1924 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 100m Freestyle (Men)

sport	swim
discipline	100 m freestyle
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Piscine des Tourelles
Competition phase	July 19-20, 1924
Winning time	59.0 s
Medalist  Johnny Weissmüller ( USA )  Duke Kahanamoku ( USA )  Samuel Kahanamoku ( USA )

Swimming competitions at the 1924 Olympics
100 m freestyle	Men	Women
400 m freestyle	Men	Women
1500 m freestyle	Men
100 m back	Men	Women
200 m chest	Men	Women
4 × 100 m freestyle		Women
4 × 200 m freestyle	Men

The men's 100 meter freestyle swimming competition at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was held from July 19-20. All of the medalists were from the United States.

Records

Before the start of the Olympic Games, the following records were valid.

World record	57.4 s	Johnny Weissmüller	Miami , United States	February 17, 1924
Olympic record	1: 00.4 min	Duke Kahanamoku	Antwerp , Belgium	August 24, 1920

The following new records were set:

Olympic record	59.0 s	Johnny Weissmüller	final

Results

Quarter finals

The first two athletes of each run as well as the fastest athlete of all runs qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Orvar trolls	Sweden	1: 04.2 min	Q
2	Duke Kahanamoku	United States	1: 04.2 min	Q
3	Kazuo Onoda	Japan	1: 05.4 min
4th	Charles Baillie	Great Britain	1: 08.2 min
5	Vlado Smokvina	Yugoslavia	1: 11.6 min

Run 2

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Samuel Kahanamoku	United States	1: 03.2 min	Q
2	Ernest Henry	Australia	1: 03.8 min	Q
3	Torahiko Miyahata	Japan	1: 04.2 min	q
4th	Henri Padou	France	1: 05.0 min
5	Albert Dickin	Great Britain	1: 06.0 min
6th	Stanislav Bičák	Czechoslovakia	1: 10.2 min

Run 3

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Clayton Bourne	Canada	1: 06.2 min	Q
2	Alberto Zorrilla	Argentina	1: 08.2 min	Q
3	Viktor Legat	Czechoslovakia	1: 13.2 min
4th	Charles Kopp	Switzerland	1: 15.0 min

Run 4

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Katsuo Takaishi	Japan	1: 04.0 min	Q
2	Ivan Stedman	Australia	1: 06.0 min	Q
3	Georg Werner	Sweden	1: 07.0 min
4th	Emil Zeibig	France	1: 08.0 min
5	Gé Dekker	Netherlands	1: 11.8 min

Run 5

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Johnny Weissmüller	United States	1: 03.8 min	Q
2	Alfred Pycock	Great Britain	1: 05.2 min	Q
3	Édouard Vanzeveren	France	1: 06.8 min
4th	Moss Christie	Australia	1: 07.2 min
5	José Manuel Pinillo	Spain	1: 14.2 min

Run 6

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Arne Borg	Sweden	1: 05.4 min	Q
2	István Bárány	Hungary	1: 08.4 min	Q
3	Július Balász	Czechoslovakia	1: 11.8 min
4th	Dionysios Vasilopoulos	Greece	1: 12.0 min
5	Pieter Jacobszoon	Netherlands	1: 12.2 min

Semifinals

The first two athletes of each run and the fastest third qualified for the final.

Semi-final 1

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Duke Kahanamoku	United States	1: 01.6 min	Q
2	Samuel Kahanamoku	United States	1: 02.2 min	Q
3	Katsuo Takaishi	Japan	1: 02.4 min	q
4th	Orvar trolls	Sweden	1: 02.6 min
5	Clayton Bourne	Canada	1: 06.0 min
6th	István Bárány	Hungary	1: 08.0 min
-	Torahiko Miyahata	Japan	DNS

Semi-final 2

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Johnny Weissmuller	United States	1: 00.8 min	Q
2	Arne Borg	Sweden	1: 02.6 min	Q
3	Ernest Henry	Australia	1: 03.0 min
4th	Alfred Pycock	Great Britain	1: 05.0 min
5	Ivan Stedman	Australia	1: 06.0 min
6th	Alberto Zorrilla	Argentina	1: 07.6 min

final

rank	athlete	nation	time	Note
1	Johnny Weissmüller	United States	59.0 s	OR
2	Duke Kahanamoku	United States	1: 01.4 min
3	Samuel Kahanamoku	United States	1: 01.8 min
4th	Arne Borg	Sweden	1: 02.0 min
5	Katsuo Takaishi	Japan	1: 03.0 min

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