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


The men's 100 metre butterfly event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 20 and 21 July.

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Yevgeny Seredin56.95Q
2Bruce Robertson57.06Q
3Pär Arvidsson57.17Q
4Cees Vervoorn57.84
5Rômulo Arantes Filho58.80
6Adi Prag59.99
-François Deley-DQ

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Jorge Delgado, Jr.56.79Q
2Neil Rogers57.08Q
3Miloslav Roľko57.79
4TSerge Buttet58.37
4TArnaldo Pérez58.37
6Riccardo Urbani58.83
7Carlos González1:00.97

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Roger Pyttel55.25Q
2Klaus Steinbach56.10Q
3Hideaki Hara56.57Q
4Jorge Jaramillo57.33
5Jon Jon Park57.42
6Campari Knoepffler1:02.05

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Matt Vogel55.40Q
2Clay Evans55.65Q
3Peter Broscienski57.15Q
4TPaolo Barelli57.64
4TOleksandr Manachynskiy57.64
6José Luis Prado59.16
7Paulo Frischknecht1:01.97
8Lawrence Kwoh1:02.47

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Gary Hall55.35Q
2John Mills56.53Q
3Steve Pickell56.59Q
4John Coutts57.29
5Hartmut Flöckner57.66
6Luis Goicoechea57.92
7John Daly58.04
8Steven Newkirk1:01.46

Heat 6
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Joe Bottom56.26Q
2Roland Matthes56.41Q
3Michael Kraus57.22
4Ross Seymour57.74
5Richard Iredale58.50
6Shinsuke Kayama58.55
7Konstantinos Koskinas1:00.20
8Robert Howard1:00.92

Semifinals

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Joe Bottom55.26Q
2Gary Hall55.32Q
3Neil Rogers55.72Q
4Clay Evans55.86Q
5John Mills56.54
6Steve Pickell56.66
7Pär Arvidsson56.93
8Yevgeny Seredin57.46

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Roger Pyttel54.75Q
2Matt Vogel54.80Q
3Roland Matthes55.88Q
4Klaus Steinbach55.90Q
5Hideaki Hara56.52
6Bruce Robertson56.72
7Peter Broscienski56.81
8Jorge Delgado, Jr.56.91

Final