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Date: 24 July 1976 / 24 July 1976 / 25 July 1976
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Jim Montgomery | USA | 49.99 |
| 2 | Jack Babashoff | USA | 50.81 |
| 3 | Peter Nocke | FRG | 51.31 |
| 4 | Klaus Steinbach | FRG | 51.68 |
| 5 | Marcello Guarducci | ITA | 51.70 |
| 6 | Joe Bottom | USA | 51.79 |
| 7 | Vladimir Bure | URS | 52.03 |
| 8 | Andrei Krylov | URS | 52.15 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Michel Rousseau | FRA | 52.36 |
| 10 | Roberto Pangaro | ITA | 52.68 |
| 11 | Stephen Pickell | CAN | 52.89 |
| 12 | Rene Ecuyer | FRA | 52.92 |
| 13 | Gary MacDonald | CAN | 52.96 |
| 14 | Andrey Bogdanov | URS | 53.05 |
| 15 | Martin Smith | GBR | 53.11 |
| 16 | Svante Rasmuson | SWE | 53.34 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Kevin Burns | GBR | 53.23 |
| 18 | Glen Patching | AUS | 53.29 |
| 19 | Bruce Robertson | CAN | 53.37 |
| 20 | Peter Coughlan | AUS | 53.49 |
| 21 | Ramon Volcan | VEN | 53.53 |
| 22 | Fritz Warncke | NOR | 53.55 |
| 23 | Dan Larsson | SWE | 53.81 |
| 24 | Stefan Gheorghiev | BUL | 53.85 |
| 25 | Jorge Delgado Jr. | ECU | 53.91 |
| 26 | Roger Pyttel | GDR | 53.93 |
| 27 | Neil Rogers | AUS | 53.96 |
| 28 | Dirk Braunleder | FRG | 54.04 |
| 29 | Jorge Comas | ESP | 54.05 |
| 30 | Gianni Versari | PAN | 54.11 |
| 31 | Mark Anthony Crocker | HKG | 54.14 |
| 32 | Paul Jouanneau | BRA | 54.49 |
| 33 | Helmunt Levy | COL | 54.60 |
| 34 | Kozo Higuchi | JPN | 54.67 |
| 35 | Fernando Canales | PUR | 55.31 |
| 36 | Steven Newkirk | ISV | 55.43 |
| 37 | Jose Gomes Pereira | POR | 55.46 |
| 38 | Kris Sumono | INA | 55.50 |
| 39 | Gerardo Rosario | PHI | 56.00 |
| 40 | Sigurdur Olafsson | ISL | 56.01 |
| 41 | Campari Knoepffler | NCA | 58.48 |
| Did not start | |||
| John Ebito | NGR | ||
| Gerardo Vera | VEN | ||