Men 100m Backstroke Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Thursday, 6th December - Gold Medal: David Thiele, Australia |
Final | | time | gap | L | Y | 1. David Theile | Australia | 1:02.2 | WR | 3 | 18 | 2. John Monckton | Australia | 1:03.2 | +1.0s | 4 | 18 | 3. Frank Mckinney | United States | 1:04.5 | +2.3s | 7 | 18 | 4. Robert Christophe | France | 1:04.9 | +2.7s | 5 | 18 | 5. John Hayres | Australia | 1:05.0 | +2.8s | 6 | _ | 6. Graham Sykes | Great Britain | 1:05.6 | +3.4s | 8 | 19 | 7. Albert Wiggins | United States | 1:05.8 | +3.6s | 1 | 21 | 8. Yoshinobu Oyakawa | United States | 1:06.9 | +4.7s | 2 | 23 |
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Heat S1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. John Monckton | Australia | 1:04.1 | | 4 | 18 | 1. | 2. David Theile | Australia | 1:04.8 | +0.7s | 5 | 18 | 3. | 3. Yoshinobu Oyakawa | United States | 1:05.0 | +0.9s | 3 | 23 | 4. | 4. Graham Sykes | Great Britain | 1:06.5 | +2.4s | 2 | 19 | 8. | 5. Kazuo Tomita | Japan | 1:06.5 | +2.4s | 7 | 17 | 9. | 6. Laszlo Magyar | Hungary | 1:07.6 | +3.5s | 6 | 20 | 13. | 6. Dieter Pfeifer | UT Germany | 1:07.6 | +3.5s | 8 | 20 | 13. | 8. Ladislav Bacik | Czechoslovakia | 1:07.9 | +3.8s | 1 | 23 | 16. |
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Heat S2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Robert Christophe | France | 1:04.6 | +0.5s | 4 | 18 | 2. | 2. John Hayres | Australia | 1:05.0 | +0.9s | 5 | _ | 4. | 3. Frank Mckinney | United States | 1:05.3 | +1.2s | 3 | 18 | 6. | 4. Albert Wiggins | United States | 1:06.4 | +2.3s | 6 | 21 | 7. | 5. Gilbert Bozon | France | 1:06.5 | +2.4s | 7 | 21 | 9. | 6. Keiji Hase | Japan | 1:06.5 | +2.4s | 2 | 31 | 9. | 7. Ekkehard Miersch | UT Germany | 1:06.6 | +2.5s | 1 | 20 | 12. | 8. Hadyn Rigby | Great Britain | 1:07.6 | +3.5s | 8 | 19 | 13. |
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Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Robert Christophe | France | 1:04.2 | +0.8s | 6 | 18 | 2. | 2. John Hayres | Australia | 1:04.4 | +1.0s | 3 | _ | 4. | 3. Laszlo Magyar | Hungary | 1:06.1 | +2.7s | 5 | 20 | 7. | 4. Albert Wiggins | United States | 1:06.2 | +2.8s | 4 | 21 | 8. | 5. Hadyn Rigby | Great Britain | 1:06.9 | +3.5s | 2 | 19 | 14. | 6. Ahmed Nazir | Pakistan | 1:10.7 | +7.3s | 7 | _ | 22. |
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Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Graham Sykes | Great Britain | 1:06.2 | +2.8s | 7 | 19 | 8. | 2. Gilbert Bozon | France | 1:06.4 | +3.0s | 3 | 21 | 11. | 2. Kazuo Tomita | Japan | 1:06.4 | +3.0s | 5 | 17 | 11. | 4. Ekkehard Miersch | UT Germany | 1:07.5 | +4.1s | 6 | 20 | 16. | 5. Lincoln Hurring | New Zealand | 1:07.5 | +4.1s | 4 | 25 | 17. | 6. Pedro Cayco | Philippines | 1:11.6 | +8.2s | 2 | _ | 23. |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. David Theile | Australia | 1:04.3 | +0.9s | 6 | 18 | 3. | 2. Yoshinobu Oyakawa | United States | 1:05.2 | +1.8s | 4 | 23 | 5. | 3. Keiji Hase | Japan | 1:06.3 | +2.9s | 5 | 31 | 10. | 4. William John Brockway | Great Britain | 1:07.7 | +4.3s | 3 | 28 | 19. | 5. Joao Goncalves Filho | Brazil | 1:07.9 | +4.5s | 7 | 21 | 20. | 6. Kin-Man Cheung | Hong Kong | 1:14.0 | +10.6s | 2 | 24 | 25. |
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Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. John Monckton | Australia | 1:03.4 | OR | 3 | 18 | 1. | 2. Frank Mckinney | United States | 1:06.0 | +2.6s | 6 | 18 | 6. | 3. Dieter Pfeifer | UT Germany | 1:06.7 | +3.3s | 4 | 20 | 13. | 4. Ladislav Bacik | Czechoslovakia | 1:06.9 | +3.5s | 5 | 23 | 14. | 5. Gerard Coignot | France | 1:07.5 | +4.1s | 7 | _ | 17. | 6. Hideo Ninomiya | Japan | 1:09.2 | +5.8s | 1 | 19 | 21. | 7. Heng-Chek Lim | Malaya | 1:12.4 | +9.0s | 2 | _ | 24. |
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