Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1928 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 1928 Summer Olympics programme. It was the sixth appearance of the event, which had not been featured only at the 1900 Games. The competition was held on Friday August 10, 1928 and on Saturday August 11, 1928.

Thirty swimmers from 17 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Johnny Weissmuller  United States	István Bárány  Hungary	Katsuo Takaishi  Japan

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1928 Summer Olympics.

World Record	57.4	Johnny Weissmuller	Miami (USA)	February 17, 1924
Olympic Record	59.0	Johnny Weissmuller	Paris (FRA)	July 20, 1924

Johnny Weissmuller improved his own Olympic record in the semi-finals with 58.6 seconds and equalized this time again in the final.

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	Walter Laufer (USA)	1:00.8	QQ
2	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	1:01.2	QQ
3	August Heitmann (GER)	1:02.2	qq
4	Eskil Lundahl (SWE)	1:03.0
5	Hernán Schüler (CHI)

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Rezső Wanié (HUN)	1:03.4	QQ
2	Francisco Uranga (ARG)	1:05.6	QQ
3	Gustave Klein (FRA)	1:05.8
4	Horacio Astaburuaga (CHI)
5	Martial van Schelle (BEL)

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Johnny Weissmuller (USA)	1:00.0	QQ
2	22x20px Walter Spence (CAN)	1:00.6	QQ
3	Norman Brooks (GBR)	1:03.4
4	Herbert Heinrich (GER)

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Antal Gáborfi (HUN)	1:04.0	QQ
2	Antonio Conelli (ITA)	1:07.0	QQ
3	Adán Gordón (PAN)	1:10.8

Heat 5

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Alberto Zorrilla (ARG)	1:01.8	QQ
2	Knut Olsen (NOR)	1:05.0	QQ
3	Sven-Pelle Pettersson (SWE)	1:06.4
4	Faelo Zúñiga (CHI)

Heat 6

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	George Kojac (USA)	1:01.6	QQ
2	Karl Schubert (GER)	1:03.8	QQ
3	Reginald Sutton (GBR)	1:04.0
4	22x20px Munroe Bourne (CAN)

Heat 7

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	István Bárány (HUN)	1:01.2	QQ
2	Emilio Polli (ITA)	1:04.0	QQ
3	Henk van Essen (NED)	1:07.4
4	22x20px José González (ESP)
5	Władysław Kuncewicz (POL)	1:10.8

Semifinals

The fastest two in each semi-final and the fastest third-placed from across the semi-finals advanced.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	1:00.0	QF
2	Walter Laufer (USA)	1:00.6	QF
3	22x20px Walter Spence (CAN)	1:01.4	qf
4	Antal Gáborfi (HUN)	1:04.8
5	Antonio Conelli (ITA)

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	George Kojac (USA)	1:01.0	QF
2	Alberto Zorrilla (ARG)	1:01.6	QF
3	Rezső Wanié (HUN)	1:03.8
4	Francisco Uranga (ARG)
5	Karl Schubert (GER)

Semifinal 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Johnny Weissmuller (USA)	0:58.6	QF OR
2	István Bárány (HUN)	1:00.8	QF
3	August Heitmann (GER)	1:03.6
4	Knut Olsen (NOR)
5	Emillio Polli (ITA)

Final

Saturday August 11, 1928:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Johnny Weissmuller (USA)	0:58.6 =OR
2	István Bárány (HUN)	0:59.8
3	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	1:00.0
4	George Kojac (USA)	1:00.8
5	Walter Laufer (USA)	1:01.0
6	22x20px Walter Spence (CAN)	1:01.4
7	Alberto Zorrilla (ARG)	1:01.6

References

• Olympic Report
• sports-reference