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

Men's 100 metre freestyle
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Men's 100 metre freestyle ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 9, 1973
Competitors	38 from 25 nations
Winning time	51.708
Medalists
	1975 →

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 9.

Records

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

World record	Mark Spitz (USA)	51.22	Munich, West Germany	3 September 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
9 September	Heat	Ruy de Oliveira	Brazil	53.675	CR
9 September	Heat	Michael Wenden	Australia	52.671	CR
9 September	Heat	Jim Montgomery	United States	52.660	CR
9 September	Final	Jim Montgomery	United States	51.708	CR

38 swimmers participated in 6 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	-	Jim Montgomery	United States	52.660	Q, CR
2	2	-	Michael Wenden	Australia	52.671	Q, CR
3	5	-	Vladimir Bure	Soviet Union	52.771	Q
4	6	-	Klaus Steinbach	West Germany	52.986	Q
5	6	-	Michel Rousseau	France	53.041	Q
6	4	-	John Murphy	United States	53.162	Q
7	4	-	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	53.539	Q
8	1	-	Ruy de Oliveira	Brazil	53.675	Q, CR
9	5	-	Roberto Pangaro	Italy	53.877
10	5	-	Bruce Robertson	Canada	53.908
11	5	-	Peter Nocke	West Germany	53.939
12	3	-	Fritz Warncke	Norway	54.018
13	3	-	Peter Bruch	East Germany	54.120
14	2	-	José Aranha	Brazil	54.157
15	4	-	Jorge Comas	Spain	54.237
16	6	-	Mirek Hrouda	Czechoslovakia	54.240
17	6	-	Neil Rogers	Australia	54.505
18	6	-	Igor Grivennikov	Soviet Union	54.584
19	3	-	Marcello Guarducci	Italy	54.631
20	2	-	Bernt Zarnowiecki	Sweden	54.658
21	2	-	Goran Jansson	Sweden	54.836
22	6	-	Stefan Georgiev	Bulgaria	55.064
23	2	-	Rene Lustig	Yugoslavia	55.236
24	1	-	Brian Phillips	Canada	55.708
25	3	-	Jovan Kovacic	Yugoslavia	55.735
26	3	-	Gianni Versari	Panama	55.970
27	4	-	István Szentirmay	Hungary	56.071
28	4	-	Lyudmil Stoev	Bulgaria	56.236
29	4	-	Ali Charbi	Tunisia	56.239
30	5	-	Pierre-Yves Copin	France	56.278
31	1	-	Eduardo Orejuela	Ecuador	56.500
32	2	-	Ramón Volcán	Venezuela	57.065
33	2	-	José Ferraioli	Puerto Rico	57.081
34	1	-	Ali Kinawi	Egypt	57.283
35	3	-	Carlos Santiago	Puerto Rico	57.699
36	1	-	Mehmet Dilmac	Turkey	58.514
-	4	-	Z. Opritescu	Romania	DNS / DSQ
-	5	-	Marian Slavic	Romania	DNS / DSQ

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Jim Montgomery	United States	51.708	CR
	2	Michel Rousseau	France	52.086
	5	Michael Wenden	Australia	52.222
4	3	Vladimir Bure	Soviet Union	52.522
5	7	John Murphy	United States	52.732
6	6	Klaus Steinbach	West Germany	52.820
7	1	Roger Pyttel	East Germany	53.253
8	8	Ruy de Oliveira	Brazil	53.701