Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly

Men's 100 metre butterfly at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
Victory Ceremony
Dates	7 August (heats and semifinals) 8 August (final)
Competitors	73 from 65 nations
Winning time	50.56
Medalists
Chad le Clos    South Africa   László Cseh    Hungary   Joseph Schooling    Singapore
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The Men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 7 August with the heats and the semifinals and 8 August with the final.^[1]

Records[]

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

World record	Michael Phelps (USA)	49.82	Rome, Italy	1 August 2009
Competition record	Michael Phelps (USA)	49.82	Rome, Italy	1 August 2009

Results[]

Heats[]

The heats were held at 10:09^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	6	László Cseh	Hungary	50.91	Q, NR
2	7	4	Tom Shields	United States	51.09	Q
3	7	7	Li Zhuhao	China	51.54	Q, WJ
4	6	4	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	51.58	Q
5	8	6	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	51.65	Q, NR
6	7	2	Takuro Fujii	Japan	51.76	Q
7	7	6	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	51.79	Q
8	8	4	Chad le Clos	South Africa	51.83	Q
9	7	1	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	51.88	Q
10	7	5	Tim Phillips	United States	51.90	Q
	8	7	Steffen Deibler	Germany		Q
12	6	3	Piero Codia	Italy	51.94	Q
13	8	2	Mehdy Metella	France	52.07	Q
14	7	3	Jayden Hadler	Australia	52.17	Q
15	8	1	Tommaso D'Orsogna	Australia	52.22	Q
16	6	5	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	52.29	Q
17	6	2	Adam Barrett	Great Britain	52.33
18	5	2	Santiago Grassi	Argentina	52.36
19	6	8		Great Britain	52.37
20	8	8	Evgeny Koptelov	Russia	52.38
21	6	7	Takeshi Kawamoto	Japan	52.45
22	8	3		Russia	52.47
23	7	9	Viktor Bromer	Denmark	52.53
24	7	8	Arthur Mendes	Brazil	52.55
25	6	9	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	52.72
26	8	5	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus	52.73
27	5	4	Alexandru Coci	Romania	52.89
	5	5	Andreas Vazaios	Greece
29	5	1		Switzerland	52.94
30	5	7	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	53.02
31	8	9	Ivan Lenđer	Serbia	53.04
32	3	6	Robert Žbogar	Slovenia	53.10
33	5	0	Jan Šefl	Czech Republic	53.21
34	4	5	Simon Sjödin	Sweden	53.40
35	4	1	Omar Eissa	Egypt	53.68
	6	0	Albert Subirats	Venezuela
37	3	3	Guy Barnea	Israel	53.76
	5	9	Geoffrey Cheah	Hong Kong
39	4	3	Ben Hockin	Paraguay	53.92
40	4	4	Mario Todorović	Croatia	54.00
41	5	6	Glenn Victor Sutanto	Indonesia	54.18
42	3	1		Suriname	54.20
43	4	7		Portugal	54.27
44	3	5	Abbas Qali	Kuwait	54.35
45	4	2	Ralf Tribuntsov	Estonia	54.38
46	3	8		Panama	54.49
47	4	6	Bradlee Ashby	New Zealand	54.57
48	4	9	Esnaider Reales	Colombia	54.63
49	3	4	Tadas Duškinas	Lithuania	54.76
50	7	0	Daniel Ramírez	Mexico	55.28
51	3	9		Georgia	55.37
52	2	4		Tonga	55.80
53	3	0	Ayman Kelzi	Syria	55.84
54	3	7	Raphaël Stacchiotti	Luxembourg	55.96
55	2	5	Ralph Goveia	Zambia	56.34
56	2	1		Morocco	57.11
57	2	6		Bolivia	57.38
58	2	2		Samoa	57.47
59	2	9		Saint Lucia	57.66
60	2	3	Cherantha de Silva	FINA Independent Athletes	57.79
61	2	0	Oumar Touré	Mali	58.00
62	2	8	Boško Radulović	Montenegro	58.10
63	1	3		Nigeria	58.48
64	2	7	Batsaikhany Dulguun	Mongolia	58.57
65	1	4	Pou Sovijja	Cambodia	58.92
66	1	5		Iraq	59.58
67	1	6		Senegal	1:00.94
68	1	7	Hannibal Gaskin	Guyana	1:01.47
69	1	2		Myanmar	1:02.78
70	1	1	Hilal Hemed Hilal	Tanzania	1:03.87
71	1	0			1:04.76
72	1	8	Belly-Cresus Ganira	Burundi	1:07.16
73	1	9		Comoros	1:21.89
	3	2	Hoàng Quý Phước	Vietnam		DNS
	4	0	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago		DNS
	4	8	Louis Croenen	Belgium		DNS
	5	3	Rafael Muñoz	Spain		DNS
	5	8	Mauricio Fiol	Peru		DNS
	6	1	Thiago Pereira	Brazil		DNS
	8	0		Mexico		DNS

Semifinals[]

The semifinals were held on 7 August at 18.35.^[3]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Tom Shields	United States	51.03	Q
2	6	Chad le Clos	South Africa	51.11	Q
3	5	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	51.29	Q
4	3	Takuro Fujii	Japan	51.58
5	1	Jayden Hadler	Australia	52.09
6	2	Tim Phillips	United States	52.14
7	7	Piero Codia	Italy	52.22
8	8	Pavel Sankovich	Belarus	52.63

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	László Cseh	Hungary	51.03	Q
2	5	Li Zhuhao	China	51.33	Q, WJ
3	1	Mehdy Metella	France	51.39	Q, NR
4	3	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	51.40	Q, NR
5	6	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	51.51	Q
6	2	Matteo Rivolta	Italy	51.64	=NR
7	7	Steffen Deibler	Germany	52.07
8	8	Tommaso D'Orsogna	Australia	52.26

Final[]

The final was held on 8 August at 18:13.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Chad le Clos	South Africa	50.56	AF
	5	László Cseh	Hungary	50.87	NR
	1	Joseph Schooling	Singapore	50.96	AS
4	4	Tom Shields	United States	51.06
5	7	Mehdy Metella	France	51.24	NR
6	6	Konrad Czerniak	Poland	51.28
7	8	Paweł Korzeniowski	Poland	51.46
8	2	Li Zhuhao	China	51.66

References[]