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Men's 100 m backstroke - Swimming |  | ||||
 Men's 100 m backstroke 1956
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| Final | |||||
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David Theile |  |
AUS | 1.02,2 | OR |
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John Monckton | |
AUS | 1.03,2 | |
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Frank McKinney |  |
USA | 1.04,5 | |
| 4. | Robert Christophe |  |
FRA | 1.04,9 | |
| 5. | John Hayres | |
AUS | 1.05,0 | |
| 6. | Graham Sykes |  |
GBR | 1.05,6 | |
| 7. | Albert Wiggins | |
USA | 1.05,8 | |
| 8. | Yoshinobu Oyakawa | |
USA | 1.06,9 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | John Monckton | |
AUS | 1.04,1 | q |
| 2. | David Theile | |
AUS | 1.04,8 | q |
| 3. | Yoshinobu Oyakawa | |
USA | 1.05,0 | q |
| 4. | Graham Sykes | |
GBR | 1.06,5 | q |
| 5. | Kazuo Tomita |  |
JPN | 1.06,5 | |
| 6. | Dieter Pfeiffer |  |
GER | 1.07,6 | |
| 7. | Laszlo Magyar |  |
HUN | 1.07,6 | |
| 8. | Ladislav Bacik |  |
TCH | 1.07,9 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Robert Christophe | |
FRA | 1.04,6 | q |
| 2. | John Hayres | |
AUS | 1.05,0 | q |
| 3. | Frank McKinney | |
USA | 1.05,3 | q |
| 4. | Albert Wiggins | |
USA | 1.06,4 | q |
| 6. | Keiji Hase | |
JPN | 1.06,5 | |
| 7. | Ekkehard Miersch | |
GER | 1.06,6 | |
| 8. | Haydn Rigby | |
GBR | 1.07,6 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | Robert Christophe | | FRA | 1.04,2 | OR |
| 2. | John Hayres | | AUS | 1.04,4 | q |
| 3. | Laszlo Magyar | | HUN | 1.06,1 | q |
| 4. | Albert Wiggins | | USA | 1.06,2 | q |
| 5. | Haydn Rigby | | GBR | 1.06,9 | q |
| 6. | Ahmed Nazir |  | PAK | 1.10,7 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Graham Sykes | | GBR | 1.06,2 | q |
| 2. | Kazuo Tomita | | JPN | 1.06,4 | q |
| 4. | Ekkehard Miersch | | GER | 1.07,5 | q |
| 5. | Lincoln Hurring |  | NZL | 1.07,5 | |
| 6. | Pedro Cayco |  | PHI | 1.11,6 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 3 | |||||
| 1. | David Theile | | AUS | 1.04,3 | q |
| 2. | Yoshinobu Oyakawa | | USA | 1.05,2 | q |
| 3. | Keiji Hase | | JPN | 1.06,3 | q |
| 4. | William John Brockway | | GBR | 1.07,7 | |
| 5. | Joao Goncalves Filho |  | BRA | 1.07,9 | |
| 6. | Kin Man Cheung |  | HKG | 1.14,0 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 4 | |||||
| 1. | John Monckton | | AUS | 1.03,4 | OR |
| 2. | Frank McKinney | | USA | 1.06,0 | q |
| 3. | Dieter Pfeiffer | | GER | 1.06,7 | q |
| 4. | Ladislav Bacik | | TCH | 1.06,9 | q |
| 5. | Gerard Coignot | | FRA | 1.07,5 | |
| 6. | Hideo Ninomiya | | JPN | 1.09,2 | |
| 7. | Lim Heng Chek |  | MAS | 1.12,4 | |
| Men's 100 m backstroke - Swimming - Melbourne 1956 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 Swimming Stadium and 25 athletes participated in the event. |
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| These results for Men's 100 m backstroke - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||
