Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly

Men's 100 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Sydney International Aquatic Centre
Date	September 21, 2000 (heats & semifinals) September 22, 2000 (final)
Competitors	63 from 53 nations
Winning time	52.00 EU
Medalists
Lars Frölander   Sweden Michael Klim   Australia Geoff Huegill   Australia
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The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 21–22 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia. ^[1]

Competing at his third Games, Lars Frölander ended Sweden's 20-year drought to become an Olympic champion in the event, since Pär Arvidsson did so in 1980. Surprised by a massive home crowd, he overhauled Australia's top favorites Michael Klim and Geoff Huegill on the final 25 metres to snatch a gold medal in a new European record of 52.00. ^{[2] [3]} Klim added a silver to his two relay golds from the Games, in a time of 52.18, while Huegill took home the bronze in 52.22, handing an entire medal pool for the Aussies with an unexpected two–three finish. ^[4]

At 18 years of age, U.S. teenage swimmer Ian Crocker came up with a spectacular swim to earn a fourth spot in an American record of 52.44. ^[5] Meanwhile, Canada's Mike Mintenko shared a fifth-place tie with Japan's Takashi Yamamoto in a matching standard of 52.58. Germany's Thomas Rupprath and Russia's Anatoly Polyakov closed out the field with a joint seventh-place finish (53.13). ^[4]

Earlier in the semifinals, Huegill became the second fastest of all-time in swimming history to break a 52-second barrier, establishing a new Olympic record of 51.96. ^[6]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Michael Klim  (AUS)	51.81	Canberra, Australia	12 December 1999	[7]
Olympic record	Denis Pankratov  (RUS)	52.27	Atlanta, United States	24 July 1996	[7]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
21 September	Semifinal 1	Geoff Huegill	Australia	51.96	OR

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Michael Klim	Australia	52.73	Q
2	8	4	Geoff Huegill	Australia	52.79	Q
3	8	6	Mike Mintenko	Canada	52.90	Q, NR
4	6	6	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	52.91	Q
5	6	4	Lars Frölander	Sweden	53.14	Q
6	7	3	Zsolt Gáspár	Hungary	53.29	Q
7	6	2	Anatoly Polyakov	Russia	53.30	Q
8	7	6	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	53.34	Q
9	6	5	Ian Crocker	United States	53.45	Q
10	6	3	James Hickman	Great Britain	53.48	Q
11	8	3	Franck Esposito	France	53.54	Q
	8	5	Tommy Hannan	United States		Q
13	7	5	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	53.57	Q
14	6	7	Joris Keizer	Netherlands	53.66	Q
15	7	8	Jere Hård	Finland	53.67	Q
16	5	5	Stefan Aartsen	Netherlands	53.81	Q
17	7	1	Andriy Serdinov	Ukraine	53.90
18	5	6	Theo Verster	South Africa	53.95
19	6	1	Igor Marchenko	Russia	53.98
20	5	4	Ouyang Kunpeng	China	54.12
21	7	7	Ioan Gherghel	Romania	54.13
22	7	2	Shamek Pietucha	Canada	54.14
23	6	8	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	54.15
	8	1	Daniel Carlsson	Sweden
25	8	8	Tero Välimaa	Finland	54.24
26	5	2	Marcin Kaczmarek	Poland	54.32
27	5	7	Jan Vítazka	Czech Republic	54.34
28	5	8	Pablo Martín Abal	Argentina	54.45
29	8	2	Francisco Sánchez	Venezuela	54.56
30	4	4	Simão Morgado	Portugal	54.75
31	4	2	Philippe Meyer	Switzerland	54.85	NR
32	4	6	Andrew Livingston	Puerto Rico	55.03
33	5	1	Joshua Ilika Brenner	Mexico	55.07
34	3	4	Ravil Nachaev	Uzbekistan	55.21
35	3	5	Konstantin Ushkov	Kyrgyzstan	55.25
36	1	5	Anthony Ang	Malaysia	55.26	NR
37	4	7	Yoav Meiri	Israel	55.38
38	3	7	Simeon Makedonski	Bulgaria	55.49
39	2	4	Janko Gojković	Bosnia and Herzegovina	55.55	NR
	5	3	Oswaldo Quevedo	Venezuela
41	2	3	Aleksandar Miladinovski	Macedonia	55.62
42	4	1	Dennis Otzen Jensen	Denmark	55.70
43	4	3	Yohan García	Cuba	55.74
44	2	6	Mehdi Addadi	Algeria	56.04
45	2	7	Daniel O'Keeffe	Guam	56.05	NR
46	2	8	Roberto Delgado	Ecuador	56.07
47	3	6	Luc Decker	Luxembourg	56.10
48	2	5	Ríkardur Ríkardsson	Iceland	56.11	NR
49	1	4	Andrey Gavrilov	Kazakhstan	56.14
50	4	8	Ivan Mladina	Croatia	56.17
51	1	3	Ioannis Drymonakos	Greece	56.36
52	3	2	Tseng Cheng-hua	Chinese Taipei	56.39
53	3	3	Haitham Hassan	Egypt	56.42
54	2	2	Stephen Fahy	Bermuda	56.46
55	3	8	Albert Christiadi Sutanto	Indonesia	56.50
56	1	6	Artūrs Jakovļevs	Latvia	56.63
57	2	1	Nicholas Rees	Bahamas	57.23
58	1	2	Conrad Francis	Sri Lanka	57.44
59	3	1	Dumitru Zastoico	Moldova	58.55
60	1	1	Kim Jin-woo	Kenya	59.55
61	1	7	Kamal Salman Masud	Pakistan	1:00.60
	4	5	Milorad Čavić	FR Yugoslavia	DSQ
	8	7	Christian Keller	Germany	DNS

