Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

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.

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 One Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Egon Henninger 1:08.9 2 Ian O'Brien 1:09.0 3 Michael Günther 1:09.7 4 Klaus Katzur 1:09.9 5 Osamu Tsurumine 1:10.3 6 Amman Jalmaani 1:10.4 7 Thomas Johnsson 1:10.9 8 Sándor Szabó 1:11.1

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 Don McKenzie 1:07.7 OR Vladimir Kosinsky 1:08.0 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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