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

sport	swim
discipline	100 meter butterfly
gender	Men
place	London Aquatics Center
Attendees	43 athletes from 35 countries
Competition phase	2nd / 3rd August 2012

The competition over 100m butterfly men at the 2012 Olympics in London was on 2 and 3 August 2012 at London Aquatics Center held. 43 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	Michael Phelps ( USA )	49.82 s	Rome , Italy	August 1, 2009
Olympic record		50.58 s	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 16, 2008

Title holder

Olympic champion	Michael Phelps ( USA )	50.58 s	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Michael Phelps ( USA )	50.71 s	Shanghai 2011
European champion	Milorad Čavić ( Serbia )	51.45 s	Debrecen 2012
German champions	Steffen Deibler	52.00 s	Berlin 2012

leader

Forward 1

2nd August 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sofyan El Gidi	Libya	56.99 s
2	Mohanad Al-Azzawi	Iraq	1: 00.71 min
3	Khalid Baba	Bahrain	1: 04.05 min

Forward 2

2nd August 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	53.40 s	NO
2	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	53.47 s
3	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	53.63 s
4th	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	53.65 s
5	Daniel Bell	New Zealand	53.76 s
6th	Yevgeny Lazuka	Azerbaijan	53.86 s
7th	Vytautas Janušaitis	Lithuania	54.17 s
8th	Stefanos Dimitriadis	Greece	54.20 s

Hockin, whose father is British, was a member of the British 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics .

Forward 3

2nd August 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bence Pulai	Hungary	52.19 s
2	Dinko Jukić	Austria	52.22 s
3	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	52.44 s
4th	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	52.68 s
5	Jang Gyu-cheol	South Korea	52.69 s
6th	Joe Bartoch	Canada	53.09 s
6th	Clement Lefert	France	53.22 s
8th	Simão Morgado	Portugal	53.26 s

Forward 4

2nd August 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Yevgeny Korotyshkin	Russia	51.84 s
2	Tyler McGill	United States	51.95 s
3	Zhou Jiawei	People's Republic of China	52.06 s
4th	Benjamin Strong	Germany	52.36 s
5	Lars Frölander	Sweden	52.47 s
6th	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	52.50 s
7th	Michael Rock	United Kingdom	52.56 s
8th	Kaio de Almeida	Brazil	53.14 s

Forward 5

2nd August 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Chad le Clos	South Africa	51.54 s	NO
2	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	51.85 s
3	Steffen Deibler	Germany	51.92 s
4th	Jason Dunford	Kenya	52.23 s
5	Ivan Lenđer	Serbia	52.40 s
6th	Takuro Fujii	Japan	52.49 s
7th	Jayden Hadler	Australia	52.52 s
8th	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	53.18 s

Forward 6

2nd August 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Phelps	United States	51.72 s
2	Milorad Čavić	Serbia	51.90 s
3	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	52.07 s
4th	Chris Wright	Australia	52.11 s
5	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	52.12 s
6th	François Heersbrandt	Belgium	52.22 s	NO
7th	Takeshi Matsuda	Japan	52.36 s
8th	Antony James	United Kingdom	53.25 s

Matsuda swam the same time as Benjamin Starke in the fourth heat. In the final accounts, this time was enough for the last participant place in the semi-finals. Matsuda refrained from stinging with Stark.

Semifinals

Run 1

2nd August 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Phelps	United States	50.86 s
2	Steffen Deibler	Germany	51.76 s
3	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	51.78 s
4th	Chris Wright	Australia	52.11 s
5	Zhou Jiawei	People's Republic of China	52.30 s
6th	Bence Pulai	Hungary	52.40 s
6th	Benjamin Strong	Germany	52.40 s
8th	François Heersbrandt	Belgium	52.71 s

Run 2

2nd August 2012

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Chad le Clos	South Africa	51.42 s	NO
2	Tyler McGill	United States	51.61 s
3	Milorad Čavić	Serbia	51.66 s
4th	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	51.75 s	NO
5	Yevgeny Korotyshkin	Russia	51.85 s
6th	Dinko Jukić	Austria	51.99 s	NO
7th	Nikolai Skvortsov	Russia	52.03 s
8th	Jason Dunford	Kenya	52.16 s

The South African le Clos managed to improve the South African record over this distance twice.

final

August 3, 2012, 7:38 p.m. CET

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Michael Phelps	United States	51.21 s
2	Chad le Clos	South Africa	51.44 s
	Yevgeny Korotyshkin	Russia
4th	Milorad Čavić	Serbia	51.81 s
	Steffen Deibler	Germany
6th	Joeri Verlinden	Netherlands	51.82 s
7th	Tyler McGill	United States	51.88 s
8th	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	52.05 s

The winner Phelps is Olympic champion over 100 meters butterfly for the third time in a row and the first man to have achieved this at the Olympic Games. For him it was the eleventh individual victory and the 17th gold medal overall.
There were two dead races on this track. Korotyshkin and le Clos struck at the same time, both got silver, the bronze medal was therefore dropped. Čavić and Deibler also hit behind at the same time, both were placed in fourth place.

Web links

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