Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships | ||||||||||
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Dates | September 4, 1973 | |||||||||
Competitors | 32 from 25 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 1:04.02 WR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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1973 FINA World Championships | ||
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Diving | ||
Individual | ||
3 m | men | women |
10 m | men | women |
Swimming | ||
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 |
Synchronised swimming | ||
Solo | women | |
Duet | women | |
Team | women | |
Water polo | ||
Tournament | men | |
The men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 4.
Records
[edit]Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
World record | Nobutaka Taguchi (JPN) | 1:04.94 | Munich, West Germany | 30 August 1972 |
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Competition record | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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4 September | Heat 1 | Rick Colella | United States | 1:06.72 | CR |
4 September | Heat 3 | Nikolai Pankin | Soviet Union | 1:06.10 | CR |
4 September | Heat 5 | John Hencken | United States | 1:04.35 | WR |
4 September | Final | John Hencken | United States | 1:04.02 | WR |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]32 swimmers participated in 5 heats. The eight fastest times qualified for the final.[1][2]
Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 5 | - | John Hencken | United States | 1:04.35 | Q, WR |
2 | 5 | - | Nobutaka Taguchi | Japan | 1:05.80 | Q |
3 | 3 | - | Nikolai Pankin | Soviet Union | 1:06.10 | Q, CR |
4 | 1 | - | Rick Colella | United States | 1:06.72 | Q, CR |
5 | 4 | - | Mikhail Khryukin | Soviet Union | 1:06.78 | Q |
6 | 2 | - | David Wilkie | Great Britain | 1:06.98 | Q |
7 | 3 | - | Jürgen Glas | East Germany | 1:07.32 | Q |
8 | 3 | - | Nigel Cluer | Papua New Guinea | 1:07.59 | Q |
9 | 4 | - | Michael Günther | West Germany | 1:07.77 | |
10 | 2 | - | Bernard Combet | France | 1:08.26 | |
11 | 4 | - | Felipe Muñoz | Mexico | 1:08.37 | |
12 | 1 | - | Peter Hrdlitschka | Canada | 1:08.62 | |
13 | 5 | - | Pedro Balcells | Spain | 1:08.88 | |
14 | 1 | - | Ove Wisloff | Norway | 1:09.49 | |
15 | 2 | - | Paweł Dyrek | Poland | 1:09.60 | |
16 | 5 | - | Sándor Szabó | Hungary | 1:09.63 | |
17 | 3 | - | Alfredo Hunger | Peru | 1:09.73 | |
18 | 5 | - | Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro | Brazil | 1:09.80 | |
19 | 3 | - | Michael Creswick | Australia | 1:09.81 | |
20 | 4 | - | Ulrich Nitzsche | East Germany | 1:09.87 | |
21 | 2 | - | Gustavo Lozano | Mexico | 1:09.92 | |
22 | 5 | - | Mel Zajac | Canada | 1:09.97 | |
23 | 3 | - | Zdravko Divjak | Yugoslavia | 1:10.15 | |
24 | 1 | - | Cezary Smiglak | Poland | 1:10.57 | |
25 | 3 | - | Giorgio Lalle | Italy | 1:10.97 | |
26 | 1 | - | Steffen Kriechbaum | Austria | 1:11.06 | |
27 | 4 | - | Angel Chakarov | Bulgaria | 1:11.29 | |
28 | 4 | - | Tuomo Kerola | Finland | 1:12.37 | |
29 | 2 | - | Carlos Nazario | Puerto Rico | 1:13.33 | |
30 | 4 | - | Faruk Morkal | Turkey | 1:14.03 | |
31 | 2 | - | Orlando Catinchi | Puerto Rico | 1:14.50 | |
32 | 1 | - | H. Ashfin | Iran | 1:16.20 |
Final
[edit]The results of the final are below.[3][4]
Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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- | John Hencken | United States | 1:04.02 | WR | |
- | Mikhail Khryukin | Soviet Union | 1:04.61 | ER | |
- | Nobutaka Taguchi | Japan | 1:05.61 | ||
4 | - | David Wilkie | Great Britain | 1:05.74 | CWR |
5 | - | Nikolai Pankin | Soviet Union | 1:06.55 | |
6 | - | Rick Colella | United States | 1:06.69 | |
7 | - | Jürgen Glas | East Germany | 1:07.41 | |
8 | - | Nigel Cluer | Papua New Guinea | 1:08.12 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Sporting Details". The Sydney Morning Herald. John Fairfax Holdings. September 5, 1973. p. 19.
- ^ "Official results". FINA.org. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Krastev, Todor. "Men 100m Breaststroke Swimming World Championship 1973 Belgrade (YUG)". todor66.com. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
- ^ Fox, Norman (September 5, 1973). "Matthes' brilliance eclipses even Hencken's world record". The Times. London. p. 9.
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