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The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between August 29 and August 30 in the Schwimmhalle, Olympiapark, München.^[1] ^[2] This swimming event used the breaststroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Mark Chatfield	United States	1:05.89
2	Bill Mahony	Canada	1:07.14
3	Bernard Combet	France	1:08.08
4	Paul Jarvie	Australia	1:09.26
5	Sokhon Yi	Khmer Republic	1:11.00
6	Edmondo Mingione	Italy	1:11.75
7	Morkal Faruk	Turkey	1:13.86

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	1:07.31
2	Robert Stoddart	Canada	1:08.44
3	Malcolm O'Connell	Great Britain	1:09.33
4	Sándor Szabó	Hungary	1:09.68
5	Gustavo Salcedo	Mexico	1:10.17
6	Jean-Pierre Dubey	Switzerland	1:10.31
7	Cezary Śmiglak	Poland	1:10.53

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:06.35
2	Tom Bruce	United States	1:06.45
3	Klaus Katzur	East Germany	1:07.36
4	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	1:07.39
5	Amman Jalmaani	Philippines	1:09.28
6	Steffen Kriechbaum	Austria	1:09.87
7	Bruno Bassoul	Lebanon	1:19.94

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:06.07
2	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	1:06.23
3	Rainer Hradetzky	East Germany	1:08.67
4	Liam Ball	Ireland	1:09.68
5	Andreas Hellmann	West Germany	1:10.13
6	Karl Christian Koch	Denmark	1:11.27
7	Piero Ferracuti	El Salvador	1:16.74

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	John Hencken	United States	1:05.96
2	Roger-Philippe Menu	France	1:08.63
3	Mike Whitaker	Canada	1:08.86
4	Felipe Muñoz	Mexico	1:08.95
5	Pedro Balcells	Spain	1:09.37
6	Alfredo Hunger	Peru	1:11.44
7	Theodoros Koutoumanis	Greece	1:12.05
8	Rudi Vingerhoets	Belgium	1:12.59

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:06.95
2	Viktor Stulikov	Soviet Union	1:08.18
3	Michael Günther	West Germany	1:08.93
4	Osvaldo Boretto	Argentina	1:09.64
5	János Tóth	Hungary	1:10.02
6	Angel Chakarov	Bulgaria	1:10.34
7	Paul Naisby	Great Britain	1:11.05
8	Guðjón Guðmundsson	Iceland	1:11.11

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	John Hencken	United States	1:05.68	WR
2	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	1:05.99
3	Tom Bruce	United States	1:06.05
4	Klaus Katzur	East Germany	1:06.82
5	Bill Mahony	Canada	1:07.06
6	Bernard Combet	France	1:07.76
7	Robert Stoddart	Canada	1:08.61
8	Rainer Hradetzky	East Germany	1:09.49

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:05.13	WR
2	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:05.78
3	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	1:06.08
4	Mark Chatfield	United States	1:06.08
5	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:06.25
6	Viktor Stulikov	Soviet Union	1:06.66
7	Vladimir Kosinsky	Soviet Union	1:07.08
8	Roger-Philippe Menu	France	1:07.75

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:04.94	WR
	Tom Bruce	United States	1:05.43
	John Hencken	United States	1:05.61
4	Mark Chatfield	United States	1:06.01
5	Walter Kusch	West Germany	1:06.23
6	José Sylvio Fiolo	Brazil	1:06.24
7	Nikolay Pankin	Soviet Union	1:06.36
8	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:06.52

Key: WR = World record

^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 100 metres Breaststroke". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
^ "100 meters Breaststroke, Men". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.