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

Men's 50-metre freestyle at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue	Rod Laver Arena
Dates	30 March 2007 (heats, semi-finals) 31 March 2007 (final)
Competitors	191 from 122 nations
Winning time	21.88 seconds
Medalists
Ben Wildman-Tobriner    United States   Cullen Jones    United States   Stefan Nystrand    Sweden
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The men's 50-metre freestyle event was the 28th event contested of the swimming events at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships at the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia. The heats were held in the morning session of the meet on 30 March 2007, with the semi-finals in the evening session of the same day. The final was held on the evening of 31 March 2007.

Records[]

Prior to the championships, the following world and World Championship records were listed by FINA.

World record
21.64	Alexander Popov (RUS)	Moscow, Russia	16 June 2000
Championship record
21.69	Roland Schoeman (RSA)	Montreal, Canada	30 July 2005

Heats[]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	23	4	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	22.03
2	23	5	Eamon Sullivan	Australia	22.06
3	24	4	Cullen Jones	USA	22.09
4	23	6	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	22.12
5	24	3	Ben Wildman-Tobriner	USA	22.20
6	22	2	César Cielo Filho	Brazil	22.25
7	23	2	Alain Bernard	France	22.26
8	24	5	Frédérick Bousquet	France	22.33
8	24	2	Eduard Lorente Ginesta	Spain	22.33
10	22	5	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.34
11	24	1	Jernej Godec	Slovenia	22.39
12	23	7	Petter Stymne	Sweden	22.46
13	24	6	Brent Hayden	Canada	22.50
14	23	3	Ashley Callus	Australia	22.55
15	21	8	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	22.60
16	22	3	Salim Iles	Algeria	22.63
17	24	8	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	22.64
18	23	8		Japan	22.66
19	21	5	Simon Burnett	Great Britain	22.69
20	21	2	Matti Rajakylä	Finland	22.73
21	21	4	Andrey Grechin	Russia	22.76
22	22	8	Apostolos Tsagkarakis	Greece	22.77
23	24	7	Rafed-Zyad Almasri	Syria	22.82
24	22	6	Yevgeny Lagunov	Russia	22.83
24	23	1	Matthew Rose	Canada	22.83
26	18	6		Croatia	22.86
27	22	1	Cai Li	China	22.98
28	22	7	Rolandas Gimbutis	Lithuania	23.00
29	21	7	Jakob Andkjær	Denmark	23.01
30	18	3	Octavian Guţu	Romania	23.06
31	18	5	Jacinto Ayala	Dominican Republic	23.09
32	21	6	Yoris Grandjean	Belgium	23.10
33	19	3	Stanislau Neviarouski	Belarus	23.13
34	20	6	Lorenzo Vismara	Italy	23.16
35	19	1	Octavio Alesi	Venezuela	23.18
36	17	2	Camilo Becerra	Colombia	23.25
37	17	3	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	23.30
37	21	1	Norbert Trandafir	Romania	23.30
39	19	7	Mark Herring	New Zealand	23.32
40	18	1	Mario Todorovic	Croatia	23.33
40	20	1	Paul Kutscher	Uruguay	23.33
42	15	8	David Dunford	Kenya	23.35
43	19	6	Jere Hård	Finland	23.36
44	20	2	Yuriy Yegoshin	Ukraine	23.37
44	20	7	Karel Novy	Switzerland	23.37
46	17	4		Switzerland	23.43
46	19	2	Nicolas Oliveira	Brazil	23.43
48	20	8		Germany	23.44
49	17	1		Norway	23.50
49	20	3	Gabriel Melconian	Uruguay	23.50
51	18	2	Josh Laban	Virgin Islands	23.64
52	17	8	Alexandr Sklyar	Kazakhstan	23.69
53	20	4	Shi Yang	China	23.73
54	18	4	Vitaly Khan	Kazakhstan	23.74
55	16	4		Japan	23.76
55	19	8	Ravil Nachaev	Uzbekistan	23.76
57	17	6	Terrence Haynes	Barbados	23.80
58	17	7	Carl Probert	Fiji	23.84
59	19	5		Cyprus	23.85
60	18	7	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	23.97
61	19	4	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda	23.98
62	16	1	Martyn Forde	Barbados	23.99
63	14	6	Lim Nam-Gyun	Korea	24.01
64	18	8	Shai Liwnat	Israel	24.03
65	20	5	Arwut Chinnapasaen	Thailand	24.05
66	15	4	Virdhawal Khade	India	24.06
67	16	5	Crox Acuña	Venezuela	24.12
68	15	6	Jan Roodzant	Aruba	24.18
69	17	5	Vasilii Danilov	Kyrgyzstan	24.22
