The men's 100 metre butterfly event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on 20 and 21 July.

Heats Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Yevgeny Seredin 56.95 Q 2 Bruce Robertson 57.06 Q 3 Pär Arvidsson 57.17 Q 4 Cees Vervoorn 57.84 5 Rômulo Arantes Filho 58.80 6 Adi Prag 59.99 - François Deley - DQ

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Jorge Delgado, Jr. 56.79 Q 2 Neil Rogers 57.08 Q 3 Miloslav Roľko 57.79 4T Serge Buttet 58.37 4T Arnaldo Pérez 58.37 6 Riccardo Urbani 58.83 7 Carlos González 1:00.97

Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Roger Pyttel 55.25 Q 2 Klaus Steinbach 56.10 Q 3 Hideaki Hara 56.57 Q 4 Jorge Jaramillo 57.33 5 Jon Jon Park 57.42 6 Campari Knoepffler 1:02.05

Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Matt Vogel 55.40 Q 2 Clay Evans 55.65 Q 3 Peter Broscienski 57.15 Q 4T Paolo Barelli 57.64 4T Oleksandr Manachynskiy 57.64 6 José Luis Prado 59.16 7 Paulo Frischknecht 1:01.97 8 Lawrence Kwoh 1:02.47

Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Gary Hall 55.35 Q 2 John Mills 56.53 Q 3 Steve Pickell 56.59 Q 4 John Coutts 57.29 5 Hartmut Flöckner 57.66 6 Luis Goicoechea 57.92 7 John Daly 58.04 8 Steven Newkirk 1:01.46

Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Joe Bottom 56.26 Q 2 Roland Matthes 56.41 Q 3 Michael Kraus 57.22 4 Ross Seymour 57.74 5 Richard Iredale 58.50 6 Shinsuke Kayama 58.55 7 Konstantinos Koskinas 1:00.20 8 Robert Howard 1:00.92

Semifinals Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Joe Bottom 55.26 Q 2 Gary Hall 55.32 Q 3 Neil Rogers 55.72 Q 4 Clay Evans 55.86 Q 5 John Mills 56.54 6 Steve Pickell 56.66 7 Pär Arvidsson 56.93 8 Yevgeny Seredin 57.46

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Roger Pyttel 54.75 Q 2 Matt Vogel 54.80 Q 3 Roland Matthes 55.88 Q 4 Klaus Steinbach 55.90 Q 5 Hideaki Hara 56.52 6 Bruce Robertson 56.72 7 Peter Broscienski 56.81 8 Jorge Delgado, Jr. 56.91

Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Matt Vogel 54.35 Joe Bottom 54.50 Gary Hall 54.65 4 Roger Pyttel 55.09 5 Roland Matthes 55.11 6 Clay Evans 55.81 7 Hideaki Hara 56.34 8 Neil Rogers 56.57

References

External links Official Olympic Report