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

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

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 recordFlag of the United States.svg  Michael Phelps  (USA)49.82 Rome, Italy 1 August 2009 [10] [11]
Olympic recordFlag of the United States.svg  Michael Phelps  (USA)50.58 Beijing, China 16 August 2008 [12]

Results

Heats

[13]

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Start of the men's 100m Butterfly heat 6
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
157 Chad le Clos Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 51.54Q, NR
264 Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States 51.72Q
343 Yevgeny Korotyshkin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 51.84Q
454 Konrad Czerniak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 51.85Q
565 Milorad Čavić Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 51.90Q
656 Steffen Deibler Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 51.92Q
744 Tyler McGill Flag of the United States.svg  United States 51.95Q
847 Zhou Jiawei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 52.03Q
966 Joeri Verlinden Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 52.07Q
1063 Chris Wright Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 52.11Q
1162 Nikolay Skvortsov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 52.12Q
1236 Bence Pulai Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 52.19Q
1361 François Heersbrandt Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 52.22Q, NR
37 Dinko Jukic Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Q
1555 Jason Dunford Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 52.23Q
1645 Benjamin Starke Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 52.36Q
68 Takeshi Matsuda Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
1851 Ivan Lenđer Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 52.40
1935 Peter Mankoč Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 52.44
2041 Lars Frölander Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 52.47
2153 Takuro Fujii Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 52.49
2248 Matteo Rivolta Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 52.50
2352 Jayden Hadler Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 52.52
2446 Michael Rock Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 52.56
2532 Ryan Pini Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 52.68
2634 Chang Gyu-cheol Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 52.69
2731 Joe Bartoch Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 53.09
2842 Kaio de Almeida Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 53.14
2958 Albert Subirats Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 53.18
3033 Clément Lefert Flag of France.svg  France 53.22
3138 Simão Morgado Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 53.23
3267 Antony James Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 53.25
3327 Dominik Meichtry Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 53.40 NR
3424 Pavel Sankovich Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 53.47
3525 Joseph Schooling Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 53.61
3623 Benjamin Hockin Flag of Paraguay (1990-2013).svg  Paraguay 53.65
3721 Daniel Bell Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 53.76
3828 Yevgeniy Lazuka Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 53.86
3926 Vytautas Janušaitis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 54.17
4022 Stefanos Dimitriadis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 54.20
4113 Sofyan El Gadi Flag of Libya.svg  Libya 56.99 NR
4214 Mohanad Ahmed Dheyaa Al-Azzawi Flag of Iraq.svg  Iraq 1:00.71
4315 Khalid Alibaba Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain 1:04.05

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States 50.86Q
23 Steffen Deibler Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 51.76Q
35 Konrad Czerniak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 51.78Q
42 Chris Wright Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 52.11
56 Zhou Jiawei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 52.30
67 Bence Pulai Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 52.40
8 Benjamin Starke Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
81 François Heersbrandt Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 52.71

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Chad le Clos Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 51.42Q, NR
26 Tyler McGill Flag of the United States.svg  United States 51.61Q
33 Milorad Čavić Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 51.66Q
42 Joeri Verlinden Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 51.75Q, NR
55 Yevgeny Korotyshkin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 51.85Q
61 Dinko Jukić Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 51.99 NR
77 Nikolay Skvortsov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 52.03
88 Jason Dunford Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 52.16

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Michael Phelps Flag of the United States.svg  United States 51.21
Silver medal icon.svg5 Chad le Clos Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 51.44
8 Yevgeny Korotyshkin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
46 Milorad Čavić Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 51.81
7 Steffen Deibler Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
62 Joeri Verlinden Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 51.82
73 Tyler McGill Flag of the United States.svg  United States 51.88
81 Konrad Czerniak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 52.05

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