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

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.

Men's 100 metre freestyle
at the 2009 FINA World Championships
VenueForo Italico
Dates29 July 2009 (heats, semifinals)
30 July 2009 (final)
Competitors211
Winning time46.91 WR
Medalists
gold medal    Brazil
silver medal    France
bronze medal    France
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Records edit

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

World record   Eamon Sullivan (AUS) 47.05 Beijing, China 13 August 2008
Championship record   Filippo Magnini (ITA) 48.12 Montreal, Canada 28 July 2005

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
26 July Heat 3* Brent Hayden   Canada 47.77 CR
26 July Heat 4* Stefan Nystrand   Sweden 47.52 CR
26 July Heat 5* César Cielo Filho   Brazil 47.39 CR
26 July Final* César Cielo Filho   Brazil 47.09 CR
30 July Final César Cielo Filho   Brazil 46.91 WR

* Split from the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

Results edit

Preliminary heats edit

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 Rammaru Harada   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 Ryan Harrison   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 Ryan John Pini   Papua New Guinea 49.94 18 7
55 Marcin Tarczyński   Poland 49.97 19 8
56 Paulo Santos   Portugal 50.01 16 7
56 Roberto Gómez   Venezuela 50.01 17 3
58 Andrii Hovorov   Ukraine 50.04 17 6
59 Virdhawal Khade   India 50.07 19 9
60 Martín Kutscher   Uruguay 50.19 18 9
61 Dmytro Cherkasov   Ukraine 50.22 1 3
62 Alexandre Bakhtiarov   Cyprus 50.30 15 2
63 Emil Dall-Nielsen   Denmark 50.32 17 1
64 Glenn Surgeloose   Belgium 50.37 17 7
65 Mario Montoya   Costa Rica 50.40 13 2 NR
66 Jose Antonio Alonso   Spain 50.41 18 8
67 Martin Spitzer   Austria 50.43 15 8
68 Andrejs Dūda   Latvia 50.45 14 6
69 Dominik Koll   Austria 50.48 17 5
70 Vlad Razvan Caciuc   Romania 50.51 15 4
71 Daniil Tulupov   Uzbekistan 50.60 14 5
72 Kaan Tayla   Turkey 50.62 17 2
73 Raúl Martínez Colomer   Puerto Rico 50.65 15 3
74 Alex Villaecija   Spain 50.66 16 6
75 Vladimir Sidorkin   Estonia 50.71 17 4
76 Zoltan Povazsay   Hungary 50.73 17 0
77 Julio Galofre   Colombia 50.80 16 1
78 Daniel Bego   Malaysia 50.86 13 6
78 Doğa Çelik   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 Juan Cambindo Romanos   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 Hajder Ensar   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 Bae Joonmo   South Korea 51.54 12 3
90 Sebastián Jahnsen Madico   Peru 51.54 14 1
92 Pasha Vahdati Rad   Iran 51.65 8 4
93 Roy-Allan Burch   Bermuda 51.68 12 8 NR
93 Danil Haustov   Estonia 51.68 16 9
95 Foo Jian Beng   Malaysia 51.71 15 5
96 Vasilii Danilov   Kyrgyzstan 51.81 15 6
97 Tan Xue Wei Nicholas   Singapore 51.83 13 8
98 Sebastian Arispe Silva   Peru 51.85 14 8
99 Jean-François Schneiders   Luxembourg 51.86 13 5
99 Květoslav Svoboda   Czech Republic 51.86 15 0
101 Jani Rusi   Finland 51.88 14 9
102 Charles William Walker   Philippines 51.92 13 0
103 Lim Clement   Singapore 52.11 12 4
104 Mikael Koloyan   Armenia 52.12 13 4
105 Cheah Geoffrey Robin   Hong Kong 52.14 13 1
106 Miguel Nesrala   Dominican Republic 52.21 12 0
107 Grant Beahan   Zimbabwe 52.23 14 2
108 Petr Romashkin   Uzbekistan 52.26 13 3
109 José Alberto Montoya   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 Nicholas Thomson   Bermuda 52.47 9 4
114 Norbert Trudman   Slovakia 52.51 14 0
115 Sidni Hoxha   Albania 52.54 11 1
115 Glenn Victor Sutanto   Indonesia 52.54 13 9
117 Kang Yonghwan   South Korea 52.62 10 1
118 Kouam Amine   Morocco 52.64 11 4
119 Kendrick Uy   Philippines 52.67 12 6
120 Luke Hall   Eswatini 52.79 11 0
121 Salvador Mallat Arcaya   Chile 52.86 9 6
