Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Date	26 July 1992 (heats & finals)
Competitors	61 from 47 nations
Winning time	1:01.50 OR
Medalists
Nelson Diebel  United States Norbert Rózsa  Hungary Phil Rogers  Australia
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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Norbert Rózsa (HUN)	1:01.45	Perth, Australia	7 January 1991
Olympic record	Steve Lundquist (USA)	1:01.65	Los Angeles, United States	29 July 1984

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
26 July	Final A	Nelson Diebel	United States	1:01.50	OR

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	7	Dmitry Volkov	Unified Team	1:01.74	Q, NR
2	6	5	Akira Hayashi	Japan	1:01.76	Q, NR
3	6	4	Nelson Diebel	United States	1:01.80	Q
4	7	4	Nick Gillingham	Great Britain	1:01.81	Q
5	7	3	Vasily Ivanov	Unified Team	1:01.91	Q
6	7	5	Adrian Moorhouse	Great Britain	1:02.09	Q
7	8	3	Phil Rogers	Australia	1:02.10	Q
8	8	4	Norbert Rózsa	Hungary	1:02.25	Q
9	8	5	Károly Güttler	Hungary	1:02.28	q
10	7	2	Mark Warnecke	Germany	1:02.48	q
11	6	7	Todd Torres	Puerto Rico	1:02.72	q, NR
12	8	6	Jonathan Cleveland	Canada	1:02.73	q
13	7	7	Stéphane Vossart	France	1:02.81	q
14	8	1	Chen Jianhong	China	1:03.08	q
15	6	3	Hans Dersch	United States	1:03.14	q
16	6	6	Gianni Minervini	Italy	1:03.23	q
17	7	6	Andrea Cecchi	Italy	1:03.28
18	5	6	Kenji Watanabe	Japan	1:03.29
19	5	3	Marko Pachel	Estonia	1:03.40
20	5	8	Javier Careaga	Mexico	1:03.45	NR
21	5	4	Ramón Camallonga	Spain	1:03.48
22	6	8	Mario González	Cuba	1:03.53
23	8	8	Sergio López Miró	Spain	1:03.69
24	6	2	Petri Suominen	Finland	1:03.75
25	6	1	Curtis Myden	Canada	1:03.80
26	5	5	Christian Poswiat	Germany	1:03.85
27	5	7	Kenneth Cawood	South Africa	1:04.02
28	5	2	Shane Lewis	Australia	1:04.17
29	4	8	Andrew Rutherfurd	Hong Kong	1:04.23	NR
30	5	1	Joseph Eric Buhain	Philippines	1:04.28
31	7	8	Christophe Bourdon	France	1:04.43
32	4	5	Radek Beinhauer	Czechoslovakia	1:04.88
33	3	5	Chris Flook	Bermuda	1:04.93
34	7	1	Frédérik Deburghgraeve	Belgium	1:05.10
35	3	4	Patrick Concepcion	Philippines	1:05.16
36	8	2	Nerijus Beiga	Lithuania	1:05.17
37	4	3	Børge Mørk	Norway	1:05.47
38	4	4	Gary O'Toole	Ireland	1:05.48
39	3	6	Alexandre Yokochi	Portugal	1:05.61
40	4	2	Gustavo Gorriarán	Uruguay	1:05.79
41	4	6	Ricardo Torres	Panama	1:06.05
42	3	7	Charalambos Panagidis	Cyprus	1:06.19
43	2	4	Jörg Lindemeier	Namibia	1:06.34
44	4	1	Lars Sørensen	Denmark	1:07.94
45	3	3	Chi Jia Han	Hong Kong	1:06.81
46	3	2	Bernard Desmarais	Mauritius	1:07.75
47	3	1	Abderzak Bella	Algeria	1:07.88
48	2	3	Christophe Verdino	Monaco	1:07.90
49	2	6	Roberto Bonilla	Guatemala	1:08.27
50	1	4	Danilo Zavoli	San Marino	1:09.65
51	2	7	Glenn Diaz	Guam	1:10.32
52	1	6	Obaid Al-Rumaithi	United Arab Emirates	1:12.77
53	2	2	Ayman Al-Enazy	Kuwait	1:13.49
54	1	3	Foy Gordon Chung	Fiji	1:13.51
55	2	1	Sergio Fafitine	Mozambique	1:13.76
56	2	5	Frank Leskaj	Albania	1:14.28
57	1	2	Mohamed Bin Abid	United Arab Emirates	1:15.12
58	1	7	Kenny Roberts	Seychelles	1:16.52
	4	7	Pablo Minelli	Argentina	DSQ
	1	5	Mohamed Mukhesur Rahman	Bangladesh	DNS
	1	1	Mouhamed Diop	Senegal	DNS

Finals

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Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Károly Güttler	Hungary	1:01.84
10	1	Hans Dersch	United States	1:02.39
	2	Stéphane Vossart	France
	8	Gianni Minervini	Italy
13	5	Mark Warnecke	Germany	1:02.73
	6	Jonathan Cleveland	Canada
15	7	Chen Jianhong	China	1:03.00
16	3	Todd Torres	Puerto Rico	1:03.21

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Nelson Diebel	United States	1:01.50	OR
	8	Norbert Rózsa	Hungary	1:01.68
	1	Phil Rogers	Australia	1:01.76	OC
4	5	Akira Hayashi	Japan	1:01.86
5	2	Vasily Ivanov	Unified Team	1:01.87
6	4	Dmitry Volkov	Unified Team	1:02.07
7	6	Nick Gillingham	Great Britain	1:02.32
8	7	Adrian Moorhouse	Great Britain	1:02.33

References

1. "Swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
2. "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. pp. 363–364. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
3. "Barcelona 1992: Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Finals" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 364. Retrieved 31 August 2017.

External links

• Official Report