Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly
Introduction The '''men's 100 metre butterfly''' event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between 20 and 21 October. 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
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Doug Russell    57.3   2  Vladimir Nemshilov    59.1   3  Antonio Attanasio    1:00.0   4  John Thurley    1:00.7   5  Ayis Capéronis    1:00.9   6  Joseph Meyten    1:02.2   7  Andrew Loh    1:06.5  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Joseph Jackson    59.7   2  Gary Goodner    1:00.3   3  Ron Jacks    1:00.5   4  Sergey Konov    1:00.8   5  João Lima Neto    1:02.3   6  Ramiro Benavides    1:03.1  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Ross Wales    58.7   2  Yury Suzdaltsev    59.3   3  Avraham Melamed    59.4   4  Horst-Günter Gregor    59.8   5  István Szentirmay    1:01.0   6  Leroy Goff    1:02.0   7  Salvador Vilanova    1:06.4  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Satoshi Maruya    58.1   2  Martyn Woodroffe    59.7   3  Werner Freitag    1:00.1   4  Graham Dunn    1:01.6   5  Donnacha O'Dea    1:02.8   6  Guðmundur Gíslason    1:03.3   7  Friedrich Jokisch    1:10.5  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Mark Spitz    58.5   2  Yasuo Takada    1:00.0   3  José Ferraioli    1:00.6   4  Angelo Tozzi    1:00.6   5  Ingvar Eriksson    1:00.6   6  Tomas Becerra    1:02.2   7  Bob Loh    1:06.5  '''Heat 6''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Lutz Stoklasa    59.2   2  Robert Cusack    59.6   3  Tom Arusoo    59.8   4  Mario Santibáñez    1:01.7   5  Peter Feil    1:02.3   6  Maximiliano Aguilar    1:04.0   7  Rubén Guerrero    1:10.1  '''Heat 7''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Luis Nicolao    59.3   2  Bo Westergren    59.9   3  Arturo Lang-Lenton    1:00.7   4  Eduardo Orejuela    1:00.9   5  Giampiero Fossati    1:01.7   6  Lee Tong-shing    1:05.2  ===Semifinals======= Semifinals 1 ==== Rank  Lane  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1  Mark Spitz  57.4   2   Lutz Stoklasa   58.5   3   Joseph Jackson   59.3   4   Avraham Melamed  59.6   5   Werner Freitag   59.9 Q 6   Bo Westergren  59.9   7   José Ferraioli  1:00.9   8   John Thurley  1:00.2 ==== Semifinals 2 ==== Rank  Lane  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1    Satoshi Maruya   58.0   2    Vladimir Nemshilov   59.0   3    Martyn Woodroffe  59.5 4   Tom Arusoo  59.6   5    Ingvar Eriksson  59.9   6    Antonio Attanasio  1:00.3	  7    Ron Jacks  1:00.5   ==== Semifinals 3==== Rank  Lane  Name  Nationality  Time  Notes 1   Doug Russell   55.9    2   Ross Wales   58.2   3   Yury Suzdaltsev   58.9  4   Robert Cusack   58.2   5    Yasuo Takada   59.8   6   Gary Goodner   1.00.1 Q 7   Angelo Tozzi   1:00.8  ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Doug Russell   55.9  '''OR'''  2 Mark Spitz   56.4  '''  '''  3  Ross Wales   57.2  ''' ''' 4  Vladimir Nemshilov   58.1  ''' ''' 5   Satoshi Maruya   58.6  ''' ''' 6   Yury Suzdaltsev   58.8  ''' ''' 7  Lutz Stocklasa   58.9  ''' ''' 8  Robert Cusack   59.8  ''' ''''''Key''': OR = Olympic record
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