Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2009 FINA World Championships
Venue	Foro Italico
Dates	29 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 30 July 2009 (final)
Competitors	211
Winning time	46.91 seconds
Medalists
César Cielo Filho    Brazil   Alain Bernard    France   Frédérick Bousquet    France
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The men's 100 m freestyle at the 2009 World Championships took place on 29 July (heats and semifinals) and the evening of 30 July (finals) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Existing records at the start of the 2009 Championships were:

• World record (WR): 47.05, Eamon Sullivan (Australia), 13 August 2008, Beijing, China
• Championship record (CR): 48.12, Filippo Magnini (Italy), 28 July 2005, Montreal, Canada

Note: During the 4×100 m freestyle relay on Sunday, 26 July 2009, the CR in the 100 m freestyle was bettered 4 times by the following lead-off legs:

1. Brent Hayden, Canada — 47.77 (Heat 3)
2. Stefan Nystrand, Sweden — 47.52 (Heat 4)
3. César Cielo, Brazil — 47.39 (Heat 5)
4. César Cielo, Brazil — 47.09 (Final)

Records[]

World record
47.05	Eamon Sullivan	Beijing	13 August 2008
Competition record
47.09	César Cielo Filho	Roma	26 July 2009

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nationality	Time	WR	CR
30 July	Final	César Cielo Filho	Brazil	46.91	WR	CR

Results[]

