# Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre butterfly

The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Pablo Morales (USA) | 52.84 | Orlando, United States | 23 June 1986 |
| Olympic record | Anthony Nesty (SUR) | 53.00 | Seoul, South Korea | 21 September 1988 |

## Results
### Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 4 | Pablo Morales | United States | 53.59 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | 3 | Rafał Szukała | Poland | 53.60 | Q |
| 3 | 9 | 4 | Anthony Nesty | Suriname | 53.89 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 5 | Marcel Gery | Canada | 53.94 | Q |
| 5 | 9 | 7 | Pavlo Khnykin | Unified Team | 54.02 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 8 | Martín López-Zubero | Spain | 54.04 | Q, NR |
| 7 | 9 | 2 | Vladislav Kulikov | Unified Team | 54.23 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 4 | Melvin Stewart | United States | 54.26 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 7 | Bruno Gutzeit | France | 54.35 | q |
| 10 | 6 | 8 | Christian Keller | Germany | 54.47 | q |
| 11 | 7 | 5 | Shen Jianqiang | China | 54.53 | q |
| 12 | 8 | 7 | Jani Sievinen | Finland | 54.57 | q |
| 13 | 8 | 2 | Martin Herrmann | Germany | 54.59 | q |
| 14 | 9 | 3 | Jon Sieben | Australia | 54.67 | q |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Tom Ponting | Canada | 54.77 | q |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | José Carlos Souza | Brazil | 54.78 | q |
| 17 | 8 | 1 | Andrew Baildon | Australia | 54.80 | |
| 18 | 7 | 1 | Eduardo Piccinini | Brazil | 54.87 | |
| 19 | 8 | 6 | Richard Leishman | Great Britain | 54.96 | |
| 20 | 6 | 1 | Eran Groumi | Israel | 55.18 | |
| 20 | 6 | 4 | Keiichi Kawanaka | Japan | 55.18 | |
| 22 | 9 | 1 | Franck Esposito | France | 55.26 | |
| 23 | 7 | 8 | Leonardo Michelotti | Italy | 55.28 | |
| 24 | 7 | 6 | Uğur Taner | Turkey | 55.31 | |
| 25 | 5 | 2 | Nicholas Sanders | New Zealand | 55.44 | |
| 26 | 5 | 5 | Craig Jackson | South Africa | 55.45 | |
| 26 | 6 | 3 | Alexander Brandl | Austria | 55.45 | |
| 28 | 6 | 5 | Guy Callaghan | New Zealand | 55.49 | |
| 29 | 9 | 8 | Jaime Fernández | Spain | 55.62 | |
| 30 | 5 | 8 | Aldo Suurväli | Estonia | 55.78 | NR |
| 31 | 5 | 7 | Vesa Hanski | Finland | 55.81 | |
| 32 | 4 | 8 | Dragomir Markov | Bulgaria | 55.85 | NR |
| 33 | 9 | 6 | Artūrs Jakovļevs | Latvia | 55.95 | |
| 34 | 5 | 4 | Tomohiro Miyoshi | Japan | 55.98 | |
| 35 | 6 | 2 | Péter Horváth | Hungary | 56.09 | |
| 36 | 4 | 5 | Joseph Eric Buhain | Philippines | 56.19 | |
| 37 | 5 | 3 | Giovanni Linscheer | Suriname | 56.20 | |
| 38 | 8 | 8 | Can Ergenekan | Turkey | 56.30 | |
| 39 | 4 | 3 | Arthur Li Kai Yien | Hong Kong | 56.47 | |
| 40 | 5 | 1 | Marco Braida | Italy | 56.50 | |
| 41 | 3 | 7 | Simon Wainwright | Great Britain | 56.53 | |
| 42 | 4 | 4 | Matjaž Kozelj | Slovenia | 56.65 | |
| 43 | 6 | 6 | Kire Filipovski | Independent Olympic Participants | 56.68 | |
| 44 | 1 | 1 | Janko Gojković | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 56.81 | NR |
| 45 | 4 | 7 | Khristian Minkovski | Bulgaria | 56.94 | |
| 46 | 4 | 6 | Miguel Cabrita | Portugal | 57.07 | |
| 47 | 6 | 7 | Rudi Dollmayer | Sweden | 57.27 | |
| 48 | 4 | 1 | Duncan Todd | Hong Kong | 57.29 | |
| 49 | 3 | 5 | Patrick Sagisi | Guam | 58.08 | |
| 50 | 3 | 3 | Kristan Singleton | Virgin Islands | 58.20 | |
| 51 | 3 | 7 | Gary Tan | Singapore | 58.21 | |
| 52 | 3 | 4 | Musa Bakare | Nigeria | 58.36 | |
| 53 | 3 | 1 | Pedro Lima | Angola | 58.37 | |
| 54 | 3 | 8 | Leo Najera | Philippines | 58.50 | |
| 55 | 5 | 6 | Konrad Gałka | Poland | 58.86 | |
| 56 | 2 | 7 | Ian Steed Raynor | Bermuda | 59.03 | |
| 57 | 2 | 2 | Plutarco Castellanos | Honduras | 59.68 | |
| 57 | 2 | 4 | Gustavo Bucaro | Guatemala | 59.68 | |
| 59 | 2 | 5 | Timothy Eneas | Bahamas | 1:00.11 | |
| 60 | 2 | 3 | Jarrah Al-Asmawi | Kuwait | 1:00.77 | |
| 61 | 2 | 8 | Ziyad Kashmiri | Saudi Arabia | 1:01.00 | |
| 62 | 1 | 3 | Ray Flores | Guam | 1:01.10 | |
| 63 | 2 | 6 | Luis Héctor Medina | Bolivia | 1:01.14 | |
| 64 | 1 | 5 | Alan Espínola | Paraguay | 1:01.38 | |
| 65 | 1 | 4 | Julian Bolling | Sri Lanka | 1:01.63 | |
| 66 | 1 | 2 | Mohamed Khamis | United Arab Emirates | 1:01.72 | |
| 67 | 1 | 6 | Salvador Jiménez | Honduras | 1:03.76 | |
| 68 | 1 | 7 | Carl Probert | Fiji | 1:04.10 | |
| | 1 | 1 | Rhoderick McGown | Zimbabwe | DSQ | |
| | 3 | 2 | Ricardo Busquets | Puerto Rico | DNS | |
| | 4 | 2 | Tamás Vajda | Hungary | DNS | |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 9 | 5 | Christian Keller | Germany | 54.30 |
| 10 | 7 | Jon Sieben | Australia | 54.73 |
| 11 | 4 | Bruno Gutzeit | France | 54.80 |
| 12 | 8 | José Carlos Souza | Brazil | 54.85 |
| 13 | 6 | Jani Sievinen | Finland | 54.93 |
| 14 | 2 | Martin Herrmann | Germany | 54.94 |
| 15 | 3 | Shen Jianqiang | China | 54.96 |
| 16 | 1 | Tom Ponting | Canada | 55.00 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Pablo Morales | United States | 53.32 | |
| | 5 | Rafał Szukała | Poland | 53.35 | NR |
| | 3 | Anthony Nesty | Suriname | 53.41 | |
| 4 | 2 | Pavlo Khnykin | Unified Team | 53.81 | |
| 5 | 8 | Melvin Stewart | United States | 54.04 | |
| 6 | 6 | Marcel Gery | Canada | 54.18 | |
| 7 | 7 | Martín López-Zubero | Spain | 54.19 | |
| 8 | 1 | Vladislav Kulikov | Unified Team | 54.25 | |