Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Introduction The '''men's 100 metre breaststroke''' event at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place between 18 and 19 October in the Alberca Olímpica Francisco Márquez. This swimming event used the breaststroke. 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  Nikolay Pankin    1:08.9   2  Klaus Katzur    1:09.4   3  Dave Perkowski    1:09.5   4  Michael Günther    1:10.3   5  Osamu Tsurumine    1:10.5   6  Nicolas Gilliard    1:12.8   7  Eduardo Moreno    1:13.7  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Nobutaka Taguchi    1:09.8   2  Vladimir Kosinsky    1:10.0   3  Ken Merten    1:10.6   4  Liam Ball    1:12.1   5  Leiknir Jónsson    1:16.3   6  Abel Muñoz    1:19.4  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Egon Henninger    1:09.6   2  Ladislau Koszta    1:10.1   3  Józef Klukowski    1:11.0   4  Thomas Aretz    1:11.1   5  Sándor Szabó    1:11.3   6  Stuart Roberts    1:12.7   7  Ivan Gomina    1:15.1  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  José Sylvio Fiolo    1:09.5   2  Gregor Betz    1:10.3   3  Amman Jalmaani    1:10.6   4  Slavko Kurbanović    1:11.6   5  Roger Roberts    1:11.7   6  Leroy Goff    1:13.7   7  Arturo Carranza    1:28.0  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Don McKenzie    1:08.1   2  Yevhen Mykhailov    1:09.3   3  Bill Mahony    1:09.7   4  Osvaldo Boretto    1:10.3   5  Felipe Muñoz    1:10.6   6  Yohan Kende    1:12.3  '''Heat 6''' Rank  Athlete  Country  Time  Note 1  Ian O'Brien    1:08.9   2  Alberto Forelli    1:09.3   3  Thomas Johnsson    1:10.0   4  José Durán    1:12.3   5  Javier Jiménez    1:16.3   6  Eduardo Ramos    1:31.2  ===Semifinals======= Heat Two==== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Nikolay Pankin    1:08.1	    2  Alberto Forelli    1:08.9  '''  '''  3  Dave Perkowski    1:09.0  ''' '''  4  Felipe Muñoz    1:09.4  ''' '''  5   Ladislau Koszta    1:09.8  ''' '''  6   Thomas Aretz    1:11.2  ''' ''' 7  Osvaldo Boretto    1:11.8  ''' ''' 8  Nobutaka Taguchi     '''DQ'''==== Heat Three==== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Vladimir Kosinsky    1:07.9    2  Don McKenzie    1:08.1  '''  '''  3  José Sylvio Fiolo    1:08.6  ''' '''  4  Yevhen Mykhailov    1:08.8  ''' '''  5  Bill Mahony    1:09.7  ''' '''  6  Gregor Betz    1:09.8  ''' ''' 7  Józef Klukowski     1:10.9	  ''' ''' 8  Ken Merten    1:11.6  ''' ''''===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Don McKenzie   1:07.7  '''OR'''  2 Vladimir Kosinsky   1:08.0  '''  '''  3  Nikolai Pankin   1:08.0  ''' ''' 4  José Sylvio Fiolo   1:08.1  ''' ''' 5   Yevgeny Mikhaylov   1:08.4  ''' ''' 6   Ian O'Brien   1:08.6  ''' ''' 7  Alberto Forelli   1:08.7  ''' ''' 8  Egon Henninger   1:09.7  ''' ''''''Key''': OR = Olympic record
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