Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

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.^[1][2]

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Pool, Montreal
Date	19 July (heats and semifinals) 20 July (final)
Competitors	32 from 22 nations
Winning time	1:03.11
Medalists
John Hencken  United States David Wilkie  Great Britain Arvydas Juozaitis  Soviet Union
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Heats

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Duncan Goodhew	Great Britain	1:04.92	Q, OR
2	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	1:05.38	Q
3	Ove Wisløff	Norway	1:06.85
4	Tateki Shinya	Japan	1:07.59
5	Cezary Śmiglak	Poland	1:08.02
6	Mel Zajac	Canada	1:08.52
7	Campari Knoepffler	Nicaragua	1:15.18

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Arvydas Juozaitis	Soviet Union	1:04.78	Q, OR
2	Peter Lang	West Germany	1:05.25	Q
3	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:05.88	Q
4	Steffen Kriechbaum	Austria	1:08.09
5	Tuomo Kerola	Finland	1:08.22
6	Carlos Nazario	Puerto Rico	1:08.33
7	Henrique Vicêncio	Portugal	1:13.55

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	David Leigh	Great Britain	1:06.12	Q
2	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	1:06.38	Q
3	Anders Norling	Sweden	1:06.52
4	Vladimir Dementyev	Soviet Union	1:06.96
5	Gustavo Lozano	Mexico	1:08.89

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1T	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:05.19	Q
1T	Graham Smith	Canada	1:05.19	Q
3	Larry Dowler	United States	1:05.32	Q
4	Sérgio Ribeiro	Brazil	1:06.07	Q
5	Pedro Balcells	Spain	1:07.98
6	Bruce Knowles	Bahamas	1:11.65

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	John Hencken	United States	1:03.88	Q, =WR
2	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:04.65	Q
3	Chris Woo	United States	1:05.39	Q
4	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	1:06.18	Q
5	Paul Jarvie	Australia	1:06.22	Q
6	Zdravko Divjak	Yugoslavia	1:08.31
7	Fred Nevin	Canada	1:09.93

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:04.29	Q
2	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	1:04.35	Q
3	Duncan Goodhew	Great Britain	1:04.59	Q
4	Chris Woo	United States	1:04.86	Q
5	Larry Dowler	United States	1:05.19
6	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:05.69
7	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	1:06.38
8	Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro	Brazil	1:06.69

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	John Hencken	United States	1:03.62	Q, WR
2	Graham Smith	Canada	1:03.92	Q
3	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:04.28	Q
4	Arvydas Juozaitis	Soviet Union	1:04.76	Q
5	Peter Lang	West Germany	1:05.19
6	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	1:05.59
7	David Leigh	Great Britain	1:05.91
8	Paul Jarvie	Australia	1:06.20

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	John Hencken	United States	1:03.11	WR
	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:03.43
	Arvydas Juozaitis	Soviet Union	1:04.23
4	Graham Smith	Canada	1:04.26
5	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	1:04.37
6	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:04.38
7	Duncan Goodhew	Great Britain	1:04.66
8	Chris Woo	United States	1:05.13