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Men's 100 m backstroke - Swimming |   | ||||
 Men's 100 m backstroke 1960
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| Final | |||||
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David Theile |  |
AUS | 1.01,9 | OR |
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Frank McKinney |  |
USA | 1.02,1 | |
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Robert Bennett | |
USA | 1.02,3 | |
| 4. | Robert Christophe |  |
FRA | 1.03,2 | |
| 5. | Leonid Barbier |  |
URS | 1.03,5 | |
| 6. | Wolfgang Wagner |  |
GER | 1.03,5 | |
| 7. | John Monckton | |
AUS | 1.04,1 | |
| 8. | Veiko Siimar | |
URS | 1.04,6 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | David Theile | |
AUS | 1.03,1 | q |
| 2. | Robert Christophe | |
FRA | 1.03,7 | q |
| 3. | Robert Bennett | |
USA | 1.03,7 | q |
| 4. | John Monckton | |
AUS | 1.03,8 | q |
| 5. | Veiko Siimar | |
URS | 1.04,6 | q |
| 6. | Kazuo Tomita |  |
JPN | 1.05,2 | |
| 7. | Stig-Olof Grenner |  |
FIN | 1.05,2 | |
| 8. | Herman Verbauwen |  |
BEL | 1.06,2 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Frank McKinney | |
USA | 1.03,8 | q |
| 2. | Wolfgang Wagner | |
GER | 1.03,9 | q |
| 3. | Leonid Barbier | |
URS | 1.04,3 | q |
| 4. | Jürgen Dietze | |
GER | 1.04,7 | |
| 5. | Graham Sykes |  |
GBR | 1.04,7 | |
| 6. | Pedro Diz Espeleta |  |
ARG | 1.05,2 | |
| 7. | Jozsef Csikany |  |
HUN | 1.05,2 | |
| 8. | Giuseppe Avellone |  |
ITA | 1.06,5 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | John Monckton | | AUS | 1.04,4 | q |
| 2. | Jozsef Csikany | | HUN | 1.04,5 | q |
| 3. | Wolfgang Wagner | | GER | 1.04,7 | q |
| 4. | Kazuo Tomita | | JPN | 1.04,7 | q |
| 5. | Herman Verbauwen | | BEL | 1.05,0 | q |
| 6. | Julio Cabrera Balsa |  | ESP | 1.06,5 | |
| 7. | Raul Cerqueira |  | POR | 1.06,7 | |
| 8. | Dimitrios Kolovos |  | GRE | 1.13,8 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Robert Bennett | | USA | 1.02,0 | OR |
| 2. | Leonid Barbier | | URS | 1.03,5 | q |
| 3. | Jürgen Dietze | | GER | 1.04,0 | q |
| 4. | Johannes Jiskoot |  | NED | 1.05,9 | |
| 5. | Friedrich Suda |  | AUT | 1.06,0 | |
| 6. | Mihovil Dorcic |  | YUG | 1.06,0 | |
| 7. | Joram Shnider |  | ISR | 1.11,1 | |
| 8. | Ünsal Fikirci |  | TUR | 1.15,2 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 3 | |||||
| 1. | Robert Christophe | | FRA | 1.04,0 | q |
| 2. | Graham Sykes | | GBR | 1.04,8 | q |
| 3. | Robert Wheaton |  | CAN | 1.05,7 | |
| 4. | Bengt-Olov Almstedt |  | SWE | 1.05,9 | |
| 5. | Alejandro Gaxiola |  | MEX | 1.05,9 | |
| 6. | Athos de Oliveira |  | BRA | 1.07,9 | |
| 7. | Rudy Muller |  | LUX | 1.12,3 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 4 | |||||
| 1. | David Theile | | AUS | 1.03,1 | q |
| 2. | Veiko Siimar | | URS | 1.04,6 | q |
| 3. | Giuseppe Avellone | | ITA | 1.05,4 | q |
| 4. | Haydn Rigby | | GBR | 1.06,2 | |
| 5. | Kazuo Watanabe | | JPN | 1.08,4 | |
| 6. | Lorenzo Cortez |  | PHI | 1.08,7 | |
| 7. | Rolf Burggraf |  | SUI | 1.11,0 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 5 | |||||
| 1. | Frank McKinney | | USA | 1.02,4 | q |
| 2. | Pedro Diz Espeleta | | ARG | 1.04,7 | q |
| 3. | Stig-Olof Grenner | | FIN | 1.04,7 | q |
| 4. | Claude Raffy | | FRA | 1.05,8 | |
| 5. | Gilberto Elsa | | ITA | 1.05,8 | |
| 6. | Enrique Rabell | | MEX | 1.08,0 | |
| 7. | Janos Konrad | | HUN | 1.19,9 | |
| Men's 100 m backstroke - Swimming - Rome 1960 Summer Olympics
Event Format:
Swimmers competed in preliminary heats, semifinals and final. Normally eight swimmers competed in each heat. The 16 swimmers with the best time in the preliminary heats advanced to the semifinals. From the semifinals the eight swimmers with the best time in the semifinals advanced to the final. Event facts: Men's 100 m backstroke competition was held at the Stadio del Nuoto and 37 athletes participated in the event. |
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| These results for Men's 100 m backstroke - Rome 1960 Summer Olympics - are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||
