Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	1 August (Heats, Semifinals), 2 August (Final)
Competitors	37 from 22 nations
Winning time	48.73
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Ashley Callus    Australia   Ryk Neethling
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Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m EAD	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m EAD	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men
200 m	men
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m		women
100 m
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m		women
400 m
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men
4×200 m		women
Medley relay
4×100 m
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The Men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was held on 1 and 2 August at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world record was as follows;

World record	Pieter Van Den Hoogenband (NED)	47.84	Sydney, Australia	19 September 2000
Commonwealth record		'
Games record		'

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
1 August	Semifinal	Ian Thorpe	Australia	49.31	GR
2 August	Final	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.73	GR

Results[]

Heats[]

The 16 fastest swimmers in the heats qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	49.76	Q
2	3	5		England	50.00	Q
3	3	4	Todd Pearson	Australia	50.07	Q
4	4	4	Ashley Callus	Australia	50.16	Q
5	4	3	Brent Hayden	Canada	50.17	Q
6	3	6		Canada	50.54	Q
7	5	3	Ryk Neethling		50.59	Q
8	4	6	Anthony Howard	England	50.89	Q
9	3	3	Chris Cozens	England	51.17	Q
10	4	5	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	51.19	Q
11	3	2	Alexandros Aresti		51.96	Q
12	5	2	Carl Probert		52.41	Q
13	4	7	Demetris Demetriou		52.45	Q,
14	5	1		Wales	52.74	Q
15	3	1			52.77	Q
16	5	7	Damian Alleyne		52.80	Q
17	4	2	Mark Chay		52.89
18	3	7	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	53.21
19	4	1	Christopher Vythoulkas	Bahamas	53.32
20	5	8		Mauritius	53.90
21	2	2			54.22
22	2	4		Isle of Man	54.72
23	3	8	Roy-Allan Burch		54.86
24	4	8	Jamie Peterkin	Saint Lucia	54.90
25	1	4	Musa Bakare		55.38
26	2	5			55.50
27	1	5		Bahamas	55.56
28	1	6			55.67
29	1	2			56.23
30	2	7		Mauritius	56.52
31	2	6			56.56
32	2	1	Eric Williams		56.74
33	2	3			56.75
34	1	3			57.29
35	1	7		Zambia	58.77
36	2	8			1:00.07
37	1	1		Uganda	1:04.17

Semifinals[]

The eight fastest swimmers from the semifinals progressed to the final.^[2]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4		England	49.72	Q
2	5	Ashley Callus	Australia	50.05	Q
3	3	Craig Hutchison	Canada	50.28	Q
4	2	Nicholas Folker		50.60	Q
5	6	Anthony Howard	England	51.00
6	8	Damian Alleyne		52.49
7	7	Carl Probert		52.82
8	1		Wales	52.89

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	49.31	Q, GR
2	6	Ryk Neethling		49.91	Q
3	5	Todd Pearson	Australia	50.13	Q
4	3	Brent Hayden	Canada	50.45	Q
5	2	Chris Cozens	England	51.44
6	7	Alexandros Aresti		52.35
7	8			52.49
8	1	Demetris Demetriou		52.63

Final[]

The final was held on 2 August at 19:25.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.73	GR
	6	Ashley Callus	Australia	49.45
	3	Ryk Neethling		49.71
4	5		England	49.99
5	2	Todd Pearson	Australia	50.12
6	1	Brent Hayden	Canada	50.17
7	7	Craig Hutchison	Canada	50.40
8	8	Nicholas Folker		51.00

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