2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre individual medley explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre individual medley
Competition:	2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Venue:	Hangzhou Sports Park Stadium
Dates:	13 December (heats and semifinals) 14 December (final)
Competitors:	38
Win Value:	50.63
Gold:	Kliment Kolesnikov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Marco Orsi
Silvernoc:	ITA
Bronze:	Michael Andrew
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2016
Next:	2021

The men's 100 metre individual medley competition of the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 13 and 14 December 2018.^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Vladimir Morozov		50.26	Eindhoven	28 September 2018
Championship record	Markus Deibler		50.66	Doha	7 December 2014

The following new records were set during this competition:

The heats were started on 13 December at 9:30.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	4	4	51.50	Q
2	2	4	51.69	Q
3	3	5	51.86	Q
4	4	6	52.12	Q
5	4	5	52.15	Q
6	2	5	52.31	Q
7	3	4	52.33	Q
8	3	3	52.35	Q
9	4	3	52.38	Q
10	3	7	52.52	Q
11	4	2	52.78	Q
12	2	7	53.09	Q
13	3	2	53.31	Q
14	2	3	53.50	Q
15	2	2	53.51	Q
16	4	7	53.64	Q
17	4	1	53.67
18	2	1	53.82
19	2	6	53.90
20	3	1	53.97
21	2	8	54.29
22	3	8	54.44
23	4	0	54.48
24	4	9	54.72
25	2	0	54.78
26	4	8	55.05
27	1	4	55.69
28	3	9	55.76
29	2	9	56.47
30	1	7	56.56
31	1	3	56.75
32	1	8	56.77
33	1	1	58.04
34	1	6	59.56
35	1	2
	1	5
	3	0
	3	6

The semifinals were started on 13 December at 19:14.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
1	5	51.42	Q
2	4	51.44	Q
3	3	51.92	Q
4	6	52.31	Q
5	2	52.33	Q
6	7	52.51
7	8	52.69
7	1	53.02

The final was held on 14 December at 19:13.^[4]