Preliminary heats[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	David Walters	USA	47.59	21	6
2	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	47.66	21	5
3	Lyndon Ferns	South Africa	47.79	21	3	AF
4	Alain Bernard	France	47.80	22	4
5	Brent Hayden	Canada	47.83	22	6
6	Frédérick Bousquet	France	47.89	21	4
7	Evgeniy Lagunov	Russia	47.92	20	2
8	César Cielo	Brazil	47.98	22	5
9	Andrey Grechin	Russia	48.13	20	4
9	Nathan Adrian	USA	48.13	22	3
11	Duje Draganja	Croatia	48.18	18	5
12	Nicolas Oliveira	Brazil	48.22	21	1
13	Filippo Magnini	Italy	48.23	20	3
14	Matt Targett	Australia	48.26	20	5
15	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	48.32	21	7
16	Joel Greenshields	Canada	48.43	21	2
17	Matthew Abood	Australia	48.45	19	4
18	Shaune Fraser	Cayman Islands	48.47	18	3
19	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	48.56	10	6
20	Simon Burnett	Great Britain	48.57	20	6
21	Christian Galenda	Italy	48.62	22	7
22	Steffen Deibler	Germany	48.68	19	5
23	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	48.69	22	1
24	Norbert Trandafir	Romania	48.75	20	0	NR
25	Nabil Kebbab	Algeria	48.76	22	2
26	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	48.82	20	8	NR
27	Paulius Viktoravičius	Lithuania	48.84	19	7	NR
28	Adam Brown	Great Britain	48.90	22	0
29	Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or	Israel	48.93	19	3	NR
30	Alexei Puninski	Croatia	49.08	18	6
31	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	49.12	21	0
32	Jason Dunford	Kenya	49.16	22	8
33	Dominik Meichtry	Switzerland	49.17	20	7
33	Albert Subirats	Venezuela	49.17	21	9
35	Flori Lang	Switzerland	49.20	20	9
36	Mindaugas Sadauskas	Lithuania	49.26	16	5
37		Japan	49.28	19	1
38	David Dunford	Kenya	49.34	14	3
39	Jacinto Ayala	Dominican Republic	49.38	11	7	NR
40	Martin Verner	Czech Republic	49.39	22	9
41	Jakob Andkjær	Denmark	49.43	18	4
41	Chen Zuo	China	49.43	20	1
43	Petter Stymne	Sweden	49.47	19	2
44		Ireland	49.49	17	8	NR
45	Alexandre Agostinho	Portugal	49.50	18	2
46	Romāns Miloslavskis	Latvia	49.51	17	9
46	Yoshihiro Okumura	Japan	49.51	19	0
48	Douglas Clark Lennox II	Puerto Rico	49.62	10	3
48	Cai Li	China	49.62	19	6
50	Yoris Grandjean	Belgium	49.75	21	8
51	Barry Murphy	Ireland	49.76	16	3
52	Andrei Radzionau	Belarus	49.90	18	0
53	Ioannis Kalargaris	Greece	49.92	18	1
54		Papua New Guinea	49.94	18	7
55	Marcin Tarczynski	Poland	49.97	19	8
56		Portugal	50.01	16	7
56	Roberto Gómez	Venezuela	50.01	17	3
58		Ukraine	50.04	17	6
59	Virdhawal Khade	India	50.07	19	9
60	Martín Kutscher	Uruguay	50.19	18	9
61		Ukraine	50.22	1	3
62		Cyprus	50.30	15	2
63		Denmark	50.32	17	1
64	Glenn Surgeloose	Belgium	50.37	17	7
65	Mario Montoya	Costa Rica	50.40	13	2	NR
66		Spain	50.41	18	8
67		Austria	50.43	15	8
68	Andrejs Dūda	Latvia	50.45	14	6
69	Dominik Koll	Austria	50.48	17	5
70		Romania	50.51	15	4
71		Uzbekistan	50.60	14	5
72	Kaan Tayla	Turkey	50.62	17	2
73	Raúl Martínez Colomer	Puerto Rico	50.65	15	3
74		Spain	50.66	16	6
75	Vladimir Sidorkin	Estonia	50.71	17	4
76		Hungary	50.73	17	0
77		Colombia	50.80	16	1
78	Daniel Bego	Malaysia	50.86	13	6
78		Turkey	50.86	16	0
80	Elvis Burrows	Bahamas	50.88	12	2	NR
81	Artur Dilman	Kazakhstan	50.88	16	2
82	Terrence Haynes	Barbados	50.95	16	4
83		Colombia	50.96	14	4
83	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	50.96	16	8
85	Aleksandar Nikolov	Bulgaria	50.98	12	7
86	Martyn Forde	Barbados	51.01	15	9
87		Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.08	14	7
88	Branden Whitehurst	Virgin Islands	51.27	11	3	NR
89	Mohammad Bidarian	Iran	51.31	11	5
90		South Korea	51.54	12	3
90	Sebastián Jahnsen Madico	Peru	51.54	14	1
92		Iran	51.65	8	4
93	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda	51.68	12	8	NR
93	Danil Haustov	Estonia	51.68	16	9
95		Malaysia	51.71	15	5
96	Vasilii Danilov	Kyrgyzstan	51.81	15	6
97		Singapore	51.83	13	8
98		Peru	51.85	14	8
99		Luxembourg	51.86	13	5
99	Květoslav Svoboda	Czech Republic	51.86	15	0
101		Finland	51.88	14	9
102		Philippines	51.92	13	0
103		Singapore	52.11	12	4
104	Mikael Koloyan	Armenia	52.12	13	4
105		Hong Kong	52.14	13	1
106		Dominican Republic	52.21	12	0
107		Zimbabwe	52.23	14	2
108	Petr Romashkin	Uzbekistan	52.26	13	3
109		Costa Rica	52.31	11	8
110	Brad Hamilton	Jamaica	52.37	9	0
111	Mohammad Madwa	Kuwait	52.40	15	1
112	Christopher Duenas	Guam	52.45	12	5
113		Bermuda	52.47	9	4
114		Slovakia	52.51	14	0
115	Sidni Hoxha	Albania	52.54	11	1
115	Glenn Victor Sutanto	Indonesia	52.54	13	9
117		South Korea	52.62	10	1
118		Morocco	52.64	11	4
119		Philippines	52.67	12	6
120	Luke Hall	Eswatini	52.79	11	0
121		Chile	52.86	9	6
122	Zane Jordan	Zambia	52.92	10	4
123	Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane	Senegal	52.96	10	7
124		Hong Kong	52.97	11	2
125	Joao Matias	Angola	52.99	9	1
126	Rodion Davelaar	Netherlands Antilles	53.00	12	9
127		Moldova	53.04	11	9
128		Albania	53.07	10	9
129		Guatemala	53.19	8	0
130		Moldova	53.26	12	1
131		North Macedonia	53.27	1	6
132		North Macedonia	53.30	1	1
133		Jamaica	53.35	9	5
134		India	53.41	9	8
135		Netherlands Antilles	53.46	8	5
136		Namibia	53.61	7	6
137		Senegal	53.71	10	2
138		Kuwait	53.72	13	7
139		Morocco	53.86	9	2
140	Rony Bakale	Congo	53.92	8	2
141	Kareem Ennab	Jordan	53.97	9	9
142		Macau	54.11	9	3
143	Allan Gutiérrez Castro	Honduras	54.16	8	6
144	Yellow Yeiyah	Nigeria	54.17	7	1
145	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria	54.28	6	6
146		Lebanon	54.32	11	6
147		Armenia	54.39	8	3
148		United Arab Emirates	54.76	7	4
149		Zimbabwe	54.78	10	8
150		United Arab Emirates	54.83	8	8
151	Vincent Perry	Tahiti	54.88	7	8
152	Colin Bensadon	Gibraltar	54.94	6	3
153	Jean Hugues Gregoire	Mauritius	54.96	7	5
154		Saint Lucia	55.00	5	1
155		Guyana	55.08	6	4
156	Andrey Molchanov	Turkmenistan	55.30	6	7
157		Guatemala	55.34	6	1
158		Chinese Taipei	55.40	9	7
159		Kyrgyzstan	55.45	10	0
160	Esau Simpson	Grenada	55.59	6	8
161		Jordan	55.74	8	7
162	Edward Caruana Dingli	Malta	55.75	6	5
163		Bolivia	55.95	5	3
164		Grenada	55.99	5	6
165	Ronny Vencatachellum	Mauritius	56.00	7	0
166		Palestine	56.05	8	1
167	Shane Mangroo	Seychelles	56.15	4	2
167		Tahiti	56.15	8	9
169		Mozambique	56.29	5	2
170	Sergeý Krowýakow	Turkmenistan	56.59	5	5
171		Papua New Guinea	56.97	4	5
172		Macau	57.35	6	2
173		Fiji	57.43	5	8
174		Honduras	57.52	6	0
175		Fiji	57.64	5	9
176		Brunei	57.96	5	0
177		Bahrain	58.38	6	9
178		Samoa	58.56	4	4
179		Eswatini	58.69	4	3
180		Iraq	58.91	2	5
181	Adama Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	59.11	1	8
182	Michael Taylor	Marshall Islands	59.24	4	1
183		Marshall Islands	59.39	4	8
184		Zambia	59.84	3	3
185		Guam	1:00.05	4	6
186	Adam Viktora	Seychelles	1:00.17	3	2
187		Nepal	1:00.74	4	0
188		Guyana	1:01.05	1	4
189		Bahrain	1:01.25	3	1
190		Northern Mariana Islands	1:01.30	3	4
191		Northern Mariana Islands	1:01.86	3	5
192		American Samoa	1:02.50	2	4
193		Maldives	1:02.64	3	7
194	Prasiddha Jung Shah	Nepal	1:02.68	3	6
195		Maldives	1:02.74	4	9
196		Tanzania	1:07.24	2	6
196		Ethiopia	1:07.24	3	0
198		Burundi	1:08.71	3	8
199		Comoros	1:10.00	2	7
200		Burundi	1:12.70	3	9
201		Togo	1:14.79	2	9
202		Djibouti	1:16.67	2	1
–		Guinea	DNS	1	2
–	Itai Chammah	Israel	DNS	1	5
–		Sierra Leone	DNS	1	7
–	Mamadou Cisse	Guinea	DNS	2	2
–	Leonel Matonse	Mozambique	DNS	7	9
–		Iraq	DSQ	2	3
–	Fernando Medrano	Nicaragua	DSQ	7	2
–	Omar Núñez	Nicaragua	DSQ	7	3
–	Alexandr Sklyar	Kazakhstan	DSQ	15	7