122 Zane Jordan   Zambia 52.92 10 4
123 Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane   Senegal 52.96 10 7
124 Yan Ho Chun   Hong Kong 52.97 11 2
125 Joao Matias   Angola 52.99 9 1
126 Rodion Davelaar   Netherlands Antilles 53.00 12 9
127 Serghei Golban   Moldova 53.04 11 9
128 Endi Babi   Albania 53.07 10 9
129 Fernando Castellanos   Guatemala 53.19 8 0
130 Iuri Iazadji   Moldova 53.26 12 1
131 Bojan Jovanov   Macedonia 53.27 1 6
132 Sergej Naumovski   Macedonia 53.30 1 1
133 Jonathan Wong   Jamaica 53.35 9 5
134 Ashwin Menon   India 53.41 9 8
135 Hycinth Cijntje   Netherlands Antilles 53.46 8 5
136 Alexander Ray   Namibia 53.61 7 6
137 Matar Samb   Senegal 53.71 10 2
138 Humoud Alhumoud   Kuwait 53.72 13 7
139 Achelhi Bilal   Morocco 53.86 9 2
140 Rony Bakale   Congo 53.92 8 2
141 Kareem Ennab   Jordan 53.97 9 9
142 Lao Kuan Fong   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 Abbas Raad   Lebanon 54.32 11 6
147 Harutyun Harutyunyan   Armenia 54.39 8 3
148 Saeed Al Jesmi   United Arab Emirates 54.76 7 4
149 Timothy Ferris   Zimbabwe 54.78 10 8
150 Mohammed Al Ghaferi   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 Julien Brice   Saint Lucia 55.00 5 1
155 Niall Christopher Roberts   Guyana 55.08 6 4
156 Andrey Molchanov   Turkmenistan 55.30 6 7
157 Gary Pineda   Guatemala 55.34 6 1
158 Tsung Chao-Lin   Chinese Taipei 55.40 9 7
159 Rashid Iunusov   Kyrgyzstan 55.45 10 0
160 Esau Simpson   Grenada 55.59 6 8
161 Moh'D Aqelah   Jordan 55.74 8 7
162 Edward Caruana Dingli   Malta 55.75 6 5
163 Ignacio Quevedo Bubba   Bolivia 55.95 5 3
164 Nicholas Coard   Grenada 55.99 5 6
165 Ronny Vencatachellum   Mauritius 56.00 7 0
166 Ahmed Jebrel   Palestine 56.05 8 1
167 Shane Mangroo   Seychelles 56.15 4 2
167 Anthony Clark   Tahiti 56.15 8 9
169 Patricio Vera   Mozambique 56.29 5 2
170 Sergeý Krowýakow   Turkmenistan 56.59 5 5
171 Peter Popahun Pokawin   Papua New Guinea 56.97 4 5
172 Chong Cheok Kuan   Macau 57.35 6 2
173 Douglas Miller   Fiji 57.43 5 8
174 Juan Carlos Sikaffy Diaz   Honduras 57.52 6 0
175 Elaijie Erasito   Fiji 57.64 5 9
176 Siu Kent Chung   Brunei 57.96 5 0
177 Omar Jasam   Bahrain 58.38 6 9
178 Jesse Nilon   Samoa 58.56 4 4
179 Quenton Dupont   Eswatini 58.69 4 3
180 Ahmed Salam Ali Al-Dulaimi   Iraq 58.91 2 5
181 Adama Ouedraogo   Burkina Faso 59.11 1 8
182 Michael Taylor   Marshall Islands 59.24 4 1
183 Jake Villarreal   Marshall Islands 59.39 4 8
184 Mark Paul Thompson   Zambia 59.84 3 3
185 Edward Poppe   Guam 1:00.05 4 6
186 Adam Viktora   Seychelles 1:00.17 3 2
187 Shailesh Shumsher Rana   Nepal 1:00.74 4 0
188 Fabian Gregory Binns   Guyana 1:01.05 1 4
189 Sufyan Almalki   Bahrain 1:01.25 3 1
190 Cooper Graf   Northern Mariana Islands 1:01.30 3 4
191 Shin Kimura   Northern Mariana Islands 1:01.86 3 5
192 Wei Ching Maou   American Samoa 1:02.50 2 4
193 Shameel Ibrahim   Maldives 1:02.64 3 7
194 Prasiddha Jung Shah   Nepal 1:02.68 3 6
195 Ali Mohamed Raaidh   Maldives 1:02.74 4 9
196 Samson Makere   Tanzania 1:07.24 2 6
196 Koang Gatkos Gor   Ethiopia 1:07.24 3 0
198 Kwizera Cedric   Burundi 1:08.71 3 8
199 Barouf Ali   Comoros 1:10.00 2 7
200 Nsumizi Alain Boris   Burundi 1:12.70 3 9
201 Kokou Messan Amegashie   Togo 1:14.79 2 9
202 Mohamed Bourhanta   Djibouti 1:16.67 2 1
Lansana Sidibe   Guinea DNS 1 2
Itai Chammah   Israel DNS 1 5
Aiah Emerson Mansa Musai   Sierra Leone DNS 1 7
Mamadou Cisse   Guinea DNS 2 2
Leonel Matonse   Mozambique DNS 7 9
Saif Alaslam Saeed Al-Saadi   Iraq DSQ 2 3
Fernando Medrano   Nicaragua DSQ 7 2
Omar Núñez   Nicaragua DSQ 7 3
Alexandr Sklyar   Kazakhstan DSQ 15 7

Semifinals edit

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 edit

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 edit

References edit