Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1936 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 1936 Summer Olympics programme. It was the ninth appearance of the event, which had not been featured only at the 1900 Games. The competition was held on Saturday August 8, 1936 and on Sunday August 9, 1936.

Forty-five swimmers from 23 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ferenc Csik  Hungary	Masanori Yusa  Japan	Shigeo Arai  Japan

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record	56.4	Peter Fick	New Haven (USA)	February 11, 1936
Olympic Record	58.0	Yasuji Miyazaki	Los Angeles (USA)	August 6, 1932

Peter Fick set a new Olympic record in the first heat with 57.6 seconds. In the fifth heat Masaharu Taguchi bettered the Olympic record with 57.5 seconds. Masanori Yusa equalized this record in the second semi-final with 57.5 seconds.

Results

Heats

Saturday August 8, 1936: The fastest two in each heat and the next two fastest from across the heats advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Peter Fick (USA)	57.6	QQ OR
2	Ferenc Csik (HUN)	58.3	QQ
3	Romund Gabrielsen (GBR)	1:02.2
4	Bob Hamerton (CAN)	1:02.1
5	Paulo Tarrto (BRA)	1:02.6
6	22x20px Mahmoud Kadri (EGY)	1:03.8
7	Arturo Álvarez (PER)	1:04.9
8	Charlie Chan (ROC)	1:06.5

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Masanori Yusa (JPN)	57.8	QQ
2	Arthur Highland (USA)	59.9	QQ
3	William Kendall (AUS)	1:01.0	qq
4	Egon Roolaid (EST)	1:01.5
5	René Cavalero (FRA)	1:02.2
6	Sjoerd Mooi Wilten (NED)	1:03.4
7	Alberto Conrad (BOL)	1:17.5

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Mostyn Ffrench-Williams (GBR)	1:00.7	QQ
2	22x20px Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI)	1:01.0	QQ
3	Heiko Schwartz (GER)	1:01.8
4	Munroe Bourne (CAN)	1:02.4
5	Isaac Morais (BRA)	1:03.5
6	Günther Zobernig (AUT)	1:03.9

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Shigeo Arai (JPN)	57.7	QQ
2	Helmuth Fischer (GER)	57.9	QQ
3	Ödön Gróf (HUN)	1:01.3
4	22x20px Leonard Spence (BER)	1:01.9
5	Claude Desusclade (FRA)	1:07.2
6	Rikhardos Brousalis (GRE)	1:07.5

Heat 5

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Masaharu Taguchi (JPN)	57.5	QQ OR
2	John Christensen (DEN)	1:01.1	QQ
3	George Larson (CAN)	1:01.5
4	22x20px Saad El-Din Zaki (EGY)	1:03.7
5	Juan Paz (PER)	1:05.6
6	Spyridon Mavrogiorgos (GRE)	1:08.2

Heat 6

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Draško Vilfan (YUG)	1:00.5	QQ
2	Hermann Heibel (GER)	1:01.4	QQ
3	Frederick Dove (GBR)	1:01.6
4	22x20px José Obial (PHI)	1:01.7
5	Leônidas da Silva (BRA)	1:03.3
6	22x20px John Young (BER)	1:07.8

Heat 7

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Arthur Lindegren (USA)	58.3	QQ
2	Oszkár Abay-Nemes (HUN)	1:00.2	QQ
3	Heikki Hietanen (FIN)	1:01.0	qq
4	Piet Stam (NED)	1:01.3
5	Poul Petersen (DEN)	1:01.6
6	Roger Zirilli (SUI)	1:04.1

Semifinals

Saturday August 8, 1936: The fastest three in each semi-final and the fastest fourth-placed from across the heats advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Masaharu Taguchi (JPN)	57.9	QQ
2	Ferenc Csik (HUN)	58.1	QQ
3	Peter Fick (USA)	58.2	QQ
4	Helmuth Fischer (GER)	58.7	qq
5	Heikki Hietanen (FIN)	1:00.5
	Draško Vilfan (YUG)	1:00.5
	22x20px Jikirum Adjaluddin (PHI)	1:00.5
8	Mostyn Ffrench-Williams (GBR)	1:01.0

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Masanori Yusa (JPN)	57.5	QQ =OR
2	Shigeo Arai (JPN)	57.9	QQ
3	Arthur Lindegren (USA)	58.7	QQ
4	Arthur Highland (USA)	59.4
5	William Kendall (AUS)	59.9
6	Hermann Heibel (GER)	1:00.3
7	Oszkár Abay-Nemes (HUN)	1:01.1
8	John Christensen (DEN)	1:01.6

Final

Sunday August 9, 1936:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Ferenc Csik (HUN)	57.6
2	Masanori Yusa (JPN)	57.9
3	Shigeo Arai (JPN)	58.0
4	Masaharu Taguchi (JPN)	58.1
5	Helmuth Fischer (GER)	59.3
6	Peter Fick (USA)	59.7
7	Arthur Lindegren (USA)	59.9

References

• Olympic Report
• sports-reference