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100 metres Butterfly, Men

Date	27 July 1992
Status	Olympic
Location	Piscinas Bernat Picornell, Barcelona
Participants	69 from 48 countries

Swimming World noted that “The comeback was complete.” They were referring to Pablo Morales, who won gold in the 100 fly in Barcelona. Morales was the world record holder, from 1986, but the victory here was somewhat of a surprise. He had been favored in the 100 fly at Los Angeles in 1984, but lost out to German Michael Groß. Then in 1988, again with a solid chance at gold, he failed to even make the US Olympic team. After Seoul he retired from swimming and entered Cornell Law School, but in November 1991, after his mother’s death he was inspired to return to the pool, and was able to make the US team for Barcelona, despite training for less than a year.

In the prelims, Morales led with 53.59, followed closely by Poland’s Rafał Szukała. Morales led out in the final, and appeared to have the gold, but the Pole came on strongly at the end and the result was in doubt, until the scoreboard showed that Morales had won by 0.03 seconds, with Szukała second. The bronze went to the defending gold medalist, Suriname’s Anthony Nesty.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	R1	B Final	Final
1	623	Pablo Morales	USA	53.59 (1 h8)	–	53.32 (1)	Gold
2	490	Rafał Szukała	POL	53.60 (1 h7)	–	53.35 (2)	Silver
3	557	Anthony Nesty	SUR	53.89 (1 h9)	–	53.41 (3)	Bronze
4	176	Pavlo Khnykin	EUN	54.02 (2 h9)	–	53.81 (4)
5	632	Mel Stewart	USA	54.26 (2 h7)	–	54.04 (5)
6	88	Marcel Gery	CAN	53.94 (2 h8)	–	54.18 (6)
7	153	Martín López-Zubero	ESP	54.04 (1 h1)	–	54.19 (7)
8	179	Vladislav Kulikov	EUN	54.23 (3 h9)	–	54.26 (8)
9	278	Christian Keller	GER	54.47 (1 h6)	54.30 (1)	–
10	37	Jon Sieben	AUS	54.67 (4 h9)	54.73 (2)	–
11	222	Bruno Gutzeit	FRA	54.35 (3 h7)	54.80 (3)	–
12	70	José Carlos Souza	BRA	54.78 (5 h7)	54.85 (4)	–
13	207	Jani Sievinen	FIN	54.57 (3 h8)	54.93 (5)	–
14	274	Martin Herrmann	GER	54.59 (4 h8)	54.94 (6)	–
15	117	Shen Jianqiang	CHN	54.53 (4 h7)	54.96 (7)	–
16	102	Tom Ponting	CAN	54.77 (5 h8)	55.00 (8)	–
17	10	Andrew Baildon	AUS	54.82 (6 h8)	–	–
18	67	Eduardo Piccinini	BRA	54.87 (6 h7)	–	–
19	252	Richard Leishman	GBR	54.96 (7 h8)	–	–
=20	349	Eran Groumi	ISR	55.18 (=2 h6)	–	–
