| Men's 100 metre butterfly at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Sydney International Aquatic Centre | ||||||||||||
| Date | September 21, 2000 (heats & semifinals) September 22, 2000 (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 63 from 53 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 52.00 EU | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 21–22 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia.[1]
Competing at his third Games, Lars Frölander ended Sweden's 20-year drought to become an Olympic champion in the event, since Pär Arvidsson did so in 1980. Surprised by a massive home crowd, he overhauled Australia's top favorites Michael Klim and Geoff Huegill on the final 25 metres to snatch a gold medal in a new European record of 52.00.[2][3] Klim added a silver to his two relay golds from the Games, in a time of 52.18, while Huegill took home the bronze in 52.22, handing an entire medal pool for the Aussies with an unexpected two–three finish.[4]
At 18 years of age, U.S. teenage swimmer Ian Crocker came up with a spectacular swim to earn a fourth spot in an American record of 52.44.[5] Meanwhile, Canada's Mike Mintenko shared a fifth-place tie with Japan's Takashi Yamamoto in a matching standard of 52.58. Germany's Thomas Rupprath and Russia's Anatoly Polyakov closed out the field with a joint seventh-place finish (53.13).[4]
Earlier in the semifinals, Huegill became the second fastest of all-time in swimming history to break a 52-second barrier, establishing a new Olympic record of 51.96.[6]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | .svg.png){kind=small} Michael Klim (AUS) | 51.81 | Canberra, Australia | 12 December 1999 | [7] |
| Olympic record |  Denis Pankratov (RUS) | 52.27 | Atlanta, United States | 24 July 1996 | [7] |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September | Semifinal 1 | Geoff Huegill |  Australia | 51.96 | OR |
Results
Heats
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Michael Klim | Australia | 52.73 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 4 | Geoff Huegill | Australia | 52.79 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 6 | Mike Mintenko |  Canada | 52.90 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 6 | 6 | Takashi Yamamoto |  Japan | 52.91 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | 4 | Lars Frölander |  Sweden | 53.14 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | Zsolt Gáspár |  Hungary | 53.29 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | 2 | Anatoly Polyakov | Russia | 53.30 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 6 | Denys Sylantyev |  Ukraine | 53.34 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 5 | Ian Crocker |  United States | 53.45 | Q |
| 10 | 6 | 3 | James Hickman |  Great Britain | 53.48 | Q |
| 11 | 8 | 3 | Franck Esposito |  France | 53.54 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | Tommy Hannan | United States | Q | ||
| 13 | 7 | 5 | Thomas Rupprath |  Germany | 53.57 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 7 | Joris Keizer |  Netherlands | 53.66 | Q |
| 15 | 7 | 8 | Jere Hård |  Finland | 53.67 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | 5 | Stefan Aartsen | Netherlands | 53.81 | Q |
| 17 | 7 | 1 | Andriy Serdinov | Ukraine | 53.90 | |
| 18 | 5 | 6 | Theo Verster |  South Africa | 53.95 | |
| 19 | 6 | 1 | Igor Marchenko | Russia | 53.98 | |
| 20 | 5 | 4 | Ouyang Kunpeng |  China | 54.12 | |
| 21 | 7 | 7 | Ioan Gherghel |  Romania | 54.13 | |
| 22 | 7 | 2 | Shamek Pietucha | Canada | 54.14 | |
| 23 | 6 | 8 | Peter Mankoč |  Slovenia | 54.15 | |
| 8 | 1 | Daniel Carlsson | Sweden | |||
| 25 | 8 | 8 | Tero Välimaa | Finland | 54.24 | |
| 26 | 5 | 2 | Marcin Kaczmarek |  Poland | 54.32 | |
