Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly

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Men's 50 metre butterfly
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
VenueRod Laver Arena
Dates25 March 2007 (heats, semifinals)
26 March 2007 (final)
Competitors160
Winning time23.18 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    South Africa
silver medal    United States
bronze medal    Denmark
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The men's 50 metre butterfly at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 March (heats, a swim-off, and semifinals) and on the evening of 26 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 160 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 152 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were:

Results[]

Final[]

Place Lane Swimmer Country Time Notes
1 4 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 23.18
2 5 Ian Crocker  USA 23.47
3 8 Jakob Andkjær  Denmark 23.56
4 6 Albert Subirats Altes  Venezuela 23.57
5 3 Sergiy Breus  Ukraine 23.61
6 1 Milorad Čavić  Serbia 23.70
7 2 Lars Frölander  Sweden 23.86
8 7 Peter Mankoč  Slovenia 24.14

Semifinals[]

Rank Heat/Lane Swimmer Country Time Note
1 S1-L4 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 23.18 Q
2 H2-L4 Ian Crocker  USA 23.42 Q
3 H2-L5 Sergiy Breus  Ukraine 23.53 Q
4 S1-L3 Albert Subirats Altes  Venezuela 23.59 Q
5 S1-L5 Lars Frölander  Sweden 23.82 Q
6 H2-L8 Peter Mankoč  Slovenia 23.91 Q
7 H2-L3 Milorad Čavić  Serbia 23.94 Q
8 S1-L6 Jakob Andkjær  Denmark 23.99 Q (swim-off)
8 S1-L1 Lyndon Ferns  South Africa 23.99 (swim-off)
10 H2-L1 Ryo Takayasu  Japan 24.03
11 S1-L2 Matti Rajakylä  Finland 24.10
11 S1-L7 Ryan Pini  Papua New Guinea 24.10
13 H2-L6 Andriy Serdinov  Ukraine 24.12
14 S1-L8 Jernej Godec  Slovenia 24.26
15 H2-L7 Örn Arnarson  Iceland 24.34
16 H2-L2 Matt Welsh  Australia 24.41

A swim-off for 8th place should have occurred between Jakob Andkjær and Lyndon Ferns who tied for 8th at 23.99; however, results from a semifinal swim-off in the event are not on the OmegaTiming site, nor in the "complete" result page. Andkjær did advance to the finals, as he swam there, and Ferns did not.

Heats[]

