2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 100m Freestyle
Competition:	2010 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	18 December 2010 (heats and semifinals) 19 December 2010 (final)
Competitors:	125
Win Value:	45.74
Gold:	César Cielo
Goldnoc:	BRA
Silver:	Fabien Gilot
Silvernoc:	FRA
Bronze:	Nikita Lobintsev
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2008
Next:	2012

See main article: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).

The Men's 100 Freestyle at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 18 - 19 December in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On 18 December 125 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning,^[1] with the top-16 advancing onto Semifinals that evening.^[2] The top-8 from Semifinals then advanced to the final the next evening.^[3]

Records

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Amaury Leveaux		align=left	44.94	Rijeka	13 December 2008
CR			align=left	46.67		13 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Time	CR
18 December 2010	Heats	46.62	CR
18 December 2010	Semifinals	46.01	CR
19 December 2010	Final	45.74	CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	15	6	46.62	Q, CR
2	16	5	46.66	Q
3	15	4	46.83	Q
3	16	6	46.83	Q
5	16	2	46.94	Q
6	16	4	47.00	Q
7	16	3	47.03	Q
8	15	7	47.04	Q
9	15	5	47.06	Q
10	15	3	47.19	Q
11	14	2	47.23	Q
12	14	3	47.32	Q
13	14	4	47.34	Q
14	15	2	47.40	Q
15	16	8	47.60	Q
16	14	1	47.61
17	12	2	47.67	Q
18	14	6	47.69
19	15	1	47.72
20	13	2	47.81
21	14	8	47.87
22	15	8	48.20
23	13	3	48.29
24	10	1	48.53
25	13	6	48.59
25	14	5	48.59
25	16	7	48.59
28	10	7	48.77
29	10	2	48.80
30	14	7	48.82
31	12	6	48.83
32	11	8	48.99
33	1	4	49.04
34	11	5	49.05
35	13	5	49.18
36	12	3	49.36
37	11	7	49.42	NR
38	13	8	49.43
39	12	8	49.52
40	13	4	49.53
41	12	5	49.63
42	13	7	49.66
43	1	6	49.71
44	12	4	49.72
45	12	7	49.75
46	13	1	49.76
47	9	4	49.80
48	10	6	49.83
49	10	5	50.01
50	10	3	50.09
51	11	1	50.12
52	9	5	50.19
53	8	5	50.20
54	10	8	50.30
55	10	4	50.34
56	11	3	50.45
57	11	2	50.50
58	11	6	50.57
59	11	4	50.65
60	9	1	50.86
61	9	8	51.05
62	8	4	51.12
63	8	6	51.18
64	8	2	51.30
65	7	3	51.38
66	9	6	51.64
67	7	7	51.68
68	9	2	51.74
69	9	7	51.93
70	8	1	52.03
71	9	3	52.32
72	5	7	52.64
72	8	8	52.64
74	6	8	53.04
75	7	2	53.07
76	7	6	53.27
77	7	8	53.30
78	6	2	53.36
79	6	5	53.52
79	6	3	53.52
81	5	3	53.60
82	7	4	53.87
83	6	4	53.90
84	8	3	53.94
85	5	4	54.32
85	5	8	54.32
87	5	5	54.35
88	5	6	54.36
89	5	2	54.42
90	4	5	54.43
91	8	7	54.75
92	6	1	54.77
93	7	1	54.78
94	4	6	54.80
95	7	5	55.12
96	6	6	55.67
97	1	2	56.52
98	4	4	56.71
99	4	3	56.82
100	2	2	56.85
101	1	3	56.98
102	4	7	57.64
103	5	1	57.86
104	4	2	57.96
105	3	2	59.48
106	1	5	59.66	NR
107	4	8	1:00.10
108	3	5	1:00.23
109	2	6	1:00.28
110	2	8	1:00.59
111	3	3	1:01.72
112	4	1	1:01.97
113	3	6	1:04.60
114	2	1	1:05.01
115	2	4	1:06.85
116	2	7	1:08.53
117	2	5	1:10.00
118	3	1	1:11.23
119	2	3	1:12.87
	3	4
	3	7
	3	8
	6	7
	12	1
	16	1

Fraser scratched the semifinals, so Dunford (17th) advanced to the semifinals in his place.

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	5	César Cielo	46.01	Q, CR
2	2	4	Fabien Gilot	46.11	Q
3	2	6	Matthew Abood	46.61	Q
4	1	6	Alain Bernard	46.71	Q
5	1	2	Stefan Nystrand	46.75	Q
6	1	7	Luca Dotto	46.93	Q
7	1	5	Nikita Lobintsev	46.98	Q
8	1	4	Nathan Adrian	46.99	Q
9	1	1	Graeme Moore	47.01
10	2	2	Konrad Czerniak	47.08
10	2	3	Garrett Weber-Gale	47.08
12	2	1	Filippo Magnini	47.12
13	1	3	Danila Izotov	47.18
14	1	8	David Dunford	47.23
15	2	7	Kyle Richardson	47.27
16	2	8	Jason Dunford	47.49

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	4	César Cielo	45.74	CR, SA
	5	Fabien Gilot	45.97
	1	Nikita Lobintsev	46.35
4	6	Alain Bernard	46.37
5	3	Matthew Abood	46.40
6	8	Nathan Adrian	46.44
7	7	Luca Dotto	46.68
8	2	Stefan Nystrand	46.81

Notes and References

Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle (heats). Omega Timing. 2010-12-18.
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2010-12-18.
Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle (final). Omega Timing. 2010-12-19.