Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

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Men's 100 metre breaststroke
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Adam Peaty Olympics 100m breaststroke 2016.jpg
Peaty on his way to a gold-medal finish
Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates6 August 2016 (heats &
semifinals)
7 August 2016 (final)
Competitors46 from 38 nations
Winning time57.13 WR
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Adam Peaty Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Cameron van der Burgh Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Bronze medal icon.svg Cody Miller Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2012
2020  

The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 6–7 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium. [1]

The winning margin was 1.56 seconds which as of 2023 remains the only time this event for men was won by more than one second at the Olympics.

Summary

Great Britain's Adam Peaty defeated the field with a new world record to become the country's third gold medalist in this event, since Duncan Goodhew topped the podium in 1980 and Adrian Moorhouse in 1988. [2] [3] He jumped to an immediate lead, and never looked back, charging ahead of the field with his trademark high stroke rate to lower his own world record at 57.13. Peaty's time also gave him the largest margin of victory in the event's Olympic history, sparing 1.56 seconds over South Africa's defending champion Cameron van der Burgh, who won a silver in 58.69. [4] Meanwhile, U.S. swimmer Cody Miller overcame his rib condition to set a new American record of 58.87 for the bronze medal, edging out his teammate Kevin Cordes (59.22) to fourth by 0.35 of a second. [5] [6]

Backed by a raucous home crowd, Brazil's João Gomes Júnior managed to pull off a fifth-place finish in 59.31, almost a tenth-second margin ahead of Japan's Yasuhiro Koseki (59.37) and his countryman Felipe França Silva (59.38). Swimming on the outside lane, Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Balandin rounded out the final with an eighth-place time in 59.85. For the first time in Olympic history, all eight finalists finished the race in less than a minute. [6]

Earlier in the prelims, Peaty established a new world-record time in 57.55 to lead all swimmers for the top seed, not only clipping 0.37 seconds off his own standard one year earlier, but also erasing van der Burgh's 2012 Olympic record by almost a second. [7]

Notable swimmers missed the final roster, including Australia's Jake Packard, Peaty's teammate and 2015 world bronze medalist Ross Murdoch, Lithuania's Giedrius Titenis, and Hungary's Dániel Gyurta, who elected not to do the swimoff with New Zealand's Glenn Snyders (a matching 1:00.26) on the morning prelims. [7]

The medals for the competition were presented by Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Kuwait, IOC member, and the gifts were presented by Mr. Andrey Kryukov, Bureau Member of the FINA.

Records

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

World recordFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Adam Peaty  (GBR)57.92 London, United Kingdom 17 April 2015 [8]
Olympic recordFlag of South Africa.svg  Cameron van der Burgh  (RSA)58.46 London, United Kingdom 29 July 2012 [9]

The following records were established during the competition:

DateEventNameNationalityTimeRecord
6 AugustHeat 6 Adam Peaty Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 57.55 WR
7 AugustFinal Adam Peaty Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 57.13 WR

Competition format

The competition consisted of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advanced to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advanced to the final. Swim-offs were used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round. [1]

Results

Heats

[10] [11]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
164 Adam Peaty Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 57.55Q, WR
246 Yasuhiro Koseki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 58.91Q
353 Felipe França Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 59.01Q, SA
444 Kevin Cordes Flag of the United States.svg  United States 59.13Q
545 Cody Miller Flag of the United States.svg  United States 59.17Q
666 Jake Packard Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 59.26Q
754 Cameron van der Burgh Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 59.35Q
855 João Gomes Júnior Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 59.46Q
943 Dmitriy Balandin Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 59.47Q
63 Ross Murdoch Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain Q
1161 Li Xiang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 59.55Q
1265 Giedrius Titenis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 59.90Q
1362 Vsevolod Zanko Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 59.91Q
1435 Jorge Murillo Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 59.93Q NR
1542 Christian vom Lehn Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:00.13Q
1647 Glenn Snyders Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:00.26WSO
48 Dániel Gyurta Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary LSO
1851 Ippei Watanabe Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 1:00.33
1968 Panagiotis Samilidis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 1:00.35
2056 Kirill Prigoda Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:00.37
2157 Damir Dugonjič Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 1:00.41
2258 Andrea Toniato Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1:00.45
2333 Andrius Šidlauskas Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 1:00.59
2425 Yannick Käser Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 1:00.71
37 Jason Block Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
2652 Čaba Silađi Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 1:00.76
2738 Laurent Carnol Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 1:00.88
67 Yan Zibei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
2941 Marcin Stolarski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 1:01.06
3024 Carlos Claverie Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 1:01.13
34 Joshua Palmer Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
3226 Erik Persson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1:01.20
3323 Nicholas Quinn Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 1:01.29
3431 Vladislav Mustafin Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan 1:01.66
3536 Anton Sveinn McKee Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 1:01.84
3622 Azad Al-Barazi Flag of Syria.svg  Syria 1:02.22
3715 Radomyos Matjiur Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 1:02.36
3821 Matti Mattsson Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 1:02.45
3914 Martin Melconian Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 1:02.67
4013 Julian Fletcher Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda 1:02.73
4127 Édgar Crespo Flag of Panama.svg  Panama 1:02.78
4232 Tomáš Klobučník Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 1:02.93
4312 Benjamin Schulte Flag of Guam.svg  Guam 1:03.29
4428 Dustin Tynes Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 1:03.71
4516 Amini Fonua Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 1:06.40
4617 Corey Ollivierre Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada 1:08.68

Semi-finals

[12] [13]

Semifinal 1

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Yasuhiro Koseki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 59.23Q
25 Kevin Cordes Flag of the United States.svg  United States 59.33Q
36 João Gomes Júnior Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 59.40Q
43 Jake Packard Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 59.48
57 Giedrius Titenis Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 59.80
62 Ross Murdoch Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 1:00.05
78 Glenn Snyders Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 1:00.50
81 Jorge Murillo Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 1:00.81

Semifinal 2

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
14 Adam Peaty Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 57.62Q
23 Cody Miller Flag of the United States.svg  United States 59.05Q
36 Cameron van der Burgh Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 59.21Q
45 Felipe França Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 59.35Q
52 Dmitriy Balandin Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 59.45Q
68 Christian vom Lehn Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1:00.23
77 Li Xiang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1:00.25
81 Vsevolod Zanko Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1:00.39

Final

[14]

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Adam Peaty Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 57.13 WR
Silver medal icon.svg3 Cameron van der Burgh Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 58.69
Bronze medal icon.svg5 Cody Miller Flag of the United States.svg  United States 58.87 AM
42 Kevin Cordes Flag of the United States.svg  United States 59.22
51 João Gomes Júnior Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 59.31
66 Yasuhiro Koseki Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 59.37
77 Felipe França Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 59.38
88 Dmitriy Balandin Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 59.85

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