Heat 1
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 3 Milorad Čavić  Serbia 23.71 5 Q
2 8  Benin 27.79 112
3 4  Malaysia 27.90 114
4 1  Cook Islands 28.81 129
5 7  Guyana 28.99 133
6 6  Uganda 31.44 138
7 5  Rwanda 37.82 149
-- 2  Ghana DNS --
Heat 2
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 8 Itai Chammah  Israel 26.07 78
2 6  Uganda 32.09 140
3 3  Maldives 33.52 143
4 5  Yemen 33.97 144
5 2  Sudan 34.14 145
6 4  Congo 34.32 147
7 7 Giordan Harris  Marshall Islands 35.63 148
Heat 3
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 4  Saudi Arabia 28.58 127
2 3  Eswatini 28.93 T131
2  Cambodia
4 5 Chakyl Camal  Mozambique 29.51 137
5 6 Mohamed Sharif  Maldives 32.48 141
6 1  Sudan 34.30 146
-- 7 Stephenson Wallace  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines DNS --
-- 8  Congo DNS --
Heat 4
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 3  Bahrain 27.94 115
2 6 State of Palestine Palestine 28.16 120
3 4  Guam 28.27 122
4 5  United Arab Emirates 28.83 130
5 7 Kerson Hadley  Federated States of Micronesia 29.03 134
6 1  Guam 29.32 135
7 2  Federated States of Micronesia 29.45 136
8 8  Tanzania 32.87 142
Heat 5
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 2 United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 26.59 91
2 3 Hamza Abdo State of Palestine Palestine 27.77 111
3 6  Tahiti 28.15 119
4 1  Saint Lucia 28.36 124
5 8 Zane Jordan  Zambia 28.54 126
6 7  Grenada 28.70 128
7 4  Tanzania 31.94 139
-- 5  Niger DNS --
Heat 6
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 6  Senegal 27.06 97
2 5 Niall Roberts  Guyana 27.70 T109
3 7  Mongolia 27.89 113
4 8 Bertrand Bristol  Seychelles 28.08 116
5 1  Libya 28.10 117
6 4  Kyrgyzstan 28.14 118
7 3 Tural Abbasov  Azerbaijan 28.32 123
8 2  Pakistan 28.39 125
Heat 7
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 8 Erik Rajohnson  Madagascar 26.68 92
2 4  Bolivia 27.09 98
3 3  Saint Lucia 27.16 101
4 7  Mozambique 27.41 104
5 5 Luke Hall  Eswatini 27.47 105
6 6  Grenada 27.55 107
7 2  Ecuador 27.66 108
8 1  Gibraltar 28.17 121
Heat 8
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 5  Singapore 26.39 89
2 4 Javier Hernandez Maradiaga  Honduras 26.75 93
3 2 Jared Heine  Marshall Islands 27.02 96
4 6  Peru 27.12 99
5 3 Fernando Medrano Medina  Nicaragua 27.34 102
6 7  Macau 27.39 103
7 1  Madagascar 27.70 T109
-- 8  Togo DNS --
Heat 9
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 8 Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni  Peru 25.99 74
2 7 Zhirong Bryan Tay  Singapore 26.00 75
3 4  Paraguay 26.19 T81
4 6 Taki M'Rabet  Tunisia 26.34 86
5 2  Honduras 26.36 T87
6 5  Qatar 27.50 106
-- 1  Benin DNS --
-- 3 João Aguiar  Angola DNS --
Heat 10
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 3 Dinko Jukić  Austria 25.11 54
2 4 Ankur Poseria  India 25.13 56
3 8  Lebanon 25.62 66
4 6 Miguel Navarro  Bolivia 26.10 79
5 5  Kyrgyzstan 26.19 T81
6 7  Kenya 26.32 85
7 2 João Matias  Angola 26.86 94
8 1 Anas Hamadeh  Jordan 27.14 100
Heat 11
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 4 Virdhawal Khade  India 25.28 59
2 6 Romans Miloslavskis  Latvia 25.47 T63
3 3 Norbert Trandafir  Romania 25.66 68
4 8  Saudi Arabia 26.04 76
5 5  Indonesia 26.30 84
6 1  Bosnia and Herzegovina 26.36 T87
7 7  Benin 26.89 95
-- 2  Nigeria DNS --
Heat 12
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 2 Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw  Suriname 24.90 49 NR
2 6  Macau 25.22 58
3 3  Cyprus 25.47 T63
4 4  Iran 25.71 69
5 5 Yellow Yeiyah  Nigeria 26.05 77
6 8 Julio Galofre  Colombia 26.16 80
7 7 Maximiliano Schnettler  Chile 26.24 83
8 1 Wei Wen Wang  Chinese Taipei 26.51 90
Heat 13
