1992 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 100m Freestyle (Men)

sport	swim
discipline	100 m freestyle
gender	Men
Attendees	77 athletes from 57 countries
Competition location	Piscines Bernat Picornell
Competition phase	July 28, 1992
Winning time	49.02 s
Medalist  Alexander Popow ( EUN )  Gustavo Borges ( BRA )  Stéphan Caron ( FRA )

Swimming competitions at the 1992 Olympic Games
50 m freestyle	Men	Women
100 m freestyle	Men	Women
200 m freestyle	Men	Women
400 m freestyle	Men	Women
800 m freestyle		Women
1500 m freestyle	Men
100 m back	Men	Women
200 m back	Men	Women
100 m chest	Men	Women
200 m chest	Men	Women
100 m butterfly	Men	Women
200 m butterfly	Men	Women
200 m layers	Men	Women
400 m layers	Men	Women
4 × 100 m freestyle	Men	Women
4 × 200 m freestyle	Men
4 × 100 m layers	Men	Women

The men's 100 meter freestyle swimming competition at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on July 28th. The Russian Alexander Popov , who competed for the United Team , became Olympic champion. Silver went to the Brazilian Gustavo Borges and bronze, like in the previous games, went to Stéphan Caron from France.

Records

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

World record	48.42 s	Matt Biondi	Austin , United States	August 10, 1988
Olympic record	48.63 s	Matt Biondi	Seoul , South Korea	September 22, 1988

No new world or Olympic records have been set.

Results

Prelims

The eight fastest swimmers of all runs qualified for the A final. Places 9 to 16 for the B final.

rank	Run	train	athlete	nation	Time (s)	Note
1	10	3	Alexander Popov	United team	49.29	Q
2	10	5	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	49.49	Q
3	8th	4th	Jon Olsen	United States	49.63	Q
4th	10	4th	Matt Biondi	United States	49.75	Q
5	9	4th	Stéphan Caron	France	49.82	Q
6th	8th	6th	Tommy Werner	Sweden	50.00	Q
	10	2	Gennady Prigoda	United team		Q
8th	9	7th	Christian Tröger	Germany	50.05	Q
9	9	3	Raimundas Mažuolis	Lithuania	50.17	q
10	8th	3	Chris Fydler	Australia	50.26	q
11	9	5	Nils Rudolph	Germany	50.29	q
12	9	6th	Christophe Kalfayan	France	50.30	q
13	7th	3	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	50.31	q
14th	10	1	John Steel	New Zealand	50.59	q
	10	7th	Andrew Baildon	Australia		q
16	8th	5	Giorgio Lamberti	Italy	50.65	q, WD
17th	10	6th	Roberto Gleria	Italy	50.66	q
18th	8th	2	Håkan Karlsson	Sweden	50.73
	8th	8th	Stephen Clarke	Canada
20th	8th	1	Béla Szabados	Hungary	50.78
21st	9	2	Mike Fibbens	Great Britain	50.93
22nd	7th	4th	Rodrigo González	Mexico	51.04
23	6th	1	Stéfan Voléry	Switzerland	51.05
24	10	8th	Paul Howe	Great Britain	51.12
25th	9	1	Emanuel Nascimento	Brazil	51.17
26th	9	8th	Franz Mortensen	Denmark	51.29
27	8th	7th	Ugur Taner	Turkey	51.34
28	7th	5	Jarl Inge Melberg	Norway	51.39
29	7th	6th	Seddon Keyter	South Africa	51.42
30th	1	2	Mladen Kapor	Independent Olympian	51.44
31	7th	1	Yoav Bruck	Israel	51.46
32	6th	6th	Indrek Sei	Estonia	51.47
	7th	2	Yves Clausse	Luxembourg
34	7th	8th	Tsutomu Nakano	Japan	51.63
35	6th	5	Krzysztof Cwalina	Poland	51.70
36	6th	7th	Nicholas Sanders	New Zealand	51.77
37	6th	2	Giovanni Linscheer	Suriname	51.82
38	5	7th	Janne Blomqvist	Finland	51.86
39	6th	8th	Michael Wright	Hong Kong	51.88
40	6th	4th	Xie Jun	China	51.94
41	6th	3	Darren Ward	Canada	52.05
42	5	4th	Arthur Li Kai Yien	Hong Kong	52.22
43	5	1	Allan Murray	Bahamas	52.43
44	5	2	Stavros Michaelides	Cyprus	52.54
45	4th	8th	Shigeo Ogata	Japan	52.74
46	5	5	Ivor Le Roux	Zimbabwe	52.92
47	4th	6th	Enrico Linscheer	Suriname	52.94
48	5	6th	Marc Verbeeck	Belgium	52.97
49	5	3	Sebastián Lasave	Argentina	53.07
50	4th	5	Geribryan Mewett	Bermuda	53.14
51	3	4th	Ian Steed Raynor	Bermuda	53.16
52	4th	4th	Mohamed El-Azoul	Egypt	53.31
53	4th	3	Nikos Paleokrassas	Greece	53.47
54	3	5	Rhoderick McGown	Zimbabwe	53.65
55	5	8th	Patrick Sagisi	Guam	53.90
56	4th	1	Kenneth Yeo	Singapore	54.44
57	3	3	Plutarco Castellanos	Honduras	54.66
58	3	7th	Gustavo Bucaro	Guatemala	54.74
59	2	6th	Adrian Romero	Guam	54.77
60	3	6th	Laurent Alfred	American Virgin Islands	54.89
61	3	1	Helder Torres	Guatemala	55.38
62	4th	7th	Frank Leskaj	Albania	55.50
63	2	4th	Émile Lahoud	Lebanon	55.51
64	1	1	Mouhamed Diop	Senegal	55.82
65	2	3	Hussein Al-Sadiq	Saudi Arabia	55.96
66	2	2	Ahmad Faraj	United Arab Emirates	56.05
67	2	5	Ivan Roberts	Seychelles	56.15
68	1	7th	Bruno N'Diaye	Senegal	56.39
69	3	2	Jarrah Al-Asmawi	Kuwait	56.72
70	2	1	Mohamed Bin Abid	United Arab Emirates	56.82
71	2	7th	Carl Probert	Fiji	57.25
72	1	4th	Kenny Roberts	Seychelles	58.86
73	1	5	Foy Gordon Chung	Fiji	1: 03.96
74	1	3	Ahmed Imthiyaz	Maldives	1: 04.96
75	1	6th	Mohamed Rasheed	Maldives	1: 08.12
	4th	2	Nayef Al-Hasawi	Kuwait	DNS
	7th	7th	Peter Williams	South Africa	DNS

B final

rank	train	athlete	nation	Time (s)	Note
9	2	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	49.92	NO
10	4th	Raimundas Mažuolis	Lithuania	50.13
11	6th	Christophe Kalfayan	France	50.49
12	3	Nils Rudolph	Germany	50.62
13	7th	John Steel	New Zealand	50.69
14th	5	Chris Fydler	Australia	50.78
15th	8th	Roberto Gleria	Italy	50.81
16	1	Andrew Baildon	Australia	50.93

A final

rank	train	athlete	nation	Time (s)	Note
1	4th	Alexander Popov	United team	49.02	NO
2	5	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	49.43	CR
3	2	Stéphan Caron	France	49.50
4th	3	Jon Olsen	United States	49.51
5	6th	Matt Biondi	United States	49.53
6th	1	Tommy Werner	Sweden	49.63
7th	8th	Christian Tröger	Germany	49.84
8th	7th	Gennady Prigoda	United team	50.25

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