Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly

The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 2–3 August at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom.[1]

Men's 100 metre butterfly
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueLondon Aquatics Centre
DatesAugust 2, 2012 (heats &
semifinals)
August 3, 2012 (final)
Competitors43 from 35 nations
Winning time51.21
Medalists
Michael Phelps  United States
Chad le Clos  South Africa
Yevgeny Korotyshkin  Russia

As the most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps continued to ramp up his already astonishing resume with an unprecedented second Olympic three-peat and another title defense. Rallying from seventh at the halfway turn, he produced a remarkable swim over the rest of the field to claim his seventeenth gold and twenty-first career medal in 51.21.[2][3] Trailing behind Phelps by 0.23 seconds, South Africa's Chad le Clos and Russia's Yevgeny Korotyshkin tied for the silver in a matching time of 51.44.[4][5]

Leading early at the turn, Serbia's Milorad Čavić, who famously lost to Phelps in Beijing four years earlier by a fingertip, faded down the stretch to match Germany's Steffen Deibler with a fourth-place time in 51.81.[6] Netherlands' Joeri Verlinden (51.82), U.S. swimmer Tyler McGill (51.88), and Poland's Konrad Czerniak (52.05) also vied for an Olympic medal to round out a historic finish.[5]

Austria's Dinko Jukic (51.99), fourth-place finalist in the 200 m butterfly few days earlier; and Kenya's Jason Dunford (52.16), fifth in Beijing, missed the final roster after placing ninth and sixteenth respectively in the semifinals.[7] Other notable swimmers featured Japan's Takeshi Matsuda, who elected not to do a swimoff with Germany's Benjamin Starke (a matching time of 52.36) on the morning prelims; his teammate Takuro Fujii (52.49) and Papua New Guinea's Ryan Pini (52.68), both of whom finished sixth and eighth in Beijing; and Sweden's 2000 champion Lars Frölander, who posted a twentieth-place time of 52.47 in his sixth Olympics.[8][9]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were:

World record Michael Phelps (USA)49.82Rome, Italy1 August 2009[10][11]
Olympic record Michael Phelps (USA)50.58Beijing, China16 August 2008[12]

Results

Heats

[13]

Start of the men's 100m Butterfly heat 6
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
157Chad le Clos South Africa51.54Q, NR
264Michael Phelps United States51.72Q
343Yevgeny Korotyshkin Russia51.84Q
454Konrad Czerniak Poland51.85Q
565Milorad Čavić Serbia51.90Q
656Steffen Deibler Germany51.92Q
744Tyler McGill United States51.95Q
847Zhou Jiawei China52.03Q
966Joeri Verlinden Netherlands52.07Q
1063Chris Wright Australia52.11Q
1162Nikolay Skvortsov Russia52.12Q
1236Bence Pulai Hungary52.19Q
1361François Heersbrandt Belgium52.22Q, NR
37Dinko Jukic AustriaQ
1555Jason Dunford Kenya52.23Q
1645Benjamin Starke Germany52.36Q
68Takeshi Matsuda Japan
1851Ivan Lenđer Serbia52.40
1935Peter Mankoč Slovenia52.44
2041Lars Frölander Sweden52.47
2153Takuro Fujii Japan52.49
2248Matteo Rivolta Italy52.50
2352Jayden Hadler Australia52.52
2446Michael Rock Great Britain52.56
2532Ryan Pini Papua New Guinea52.68
2634Chang Gyu-cheol South Korea52.69
2731Joe Bartoch Canada53.09
2842Kaio de Almeida Brazil53.14
2958Albert Subirats Venezuela53.18
3033Clément Lefert France53.22
3138Simão Morgado Portugal53.23
3267Antony James Great Britain53.25
3327Dominik Meichtry Switzerland53.40NR
3424Pavel Sankovich Belarus53.47
3525Joseph Schooling Singapore53.61
3623Benjamin Hockin Paraguay53.65
3721Daniel Bell New Zealand53.76
3828Yevgeniy Lazuka Azerbaijan53.86
3926Vytautas Janušaitis Lithuania54.17
4022Stefanos Dimitriadis Greece54.20
4113Sofyan El Gadi Libya56.99
4214Mohanad Ahmed Dheyaa Al-Azzawi Iraq1:00.71
4315Khalid Alibaba Bahrain1:04.05

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Michael Phelps United States50.86Q
23Steffen Deibler Germany51.76Q
35Konrad Czerniak Poland51.78Q
42Chris Wright Australia52.11
56Zhou Jiawei China52.30
67Bence Pulai Hungary52.40
8Benjamin Starke Germany
81François Heersbrandt Belgium52.71

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14Chad le Clos South Africa51.42Q, NR
26Tyler McGill United States51.61Q
33Milorad Čavić Serbia51.66Q
42Joeri Verlinden Netherlands51.75Q, NR
55Yevgeny Korotyshkin Russia51.85Q
61Dinko Jukić Austria51.99NR
77Nikolay Skvortsov Russia52.03
88Jason Dunford Kenya52.16

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Michael Phelps United States51.21
5Chad le Clos South Africa51.44
8Yevgeny Korotyshkin Russia
46Milorad Čavić Serbia51.81
7Steffen Deibler Germany
62Joeri Verlinden Netherlands51.82
73Tyler McGill United States51.88
81Konrad Czerniak Poland52.05

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