Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Swimming at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m men   women
400 m men   women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men   women
Breaststroke
200 m men   women
Butterfly
100 m   women
200 m men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m   women
4×200 m men  

The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place between December 4 and 6.[1] This swimming event used backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

GoldDavid Theile
 Australia
SilverJohn Monckton
 Australia
BronzeFrank McKinney
 United States

Results

Heats

Four heats were held; the swimmers with the sixteen fastest times advanced to the Semifinals. The athletes that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Robert Christophe France 1:04.2
2 John Hayres Australia 1:04.4
3 László Magyar Hungary 1:06.1
4 Albert Wiggins United States 1:06.2
5 Haydn Rigby Great Britain 1:06.9
6 Ahmed Nazir Pakistan 1:10.7

Heat Two

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Graham Sykes Great Britain 1:06.2
2 Kazuo Tomita Japan 1:06.4
3 Gilbert Bozon France 1:06.4
4 Ekkehard Miersch Germany 1:07.5
5 Lincoln Hurring New Zealand 1:07.5
6 Pedro Cayco Philippines 1:11.6

Heat Three

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 David Theile Australia 1:04.3
2 Yoshi Oyakawa United States 1:05.2
3 Keiji Hase Japan 1:06.3
4 John Brockway Great Britain 1:07.7
5 João Gonçalves Filho Brazil 1:07.9
6 Cheung Kin Man Hong Kong 1:14.0

Heat Four

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 John Monckton Australia 1:03.4
2 Frank McKinney United States 1:06.0
3 Dieter Pfeifer Germany 1:06.7
4 Ladislav Bak Czechoslovakia 1:06.9
5 Gérard Coignot France 1:07.5
6 Hideo Ninomiya Japan 1:09.2
7 Lim Heng Chek Malaya 1:12.4

Semifinals

Two heats were held; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the Finals. The swimmers that advanced are highlighted.

Semifinal One

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 John Monckton Australia 1:04.1
2 David Theile Australia 1:04.8
3 Yoshi Oyakawa United States 1:05.0
4 Graham Sykes Great Britain 1:06.5
5 Kazuo Tomita Japan 1:06.5
6 Dieter Pfeifer Germany 1:07.6
7 László Magyar Hungary 1:07.6
8 Ladislav Bak Czechoslovakia 1:07.9

Semifinal Two

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Robert Christophe France 1:04.6
2 John Hayres Australia 1:05.0
3 Frank McKinney United States 1:05.3
4 Albert Wiggins United States 1:06.4
5 Gilbert Bozon France 1:06.5
6 Keiji Hase Japan 1:06.5
7 Ekkehard Miersch Germany 1:06.6
8 Haydn Rigby Great Britain 1:07.6

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
David Theile  Australia 1:02.2 WR
John Monckton  Australia 1:03.2
Frank McKinney  United States 1:04.5
4 Robert Christophe  France 1:04.9
5 John Hayres  Australia 1:05.0
6 Graham Sykes  Great Britain 1:05.6
7 Albert Wiggins  United States 1:05.8
8 Yoshi Oyakawa  United States 1:06.9

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. ↑ "Swimming at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Backstroke". Sports Reference. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
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