Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2005 FINA World Championships
Dates:	27 July 2005 (heats, semifinals) 28 July 2005 (final)
Competitors:	131
Nations:	91
Win Value:	48.12 seconds
Gold:	Filippo Magnini
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Roland Schoeman
Silvernoc:	RSA
Bronze:	Ryk Neethling
Bronzenoc:	RSA
Prev:	2003
Next:	2007

See main article: Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships.

The men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships occurred on 27 July (heats and semifinals) and in the evening of 28 July (final) in the Olympic pool at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. 131 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 124 swam in one of 17 preliminary heats. The top-16 swimmers from the heats advanced on to semifinals; the top-8 swimmers in the two semifinals heats advanced onto the next night's final.

The existing records at the start of the event were:

• World record (WR)

47.84, Pieter van den Hoogenband (Netherlands), September 19, 2000 in Sydney, Australia.

• Championship record (CR)

48.33, Anthony Ervin (USA), Fukuoka 2001 (Jul.27.2001)

Results

Final

Place	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1			48.12	CR
2			48.28
3			48.34
4			48.74
5			48.89
6			48.92
7			48.99
8			49.55

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1			48.45	Q
2			48.54	Q
3			48.73	Q
4			48.88	Q
5			48.93	Q
6			49.03	Q
7			49.05	Q
8			49.19	Q
9			49.21
10			49.31
11			49.32
12			49.41
13			49.51
14			49.53
15			50.90
16			50.42

Preliminaries

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Note
1			48.97	Q
2			49.04	Q
3			49.23	Q
3			49.23	Q
5			49.28	Q
6			49.29	Q
7			49.31	Q
7			49.31	Q
9			49.34	Q
10			49.38	Q
11			49.46	Q
12			49.59	Q
13			49.60	Q
14			49.64	Q
15			49.71	Q
16			49.73	Q
17			49.88
18			49.89
19			49.97
20			49.99
21			50.01
22			50.07
23			50.08
24			50.20
25			50.21
26			50.23
27			50.24
28			50.32
29			50.45
30			50.47
31			50.51
32			50.59
33			50.60
34			50.69
35			50.71
36			50.77
37			50.88
37			50.88
39			51.04
40			51.06
41			51.08
42			51.20
43			51.47	NR
44			51.66
45			51.67
46			51.75
47			51.79
48			51.82
49			51.87
50			52.06
51			52.21
52			52.56
53			52.34
53			52.34
55			52.42
56			52.60
57			52.72
58			52.74
59			52.82
60			52.88
61			52.95
62			53.03
63			53.18
64			53.27
64			53.27
66			53.44
67			53.49
68			53.50
69			53.56
70			53.63
71			53.75
72			53.84
73			53.85
74			53.88
75			53.92
76			53.93
77			53.96
78			53.99
79			54.02
80			54.28
81			54.30
82			54.56
83			54.57
84			54.77
85			54.86
86			54.87
87			54.95
87			54.95
89			55.00
90			55.04
91			55.42
91			55.42
93			55.53
94			55.84
95	Yan Lin Aung		55.86
96			56.09
97			56.15
98			56.19
99			56.28
100			56.31
101			56.79
102			56.82
103			56.86
104			57.01
105			57.09
106			57.21
107			57.45
108			57.57
109			57.63
110			57.66
111			58.07
112			58.10
113			58.24
114			58.31
115			1:00.01
116			1:00.44
117			1:00.71
118			1:01.19
119			1:02.45
120			1:02.75
121			1:04.22
122			1:04.71
123			1:09.46
-			DQ
-			DNS
-			DNS
-			DNS
-			DNS
-			DNS
-			DNS
-			DNS

See also

• Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle
• Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

References

• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 100 Freestyle heats results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-27, retrieved 2009-09-03.
• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 100 Freestyle semifinals results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-27, retrieved 2009-09-03.
• FINA Worlds 2005: Men's 100 Freestyle final results from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2005 Worlds). Published 2005-07-28, retrieved 2009-09-03.