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 1 Jacinto Ayala  Dominican Republic 24.81 45
2 7 Gabriel Melconian  Uruguay 25.43 61
3 5 Georgi Palazov  Bulgaria 25.44 62
4 2 Martin Liivamägi  Estonia 25.47 63
5 3 Daniel Bego  Malaysia 25.82 70
6 6 Martin Kutscher Belgeri  Uruguay 25.83 71
7 4  Costa Rica 25.98 72
8  Turkey
Heat 14
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 4 Jason Dunford  Kenya 24.41 T26
2 5  Denmark 24.72 38
3 3  Lithuania 24.74 T39
4 6  Israel 24.77 41
5 7 Davis Tarwater  USA 24.83 48
6 2 Adrien Perez   Switzerland 25.20 57
7 8 Oleg Lyashko  Uzbekistan 25.31 60
-- 1 Stanislav Kuzmin  Kazakhstan DNS --
Heat 15
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 4   Switzerland 24.39 25
2 6 Apostolos Tsagkarakis  Greece 24.58 T34
3 1 Camilo Becerra  Colombia 24.74 T39
4 5 Martin Verner  Czech Republic 24.78 42
5 8 Jeremy Knowles  Bahamas 24.98 51
6 7 Andy Wibowo  Indonesia 25.00 52
7 3  Latvia 25.12 55
8 2 Ravil Nachaev  Uzbekistan 25.65 67
Heat 16
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 4 Peter Mankoč  Slovenia 24.06 T16 swim-off
2 1 Moss Burmester  New Zealand 24.55 33
3 3 Adam Pine  Australia 24.60 36
4 6 Dominik Straga  Croatia 24.80 43
7 Paweł Korzeniowski  Poland
6 2 Yauheni Lazuka  Belarus 24.82 T46
7 8 Rustam Khudiyev  Kazakhstan 24.92 50
8 5 Fernando Silva  Brazil 25.01 53
Heat 17
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 3 Örn Arnarson  Iceland 24.02 T12 Q NR
2 6 Jere Hård  Finland 24.18 19
3 2 Mario Todorovic  Croatia 24.41 T26
4 8 Octavio Alesi  Venezuela 24.48 30
5 4 WANG Dong  China 24.50 31
6 1  Italy 24.50 32
7 5 Takashi Yamamoto  Japan 24.58 T34
8 7 Sotirios Pastras  Greece 24.82 T46
Heat 18
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 6 Ian Crocker  USA 23.30 1 Q
2 5 Andriy Serdinov  Ukraine 23.92 7 Q
3 4 Matt Welsh  Australia 23.95 9 Q
4 1 Thomas Rupprath  Germany 24.06 T16 swim-off
5 8 Nikolay Skvortsov  Russia 24.23 22
6 7 Simão Morgado  Portugal 24.44 29
7 2 Todd Cooper United Kingdom Great Britain 24.61 37
-- 3 César Cielo  Brazil DNS --
Heat 19
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 4 Sergiy Breus  Ukraine 23.61 3 Q
2 1 Albert Subirats Altes  Venezuela 23.73 6 Q
3 5 Matti Rajakylä  Finland 23.98 10 Q
4 2 Ryan Pini  Papua New Guinea 24.02 T12 Q
6 Ryo Takayasu  Japan Q
6 8 Rafael Muñoz Pérez  Spain 24.21 21
7 7 Evgeny Korotyshkin  Russia 24.36 24
8 3 ZHOU Jiawei  China 24.41 T26
Heat 20
Heat
Rank
Lane Swimmer Country Time Overall
Rank
Note
1 4 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 23.49 2 Q
2 1 Lars Frölander  Sweden 23.66 4 Q
3 7 Jakob Andkjær  Denmark 23.92 7 Q
4 3 Frédérick Bousquet  France 24.00 11 Q
(scratched semis)
5 6 Lyndon Ferns  South Africa 24.05 15 Q
6 7 Jernej Godec  Slovenia 24.06 T16 swim-off
7 2 Corney Swanepoel  New Zealand 24.20 20
8 8 Benjamin Starke  Germany 24.25 23

Swim-off for 16th place[]

Following the conclusion of the preliminary heats there was a three-way tie in for 16th at 24.06 between Germany's Thomas Rupprath, and Slovenia's two entries in the event: Peter Mankoč and Jernej Godec.

  • 1 Jernej Godec, Slovenia – 23.74 (Q)
  • 1 Peter Mankoč, Slovenia – 23.74 (Q)
  • 3 Thomas Rupprath, Germany – 23.90

As France's Frédérick Bousquet scratched the final, a swim-off to the swim-off tie was not need, and both Godec and Mankoč advanced to the semifinals.

See also[]

References[]

  • Men's 50m Fly Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
  • Men's 50m Fly Heats swim-off results (for 16th place in semis) from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
  • Men's 50m Fly Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
  • Men's 50m Fly Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
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