70	16	3		Lebanon	24.31
71	16	6	Mohammad Bidaryan	Iran	24.38
72	15	3		Singapore	24.48
73	15	2	Russell Ong	Singapore	24.49
74	16	7		India	24.53
75	14	3		Kenya	24.55
76	15	1	Yellow Yeiyah	Nigeria	24.62
77	14	1		Faroe Islands	24.65
78	16	2	Mikael Koloyan	Armenia	24.67
79	12	1		Andorra	24.68
80	14	8	Kieran Locke	Virgin Islands	24.69
81	13	5		Armenia	24.71
82	10	6		Morocco	24.73
83	15	7		Uzbekistan	24.79
84	15	5	Wei Wen Wang	Chinese Taipei	24.82
85	14	4		Peru	24.85
86	11	5	Luke Hall	Swaziland	24.88
87	13	7	Rodion Davelaar	Netherlands Antilles	24.93
88	14	7		Peru	24.95
89	12	7	Daniel Lee	Sri Lanka	24.99
90	14	5		Indonesia	25.01
91	11	8		Morocco	25.08
92	11	4		Bolivia	25.11
93	12	4	Anas Hamadeh	Jordan	25.13
94	13	3	Obaid Al Jasmi	United Arab Emirates	25.20
95	11	3	Gael Adam	Mauritius	25.24
96	13	8	Christopher Duenas	Guam	25.29
97	10	7		Tahiti	25.38
97	12	2		Grenada	25.38
99	13	1		Paraguay	25.39
99	14	2		Bosnia and Herzegovina	25.39
101	13	6		Bolivia	25.44
102	9	4		Guyana	25.46
103	13	2		Macedonia	25.55
104	9	6		Saint Lucia	25.61
105	12	5		Benin	25.70
106	8	5	Alois Dansou	Benin	25.79
106	9	7	Andrey Molchanov	Turkmenistan	25.79
106	12	6		Nigeria	25.79
109	9	3		Malaysia	25.88
110	10	1		Macao	25.89
111	10	4	Leonel Matonse	Mozambique	25.97
112	12	8		Honduras	25.98
113	10	2	Heshan Unamboowe	Sri Lanka	25.99
114	12	3		Grenada	26.01
115	7	3	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands	26.03
115	8	4		Macao	26.03
117	11	7		Tahiti	26.05
118	8	3		Saudi Arabia	26.15
119	9	8	Adil Baig	Pakistan	26.16
119	10	8		Guam	26.16
121	8	8	Zane Jordan	Zambia	26.23
122	11	6	Genaro Mathias Prono Britez	Paraguay	26.24
123	8	2		Saint Lucia	26.25
124	8	6		American Samoa	26.29
125	10	3		Mongolia	26.34
126	6	4	Niall Roberts	Guyana	26.39
127	8	7		Saudi Arabia	26.49
128	11	1		Libya	26.62
129	7	5		Albania	26.67
130	1	6		Cook Islands	26.75
131	6	3		Swaziland	26.78
132	6	5		Niger	26.95
133	7	7	Kyaw Zin	Myanmar	27.01
134	7	4		Palestinian Territory	27.06
135	9	2	Tural Abbasov	Azerbaijan	27.21
136	6	2		Mongolia	27.31
136	7	6	Eli Ebenezer Wong	Northern Mariana Islands	27.31
138	11	2		Kyrgyzstan	27.44
139	4	4		Federated States of Micronesia	27.45
140	7	2		Cambodia	27.55
141	7	8		Palestinian Territory	27.58
142	6	1	Sergey Krovyakov	Turkmenistan	27.67
143	6	6	Stephenson Wallace	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	27.71
144	5	5	Michael Taylor	Marshall Islands	27.83
145	5	2		Federated States of Micronesia	27.85
146	5	8	Prasiddha Jung Shah	Nepal	27.94
147	4	7		Palau	28.29
148	2	8		Uganda	28.30
149	1	7		Laos	28.51
150	5	1		Marshall Islands	28.55
151	4	5		Maldives	28.63
152	6	7	Kevin Cheung	Mauritius	28.80
153	5	7	Ching Maou Wei	American Samoa	29.08
154	2	1		Comoros	29.10
155	4	2		Antigua and Barbuda	29.42
156	9	1	Khalid Rushaka	Tanzania	29.44
157	1	3	Petero Okotai	Cook Islands	29.54
158	3	5		Uganda	29.59
159	5	4		Nepal	29.68
160	3	4		Rwanda	29.88
161	4	1		Maldives	30.14
162	2	5		Ghana	30.27
163	6	8	Abdulsalam Al Gadabi	Yemen	31.25
164	5	3		Republic of the Congo	31.57
165	1	1	Thepphithak Chindavong	Laos	31.67
166	3	3		Northern Mariana Islands	31.78
167	2	3		Ghana	32.11
168	2	2	Boipelo Makhothi	Lesotho	32.29
169	3	6		American Samoa	32.37
170	5	6		Sierra Leone	32.41
171	4	3		Republic of the Congo	33.15
172	1	2		Burkina Faso	33.91
173	2	6		Burkina Faso	34.42
174	8	1		Sierra Leone	38.00
175	3	2	Lehlohonolo Moromella	Lesotho	38.06
–	2	4		Comoros	DNS
–	2	7	Milorad Čavić	Serbia	DNS
–	3	1		Mauritania	DNS
–	3	7	Alisher Chingizov	Tajikistan	DNS
–	3	8		Mauritania	DNS
–	4	6		Sudan	DNS
–	4	8		Niger	DNS
–	7	1		Togo	DNS
–	9	5	Joao Matias	Angola	DNS
–	13	4	Joao Aguiar	Angola	DNS
–	16	8		Tanzania	DNS
–	21	3	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	DNS
–	22	4	Oleksandr Volynets	Ukraine	DNS
–	1	4	Jackson Niyomugabo	Rwanda	DSQ
–	1	5		Burundi	DSQ
–	10	5	Chakyl Camal	Mozambique	DSQ

