2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 100m Butterfly
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	12 December (heats and semifinals) 13 December (final)
Win Value:	48.82
Gold:	Chad le Clos
Goldnoc:	RSA
Silver:	Tom Shields
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Ryan Lochte
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 12 - 13 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Yevgeny Korotyshkin		align=left	48.48		15 November 2009
Championship record			align=left	50.04		10 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	9	1	50.16	Q
2	1	2	50.49	Q, NR
3	10	4	50.73	Q
4	9	3	50.81	Q
5	8	4	50.82	Q
6	10	7	50.86	Q, NR
7	10	6	50.99	Q
8	9	6	51.00	Q
9	10	5	51.06	Q
10	9	2	51.14	Q
11	9	4	51.15	Q
12	8	8	51.19	Q, NR
13	8	3	51.29	Q
13	9	5	51.29	Q
15	8	5	51.31	Q
16	10	2	51.47	Q
17	2	8	51.50
18	10	3	51.57
19	9	7	51.61
20	10	0	51.70
21	8	7	51.81
22	6	3	51.84	NR
23	8	2	51.89
24	7	0	51.99	NR
25	10	9	52.05	NR
26	8	6	52.07
27	9	0	52.08	NR
28	10	8	52.24
29	10	1	52.34
30	2	0	52.36
31	7	3	52.60
32	6	6	52.98
33	7	6	53.14
34	7	5	53.15
35	8	0	53.20
36	7	1	53.23
37	8	9	53.25
38	9	9	53.32
39	6	4	53.33
40	7	4	53.44
41	7	8	53.51
42	9	8	53.65
43	8	1	53.66
44	6	7	53.69
45	7	2	54.25
46	7	7	54.26
47	6	5	54.41
48	6	8	54.42
49	6	2	54.61
50	6	0	55.11
51	5	8	55.24
52	6	1	55.29
53	5	4	55.53
54	6	9	55.81
55	5	6	56.10
56	5	7	56.57
57	7	9	56.80
58	5	1	56.92
59	5	0	56.96
60	5	9	57.00
61	1	4	57.41
62	3	4	57.89
63	4	5	57.90
64	4	6	58.15
65	4	7	58.24
66	4	9	58.28
67	1	3	58.36
68	3	5	58.50
68	5	2	58.50
70	4	8	58.55
71	4	4	58.69
72	3	3	58.90
73	4	2	58.99
74	4	3	59.08
75	1	6	59.12
76	5	5	59.43
77	4	0	59.69
78	4	1	59.96
79	3	2
80	3	6
81	3	7
82	2	7
83	1	5
84	3	1
85	2	4
86	2	5
87	3	9
88	2	9
89	2	6
90	2	3
	2	2
	5	3
	2	1
	3	0
	3	8

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	3		50.14	Q
2	2	5		50.16	Q
3	1	5	Joeri Verlinden	50.43	Q
4	2	4	Ryan Lochte	50.59	Q
5	1	3		50.72	Q, NR
6	1	1		50.73	Q
6	2	7	Konrad Czerniak	50.73	Q
8	1	4	Wu Peng	50.77	?
8	2	1	Nikolay Skvortsov	50.77	?
10	2	8	François Heersbrandt	50.90
11	2	2	Kenneth To	50.93
12	2	6	Peter Mankoč	51.00
13	1	6	Kazuya Kaneda	51.04
14	1	2	Jason Dunford	51.08
15	1	7	Matteo Rivolta	51.10	NR
16	1	8	Yauhen Tsurkin	51.23

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Nikolay Skvortsov		50.60	Q
2	4	Wu Peng		50.78

The final was held at 20:33.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	5	Chad le Clos	48.82	CR, AF
	4	Tom Shields	49.54
	6	Ryan Lochte	49.59
4	3	Joeri Verlinden	50.45
5	1	Konrad Czerniak	50.54
6	7	Rafael Muñoz	50.76
6	8	Nikolay Skvortsov	50.76
8	2	László Cseh	50.93

Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre butterfly (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110206/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00030D00FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre butterfly (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20121214204010/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00030D01FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-14. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre butterfly (swim-off). Omega Timing. 2012-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130323083802/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00030D04FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2013-03-23. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre butterfly (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110208/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00030D02FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.