=20	390	Keiichi Kawanaka	JPN	55.18 (=2 h6)	–	–
22	219	Franck Esposito	FRA	55.26 (5 h9)	–	–
23	369	Leonardo Michelotti	ITA	55.28 (7 h7)	–	–
24	593	Uğur Taner	TUR	55.31 (8 h7)	–	–
25	465	Nick Sanders	NZL	55.44 (1 h5)	–	–
=26	42	Alexander Brandl	AUT	55.45 (4 h6)	–	–
=26	523	Craig Jackson	RSA	55.45 (2 h5)	–	–
28	460	Guy Callaghan	NZL	55.49 (5 h6)	–	–
29	149	Jaime Fernández	ESP	55.62 (6 h9)	–	–
30	166	Aldo Suurväli	EST	55.78 (3 h5)	–	–
31	200	Vesa Hanski	FIN	55.81 (4 h5)	–	–
32	75	Dragomir Markov	BUL	55.85 (1 h4)	–	–
33	414	Artūrs Jakovļevs	LAT	55.95 (7 h9)	–	–
34	396	Tomohiro Miyoshi	JPN	55.98 (5 h5)	–	–
35	333	Péter Horváth	HUN	56.09 (6 h6)	–	–
36	475	Eric Buhain	PHI	56.19 (2 h4)	–	–
37	556	Giovanni Linscheer	SUR	56.20 (6 h5)	–	–
38	592	Can Ergenekan	TUR	56.30 (8 h8)	–	–
39	316	Arthur Li	HKG	56.47 (3 h4)	–	–
40	358	Marco Braida	ITA	56.50 (7 h5)	–	–
41	264	Simon Wainwright	GBR	56.53 (1 h3)	–	–
42	542	Matjaž Kozelj	SLO	56.65 (4 h4)	–	–
43	341	Kire Filipovski	IOA	56.68 (7 h6)	–	–
44	71	Janko Gojković	BIH	56.81 (2 h1)	–	–
45	77	Kristiyan Minkovski	BUL	56.94 (5 h4)	–	–
46	498	Miguel Cabrita	POR	57.07 (6 h4)	–	–
47	559	Rudi Dollmayer	SWE	57.27 (8 h6)	–	–
48	319	Duncan Todd	HKG	57.29 (7 h4)	–	–
49	313	Patrick Sagisi	GUM	58.08 (2 h3)	–	–
50	354	Kristan Singleton	ISV	58.20 (3 h3)	–	–
51	537	Gary Tan	SGP	58.21 (4 h3)	–	–
52	451	Musa Bakare	NGR	58.36 (5 h3)	–	–
53	3	Pedro Lima	ANG	58.37 (6 h3)	–	–
54	477	Leo Najera	PHI	58.50 (7 h3)	–	–
55	482	Konrad Gałka	POL	58.86 (8 h5)	–	–
56	58	Ian Raynor	BER	59.03 (1 h2)	–	–
=57	303	Gustavo Búcaro	GUA	59.68 (=2 h2)	–	–
=57	322	Plutarco Castellanos	HON	59.68 (=2 h2)	–	–
59	44	Timothy Eneas	BAH	1:00.11 (4 h2)	–	–
60	410	Jarrah Al-Asmawi	KUW	1:00.77 (5 h2)	–	–
61	409	Ziyad Kashmiri	KSA	1:01.00 (6 h2)	–	–
62	309	Ray Flores	GUM	1:01.10 (3 h1)	–	–
63	60	Luis Medina	BOL	1:01.14 (7 h2)	–	–
64	471	Alan Espínola	PAR	1:01.38 (4 h1)	–	–
65	550	Julian Bolling	SRI	1:01.63 (5 h1)	–	–
66	597	Mohamed Khamis	UAE	1:01.72 (6 h1)	–	–
67	325	Salvador Jiménez	HON	1:03.76 (7 h1)	–	–
68	198	Carl Probert	FIJ	1:04.10 (8 h1)	–	–
DQ	643	Rory McGown	ZIM	– (DQ h2)	–	–
DNS	339	Tamas Vajda	HUN	– (DNS h5)	–	–
DNS	503	Ricardo Busquets	PUR	– (DNS h4)	–	–

Round One

Date	27 July 1992 — 10:00
Format	Fastest eight advanced to the final. Places 9-16 advanced to the B Final.

