Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

Men's 100 metre breaststroke
at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Men's 100 metre breaststroke ; at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	6 April (heats, semifinals); 7 April (final)
Competitors	30 from 19 nations
Winning time	58.84
Medalists
	← 2014 →

The men's 100 metre breaststroke event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 and 7 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
6 April	Semifinal	Adam Peaty	England	58.59	GR

The heats were held on 6 April at 11:00.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Adam Peaty	England	59.14	Q
2	2	5	James Wilby	England	59.80	Q
3	2	4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	1:00.20	Q
4	3	5	Jake Packard	Australia	1:00.29	Q
4	4	3	Matt Wilson	Australia	1:00.29	Q
6	3	4	Ross Murdoch	Scotland	1:00.92	Q
7	2	3	Andrew Willis	England	1:01.13	Q
8	4	5	Craig Benson	Scotland	1:01.63	Q
9	2	6	Michael Houlie	South Africa	1:01.66	Q
10	4	6		Canada	1:01.77	Q
11	3	3		Australia	1:02.17	Q
12	4	2		Scotland	1:02.61	Q
13	3	2		Fiji	1:04.25	Q
14	3	7		Isle of Man	1:04.88	Q
15	2	2		Fiji	1:05.46	Q
16	4	7	Ludovico Corsini	Mozambique	1:05.83	Q
17	1	5	Samuele Rossi	Seychelles	1:06.25
18	3	1	Alexandros Axiotis	Zambia	1:06.49
19	2	8		Mozambique	1:07.29
20	3	8		Bangladesh	1:07.51
21	4	1		Mauritius	1:07.92
22	2	1	Leonard Kalate	Papua New Guinea	1:08.11
23	4	8	Ashley Seeto	Papua New Guinea	1:08.36
24	2	7	Corey Ollivierre	Grenada	1:08.59
25	1	3		Antigua and Barbuda	1:09.17
26	1	4		Cayman Islands	1:09.55
27	1	6	Nikolas Sylvester	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1:11.60
28	1	7		Saint Helena	1:22.77
29	1	2		Saint Helena	1:31.57
	3	6		Northern Ireland	DSQ

The semifinals were held on 6 April at 20:32.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	James Wilby	England	59.69	Q
2	5	Jake Packard	Australia	1:00.01	Q
3	3	Ross Murdoch	Scotland	1:00.07	Q
4	6	Craig Benson	Scotland	1:00.43	Q
5	2		Canada	1:01.47
6	7		Scotland	1:01.62
7	1		Isle of Man	1:04.91
8	8	Ludovico Corsini	Mozambique	1:05.07

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Adam Peaty	England	58.59	Q, GR
2	5	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	59.74	Q
3	3	Matt Wilson	Australia	59.89	Q
4	6	Andrew Willis	England	1:01.29	Q
5	7		Australia	1:01.45
6	2	Michael Houlie	South Africa	1:01.47
7	1		Fiji	1:04.39
8	8		Fiji	1:05.09

The final was held on 7 April at 19:48.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Adam Peaty	England	58.84
	5	James Wilby	England	59.43
	3	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	59.44
4	2	Jake Packard	Australia	59.70
5	7	Ross Murdoch	Scotland	59.89
6	1	Craig Benson	Scotland	1:00.42
7	6	Matt Wilson	Australia	1:00.48
8	8	Andrew Willis	England	1:01.13

Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m S7/S8	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S9	men	women
200 m	men	women
200 m S14	men
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m S9	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m SB8/SB9	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
50 m S7		women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
200 m SM8	men
200 m SM10		women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
v t

v t Commonwealth champions in men's 100 m breaststroke
1962–1966: 110 yards 1970–present: 100 metres
: Ian O'Brien (AUS) : Ian O'Brien (AUS) : Bill Mahony () : David Leigh (ENG) : Graham Smith () : Adrian Moorhouse (ENG) : Victor Davis () : Adrian Moorhouse (ENG) : Phil Rogers (AUS) : Simon Cowley (AUS) 2002: Adam Whitehead (ENG) 2006: Chris Cook (ENG) 2010: Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) 2014: Adam Peaty (ENG) 2018: Adam Peaty (ENG)