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

Event:	Men's 100m Freestyle
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Venue:	Sinan Erdem Dome
Location:	Istanbul, Turkey
Dates:	15 December (heats and semifinals) 16 December (final)
Win Value:	45.65
Gold:	Vladimir Morozov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Tommaso D'Orsogna
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Yevgeny Lagunov
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 15 - 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Amaury Leveaux		align=left	44.94		13 December 2008
Championship record			align=left	45.52		12 December 2012

No new records were set during this competition.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	15	4	47.34	Q
2	14	4	47.43	Q
3	15	5	47.51	Q
4	16	4	47.58	Q
5	14	6	47.63	Q
6	16	5	47.64	Q
6	16	3	47.64	Q
8	2	8	47.76	Q
9	16	6	47.79	Q
10	15	7	47.80	Q
11	2	9	47.82	Q
12	15	3	47.84	Q
13	14	5	47.95	Q
14	16	1	48.04	Q
15	13	1	48.08	Q, NR
15	16	9	48.08	Q
17	14	7	48.15
18	14	1	48.19
19	15	2	48.21
20	16	0	48.25
21	13	4	48.26	NR
22	14	3	48.28
22	16	7	48.28
24	15	1	48.44
25	14	2	48.56
26	14	9	48.70
27	15	0	48.74
28	15	8	48.81
29	13	3	48.87
29	13	7	48.87
31	14	0	48.88
32	12	7	48.97
33	16	8	48.98
34	12	0	49.04
35	12	6	49.06
36	12	5	49.09
36	14	8	49.09
38	13	2	49.11
39	12	3	49.15
40	12	8	49.16
41	15	9	49.18
42	13	6	49.22
43	12	9	49.26	NR
44	2	3	49.39	NR
45	13	8	49.56
46	12	4	49.60
47	15	6	49.62
48	11	4	49.92	NR
49	9	7	49.98	NR
50	13	0	49.98
51	11	3	49.99
52	11	5	50.01
53	11	7	50.04
54	13	9	50.05
55	11	1	50.11
56	11	6	50.12
57	11	2	50.15
58	11	0	50.30
59	12	2	50.46
60	12	1	50.74
61	9	9	50.79
62	8	4	50.83
63	2	1	50.86
63	10	4	50.86
65	10	0	51.04
66	10	8	51.09
67	9	4	51.14
68	9	0	51.15
69	11	8	51.23
70	10	9	51.33
71	10	5	51.41
72	10	1	51.42
73	2	0	51.45	NR
74	2	7	51.57
75	10	6	51.59
76	9	1	51.67
77	8	9	51.70	NR
78	8	0	51.90	NR
79	10	3	51.99
80	11	9	52.00
81	10	7	52.08
82	7	9	52.18
83	7	4	52.20
84	10	2	52.29
85	9	3	52.48
86	8	3	52.58
87	5	3	52.83
88	8	7	53.06
89	1	3	53.08
89	8	1	53.08
91	8	2	53.13
92	6	5	53.26
93	6	8	53.47
94	7	8	53.54
95	7	5	53.67
96	7	2	53.70
97	8	8	53.72
98	9	8	53.92
99	7	6	53.93
100	7	7	54.01
101	6	1	54.11
102	7	3	54.19
103	6	4	54.21
104	9	2	54.54
105	8	5	54.57
106	5	7	54.61
107	8	6	54.71
108	6	6	54.77
109	6	2	54.98
110	1	6	55.62
111	5	9	55.77
111	6	9	55.77
113	5	6	55.79
114	6	0	55.93
115	6	3	55.94
116	7	0	56.02
117	5	5	56.12
118	2	2	56.46
119	1	4	56.51
120	5	2	57.21
120	6	7	57.21
122	1	5	57.27
123	4	4	57.72
124	5	1	58.05
125	2	5	58.28
126	2	6	58.96
127	4	5	59.11
128	4	6	59.31
129	5	8	59.35
130	3	4	59.94
131	5	0
132	4	0
133	4	8
134	3	6
135	4	1
136	3	3
137	3	8
138	4	9
139	3	1
140	3	0
141	1	2
142	3	2
143	1	7
144	4	9
145	2	4
146	1	9
147	1	1
	4	7
	16	2
	1	0
	1	8
	3	5
	3	7
	4	2
	4	3
	5	4
	7	1
	9	5
	9	6
	13	5

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	1	5	Vladimir Morozov	45.79	Q
2	1	4	Luca Dotto	46.83	Q
3	1	3	Tommaso D'Orsogna	46.89	Q
4	2	5	Matt Grevers	47.14	Q
5	2	3	Jimmy Feigen	47.26	Q
6	1	7	Hanser García	47.28	Q, NR
7	1	2	Lü Zhiwu	47.29	Q
8	2	4	Evgeny Lagunov	47.35	Q
9	2	6	Kyle Richardson	47.39
10	2	1	Konrad Czerniak	47.41
11	2	2	Kemal Arda Gurdal	47.58
12	1	6	Filippo Magnini	47.61
13	2	8	Ben Hockin	47.95	NR
14	1	8	Kenji Kobase	48.02
15	1	1	Guilherme Roth	48.03
16	2	7	Mindaugas Sadauskas	48.50

The final was held at 19:00.^[3]

Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110127/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00000100FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218095454/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00000101FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218233551/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00000102FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.