Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1960 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
Medley relay
4×100 m	men		women

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 26 and 27.^[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	John Devitt  Australia
Silver	Lance Larson  United States
Bronze	Manuel dos Santos  Brazil

Results

Heats

Seven heats were held; the swimmers with the fastest 24 times advanced to the Semifinals. Those that advanced are highlighted. This round took place on August 26.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Karri Käyhkö	Finland	56.8
2	Keigo Shimizu	Japan	57.3
3	Ezio Della Savia	Italy	58.2
4	Gert Kölli	Austria	58.3
5	Herlander Ribeiro	Portugal	1:00.2
6	Leopoldo Rodés	Spain	1:00.7
7	René Wagner	Luxembourg	1:04.3

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	John Devitt	Australia	56.0
2	Alain Gottvallès	France	56.3
3	Igor Luzhkovsky	Soviet Union	57.9
4	Uwe Jacobsen	Germany	57.9
5	Achmad Dimyati	Indonesia	59.1
6	Luis Nicolao	Argentina	1:00.2
7	Fong Seow Jit	Malaya	1:03.4
8	Alfred Grixti	Malta	1:07.8

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Manuel dos Santos Filho	Brazil	56.3
2	Andrzej Salamon	Poland	56.5
3	Cam Grout	Canada	57.6
4	Jorge Escalante	Mexico	57.6
5	Ron Kroon	Netherlands	57.7
6	Gérard Gropaiz	France	59.3
7	Peter Bärtschi	Switzerland	1:02.9

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gyula Dobay	Hungary	56.5
2	Vitaly Sorokin	Soviet Union	58.2
3	Bengt Nordwall	Sweden	58.5
4	Jan Bouwman	Netherlands	58.8
5	Amiram Trauber	Israel	59.7
6	Cheung Kin Man	Hong Kong	1:01.1

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jon Henricks	Australia	56.9
2	Per-Ola Lindberg	Sweden	57.1
3	László Lantos	Hungary	57.4
4	Stanley Clarke	Great Britain	59.1
5	Fernando de Abreu	Brazil	1:00.1
6	Gudmunður Gíslason	Iceland	1:00.8
7	Freddie Elizalde	Philippines	1:03.0
8	Christopher Dowling	Malta	1:08.9

Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bruce Hunter	United States	56.6
2	Dick Pound	Canada	56.7
3	Rubén Roca	Cuba	58.3
4	Janez Kocmur	Yugoslavia	58.7
5	Giorgio Perondini	Italy	58.9
6	Phan Hữu Dong	South Vietnam	1:01.3
7	Ünsal Fikirci	Turkey	1:03.0

Heat Seven

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Lance Larson	United States	55.7
2	Aubrey Bürer	South Africa	56.3
3	Katsuki Ishihara	Japan	57.5
4	Bernard Aluchna	Poland	57.9
5	Paul Voell	Germany	58.0
6	William O'Donnell	Great Britain	59.2
7	Gojko Arneri	Yugoslavia	1:00.5
8	Itzhak Luria	Israel	1:00.9

Semifinals

Three heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. The athletes that advanced are highlighted. The semifinals were held on August 26.

Semifinal One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Lance Larson	United States	55.5
2	Bruce Hunter	United States	55.7
3	Aubrey Bürer	South Africa	56.5
4	Keigo Shimizu	Japan	57.1
5	Igor Luzhkovsky	Soviet Union	57.5
6	Cam Grout	Canada	58.0
7	Paul Voell	Germany	58.4
8	Alain Gottvallès	France	58.5

Semifinal Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	John Devitt	Australia	55.8
2	Dick Pound	Canada	56.5
3	Andrzej Salamon	Poland	56.9
4	Jon Henricks	Australia	57.2
5	Uwe Jacobsen	Germany	57.4
6	László Lantos	Hungary	58.0
7	Vitaly Sorokin	Soviet Union	58.7
8	Jorge Escalante	Mexico	59.0

Semifinal Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Manuel dos Santos Filho	Brazil	56.3
2	Gyula Dobay	Hungary	56.3
3	Per-Ola Lindberg	Sweden	56.4
4	Karri Käyhkö	Finland	56.6
5	Katsuki Ishihara	Japan	57.8
6	Bernard Aluchna	Poland	57.8
7	Ron Kroon	Netherlands	57.9
8	Ezio Della Savia	Italy	58.4

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	John Devitt	Australia	55.2	OR
	Lance Larson	United States	55.2	OR
	Manuel dos Santos	Brazil	55.4
4	Bruce Hunter	United States	55.6
5	Gyula Dobay	Hungary	56.3
6	Dick Pound	Canada	56.3
7	Aubrey Bürer	South Africa	56.3
8	Per-Ola Lindberg	Sweden	57.1

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

1. "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Retrieved 9 October 2016.