| 27 | 5 | 7 | Jan Vítazka |  Czech Republic | 54.34 | |
| 28 | 5 | 8 | Pablo Martín Abal |  Argentina | 54.45 | |
| 29 | 8 | 2 | Francisco Sánchez | .png){kind=small} Venezuela | 54.56 | |
| 30 | 4 | 4 | Simão Morgado |  Portugal | 54.75 | |
| 31 | 4 | 2 | Philippe Meyer |  Switzerland | 54.85 | NR |
| 32 | 4 | 6 | Andrew Livingston |  Puerto Rico | 55.03 | |
| 33 | 5 | 1 | Joshua Ilika Brenner |  Mexico | 55.07 | |
| 34 | 3 | 4 | Ravil Nachaev |  Uzbekistan | 55.21 | |
| 35 | 3 | 5 | Konstantin Ushkov |  Kyrgyzstan | 55.25 | |
| 36 | 1 | 5 | Anthony Ang |  Malaysia | 55.26 | NR |
| 37 | 4 | 7 | Yoav Meiri |  Israel | 55.38 | |
| 38 | 3 | 7 | Simeon Makedonski |  Bulgaria | 55.49 | |
| 39 | 2 | 4 | Janko Gojković |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 55.55 | NR |
| 5 | 3 | Oswaldo Quevedo | Venezuela | |||
| 41 | 2 | 3 | Aleksandar Miladinovski |  Macedonia | 55.62 | |
| 42 | 4 | 1 | Dennis Otzen Jensen |  Denmark | 55.70 | |
| 43 | 4 | 3 | Yohan García |  Cuba | 55.74 | |
| 44 | 2 | 6 | Mehdi Addadi |  Algeria | 56.04 | |
| 45 | 2 | 7 | Daniel O'Keeffe |  Guam | 56.05 | |
| 46 | 2 | 8 | Roberto Delgado | .svg.png){kind=small} Ecuador | 56.07 | |
| 47 | 3 | 6 | Luc Decker |  Luxembourg | 56.10 | |
| 48 | 2 | 5 | Ríkardur Ríkardsson |  Iceland | 56.11 | NR |
| 49 | 1 | 4 | Andrey Gavrilov |  Kazakhstan | 56.14 | |
| 50 | 4 | 8 | Ivan Mladina |  Croatia | 56.17 | |
| 51 | 1 | 3 | Ioannis Drymonakos |  Greece | 56.36 | |
| 52 | 3 | 2 | Tseng Cheng-hua |  Chinese Taipei | 56.39 | |
| 53 | 3 | 3 | Haitham Hassan |  Egypt | 56.42 | |
| 54 | 2 | 2 | Stephen Fahy |  Bermuda | 56.46 | |
| 55 | 3 | 8 | Albert Christiadi Sutanto |  Indonesia | 56.50 | |
| 56 | 1 | 6 | Artūrs Jakovļevs |  Latvia | 56.63 | |
| 57 | 2 | 1 | Nicholas Rees |  Bahamas | 57.23 | |
| 58 | 1 | 2 | Conrad Francis |  Sri Lanka | 57.44 | |
| 59 | 3 | 1 | Dumitru Zastoico |  Moldova | 58.55 | |
| 60 | 1 | 1 | Kim Jin-woo |  Kenya | 59.55 | |
| 61 | 1 | 7 | Kamal Salman Masud |  Pakistan | 1:00.60 | |
| 4 | 5 | Milorad Čavić | %3b_Flag_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro_(2003%e2%80%932006).svg.png){kind=small} Yugoslavia | DSQ | ||
| 8 | 7 | Christian Keller | Germany | DNS |
Semifinals
Semifinal 1
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Geoff Huegill | Australia | 51.96 | Q, OR |
| 2 | 5 | Takashi Yamamoto | Japan | 53.10 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Joris Keizer | Netherlands | 53.33 | NR |
| 4 | 3 | Zsolt Gáspár | Hungary | 53.45 | |
| 5 | 6 | Denys Sylantyev | Ukraine | 53.51 | |
| 6 | 2 | James Hickman | Great Britain | 53.55 | |
| 7 | 7 | Tommy Hannan | United States | 53.59 | |
| 8 | 8 | Stefan Aartsen | Netherlands | 53.81 |
Semifinal 2
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Michael Klim | Australia | 52.63 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Ian Crocker | United States | 52.82 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Lars Frölander | Sweden | 52.84 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Mike Mintenko | Canada | 53.00 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Thomas Rupprath | Germany | 53.18 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | Anatoly Polyakov | Russia | 53.32 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | Franck Esposito | France | 53.38 | |
| 8 | 8 | Jere Hård | Finland | 53.65 |
Final
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6 | Lars Frölander | Sweden | 52.00 | EU |
 | 5 | Michael Klim | Australia | 52.18 | |
 | 4 | Geoff Huegill | Australia | 52.22 | |
| 4 | 3 | Ian Crocker | United States | 52.44 | AM |
| 5 | 2 | Mike Mintenko | Canada | 52.58 | NR |
| 7 | Takashi Yamamoto | Japan | AS | ||
| 7 | 1 | Thomas Rupprath | Germany | 53.13 | |
| 8 | Anatoly Polyakov | Russia |
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