Swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Date	July 19–20
Competitors	30 from 15 nations
Medalists
Johnny Weissmuller  United States Duke Kahanamoku  United States Samuel Kahanamoku  United States

Swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
Breaststroke
200 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m			women
4×200 m	men

The men's 100 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fifth appearance of the event, which had not been featured at the 1900 Games. The competition was held on Saturday July 19, 1924 and on Sunday July 20, 1924.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1924 Summer Olympics.

World Record	57.4	Johnny Weissmuller	Miami (USA)	February 17, 1924
Olympic Record	1:00.4(*)	Duke Kahanamoku	Antwerp (BEL)	August 24, 1920
	1:01.4(*)	Duke Kahanamoku	Antwerp (BEL)	August 23, 1920
	1:01.4(*)	Duke Kahanamoku	Antwerp (BEL)	August 29, 1920

(*) Duke Kahanamoku swam 1:00.4 minutes in the first final, which was ordered to re-swim. In the second final he recorded 1:01.4, the same time as six days earlier in the semi-final.

In the second semi-final Johnny Weissmuller set a new Olympic record with 1:00.8 minutes. In the final he bettered his record with a time of 59.0 seconds

Results

Heats

The fastest two in each heat and the fastest third-placed from across the heats advanced.

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Orvar Trolle (SWE)	1:04.2	QQ
2	Duke Kahanamoku (USA)	1:04.2	QQ
3	Kazuo Onoda (JPN)	1:05.4
4	Charles Baillee (GBR)	1:08.2
5	Vlado Smokvina (YUG)	1:11.6

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Samuel Kahanamoku (USA)	1:03.2	QQ
2	Ernest Henry (AUS)	1:03.8	QQ
3	Torahiko Miyahata (JPN)	1:04.2	qq
4	Henri Padou (FRA)	1:05.0
5	Albert Dickin (GBR)	1:06.0
6	Stanislav Bičák (TCH)	1:10.2

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	22x20px Clayton Bourne (CAN)	1:06.2	QQ
2	Alberto Zorrilla (ARG)	1:08.2	QQ
3	Viktor Legát (TCH)	1:13.2
4	Charles Kopp (SUI)	1:15.0

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	1:04.0	QQ
2	Ivan Stedman (AUS)	1:06.0	QQ
3	Georg Werner (SWE)	1:07.0
4	Émile Zeibig (FRA)	1:08.0
5	Gé Dekker (NED)	1:11.8

Heat 5

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Johnny Weissmuller (USA)	1:03.8	QQ
2	Alfred Harold Pycock (GBR)	1:05.2	QQ
3	Édouard Vanzeveren (FRA)	1:06.8
4	Moss Christie (AUS)	1:07.2
5	22x20px José Manuel Pinillo (ESP)	1:14.2

Heat 6

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Arne Borg (SWE)	1:05.4	QQ
2	István Bárány (HUN)	1:08.4	QQ
3	Julius Balasz (TCH)	1:11.8
4	Dionysios Vasilopoulos (GRE)	1:12.0
5	Pieter Jacobszoon (NED)	1:12.2

Semifinals

The fastest two in each semi-final and the faster of the two third-placed swimmer advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Duke Kahanamoku (USA)	1:01.6	QF
2	Samuel Kahanamoku (USA)	1:02.2	QF
3	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	1:02.4	qf
4	Orvar Trolle (SWE)	1:02.6
5	22x20px Clayton Bourne (CAN)	1:06.0
6	István Bárány (HUN)	1:08.0
—	Torahiko Miyahata (JPN)	DNS

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Johnny Weissmuller (USA)	1:00.8	QF OR
2	Arne Borg (SWE)	1:02.6	QF
3	Ernest Henry (AUS)	1:03.0
4	Alfred Harold Pycock (GBR)	1:05.0
5	Ivan Stedman (AUS)	1:06.0
6	Alberto Zorrilla (ARG)	1:07.6

Final

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Johnny Weissmuller (USA)	59.0 OR
2	Duke Kahanamoku (USA)	1:01.4
3	Samuel Kahanamoku (USA)	1:01.8
4	Arne Borg (SWE)	1:02.0
5	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	1:03.0

References

• Olympic Report
• sports-reference