Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke
The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 26 July | Final A | Nelson Diebel | | 1:01.50 | |
Results
Heats
Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 7 | Dmitry Volkov | | 1:01.74 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 6 | 5 | Akira Hayashi | | 1:01.76 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 4 | Nelson Diebel | | 1:01.80 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | 4 | Nick Gillingham | | 1:01.81 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Vasily Ivanov | | 1:01.91 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 5 | Adrian Moorhouse | | 1:02.09 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | 3 | Phil Rogers | | 1:02.10 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | 4 | Norbert Rózsa | | 1:02.25 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 5 | Károly Güttler | | 1:02.28 | q |
| 10 | 7 | 2 | Mark Warnecke | | 1:02.48 | q |
| 11 | 6 | 7 | Todd Torres | | 1:02.72 | q, NR |
| 12 | 8 | 6 | Jonathan Cleveland | | 1:02.73 | q |
| 13 | 7 | 7 | Stéphane Vossart | | 1:02.81 | q |
| 14 | 8 | 1 | Chen Jianhong | | 1:03.08 | q |
| 15 | 6 | 3 | Hans Dersch | | 1:03.14 | q |
| 16 | 6 | 6 | Gianni Minervini | | 1:03.23 | q |
| 17 | 7 | 6 | Andrea Cecchi | | 1:03.28 | |
| 18 | 5 | 6 | Kenji Watanabe | | 1:03.29 | |
| 19 | 5 | 3 | Marko Pachel | | 1:03.40 | |
| 20 | 5 | 8 | Javier Careaga | | 1:03.45 | NR |
| 21 | 5 | 4 | Ramón Camallonga | | 1:03.48 | |
| 22 | 6 | 8 | Mario González | | 1:03.53 | |
| 23 | 8 | 8 | Sergio López Miró | | 1:03.69 | |
| 24 | 6 | 2 | Petri Suominen | | 1:03.75 | |
| 25 | 6 | 1 | Curtis Myden | | 1:03.80 | |
| 26 | 5 | 5 | Christian Poswiat | | 1:03.85 | |
| 27 | 5 | 7 | Kenneth Cawood | | 1:04.02 | |
| 28 | 5 | 2 | Shane Lewis | | 1:04.17 | |
| 29 | 4 | 8 | Andrew Rutherfurd | | 1:04.23 | NR |
| 30 | 5 | 1 | Joseph Eric Buhain | | 1:04.28 | |
| 31 | 7 | 8 | Christophe Bourdon | | 1:04.43 | |
| 32 | 4 | 5 | Radek Beinhauer | | 1:04.88 | |
| 33 | 3 | 5 | Chris Flook | | 1:04.93 | |
| 34 | 7 | 1 | Frédérik Deburghgraeve | | 1:05.10 | |
| 35 | 3 | 4 | Patrick Concepcion | | 1:05.16 | |
| 36 | 8 | 2 | Nerijus Beiga | | 1:05.17 | |
| 37 | 4 | 3 | Børge Mørk | | 1:05.47 | |
| 38 | 4 | 4 | Gary O'Toole | | 1:05.48 | |
| 39 | 3 | 6 | Alexandre Yokochi | | 1:05.61 | |
| 40 | 4 | 2 | Gustavo Gorriarán | | 1:05.79 | |
| 41 | 4 | 6 | Ricardo Torres | | 1:06.05 | |
| 42 | 3 | 7 | Charalambos Panagidis | | 1:06.19 | |
| 43 | 2 | 4 | Jörg Lindemeier | | 1:06.34 | |
| 44 | 4 | 1 | Lars Sørensen | | 1:07.94 | |
| 45 | 3 | 3 | Chi Jia Han | | 1:06.81 | |
| 46 | 3 | 2 | Bernard Desmarais | | 1:07.75 | |
| 47 | 3 | 1 | Abderzak Bella | | 1:07.88 | |
| 48 | 2 | 3 | Christophe Verdino | | 1:07.90 | |
| 49 | 2 | 6 | Roberto Bonilla | | 1:08.27 | |
| 50 | 1 | 4 | Danilo Zavoli | | 1:09.65 | |
| 51 | 2 | 7 | Glenn Diaz | | 1:10.32 | |
| 52 | 1 | 6 | Obaid Al-Rumaithi | | 1:12.77 | |
| 53 | 2 | 2 | Ayman Al-Enazy | | 1:13.49 | |
| 54 | 1 | 3 | Foy Gordon Chung | | 1:13.51 | |
| 55 | 2 | 1 | Sergio Fafitine | | 1:13.76 | |
| 56 | 2 | 5 | Frank Leskaj | | 1:14.28 | |
| 57 | 1 | 2 | Mohamed Bin Abid | | 1:15.12 | |
| 58 | 1 | 7 | Kenny Roberts | | 1:16.52 | |
| 4 | 7 | Pablo Minelli | | | |
| 1 | 5 | Mohamed Mukhesur Rahman | | | |
| 1 | 1 | Mouhamed Diop | | | |
Finals
Final B
Final A
