2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 50m Freestyle
Competition:	2012 Short Course Worlds
Dates:	13 December (heats and semifinals) 14 December (final)
Win Value:	20.55
Gold:	Vladimir Morozov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Florent Manaudou
Silvernoc:	FRA
Bronze:	Anthony Ervin
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2010
Next:	2014

See main article: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).

The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 13 - 14 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	Roland Schoeman		align=left	20.30		8 August 2009
Championship record			align=left	20.51		17 December 2010

No new records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	16	4	20.98	Q
2	17	4	21.06	Q
3	15	5	21.36	Q
4	15	4	21.39	Q
5	17	6	21.49	Q
6	15	3	21.50
6	17	5	21.50	Q
8	17	3	21.51	Q
9	16	3	21.57	Q
10	17	1	21.62	Q, NR
11	16	5	21.64	Q
12	15	2	21.67	Q
13	15	6	21.68	Q
14	16	2	21.69	Q
15	16	1	21.70	Q
16	17	2	21.78	Q
17	16	7	21.89	Q
18	14	0	21.95
19	14	1	21.96	NR
19	16	8	21.96
19	16	6	21.96
22	12	8	21.98
23	2	9	22.01
24	15	1	22.04	NR
24	15	9	22.04
24	17	9	22.04
27	15	8	22.12
28	15	7	22.13
29	14	5	22.14
30	16	9	22.18
31	15	0	22.19
32	13	4	22.21
32	17	8	22.21
34	17	7	22.23
35	13	9	22.30
36	14	4	22.31
37	2	6	22.38	NR
38	16	0	22.43
39	14	8	22.48
40	12	5	22.49
41	14	7	22.53
42	13	6	22.57
43	14	6	22.62
44	13	5	22.63
45	13	8	22.70
46	13	3	22.73
47	14	2	22.75
48	12	3	22.90
49	14	3	22.92
50	13	2	22.95	NR
51	2	7	22.96	NR
52	14	9	23.02
53	13	7	23.05
54	10	3	23.06
55	13	1	23.10
56	12	1	23.14
56	13	0	23.14
58	10	6	23.16
59	12	2	23.24
60	11	4	23.29
61	11	2	23.31	NR
62	12	0	23.33
63	12	4	23.36
64	10	8	23.37
65	12	9	23.39
66	9	4	23.41
67	10	0	23.52	NR
67	11	7	23.52
69	12	7	23.63
70	10	7	23.71
71	8	4	23.74
72	11	9	23.75
73	11	8	23.79
74	10	5	23.82
75	17	0	23.85
76	9	7	23.88
77	10	1	23.90
78	1	6	23.92
79	11	0	24.02
80	7	6	24.03
81	2	8	24.10
81	12	6	24.10
83	9	3	24.12
84	9	8	24.18
85	8	2	24.30
86	9	9	24.31
87	7	0	24.32
88	8	5	24.36
88	11	3	24.36
90	8	3	24.37	NR
91	8	6	24.45
92	6	6	24.46
93	9	5	24.52
94	11	1	24.54
95	5	5	24.56
95	11	6	24.56
97	8	9	24.57
98	9	0	24.74
99	9	6	24.80
100	11	5	24.86
101	7	2	24.87
102	9	1	24.92
103	7	4	24.94
104	7	1	24.97
105	8	1	25.02
106	8	0	25.12
107	9	2	25.17
108	1	5	25.27
109	7	5	25.36
109	8	7	25.36
111	8	8	25.64
112	2	3	25.80
113	6	4	25.84
114	4	2	25.85
115	6	5	25.90
116	5	8	25.92
117	6	1	25.96
118	6	8	26.07
119	6	2	26.11
120	5	2	26.13
120	6	7	26.13
122	4	4	26.14
123	1	3	26.17
124	5	7	26.19
125	5	0	26.22
126	7	3	26.23
127	4	8	26.27
128	7	9	26.34
129	6	0	26.49
130	6	3	26.55
131	2	0	26.91
132	5	9	26.92
133	4	5	27.08
134	5	6	27.17
135	5	4	27.28
136	3	6	27.38
137	4	1	27.39
138	4	6	27.46
139	3	3	27.64
140	4	7	27.66
141	3	7	27.87
142	5	1	27.88
143	3	8	28.10
144	3	5	28.31
145	5	3	28.47
146	3	2	28.53
147	3	1	28.86
148	1	8	29.08
149	6	9	29.97
150	4	0	30.06
151	1	1	30.16
152	2	2	30.30
153	3	9	31.07
154	1	7	32.82
155	1	4	32.98
	1	2
	2	1
	2	4
	2	5
	3	0
	3	4
	4	3
	4	9
	7	7
	7	8
	10	2
	10	4
	10	9

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	1	4		20.92	Q
2	2	4		20.95	Q
3	1	5		21.09	Q
4	1	3		21.17	Q
5	2	1	Andrii Govorov	21.27	Q, NR
6	1	1	Josh Schneider	21.28	Q
7	2	5	Marco Orsi	21.37	Q
8	2	6	Federico Bocchia	21.41	Q
9	2	3	Kenta Ito	21.44
10	1	2	Konrad Czerniak	21.46
11	2	8	Kyle Richardson	21.58
12	1	8	Amaury Leveaux	21.62
13	2	7	François Heersbrandt	21.70
14	1	6	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	21.74
15	1	7	Shinri Shioura	21.78
16	2	2	Cameron Simpson	21.81

Final

The final was held at 20:40.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	5		20.55	NR
	4		20.88
	6		20.99
4	3		21.03
5	1	Marco Orsi	21.23
6	7	Josh Schneider	21.38
7	2	Andrii Govorov	21.44
8	8	Federico Bocchia	21.58

Notes and References

Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218110122/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00000000FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20130322080816/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00000001FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2013-03-22. dead.
Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre freestyle (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218095448/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00000002FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.