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time
1	–	Pablo Morales	USA	53.59	Q
2	–	Rafał Szukała	POL	53.60	Q
3	–	Anthony Nesty	SUR	53.89	Q
4	–	Marcel Gery	CAN	53.94	Q
5	–	Pavlo Khnykin	EUN	54.02	Q
6	–	Martín López-Zubero	ESP	54.04	Q
7	–	Vladislav Kulikov	EUN	54.23	Q
8	–	Mel Stewart	USA	54.26	Q
9	–	Bruno Gutzeit	FRA	54.35	q
10	–	Christian Keller	GER	54.47	q
11	–	Shen Jianqiang	CHN	54.53	q
12	–	Jani Sievinen	FIN	54.57	q
13	–	Martin Herrmann	GER	54.59	q
14	–	Jon Sieben	AUS	54.67	q
15	–	Tom Ponting	CAN	54.77	q
16	–	José Carlos Souza	BRA	54.78	q
17	–	Andrew Baildon	AUS	54.82		1
18	–	Eduardo Piccinini	BRA	54.87
19	–	Richard Leishman	GBR	54.96
=20	–	Eran Groumi	ISR	55.18
=20	–	Keiichi Kawanaka	JPN	55.18
22	–	Franck Esposito	FRA	55.26
23	–	Leonardo Michelotti	ITA	55.28
24	–	Uğur Taner	TUR	55.31
25	–	Nick Sanders	NZL	55.44
=26	–	Craig Jackson	RSA	55.45
=26	–	Alexander Brandl	AUT	55.45
28	–	Guy Callaghan	NZL	55.49
29	–	Jaime Fernández	ESP	55.62
30	–	Aldo Suurväli	EST	55.78
31	–	Vesa Hanski	FIN	55.81
32	–	Dragomir Markov	BUL	55.85
33	–	Artūrs Jakovļevs	LAT	55.95
34	–	Tomohiro Miyoshi	JPN	55.98
35	–	Péter Horváth	HUN	56.09
36	–	Eric Buhain	PHI	56.19
37	–	Giovanni Linscheer	SUR	56.20
38	–	Can Ergenekan	TUR	56.30
39	–	Arthur Li	HKG	56.47
40	–	Marco Braida	ITA	56.50
41	–	Simon Wainwright	GBR	56.53
42	–	Matjaž Kozelj	SLO	56.65
43	–	Kire Filipovski	IOA	56.68
44	–	Janko Gojković	BIH	56.81
45	–	Kristiyan Minkovski	BUL	56.94
46	–	Miguel Cabrita	POR	57.07
47	–	Rudi Dollmayer	SWE	57.27
48	–	Duncan Todd	HKG	57.29
49	–	Patrick Sagisi	GUM	58.08
50	–	Kristan Singleton	ISV	58.20
51	–	Gary Tan	SGP	58.21
52	–	Musa Bakare	NGR	58.36
53	–	Pedro Lima	ANG	58.37
54	–	Leo Najera	PHI	58.50
55	–	Konrad Gałka	POL	58.86
56	–	Ian Raynor	BER	59.03
=57	–	Plutarco Castellanos	HON	59.68
=57	–	Gustavo Búcaro	GUA	59.68
59	–	Timothy Eneas	BAH	1:00.11
60	–	Jarrah Al-Asmawi	KUW	1:00.77
61	–	Ziyad Kashmiri	KSA	1:01.00
62	–	Ray Flores	GUM	1:01.10
63	–	Luis Medina	BOL	1:01.14
64	–	Alan Espínola	PAR	1:01.38
65	–	Julian Bolling	SRI	1:01.63
66	–	Mohamed Khamis	UAE	1:01.72
67	–	Salvador Jiménez	HON	1:03.76
68	–	Carl Probert	FIJ	1:04.10
DQ	–	Rory McGown	ZIM	–
DNS	–	Ricardo Busquets	PUR	–
DNS	–	Tamas Vajda	HUN	–

Heat #1

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Martín López-Zubero	ESP	54.04	25.59 (1)	28.45 (1)	Q
2	–	Janko Gojković	BIH	56.81	26.03 (2)	30.78 (2)
3	–	Ray Flores	GUM	1:01.10	28.57 (3)	32.53 (3)
4	–	Alan Espínola	PAR	1:01.38	28.83 (5)	32.55 (4)
5	–	Julian Bolling	SRI	1:01.63	28.91 (6)	32.72 (5)
6	–	Mohamed Khamis	UAE	1:01.72	28.96 (7)	32.76 (6)
7	–	Salvador Jiménez	HON	1:03.76	28.79 (4)	34.97 (8)
8	–	Carl Probert	FIJ	1:04.10	29.44 (8)	34.66 (7)

