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Host City: Berlin, Germany
Venue(s): Swimming Stadium, Imperial Sports Field, Berlin
Date Started: August 8, 1936
Date Finished: August 8, 1936
Format: Top three in each heat and the fastest fourth-place advanced to the final.
| Gold: | Ferenc Csík |
| Silver: | Masanori Yusa |
| Bronze: | Shigeo Arai |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masaharu Taguchi | 20 | Japan | JPN | 57.9 | QU |
| 2 | Ferenc Csík | 22 | Hungary | HUN | 58.1 | QU |
| 3 | Peter Fick | 22 | United States | USA | 58.2 | QU |
| 4 | Helmuth Fischer | 25 | Germany | GER | 58.7 | QC |
| 5T | Heikki Hietanen | 21 | Finland | FIN | 1:00.5 | |
| 5T | Draško Vilfan | 22 | Yugoslavia | YUG | 1:00.5 | |
| 5T | Jikirum Adjaluddin | 25 | Philippines | PHI | 1:00.5 | |
| 8 | Mickey Ffrench-Williams | 21 | Great Britain | GBR | 1:01.0 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masanori Yusa | 21 | Japan | JPN | 57.5 | QU/=OR |
| 2 | Shigeo Arai | 19 | Japan | JPN | 57.9 | QU |
| 3 | Arthur Lindegren | 24 | United States | USA | 58.7 | QU |
| 4 | Arthur Highland | 24 | United States | USA | 59.4 | |
| 5 | William Kendall | Australia | AUS | 59.9 | ||
| 6 | Hermann Heibel | 24 | Germany | GER | 1:00.3 | |
| 7 | Oszkár Abay-Nemes | 22 | Hungary | HUN | 1:01.1 | |
| 8 | John Christensen | 21 | Denmark | DEN | 1:01.6 |