Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 100 m chest (men)

sport	swim
discipline	100 meters chest
gender	Men
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	44 athletes from 36 countries
Competition phase	28/29 July 2012

The competition over 100m breaststroke men at the 2012 Olympics in London was on 28 and 29 July 2012 at the London Aquatics Center held. 44 athletes took part.

There were six preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals that were held on the same day. Here too, the finalists qualified by setting the eight fastest times in both semi-finals.

Abbreviations: WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record, PB = personal best, JWB = annual world record

Existing records

World record	Brenton Rickard ( Australia )	58.58 s	Rome , Italy	July 27, 2009
Olympic record	Kōsuke Kitajima ( Japan )	58.91 s	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 11, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Kōsuke Kitajima ( Japan )	58.91 s	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Alexander Dale Oen ( Norway )	58.71 s	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Fabio Scozzoli ( Italy )	1: 00.55 min	Debrecen 2012
German champions	Christian vom Lehn	1: 00.89 min	Berlin 2012

leader

Forward 1

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Amini Fonua	Tonga	1: 03.65 min
2	Mubarak Al-Besher	United Arab Emirates	1: 05.26 min
3	Diguan Pigot	Suriname	1: 05.55 min
4th	Wael Koubrousli	Lebanon	1: 07.06 min

Forward 2

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	1: 01.46 min
2	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	1: 01.95 min
3	Vladislav Polyakov	Kazakhstan	1: 02.15 min
4th	Edgar Crespo	Panama	1: 02.18 min
5	Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson	Iceland	1: 02.65 min
6th	Malick case	Senegal	1: 02.93 min
7th	Azad Al-Barazi	Syria	1: 03.48 min	NO
8th	Dănilă Artiomow	Moldova	1: 03.57 min

Forward 3

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Giacomo Perez-Dortona	France	1: 00.59 min
2	Panagiotis Samilidis	Greece	1: 01.20 min
3	Carlos Almeida	Portugal	1: 1.40 min
4th	Li Xiayan	People's Republic of China	1: 01.55 min
5	Martin Liivamägi	Finland	1: 01.57 min
6th	Dawid Szulich	Poland	1: 02.07 min
6th	Imri Ganiel	Israel	1: 02.07 min
8th	Dragoș Agache	Romania	1: 02.93 min

Forward 4

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	59.76 s	NO
2	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	59.79 s
3	Brendan Hansen	United States	59.93 s
4th	Craig Benson	United Kingdom	1: 00.04 min
5	Brenton Rickard	Australia	1: 00.07 min
6th	Lennart Stekelenburg	Netherlands	1: 00.96 min
7th	Valery Dymo	Ukraine	1: 01.27 min
8th	Barry Murphy	Ireland	1: 01.57 min

Forward 5

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	59.78 s	NO
2	Scott Dickens	Canada	59.85 s	NO
3	Michael Jamieson	United Kingdom	59.89 s
4th	Eric Shanteau	United States	59.96 s
5	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	59.99 s
6th	Felipe França Silva	Brazil	1: 00.38 min
7th	Damir Dugonjič	Slovenia	1: 00.77 min
8th	Mattia Pesce	Italy	1: 01.27 min

Forward 6

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Christian Sprenger	Australia	59.62 s
2	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	59.63 s
3	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	59.68 s
4th	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	59.86 s
5	Felipe Lima	Brazil	1: 00.57 min
6th	Christian vom Lehn	Germany	1: 00.78 min
7th	Hendrik Feldwehr	Germany	1: 01.00 min
8th	Roman Sludnow	Russia	1: 01.47 min

Semifinals

Run 1

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	58.83 s	OR
2	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	59.44 s
3	Brenton Rickard	Australia	59.50 s
4th	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	59.69 s
5	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	59.74 s	NO
6th	Brendan Hansen	United States	59.78 s
7th	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	59.93 s
8th	Felipe Lima	Brazil	1: 00.08 min

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Run 2

July 28, 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Christian Sprenger	Australia	59.61 s
2	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	59.66 s
3	Michael Jamieson	United Kingdom	59.89 s
4th	Eric Shanteau	United States	59.96 s
5	Felipe França Silva	Brazil	1: 00.01 min
6th	Craig Benson	United Kingdom	1: 00.13 min
7th	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	1: 00.15 min
8th	Scott Dickens	Canada	1: 00.16 min

final

July 29, 2012, 8:11 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	58.46 s	WR , OR
2	Christian Sprenger	Australia	58.93 s
3	Brendan Hansen	United States	59.49 s
4th	Daniel Gyurta	Hungary	59.53 s	NO
5	Kosuke Kitajima	Japan	59.79 s
6th	Brenton Rickard	Australia	59.87 s
7th	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	59.97 s
8th	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	1: 00.84 min

For the first time, seven of the eight finalists finished under a minute.
While Olympic champion van der Burgh improved two records (Olympic record in the semifinals, Olympic and world record in the final), the Hungarian Gyurta, who finished fourth, was able to improve the Hungarian record three times in this competition.
After viewing footage of the race, it was suspected that the winner van der Burgh made three dolphin legs after the turn. Only one leg kick is allowed. However, since no underwater camera was installed, the judges had no means of disqualification. Van der Burgh admitted in an interview with the Australian daily Sydney Morning Herald that he had used these illicit leg blows.

Web links

• Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 100 m chest in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report in USA Today from August 8, 2012 (Eng.)