Heat #2

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Ian Raynor	BER	59.03	27.20 (1)	31.83 (3)
=2	–	Plutarco Castellanos	HON	59.68	28.12 (4)	31.56 (1)
=2	–	Gustavo Búcaro	GUA	59.68	28.10 (3)	31.58 (2)
4	–	Timothy Eneas	BAH	1:00.11	27.67 (2)	32.44 (5)
5	–	Jarrah Al-Asmawi	KUW	1:00.77	28.54 (6)	32.23 (4)
6	–	Ziyad Kashmiri	KSA	1:01.00	28.45 (5)	32.55 (6)
7	–	Luis Medina	BOL	1:01.14	28.58 (7)	32.56 (7)
DQ	–	Rory McGown	ZIM	–	– (–)	–

Heat #3

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Simon Wainwright	GBR	56.53	26.98 (4)	29.55 (1)
2	–	Patrick Sagisi	GUM	58.08	26.93 (3)	31.15 (4)
3	–	Kristan Singleton	ISV	58.20	27.68 (7)	30.52 (2)
4	–	Gary Tan	SGP	58.21	27.51 (6)	30.70 (3)
5	–	Musa Bakare	NGR	58.36	27.20 (5)	31.16 (5)
6	–	Pedro Lima	ANG	58.37	26.62 (1)	31.75 (7)
7	–	Leo Najera	PHI	58.50	26.83 (2)	31.67 (6)

Heat #4

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Dragomir Markov	BUL	55.85	25.59 (1)	30.26 (5)
2	–	Eric Buhain	PHI	56.19	26.93 (7)	29.26 (1)
3	–	Arthur Li	HKG	56.47	26.30 (2)	30.17 (3)
4	–	Matjaž Kozelj	SLO	56.65	26.73 (4)	29.92 (2)
5	–	Kristiyan Minkovski	BUL	56.94	26.54 (3)	30.40 (=6)
6	–	Miguel Cabrita	POR	57.07	26.85 (5)	30.22 (4)
7	–	Duncan Todd	HKG	57.29	26.89 (6)	30.40 (=6)
DNS	–	Ricardo Busquets	PUR	–	– (–)	–

Heat #5

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Nick Sanders	NZL	55.44	25.68 (2)	29.76 (5)
2	–	Craig Jackson	RSA	55.45	26.02 (3)	29.43 (3)
3	–	Aldo Suurväli	EST	55.78	26.09 (4)	29.69 (4)
4	–	Vesa Hanski	FIN	55.81	26.45 (5)	29.36 (2)
5	–	Tomohiro Miyoshi	JPN	55.98	26.72 (7)	29.26 (1)
6	–	Giovanni Linscheer	SUR	56.20	25.41 (1)	30.79 (7)
7	–	Marco Braida	ITA	56.50	26.65 (6)	29.85 (6)
8	–	Konrad Gałka	POL	58.86	27.61 (8)	31.25 (8)
DNS	–	Tamas Vajda	HUN	–	– (–)	–

Heat #6

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Christian Keller	GER	54.47	25.61 (1)	28.86 (2)	q
=2	–	Eran Groumi	ISR	55.18	25.73 (2)	29.45 (5)
=2	–	Keiichi Kawanaka	JPN	55.18	26.53 (7)	28.65 (1)
4	–	Alexander Brandl	AUT	55.45	26.08 (4)	29.37 (4)
5	–	Guy Callaghan	NZL	55.49	26.28 (6)	29.21 (3)
6	–	Péter Horváth	HUN	56.09	25.88 (3)	30.21 (7)
7	–	Kire Filipovski	IOA	56.68	26.87 (8)	29.81 (6)
8	–	Rudi Dollmayer	SWE	57.27	26.26 (5)	31.01 (8)

