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

The final of the men's 100 metre backstroke event at the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on August 3, 1984.^[1]

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium
Date	3 August 1984 (heats & final)
Competitors	49 from 34 nations
Winning time	55.79
Medalists
Rick Carey  United States Dave Wilson  United States Mike West  Canada
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Records

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

World record	Rick Carey (USA)	55.19	Caracas, Venezuela	21 August 1983
Olympic record	John Naber (USA)	55.49	Montreal, Canada	19 July 1976

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4	Rick Carey	United States	55.74	Q
2	6	4	Dave Wilson	United States	56.71	Q
3	2	5	Mark Kerry	Australia	57.15	Q
4	5	5	Gary Hurring	New Zealand	57.42	Q
5	2	4	Hans Kroes	Netherlands	57.48	Q
6	3	4	Sandy Goss	Canada	57.60	Q
7	4	4	Bengt Baron	Sweden	57.66	Q
8	5	4	Mike West	Canada	57.76	Q
9	7	3	Ricardo Aldabe	Spain	57.90	q
	7	5	Stefan Peter	West Germany		q
11	4	3	Nicolai Klapkarek	West Germany	58.19	q
12	4	6	Frédéric Delcourt	France	58.22	q
13	4	5	Paul Kingsman	New Zealand	58.33	q
14	1	4	David Orbell	Australia	58.35	q
15	5	3	Daichi Suzuki	Japan	58.37	q
16	6	5	Hans Fredin	Sweden	58.39	q
17	3	5	Neil Harper	Great Britain	58.50
18	5	2	Paolo Falchini	Italy	58.65
19	6	3	Ilias Malamas	Greece	58.69
20	2	3	Kristofer Stivenson	Greece	58.76
21	4	2	Lukman Niode	Indonesia	58.77
22	3	6	Patrick Ferland	Switzerland	58.78
23	5	6	Wang Hao	China	59.13
24	6	2	Fabrizio Bortolon	Italy	59.27
25	1	5	Giovanni Frigo	Venezuela	59.34
26	3	3	Sharif Nour	Egypt	59.63
27	2	6	Allan Marsh	Jamaica	1:00.04
28	6	6	Ian Collins	Great Britain	1:00.08
29	3	2	David Lim Fong Jock	Singapore	1:00.65
30	7	2	Li Zhongyi	China	1:00.66
31	7	6	David Morley	Bahamas	1:01.29
32	4	7	Ernesto Vela	Mexico	1:01.42
33	3	7	Emad El-Shafei	Egypt	1:02.04
34	6	7	Fernando Rodríguez	Peru	1:02.27
35	7	7	Alejandro Alvizuri	Peru	1:02.63
36	2	7	Hugo Goossen	Suriname	1:03.77
37	5	7	Erik Rosskopf	Virgin Islands	1:03.82
38	2	1	Salvador Salguero	El Salvador	1:04.99
39	1	7	Ernesto-José Degenhart	Guatemala	1:05.63
40	7	1	Warren Sorby	Fiji	1:05.81
41	6	1	Collier Woolard	Virgin Islands	1:06.86
42	5	1	Joaquim Cruz	Mozambique	1:10.86
43	1	1	David Palma	Honduras	1:13.28
44	3	1	Ibrahim El-Baba	Lebanon	1:13.76
	4	1	Rami Kantari	Lebanon	DSQ
	1	2	Kemal Sadri Özün	Turkey	DNS
	1	3	Andrew Phillips	Jamaica	DNS
	1	6	Daniel Mulumba	Uganda	DNS
	2	2	Alexander Pilhatsch	Austria	DNS

Finals

Final B

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	7	David Orbell	Australia	58.05
10	2	Paul Kingsman	New Zealand	58.19
11	1	Daichi Suzuki	Japan	58.30
	5	Stefan Peter	West Germany
13	4	Ricardo Aldabe	Spain	58.31
	8	Hans Fredin	Sweden
15	3	Nicolai Klapkarek	West Germany	58.56
	6	Frédéric Delcourt	France	DSQ

Final A

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Rick Carey	United States	55.79
	5	Dave Wilson	United States	56.35
	8	Mike West	Canada	56.49
4	6	Gary Hurring	New Zealand	56.90	NR
5	3	Mark Kerry	Australia	57.18
6	1	Bengt Baron	Sweden	57.34
7	7	Sandy Goss	Canada	57.46
8	2	Hans Kroes	Netherlands	58.07