Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke
Introduction The '''men's 100 metre backstroke''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 28 and 29.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
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Igor Grivennikov    1:00.05   2  Zoltán Verrasztó    1:01.13   3  Clay Evans    1:01.69   4  Rômulo Arantes Filho    1:03.18   5  Hsu Tung-hsiung    1:03.31   6  Sergio Hasbún    1:06.53   7  Sarun Van    1:07.26  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Bob Schoutsen    1:00.76   2  Lars Børgesen    1:01.23   3  László Cseh Sr.    1:01.63   4  José Joaquín Santibáñez    1:02.46   5  Predrag Miloš    1:03.02   6  Gustavo González    1:04.16   7  Gerardo Rosario    1:06.85  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  John Murphy    59.93   2  Ejvind Pedersen    1:00.83   3  Tadashi Honda    1:00.89   4  Ian MacKenzie    1:01.11   5  Helmut Podolan    1:01.49   6  Piotr Dłucik    1:01.94   7  Andreas Weber    1:02.49  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Mike Stamm    58.63   2  Lutz Wanja    1:00.62   3  Pierre Baehr    1:01.13   4  Colin Cunningham    1:01.28   5  Anders Sandberg    1:01.41   6  Neil Martin    1:05.13  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Mitch Ivey    58.15   2  Erik Fish    1:00.81   3  Nenad Miloš    1:00.94   4  Clive Rushton    1:01.07   5  Mark Crocker    1:11.20  '''Heat 6''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Roland Matthes    1:00.01   2  Jürgen Krüger    1:00.65   3  Jean-Paul Berjeau    1:00.83   4  Mike Richards    1:01.03   5  Róbert Rudolf    1:02.34   6  Amin Ahmed Adel Youssef    1:04.40   7  Chiang Jin Choon    1:07.65  ===Semifinals======Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Roland Matthes   56.58  '''OR'''  2 Mike Stamm   57.70  '''  '''  3  John Murphy   58.35  ''' ''' 4  Mitch Ivey   58.48  ''' ''' 5   Igor Grivennikov   59.50  ''' ''' 6   Lutz Wanja   59.80  ''' ''' 7  Jürgen Krüger   59.80  ''' ''' 8  Tadashi Honda   1:00.41  ''' ''''''Key''': OR = Olympic record
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