Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 27, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 28, 2011 (final)
Competitors	108 from 89 nations
Winning time	47.63
Medalists
James Magnussen    Australia   Brent Hayden    Canada   William Meynard    France
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The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 27 with the heats and the semifinals and July 28 with the final.

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	César Cielo	Brazil	46.91	Rome	July 30, 2009

Results[]

Heats[]

106 swimmers participated in 14 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	12	3	William Meynard	France	48.14	Q
2	13	5	James Magnussen	Australia	48.21	Q
3	14	2	Filippo Magnini	Italy	48.36	Q
4	12	4	César Cielo	Brazil	48.41	Q
5	12	5	Fabien Gilot	France	48.48	Q
6	13	6	Andrey Grechin	Russia	48.59	Q
7	13	7	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	48.60	Q
8	13	4	Nathan Adrian	United States	48.62	Q
9	14	1	Graeme Moore	South Africa	48.65	Q
10	11	4	Gideon Louw	South Africa	48.74	Q
11	14	4	Brent Hayden	Canada	48.75	Q
12	12	6	Nikita Lobintsev	Russia	48.78	Q
13	14	6	Luca Dotto	Italy	48.79	Q
14	13	2	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	48.91	Q
15	12	7	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	48.92	Q
16	14	7	James Roberts	Australia	48.93	Q
17	10	8	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	48.98
18	10	5	Hanser Garcia	Cuba	48.99
19	14	5	Marco di Carli	Germany	49.00
20	14	3	Jason Lezak	United States	49.03
21	12	1	Adam Brown	Great Britain	49.13
21	14	8	Takuro Fujii	Japan	49.13
23	9	4	David Dunford	Kenya	49.20
24	12	2	Bruno Fratus	Brazil	49.23
25	13	3	Simon Burnett	Great Britain	49.25
26	12	8	Lü Zhiwu	China	49.26
27	11	3	Dominik Kozma	Hungary	49.49
28	11	2	Martin Verner	Czech Republic	49.52
29	10	6	Mindaugas Sadauskas	Lithuania	49.66
30	11	8	Odysseas Meladinis	Greece	49.71
31	11	1	Jasper Aerents	Belgium	49.75
32	13	1	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	49.80
33	10	7	Nabil Kebbab	Algeria	49.85
34	10	4	Flori Lang	Switzerland	49.86
35	11	6	Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or	Israel	49.91
36	10	2	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	50.03
37	11	7	Velimir Stjepanovic	Serbia	50.14
38	10	3	Mario Todorović	Croatia	50.16
38	11	5	Jiang Haiqi	China	50.16
40	10	1	Crox Ernesto Acuna	Venezuela	50.28
41	9	2	Gabriel Melconian	Uruguay	50.34
41	9	5	Virdhaval Vikram Khade	India	50.34
41	9	7	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	50.34
44	8	1	Uvis Kalnins	Latvia	50.46
45	9	3	Alexandre Agostinho	Portugal	50.71
46	7	4	Branden Whitehurst	U.S. Virgin Islands	50.95
47	7	5	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda	51.01	NR
48	8	7	Sidni Hoxha	Albania	51.51
49	8	4	Ensar Hajder	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.52
50	9	6		Argentina	51.62
51	8	5		Philippines	51.72
52	8	8		Latvia	51.89
53	8	6		Egypt	51.95
54	7	8		Morocco	52.05	NR
55	9	1	Hoàng Quý Phước	Vietnam	52.11
56	8	2	Mohammad Bidarian	Iran	52.42
57	6	5	Luke Hall		52.45
58	7	7	Jemal le Grand	Aruba	52.62
59	6	7		Namibia	52.74
60	6	4		Costa Rica	52.96
61	7	2	Kevin Avila	Guatemala	53.03
62	8	3		Kuwait	53.07
63	9	8		Vietnam	53.10
64	7	6	Mikael Koloyan	Armenia	53.12
65	6	6		Andorra	53.21	NR
66	7	1	Christopher Duenas	Guam	53.33
67	6	8	Andrew Rutherfurd	Bolivia	53.57
68	5	8	Esau Simpson	Grenada	53.85
69	6	3	Kareem Ennab	Jordan	53.92
70	6	2		Grenada	53.94
71	6	1	Mahfizur Rahman Sagor	Bangladesh	54.18
72	5	4		French Polynesia	54.51
73	5	2		Lebanon	54.91
74	5	1	Niall Roberts	Guyana	54.99
74	5	3	Chakyl Camal	Mozambique	54.99
74	5	7		Saint Lucia	54.99
77	4	3	Sergey Krovyakov	Turkmenistan	55.99
78	4	2		Fiji	56.06
79	5	6	Sofyan El Gadi	Libya	56.45
80	4	4	Omar Nunez	Nicaragua	56.76
81	4	1	Christian Nikles	Brunei	57.44
82	5	5		Mongolia	57.52
83	4	7	Israr Hussain	Pakistan	57.69
84	4	5	Shane Mangroo	Seychelles	57.85
85	4	8	Mamadou Soumare	Mali	58.21
86	4	6	Tepaia Payne	Cook Islands	58.59
87	3	5		Ivory Coast	59.70
88	3	1		Maldives	59.98
89	3	2		Maldives	1:01.75
90	2	6	Farhan Farhan	Bahrain	1:01.76
91	3	6		Mongolia	1:01.80
92	2	4	Prasiddha Jung Shah	Nepal	1:01.84
93	3	7		Nepal	1:01.94
94	3	4	Dionisio Augustine II	Micronesia	1:02.41
95	2	2		Palau	1:02.53
95	2	1	Giordan Harris	Marshall Islands	1:02.53
97	2	3		Cameroon	1:02.65
98	2	5	Beni-Bertrand Binobagira	Burundi	1:03.39
99	3	8	Ammaar Ghadiyali	Tanzania	1:03.98
100	3	3		Comoros	1:04.75
101	1	4	Amadou Camara	Guinea	1:06.25
102	2	7		Antigua and Barbuda	1:07.35
103	1	6		Marshall Islands	1:12.52
104	1	3		Benin	1:14.08
105	2	8		Burundi	1:16.00
–	1	5		Comoros		DSQ
–	7	3	Brad Hamilton	Jamaica		DNS
–	13	8	Markus Deibler	Germany		DNS

Semifinals[]

The semifinals were held at 18:02.^[2]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	James Magnussen	Australia	47.90	Q
2	6	Nathan Adrian	United States	48.05	Q
3	5	César Cielo	Brazil	48.34	Q
4	8	James Roberts	Australia	48.49
5	3	Andrey Grechin	Russia	48.67
6	1	Park Tae-Hwan	South Korea	48.86
7	2	Gideon Louw	South Africa	48.96
8	7	Nikita Lobintsev	Russia	49.00

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	William Meynard	France	48.25	Q
2	7	Brent Hayden	Canada	48.30	Q
3	6	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	48.41	Q
4	1	Luca Dotto	Italy	48.44	Q
5	3	Fabien Gilot	France	48.46	Q
6	8	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	48.48
7	5	Filippo Magnini	Italy	48.50
8	2	Graeme Moore	South Africa	48.59

Final[]

The final was held at 18.35.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	James Magnussen	Australia	47.63
	6	Brent Hayden	Canada	47.95
	3	William Meynard	France	48.00
4	2	César Cielo	Brazil	48.01
5	8	Fabien Gilot	France	48.13
6	5	Nathan Adrian	United States	48.23
7	1	Luca Dotto	Italy	48.24
8	7	Sebastiaan Verschuren	Netherlands	48.27

References[]

External links[]

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre freestyle start list^{[permanent dead link]}, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.