Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Aquatics Centre, Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	27 July 2024 (heats and semifinals) 28 July 2024 (final)
Competitors	36 from 28 nations
Winning time	59.03
Medalists
Nicolò Martinenghi   Italy Adam Peaty   Great Britain Nic Fink   United States
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The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held from 27 to 28 July 2024 at the Paris Aquatics Centre. ^[1]

Records

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

World record	Adam Peaty  (GBR)	56.88	Gwangju, South Korea	21 July 2019	[2]
Olympic record	Adam Peaty  (GBR)	57.13	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	7 August 2016	[3] [4]

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). ^[5] For this event, the OQT was 59.49 seconds. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. ^{[5] [6]} Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 59.79 for this event. ^[5] In total, 21 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 15 athletes qualified through universality places and two athletes qualified through achieving the OCT. ^[6]

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
27 July 2024	11:30	Heats
	21:12	Semifinals
28 July 2024	21:44	Final

Results

Heats

Results ^[7]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	6	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	59.04	Q
2	4	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	59.18	Q
3	4	7	Ilya Shymanovich	Individual Neutral Athletes	59.25	Q
4	4	5	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	59.39	Q
	5	5	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	59.39	Q
6	4	1	James Wilby	Great Britain	59.40	Q
7	5	6	Melvin Imoudu	Germany	59.49	Q
8	4	3	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	59.52	Q
9	5	4	Qin Haiyang	China	59.58	Q
10	3	4	Nic Fink	United States	59.66	Q
11	4	8	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	59.68	Q
12	3	1	Joshua Yong	Australia	59.75	Q
13	3	5	Evgenii Somov	Individual Neutral Athletes	59.83	Q
14	4	6	Charlie Swanson	United States	59.92	Q
15	3	2	Ludovico Blu Art Viberti	Italy	59.93	Q
16	3	8	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:00.00	Q, NR
17	5	3	Sun Jiajun	China	1:00.11
18	5	7	Choi Dong-yeol	South Korea	1:00.17
19	3	7	Taku Taniguchi	Japan	1:00.20
20	4	2	Andrius Šidlauskas	Lithuania	1:00.29
21	5	2	Berkay Ömer Öğretir	Turkey	1:00.36
22	5	8	Jan Kałusowski	Poland	1:00.40
23	5	1	Denis Petrashov	Kyrgyzstan	1:00.42
24	3	3	Sam Williamson	Australia	1:00.50
25	2	5	Anton McKee	Iceland	1:00.62
26	2	6	Jadon Wuilliez	Antigua and Barbuda	1:02.70
27	2	2	Adrian Robinson	Botswana	1:02.79
28	2	3	Alexandre Grand'Pierre	Haiti	1:02.85
29	2	1	Tasi Limtiaco	Federated States of Micronesia	1:04.14
30	2	8	Abdulaziz Al-Obaidly	Qatar	1:04.31
31	1	4	Steven Insixiengmay	Laos	1:04.64
32	1	3	Matthew Lawrence	Mozambique	1:04.95
33	2	7	Jonathan Raharvel	Madagascar	1:05.20
34	1	5	Micah Masei	American Samoa	1:05.95
35	1	6	Chadd Ng Chiu Hing Ning	Eswatini	1:09.85
	2	4	Miguel de Lara	Mexico	DSQ

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final. ^[8]

Results ^[9]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	58.86	Q
2	2	2	Qin Haiyang	China	58.93	Q
3	2	3	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	59.12	Q
4	1	2	Nic Fink	United States	59.16	Q
5	2	4	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	59.24	Q
6	1	5	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	59.28	Q
7	1	6	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	59.31	Q
8	2	6	Melvin Imoudu	Germany	59.38	QSO
	2	8	Ludovico Blu Art Viberti	Italy	59.38	QSO
10	2	5	Ilya Shymanovich	Individual Neutral Athletes	59.45
11	1	3	James Wilby	Great Britain	59.49
12	1	7	Joshua Yong	Australia	59.64
13	2	1	Evgenii Somov	Individual Neutral Athletes	1:00.00
14	1	1	Charlie Swanson	United States	1:00.16
15	2	7	Bernhard Reitshammer	Austria	1:00.18
16	1	8	Ron Polonsky	Israel	1:00.37

Swim-off

Results ^[10]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	4	Melvin Imoudu	Germany	59.69	Q
2	5	Ludovico Blu Art Viberti	Italy	59.90

Final

Results ^[11]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	7	Nicolò Martinenghi	Italy	59.03
	4	Adam Peaty	Great Britain	59.05
	6	Nic Fink	United States	59.05
4	8	Melvin Imoudu	Germany	59.11
5	1	Lucas Matzerath	Germany	59.30
6	3	Arno Kamminga	Netherlands	59.32
7	5	Qin Haiyang	China	59.50
8	2	Caspar Corbeau	Netherlands	59.98

References

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