Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Introduction The '''men's 100 metre breaststroke''' event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 29 and August 30 in the Schwimmhalle, Olympiapark, München. 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  Notes 1  Mark Chatfield    1:05.89   2  Bill Mahony    1:07.14   3  Bernard Combet    1:08.08   4  Paul Jarvie    1:09.26   5  Sokhon Yi    1:11.00   6  Edmondo Mingione    1:11.75   7  Morkal Faruk    1:13.86  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Nikolay Pankin    1:07.31   2  Robert Stoddart    1:08.44   3  Malcolm O'Connell    1:09.33   4  Sándor Szabó    1:09.68   5  Gustavo Salcedo    1:10.17   6  Jean-Pierre Dubey    1:10.31   7  Cezary Śmiglak    1:10.53  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  David Wilkie    1:06.35   2  Tom Bruce    1:06.45   3  Klaus Katzur    1:07.36   4  Vladimir Kosinsky    1:07.39   5  Amman Jalmaani    1:09.28   6  Steffen Kriechbaum    1:09.87   7  Bruno Bassoul    1:19.94  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Nobutaka Taguchi    1:06.07   2  José Sylvio Fiolo    1:06.23   3  Rainer Hradetzky    1:08.67   4  Liam Ball    1:09.68   5  Andreas Hellmann    1:10.13   6  Karl Christian Koch    1:11.27   7  Piero Ferracuti    1:16.74  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  John Hencken    1:05.96   2  Roger-Philippe Menu    1:08.63   3  Mike Whitaker    1:08.86   4  Felipe Muñoz    1:08.95   5  Pedro Balcells    1:09.37   6  Alfredo Hunger    1:11.44   7  Theodoros Koutoumanis    1:12.05   8  Rudi Vingerhoets    1:12.59  '''Heat 6''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Walter Kusch    1:06.95   2  Viktor Stulikov    1:08.18   3  Michael Günther    1:08.93   4  Osvaldo Boretto    1:09.64   5  János Tóth    1:10.02   6  Angel Chakarov    1:10.34   7  Paul Naisby    1:11.05   8  Guðjón Guðmundsson    1:11.11  ===Semifinals==='''Semifinal 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes1John Hencken1:05.68'''WR'''2José Sylvio Fiolo1:05.993Tom Bruce1:06.054Klaus Katzur1:06.825Bill Mahony1:07.066Bernard Combet1:07.767Robert Stoddart1:08.618Rainer Hradetzky1:09.49'''Semifinal 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes1Nobutaka Taguchi1:05.13'''WR'''2Walter Kusch1:05.783Nikolay Pankin1:06.084Mark Chatfield1:06.085David Wilkie1:06.256Viktor Stulikov1:06.667Vladimir Kosinsky1:07.088Roger-Philippe Menu1:07.75===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Nobutaka Taguchi   1:04.94  '''WR'''  2 Tom Bruce   1:05.43  '''  '''  3  John Hencken   1:05.61  ''' ''' 4  Mark Chatfield   1:06.01  ''' ''' 5   Walter Kusch   1:06.23  ''' ''' 6   José Sylvio Fiolo   1:06.24  ''' ''' 7  Nikolay Pankin   1:06.36  ''' ''' 8  David Wilkie   1:06.52  ''' ''''''Key''': WR = World record
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