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Geoff Huegill	Australia	51.96	Q, OR
2	5	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan	53.10	Q
3	1	Joris Keizer	Netherlands	53.33	NR
4	3	Zsolt Gáspár	Hungary	53.45
5	6	Denys Sylantyev	Ukraine	53.51
6	2	James Hickman	Great Britain	53.55
7	7	Tommy Hannan	United States	53.59
8	8	Stefan Aartsen	Netherlands	53.81

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Michael Klim	Australia	52.63	Q
2	2	Ian Crocker	United States	52.82	Q
3	3	Lars Frölander	Sweden	52.84	Q
4	5	Mike Mintenko	Canada	53.00	Q
5	1	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	53.18	Q
6	6	Anatoly Polyakov	Russia	53.32	Q
7	7	Franck Esposito	France	53.38
8	8	Jere Hård	Finland	53.65

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Lars Frölander	Sweden	52.00	EU
	5	Michael Klim	Australia	52.18
	4	Geoff Huegill	Australia	52.22
4	3	Ian Crocker	United States	52.44	AM
5	2	Mike Mintenko	Canada	52.58	NR
	7	Takashi Yamamoto	Japan		AS
7	1	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	53.13
	8	Anatoly Polyakov	Russia

References

1. "Swimming schedule". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 September 2000. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
2. Lonsbrough, Anita (23 September 2000). "Swimming: Frolander steals spotlight from Australian pair". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 6 June 2013.
3. "Swede stuns Aussie butterfly stars". BBC Sport. 22 September 2000. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
4. Whitten, Phillip (22 September 2000). "Olympic Day 7 Finals (50 Free, 800 Free, 200 Back, 100 Fly)". Swimming World Magazine . Retrieved 13 May 2013.
5. Staff (23 September 2000). "Bennett Doubles in the Distances". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 6 June 2013.
6. Whitten, Phillip (21 September 2000). "Olympic Day 6 Finals". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
7. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 100m Butterfly Heats" (PDF). Sydney 2000 . LA84 Foundation. pp. 210–212. Retrieved 6 June 2013.

External links

• Official Olympic Report