Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1932 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 1932 Summer Olympics programme. It was the seventh appearance of the event, which had only not featured at the 1900 Games. The competition was held from Saturday August 6, 1932 to Sunday August 7, 1932.

Twenty-two swimmers from ten nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yasuji Miyazaki  Japan	Tatsugo Kawaishi  Japan	Albert Schwartz  United States

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1932 Summer Olympics.

World Record	57.4	Johnny Weissmuller	Miami (USA)	February 17, 1924
Olympic Record	58.6	Johnny Weissmuller	Amsterdam (NED)	August 11, 1928

Saturday August 6, 1932: In the first semi-final Yasuji Miyazaki set a new Olympic record with 58.0 seconds.

Results

Heats

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

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Manuella Kalili (USA)	0:59.6	QQ
2	István Bárány (HUN)	1:00.4	QQ
3	22x20px Munroe Bourne (CAN)	1:01.1
4	Reginald Sutton (GBR)	1:02.9
5	Leopoldo Tahier (ARG)	1:05.3
6	Manoel Villar (BRA)	1:08.4

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	22x20px Walter Spence (CAN)	0:59.3	QQ
2	Albert Schwartz (USA)	0:59.6	QQ
3	Tatsugo Kawaishi (JPN)	0:59.8	qq
4	András Wanié (HUN)	1:02.8
5	Mostyn Ffrench-Williams (GBR)	1:05.9

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Zenjiro Takahashi (JPN)	0:59.5	QQ
2	Raymond Thompson (USA)	1:02.0	QQ
3	Alfredo Rocca (ARG)	1:04.2
4	Joseph Whiteside (GBR)	1:04.7
5	Eskil Lundahl (SWE)	1:06.2
6	João Pereira (BRA)	1:08.2

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Yasuji Miyazaki (JPN)	0:58.7	QQ
2	András Székely (HUN)	1:01.5	QQ
3	Abdurahman Ali (PHI)	1:02.2
4	Noel Ryan (AUS)	1:02.9
5	22x20px Robert Halloran (CAN)	1:06.9

Semifinals

The fastest three in each semi-final advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Yasuji Miyazaki (JPN)	0:58.0	QQ OR
2	Raymond Thompson (USA)	0:59.3	QQ
3	Manuella Kalili (USA)	0:59.3	QQ
4	István Bárány (HUN)	0:59.4
5	András Székely (HUN)	1:01.4

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Tatsugo Kawaishi (JPN)	0:59.0	QQ
2	Albert Schwartz (USA)	0:59.2	QQ
3	Zenjiro Takahashi (JPN)	0:59.5	QQ
4	22x20px Walter Spence (CAN)	0:59.6

Final

Sunday August 7, 1932:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Yasuji Miyazaki (JPN)	0:58.2
2	Tatsugo Kawaishi (JPN)	0:58.6
3	Albert Schwartz (USA)	0:58.8
4	Manuella Kalili (USA)	0:59.2
5	Zenjiro Takahashi (JPN)	0:59.2
6	Raymond Thompson (USA)	0:59.5

References

• Olympic Report
• sports-reference