Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m		women
200 m	men
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Individual medley
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between October 11 and 12. In freestyle swimming, the stroke used is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Don Schollander United States
Silver	Bobby McGregor Great Britain
Bronze	Hans-Joachim Klein United Team of Germany

Results

Heats

Nine heats were held; the fastest 24 swimmers advanced to the Semifinals. Those that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gary Ilman	United States	54.0
2	Gérard Gropaiz	France	55.8
3	Athos de Oliveira	Brazil	56.0
4	Vinus van Baalen	Netherlands	56.8
5	Bruno Bianchi	Italy	56.8
6	Ralph Hutton	Canada	57.7
7	Kim Bong-Jo	South Korea	1:01.2

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Mike Austin	United States	54.9
2	David Dickson	Australia	55.1
3	Jean-Pascal Curtillet	France	56.2
4	Matti Kasvio	Finland	56.3
5	Álvaro Pires	Brazil	56.8
6	Téodoro Capriles	Venezuela	57.2
7	Tan Thuan Heng	Malaysia	58.7

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Per-Ola Lindberg	Sweden	55.1
2	Tadaharu Goto	Japan	55.8
3	Pietro Boscaini	Italy	55.8
4	Luis Nicolao	Argentina	56.1
5	José Miguel Espinosa	Spain	57.4
6	Herlander Ribeiro	Portugal	59.0
7	Somchai Limpichati	Thailand	59.8

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Hans-Joachim Klein	Germany	55.3
2	Peter Phelps	Australia	56.1
3	Lester Eriksson	Sweden	56.2
4	Yury Sumtsov	Soviet Union	56.3
5	François Simons	Belgium	56.8
6	Carlos van der Maath	Argentina	57.5
7	Nguyễn Ðình Lê	South Vietnam	1:01.1

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Don Schollander	United States	54.3
2	Yukiaki Okabe	Japan	54.4
3	Uwe Jacobsen	Germany	55.6
4	Petr Lohnický	Czechoslovakia	56.4
5	Gerhard Wieland	Austria	56.8
6	Antonio Pérez	Spain	57.8
7	Mauri Fonseca	Brazil	59.6

Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Daniel Sherry	Canada	55.2
2	Alain Gottvallès	France	55.2
3	John Ryan	Australia	55.5
4	Horst Löffler	Germany	55.6
5	Vladimir Shuvalov	Soviet Union	55.9
6	Georges Welbes	Luxembourg	58.6
7	Hannu Vaahtoranta	Finland	58.7
8	Gudmunður Gíslason	Iceland	59.0

Heat Seven

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Tatsuo Fujimoto	Japan	55.8
2	Gyula Dobay	Hungary	55.8
3	Sandy Gilchrist	Canada	55.8
4	Gert Kölli	Austria	56.5
5	David Haller	Great Britain	57.7
6	Bert Sitters	Netherlands	58.1
7	Luis Paz	Peru	58.5
8	Robert Loh	Hong Kong	1:00.4

Heat Eight

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jindřich Vágner	Czechoslovakia	55.5
2	Ron Kroon	Netherlands	55.5
3	Bob Lord	Great Britain	55.7
4	József Gulrich	Hungary	56.3
5	Tuomo Hämäläinen	Finland	57.6
6	Salvador Ruíz	Mexico	58.8
7	Pano Capéronis	Switzerland	58.9

Heat Nine

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bobby McGregor	Great Britain	54.7
2	Bengt Nordwall	Sweden	55.6
3	Viktor Semchenkov	Soviet Union	56.2
4	Antal Száll	Hungary	56.8
5	Sergio De Gregorio	Italy	56.8
6	Phan Hữu Dong	South Vietnam	1:01.1
7	Celestino Pérez	Puerto Rico	1:01.3
8	Haydar Shonjani	Iran	1:02.1

Semifinals

Three heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. The swimmers that advanced are highlighted.

Semifinal One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Gary Ilman	United States	53.9
2	Mike Austin	United States	54.3
3	Yukiaki Okabe	Japan	55.2
4	Daniel Sherry	Canada	55.5
5	Tadaharu Goto	Japan	55.6
6	Ron Kroon	Netherlands	55.7
7	Horst Löffler	Germany	56.0
8	Pietro Boscaini	Italy	56.1

Semifinal Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Don Schollander	United States	54.0
2	Alain Gottvallès	France	54.3
3	Uwe Jacobsen	Germany	54.8
4	Per-Ola Lindberg	Sweden	55.1
5	Jindřich Vágner	Czechoslovakia	55.5
6	Gérard Gropaiz	France	55.7
7	Sandy Gilchrist	Canada	56.4
8	Bob Lord	Great Britain	56.5

Semifinal Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Bobby McGregor	Great Britain	54.3
2	Hans-Joachim Klein	Germany	54.4
3	Gyula Dobay	Hungary	54.8
4	David Dickson	Australia	54.9
5	Vladimir Shuvalov	Soviet Union	55.8
6	Tatsuo Fujimoto	Japan	55.8
7	Bengt Nordwall	Sweden	56.4
8	John Ryan	Australia	56.5

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Don Schollander	United States	53.4	OR
	Bobby McGregor	Great Britain	53.5
	Hans-Joachim Klein	Germany	54.0
4	Gary Ilman	United States	54.0
5	Alain Gottvallès	France	54.2
6	Mike Austin	United States	54.5
7	Gyula Dobay	Hungary	54.9
8	Uwe Jacobsen	Germany	56.1