Semifinals[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Heat	Lane	Notes
1	Alain Bernard	France	47.27	1	5
2	César Cielo	Brazil	47.48	1	6
3	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	47.53	1	4
4	Nicolas Oliveira	Brazil	47.78	1	7
5	Brent Hayden	Canada	47.88	2	3
6	David Walters	USA	47.92	2	4
7	Lyndon Ferns	South Africa	47.96	2	5
8	Frédérick Bousquet	France	47.98	1	3
9	Filippo Magnini	Italy	48.04	2	1	NR
10	Nathan Adrian	USA	48.13	1	2
11	Matt Targett	Australia	48.15	1	1
12	Andrey Grechin	Russia	48.18	2	2
13	Evgeniy Lagunov	Russia	48.20	2	6
14	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	48.22	2	8
15	Duje Draganja	Croatia	48.25	2	7
16	Joel Greenshields	Canada	48.73	1	8

Final[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Lane	Time	Notes
	César Cielo Filho	Brazil	5	46.91	WR
	Alain Bernard	France	4	47.12	ER
	Frédérick Bousquet	France	8	47.25
4	Brent Hayden	Canada	2	47.27	NR
5	David Walters	United States	7	47.33	NR
6	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	3	47.37	NR
7	Lyndon Ferns	South Africa	1	47.94
8	Nicolas Oliveira	Brazil	6	48.01

See also[]

• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

References[]

• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Free Heats, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-30.
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Free Semifinals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-30.
• Worlds 2009 results: Men's 100m Free Finals, from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2009 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-30.