Heat #7

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Rafał Szukała	POL	53.60	25.48 (4)	28.12 (1)	Q
2	–	Mel Stewart	USA	54.26	25.68 (5)	28.58 (2)	Q
3	–	Bruno Gutzeit	FRA	54.35	25.24 (1)	29.11 (4)	q
4	–	Shen Jianqiang	CHN	54.53	25.69 (6)	28.84 (3)	q
5	–	José Carlos Souza	BRA	54.78	25.32 (2)	29.46 (7)	q
6	–	Eduardo Piccinini	BRA	54.87	25.44 (3)	29.43 (6)
7	–	Leonardo Michelotti	ITA	55.28	26.04 (8)	29.24 (5)
8	–	Uğur Taner	TUR	55.31	25.79 (7)	29.52 (8)

Heat #8

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Pablo Morales	USA	53.59	25.00 (1)	28.59 (1)	Q
2	–	Marcel Gery	CAN	53.94	25.25 (2)	28.69 (2)	Q
3	–	Jani Sievinen	FIN	54.57	25.29 (3)	29.28 (7)	q
4	–	Martin Herrmann	GER	54.59	25.51 (4)	29.08 (5)	q
5	–	Tom Ponting	CAN	54.77	25.79 (6)	28.98 (3)	q
6	–	Andrew Baildon	AUS	54.82	25.64 (5)	29.18 (6)		2
7	–	Richard Leishman	GBR	54.96	25.96 (7)	29.00 (4)
8	–	Can Ergenekan	TUR	56.30	26.40 (8)	29.90 (8)

Heat #9

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Anthony Nesty	SUR	53.89	25.59 (3)	28.30 (1)	Q
2	–	Pavlo Khnykin	EUN	54.02	24.92 (1)	29.10 (4)	Q
3	–	Vladislav Kulikov	EUN	54.23	25.18 (2)	29.05 (3)	Q
4	–	Jon Sieben	AUS	54.67	25.73 (4)	28.94 (2)	q
5	–	Franck Esposito	FRA	55.26	25.79 (5)	29.47 (5)
6	–	Jaime Fernández	ESP	55.62	26.03 (7)	29.59 (6)
7	–	Artūrs Jakovļevs	LAT	55.95	25.85 (6)	30.10 (7)

B Final

Date	27 July 1992 — 18:00

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Christian Keller	GER	54.30	25.63 (2)	28.67 (1)
2	–	Jon Sieben	AUS	54.73	25.90 (4)	28.83 (3)
3	–	Bruno Gutzeit	FRA	54.80	25.44 (1)	29.36 (8)
4	–	José Carlos Souza	BRA	54.85	26.03 (6)	28.82 (2)
5	–	Jani Sievinen	FIN	54.93	26.04 (7)	28.89 (=4)
6	–	Martin Herrmann	GER	54.94	25.79 (3)	29.15 (7)
7	–	Shen Jianqiang	CHN	54.96	25.91 (5)	29.05 (6)
8	–	Tom Ponting	CAN	55.00	26.11 (8)	28.89 (=4)

Final Round

Date	27 July 1992 — 18:00

Pos	Lane	Competitor	NOC	Time	50 m	50-100 m Time (Rank)
1	–	Pablo Morales	USA	53.32	24.76 (1)	28.56 (5)
2	–	Rafał Szukała	POL	53.35	25.44 (6)	27.91 (1)
3	–	Anthony Nesty	SUR	53.41	25.33 (4)	28.08 (2)
4	–	Pavlo Khnykin	EUN	53.81	25.06 (2)	28.75 (6)
5	–	Mel Stewart	USA	54.04	25.62 (7)	28.42 (3)
6	–	Marcel Gery	CAN	54.18	25.35 (5)	28.83 (7)
7	–	Martín López-Zubero	ESP	54.19	25.69 (8)	28.50 (4)
8	–	Vladislav Kulikov	EUN	54.26	25.23 (3)	29.03 (8)