The men's 100 metre breaststroke event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Pool, Montreal. The event took place on 19 and 20 July.
Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Duncan Goodhew 1:04.92 Q, OR 2 Nikolay Pankin 1:05.38 Q 3 Ove Wisløff 1:06.85 4 Tateki Shinya 1:07.59 5 Cezary Śmiglak 1:08.02 6 Mel Zajac 1:08.52 7 Campari Knoepffler 1:15.18
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Arvydas Juozaitis 1:04.78 Q, OR 2 Peter Lang 1:05.25 Q 3 Walter Kusch 1:05.88 Q 4 Steffen Kriechbaum 1:08.09 5 Tuomo Kerola 1:08.22 6 Carlos Nazario 1:08.33 7 Henrique Vicêncio 1:13.55
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 David Leigh 1:06.12 Q 2 Giorgio Lalle 1:06.38 Q 3 Anders Norling 1:06.52 4 Vladimir Dementyev 1:06.96 5 Gustavo Lozano 1:08.89
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1T David Wilkie 1:05.19 Q 1T Graham Smith 1:05.19 Q 3 Larry Dowler 1:05.32 Q 4 Sérgio Ribeiro 1:06.07 Q 5 Pedro Balcells 1:07.98 6 Bruce Knowles 1:11.65
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 John Hencken 1:03.88 Q, =WR 2 Nobutaka Taguchi 1:04.65 Q 3 Chris Woo 1:05.39 Q 4 José Sylvio Fiolo 1:06.18 Q 5 Paul Jarvie 1:06.22 Q 6 Zdravko Divjak 1:08.31 7 Fred Nevin 1:09.93
Semifinals Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 David Wilkie 1:04.29 Q 2 Giorgio Lalle 1:04.35 Q 3 Duncan Goodhew 1:04.59 Q 4 Chris Woo 1:04.86 Q 5 Larry Dowler 1:05.19 6 Nobutaka Taguchi 1:05.69 7 José Sylvio Fiolo 1:06.38 8 Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro 1:06.69
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 John Hencken 1:03.62 Q, WR 2 Graham Smith 1:03.92 Q 3 Walter Kusch 1:04.28 Q 4 Arvydas Juozaitis 1:04.76 Q 5 Peter Lang 1:05.19 6 Nikolay Pankin 1:05.59 7 David Leigh 1:05.91 8 Paul Jarvie 1:06.20
Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes John Hencken 1:03.11 WR David Wilkie 1:03.43 Arvydas Juozaitis 1:04.23 4 Graham Smith 1:04.26 5 Giorgio Lalle 1:04.37 6 Walter Kusch 1:04.38 7 Duncan Goodhew 1:04.66 8 Chris Woo 1:05.13
References
External links Official Olympic Report