Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly

Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place between October 20 and 21. This swimming event used the butterfly stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Doug Russell United States
Silver	Mark Spitz United States
Bronze	Ross Wales United States

Results

Heats

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Semifinals

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Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Doug Russell	United States	55.9	OR
	Mark Spitz	United States	56.4
	Ross Wales	United States	57.2
4	Vladimir Nemshilov	Soviet Union	58.1
5	Satoshi Maruya	Japan	58.6
6	Yury Suzdaltsev	Soviet Union	58.8
7	Lutz Stocklasa	West Germany	58.9
8	Robert Cusack	Australia	59.8