Semi-finals[]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	21.99
2	2	5	Cullen Jones	United States	22.00
3	1	3	César Cielo Filho	Brazil	22.09	SA
4	2	4	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	22.13
5	1	4	Eamon Sullivan	Australia	22.19
6	2	3	Ben Wildman-Tobriner	United States	22.23
7	1	2	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.24
8	2	1	Brent Hayden	Canada	22.31
9	2	2	Eduardo Lorente	Spain	22.40
9	2	6	Alain Bernard	France	22.40
11	2	8	Gerhard Zandberg	South Africa	22.44
12	1	6	Frédérick Bousquet	France	22.50
13	1	8	Salim Iles	Algeria	22.56
14	2	7	Jernej Godec	Slovenia	22.59
15	1	1	Ashley Callus	Australia	22.63
16	1	7	Petter Stymne	Sweden	22.64

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	7	Ben Wildman-Tobriner	United States	21.88
	5	Cullen Jones	United States	21.94
	4	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	21.97
4	6	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	22.00
5	2	Eamon Sullivan	Australia	22.05
6	3	César Cielo Filho	Brazil	22.12
7	1	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.16
8	8	Brent Hayden	Canada	22.28

References[]

• "12th FINA World Championships: Melbourne 2007: Men's 50m Freestyle: Heats: Official Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2007.
• "12th FINA World Championships: Melbourne 2007: Men's 50m Freestyle: Semifinals: Official Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 June 2007.
• "12th FINA World Championships: Melbourne 2007: Men's 50m Freestyle: Final: Official Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2007.