Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

Men's 100 metre breaststroke
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 100 metre breaststroke ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 4, 1973
Competitors	32 from 25 nations
Winning time	1:04.02 WR
Medalists
	1975 →

The men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 4.

Records[edit]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Nobutaka Taguchi (JPN)	1:04.94	Munich, West Germany	30 August 1972
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
4 September	Heat 1	Rick Colella	United States	1:06.72	CR
4 September	Heat 3	Nikolai Pankin	Soviet Union	1:06.10	CR
4 September	Heat 5	John Hencken	United States	1:04.35	WR
4 September	Final	John Hencken	United States	1:04.02	WR

32 swimmers participated in 5 heats. The eight fastest times qualified for the final.^[1]^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	-	John Hencken	United States	1:04.35	Q, WR
2	5	-	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:05.80	Q
3	3	-	Nikolai Pankin	Soviet Union	1:06.10	Q, CR
4	1	-	Rick Colella	United States	1:06.72	Q, CR
5	4	-	Mikhail Khryukin	Soviet Union	1:06.78	Q
6	2	-	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:06.98	Q
7	3	-	Jürgen Glas	East Germany	1:07.32	Q
8	3	-	Nigel Cluer	Papua New Guinea	1:07.59	Q
9	4	-	Michael Günther	West Germany	1:07.77
10	2	-	Bernard Gumbet	France	1:08.26
11	4	-	Felipe Muñoz	Mexico	1:08.37
12	1	-	Peter Hrdlitschka	Canada	1:08.62
13	5	-	Pedro Balcells	Spain	1:08.88
14	1	-	Ove Wisloff	Norway	1:09.49
15	2	-	Paweł Dyrek	Poland	1:09.60
16	5	-	Sándor Szabó	Hungary	1:09.63
17	3	-	Alfredo Hunger	Peru	1:09.73
18	5	-	Sérgio Pinto Ribeiro	Brazil	1:09.80
19	3	-	Michael Creswick	Australia	1:09.81
20	4	-	Ulrich Nitzsche	East Germany	1:09.87
21	2	-	Gustavo Lozano	Mexico	1:09.92
22	5	-	Mel Zajac	Canada	1:09.97
23	3	-	Zdravko Divjak	Yugoslavia	1:10.15
24	1	-	Cezary Smiglak	Poland	1:10.57
25	3	-	Giorgio Lalle	Italy	1:10.97
26	1	-	Steffen Kriechbaum	Austria	1:11.06
27	4	-	Angel Chakarov	Bulgaria	1:11.29
28	4	-	Tuomo Kerola	Finland	1:12.37
29	2	-	Carlos Nazario	Puerto Rico	1:13.33
30	4	-	Faruk Morkal	Turkey	1:14.03
31	2	-	Orlando Catinchi	Puerto Rico	1:14.50
32	1	-	H. Ashfin	Iran	1:16.20

The results of the final are below.^[3]^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	-	John Hencken	United States	1:04.02	WR
	-	Mikhail Khryukin	Soviet Union	1:04.61	ER
	-	Nobutaka Taguchi	Japan	1:05.61
4	-	David Wilkie	Great Britain	1:05.74	CWR
5	-	Nikolai Pankin	Soviet Union	1:06.55
6	-	Rick Colella	United States	1:06.69
7	-	Jürgen Glas	East Germany	1:07.41
8	-	Nigel Cluer	Papua New Guinea	1:08.12

^ "Sporting Details". The Sydney Morning Herald. John Fairfax Holdings. September 5, 1973. p. 19.
^ "Official results". FINA.org. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
^ Krastev, Todor. "Men 100m Breaststroke Swimming World Championship 1973 Belgrade (YUG)". todor66.com. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
^ Fox, Norman (September 5, 1973). "Matthes' brilliance eclipses even Hencken's world record". The Times. London. p. 9.