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

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Pool, Montreal
Date	19 July (heats and semifinals) 20 July (final)
Competitors	32 from 22 nations
Winning time	1:03.11
Medalists
John Hencken  United States David Wilkie  Great Britain Arvydas Juozaitis  Soviet Union

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

Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Duncan Goodhew	Great Britain	1:04.92	Q, OR
2	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	1:05.38	Q
3	Ove Wisløff	Norway	1:06.85
4	Tateki Shinya	Japan	1:07.59
5	Cezary Śmiglak	Poland	1:08.02
6	Mel Zajac	Canada	1:08.52
7	Campari Knoepffler	Nicaragua	1:15.18

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Arvydas Juozaitis	Soviet Union	1:04.78	Q, OR
2	Peter Lang	West Germany	1:05.25	Q
3	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:05.88	Q
4	Steffen Kriechbaum	Austria	1:08.09
5	Tuomo Kerola	Finland	1:08.22
6	Carlos Nazario	Puerto Rico	1:08.33
7	Henrique Vicêncio	Portugal	1:13.55

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	David Leigh	Great Britain	1:06.12	Q
2	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	1:06.38	Q
3	Anders Norling	Sweden	1:06.52
4	Vladimir Dementyev	Soviet Union	1:06.96
5	Gustavo Lozano	Mexico	1:08.89

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1T	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:05.19	Q
1T	Graham Smith	Canada	1:05.19	Q
3	Larry Dowler	United States	1:05.32	Q
4	Sérgio Ribeiro	Brazil	1:06.07	Q
5	Pedro Balcells	Spain	1:07.98
6	Bruce Knowles	Bahamas	1:11.65

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	John Hencken	United States	1:03.88	Q, =WR
2	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:04.65	Q
3	Chris Woo	United States	1:05.39	Q
4	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	1:06.18	Q
5	Paul Jarvie	Australia	1:06.22	Q
6	Zdravko Divjak	Yugoslavia	1:08.31
7	Fred Nevin	Canada	1:09.93

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:04.29	Q
2	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	1:04.35	Q
3	Duncan Goodhew	Great Britain	1:04.59	Q
4	Chris Woo	United States	1:04.86	Q
5	Larry Dowler	United States	1:05.19
6	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:05.69
7	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	1:06.38
8	Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro	Brazil	1:06.69

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	John Hencken	United States	1:03.62	Q, WR
2	Graham Smith	Canada	1:03.92	Q
3	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:04.28	Q
4	Arvydas Juozaitis	Soviet Union	1:04.76	Q
5	Peter Lang	West Germany	1:05.19
6	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	1:05.59
7	David Leigh	Great Britain	1:05.91
8	Paul Jarvie	Australia	1:06.20

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	John Hencken	United States	1:03.11	WR
	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:03.43
	Arvydas Juozaitis	Soviet Union	1:04.23
4	Graham Smith	Canada	1:04.26
5	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	1:04.37
6	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:04.38
7	Duncan Goodhew	Great Britain	1:04.66
8	Chris Woo	United States	1:05.13

External links

• Official Olympic Report