Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men
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The men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 30 July and 1 August, at the Swimming Stadium.^[1] This swimming event used the backstroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists[]

Gold	Yoshi Oyakawa  United States
Silver	Gilbert Bozon  France
Bronze	Jack Taylor  United States

Results[]

Heats[]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Gilbert Bozon	France	1:07.8
2	Allen Stack	United States	1:08.9
3	Bert Wardrop	Great Britain	1:09.9
4	Jitse van der Veen	Netherlands	1:10.5
5	Norihiko Kurahashi	Japan	1:10.7
6	Vladimir Lopatin	Soviet Union	1:10.8
7	Lucien Beaumont	Canada	1:14.2
8	Khamlillal Shah	India	1:18.3

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Pedro Galvão	Argentina	1:08.1
2	Yasumasa Nishino	Japan	1:10.1
3	Clemente Mejía	Mexico	1:10.7
4	Helmut Koppelstätter	Austria	1:11.9
5	Hermann Gericke	Switzerland	1:12.6
6	Jerzy Boniecki	Poland	1:13.4
7	Eurico Surgey	Portugal	1:13.7

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Jack Taylor	United States	1:07.2
2	Boris Škanata	Yugoslavia	1:07.5
3	João Gonçalves Filho	Brazil	1:09.7
4	Ladislav Bačík	Czechoslovakia	1:10.2
5	Imre Nyéki	Hungary	1:10.6
6	Peter Salmon	Canada	1:13.8
7	Tom Pettersen	Norway	1:15.4

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Yoshi Oyakawa	United States	1:06.0
2	Lin Meiring	South Africa	1:08.5
3	Fernando Pavan	Brazil	1:09.1
4	Jitse van der Veen	Netherlands	1:09.1
5	Bijoy Barman	India	1:27.3

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	John Brockway	Great Britain	1:08.8
2	Lucien Zins	France	1:09.7
3	Ilo da Fonseca	Brazil	1:09.9
4	Leonid Sagayduk	Soviet Union	1:11.4
5	Wu Chuanyu	China	1:12.3
6	Eduardo Barbeiro	Portugal	1:13.0

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Egidio Massaria	Italy	1:08.8
2	Viktor Solovyov	Soviet Union	1:09.5
3	Lincoln Hurring	New Zealand	1:09.6
4	László Gyöngyösi	Hungary	1:10.0
5	Frank O'Neill	Australia	1:10.5
6	Erkki Marttinen	Finland	1:15.2

Tie-breaker

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Note
1	Bert Wardrop	Great Britain	1:07.8
2	Ilo da Fonseca	Brazil	1:09.5

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Yoshi Oyakawa	United States	1:05.4	OR
	Gilbert Bozon	France	1:06.2
	Jack Taylor	United States	1:06.4
4	Allen Stack	United States	1:07.6
5	Pedro Galvão	Argentina	1:07.7
6	Bert Wardrop	Great Britain	1:07.8
7	Boris Škanata	Yugoslavia	1:08.1
8	Lin Meiring	South Africa	1:08.3

Key: OR = Olympic record

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