Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Medalists
Rowdy Gaines   United States   Mark Stockwell   Australia   Per Johansson   Sweden

Swimming events at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Individual medley
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		men		women
4×200 m		men
Medley relay
4×100 m		men		women

The final of the Men's 100 metres Freestyle event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on July 31, 1984. The fastest eight qualified for the final, the next eight for the B-final.

Mark Stockwell protested after the race saying Rowdy Gaines false started and that the officials let the race continue. However FINA (the governing body of aquatic sports) overruled the protest and allowed the results to stay the same.

Finals

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Rowdy Gaines (USA)	49.80 OR
	Mark Stockwell (AUS)	50.24
	Per Johansson (SWE)	50.31
4.	Mike Heath (USA)	50.41
5.	Dano Halsall (SUI)	50.50
6.	Alberto Mestre (VEN)	50.70
	Stéphan Caron (FRA)	50.70
8.	Dirk Korthals (FRG)	50.93

RANK	B-FINAL	TIME
9.	Ang Peng Siong (SIN)	51.09
10.	Stéfan Voléry (SUI)	51.42
11.	David Lowe (GBR)	51.48
12.	Fabrizio Rampazzo (ITA)	51.56
13.	Hans Kroes (NED)	51.64
	Thomas Lejdström (SWE)	51.64
15.	Edsard Schlingemann (NED)	51.74
16.	Peter Rohde (DEN)	51.98

Non-Qualifiers

RANK	HEATS	TIME
17.	Michael Delany (AUS)	51.71
18.	Cyro Delgado (BRA)	51.74
19.	Fernando Cañales (PUR)	51.75
20.	Alexander Schowtka (FRG)	51.78
21.	Paul Easter (GBR)	51.83
22.	David Churchill (CAN)	51.85
23.	Ramiro Estrada (MEX)	52.07
24.	Franz Mortensen (DEN)	52.22
25.	Alexander Pilhatsch (AUT)	52.25
26.	Marco Colombo (ITA)	52.34
27.	Antonio Portela (PUR)	52.47
28.	Ronald Menezes (BRA)	52.49
29.	Blair Hicken (CAN)	52.74
30.	Michael Miao (TPE)	52.76
31.	Mu Lat (CHN)	52.82
32.	Shen Jianqiang (CHN)	52.84
33.	Shigeo Ogata (JPN)	52.96
34.	Mohamed Youssef (EGY)	53.19
35.	Kemal Sabri Özün (TUR)	53.39
36.	Li Khai-kam (HKG)	53.48
37.	Sean Nottage (BAH)	53.66
38.	Fabian Ferrari (ARG)	53.69
39.	Satoshi Sumida (JPN)	53.83
40.	Hilton Woods (AHO)	53.92
41.	Lukman Niode (INA)	54.10
42.	Jin-Gee Oon (SIN)	54.17
43.	Gokhan Ali Attaroglu (TUR)	54.22
44.	Fernando Rodríguez (PER)	54.61
45.	Deryck Marks (JAM)	54.63
45.	William Wilson (PHI)	54.63
47.	Erik Rosskopf (ISV)	54.80
48.	César Sánchez (MEX)	54.94
49.	Anthony Nesty (SUR)	54.99
50.	Ahmed Said (EGY)	55.01
51.	Evert Johan Kroon (AHO)	55.20
52.	Gordon Scarlett (JAM)	55.34
53.	Collier Woolard (ISV)	55.67
54.	Samuela Tupou (FIJ)	55.85
55.	Ingi Jónsson (ISL)	56.31
56.	Jean-Luc Adomo (MON)	56.38
57.	Warren Sorby (FIJ)	56.75
58.	Rodrigo Leal (GUA)	56.80
59.	Khaled Al-Assaf (KUW)	56.91
60.	Ernesto-José Degenhart (GUA)	57.20
61.	Hamad Bader (BRN)	58.16
62.	Trevor Ncala (SWZ)	58.22
63.	Michele Piva (SMR)	59.26
64.	Rodolfo Torres (HON)	1:00.92
65.	Domingos Chivavele (MOZ)	1:01.35
66.	Percy Sayegh (LIB)	1:01.88
67.	Rami Kantari (LIB)	1:01.96
68.	Daniel Mulumba (UGA)	1:07.86

References

• Official Report
• USA Swimming