The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 30 July and 1 August, at the Swimming Stadium. This swimming event used the backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.
Results
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Gilbert Bozon 1:07.8 2 Allen Stack 1:08.9 3 Bert Wardrop 1:09.9 4 Norihiko Kurahashi 1:10.7 5 Vladimir Lopatin 1:10.8 6 Lucien Beaumont 1:14.2 7 Khamlillal Shah 1:18.3
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Pedro Galvão 1:08.1 2 Yasumasa Nishino 1:10.1 3 Clemente Mejía 1:10.7 4 Helmut Koppelstätter 1:11.9 5 Hermann Gericke 1:12.6 6 Jerzy Boniecki 1:13.4 7 Eurico Surgey 1:13.7
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Jack Taylor 1:07.2 2 Boris Škanata 1:07.5 3 João Gonçalves Filho 1:09.7 4 Ladislav Bačík 1:10.2 5 Imre Nyéki 1:10.6 6 Peter Salmon 1:13.8 7 Tom Pettersen 1:15.4
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Yoshi Oyakawa 1:06.0 2 Lin Meiring 1:08.5 3 Fernando Pavan 1:09.1 4 Jitse van der Veen 1:09.1 5 Bijoy Barman 1:27.3
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 John Brockway 1:08.8 2 Lucien Zins 1:09.7 3 Ilo da Fonseca 1:09.9 4 Leonid Sagayduk 1:11.4 5 Wu Chuanyu 1:12.3 6 Eduardo Barbeiro 1:13.0
Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Egidio Massaria 1:08.8 2 Viktor Solovyov 1:09.5 3 Lincoln Hurring 1:09.6 4 László Gyöngyösi 1:10.0 5 Frank O'Neill 1:10.5 6 Erkki Marttinen 1:15.2
Tie-breaker Rank Athlete Country Time Note 1 Bert Wardrop 1:07.8 2 Ilo da Fonseca 1:09.5
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Yoshi Oyakawa 1:05.4 OR Gilbert Bozon 1:06.2 Jack Taylor 1:06.4 4 Allen Stack 1:07.6 5 Pedro Galvão 1:07.7 6 Bert Wardrop 1:07.8 7 Boris Škanata 1:08.1 8 Lin Meiring 1:08.3
Key: OR = Olympic record
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