United States 58.7
2 Yury Suzdaltsev   Soviet Union 59.3
3 Avraham Melamed   Israel 59.4
4 Horst-Günter Gregor   East Germany 59.8
5 István Szentirmay   Hungary 1:01.0
6 Leroy Goff   Philippines 1:02.0
7 Salvador Vilanova   El Salvador 1:06.4

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Satoshi Maruya   Japan 58.1
2 Martyn Woodroffe   Great Britain 59.7
3 Werner Freitag   West Germany 1:00.1
4 Graham Dunn   Australia 1:01.6
5 Donnacha O'Dea   Ireland 1:02.8
6 Guðmundur Gíslason   Iceland 1:03.3
7 Friedrich Jokisch   El Salvador 1:10.5

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Mark Spitz   United States 58.5
2 Yasuo Takada   Japan 1:00.0
3 José Ferraioli   Puerto Rico 1:00.6
4 Angelo Tozzi   Italy 1:00.6
5 Ingvar Eriksson   Sweden 1:00.6
6 Tomas Becerra   Colombia 1:02.2
7 Bob Loh   Hong Kong 1:06.5

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Lutz Stoklasa   West Germany 59.2
2 Robert Cusack   Australia 59.6
3 Tom Arusoo   Canada 59.8
4 Mario Santibáñez   Mexico 1:01.7
5 Peter Feil   Sweden 1:02.3
6 Maximiliano Aguilar   Mexico 1:04.0
7 Rubén Guerrero   El Salvador 1:10.1

Heat 7

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Luis Nicolao   Argentina 59.3
2 Bo Westergren   Sweden 59.9
3 Arturo Lang-Lenton   Spain 1:00.7
4 Eduardo Orejuela   Ecuador 1:00.9
5 Giampiero Fossati   Italy 1:01.7
6 Lee Tong-shing   Taiwan 1:05.2

Semifinals edit

Semifinals 1 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Mark Spitz   United States 57.4
2 Lutz Stoklasa   West Germany 58.5
3 Joseph Jackson   Great Britain 59.3
4 Avraham Melamed   Israel 59.6
5 Werner Freitag   West Germany 59.9 Q
6 Bo Westergren   Sweden 59.9
7 José Ferraioli   Puerto Rico 1:00.9
8 John Thurley   Great Britain 1:00.2

Semifinals 2 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Satoshi Maruya   Japan 58.0
2 Vladimir Nemshilov   Soviet Union 59.0
3 Martyn Woodroffe   Great Britain 59.5
4 Tom Arusoo   Canada 59.6
5 Ingvar Eriksson   Sweden 59.9
6 Antonio Attanasio   Italy 1:00.3
7 Ron Jacks   Canada 1:00.5

Semifinals 3 edit

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Doug Russell   United States 55.9
2 Ross Wales   United States 58.2
3 Yury Suzdaltsev   Soviet Union 58.9
4 Robert Cusack   Australia 58.2
5 Yasuo Takada   Japan 59.8
6 Gary Goodner   Puerto Rico 1.00.1 Q
7 Angelo Tozzi   Italy 1:00.8

Final edit

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Doug Russell   United States 55.9 OR
  Mark Spitz   United States 56.4
  Ross Wales   United States 57.2
4 Vladimir Nemshilov   Soviet Union 58.1
5 Satoshi Maruya   Japan 58.6
6 Yury Suzdaltsev   Soviet Union 58.8
7 Lutz Stocklasa   West Germany 58.9
8 Robert Cusack   Australia 59.8

Key: OR = Olympic record

References edit

  1. ^ . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2016.

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