Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre butterfly
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 29, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 30, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	66
Nations:	56
Win Value:	50.71
Gold:	Michael Phelps
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Konrad Czerniak
Silvernoc:	POL
Bronze:	Tyler McGill
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 29 with the heats and the semifinals and July 30 with the final.

Records

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

Results

Heats

66 swimmers participated in 9 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	5				Q
2	7	3				Q
3	9	5				Q
4	8	7				Q
5	8	4				Q
6	7	6				Q
7	7	5				Q
8	7	4				Q
9	9	3				Q
10	9	8				Q
11	9	6				Q
12	9	1				Q
13	6	6				Q
14	8	6				Q
15	9	7				Q
16	8	1				Q
17	6	3
18	9	2
19	7	2
20	8	8
21	6	2
22	6	7
23	6	8
24	7	7
25	7	1
26	8	2
27	5	1
28	8	3
29	5	3
30	7	8
31	5	2
32	5	6				NR
33	6	1
34	6	5
35	6	4
36	4	3
37	5	7
38	5	8
39	5	5
40	4	4
41	4	5
42	4	2
43	4	6
44	5	4
45	4	1
46	4	7
47	2	4				NR
48	3	5
49	2	5
50	4	8
51	3	1
52	3	4
53	3	2
54	3	3
55	3	7
56	3	6
57	3	8
58	2	3
59	2	1
60	2	6
61	2	7
62	2	2				NR
63	2	8
64	1	3
65	1	4
	1	5				DSQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:01.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			51.54	Q, NR
2	4			51.69	Q
3	5			51.92	Q
4	6			52.18
5	2			52.19
6	8			52.54
7	1			52.55
8	7			52.67

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3			51.47	Q
2	4			51.56	Q
3	6			51.77	Q
4	5			51.85	Q
5	2			51.97	Q
6	7			52.18
7	8			52.34
8	1			52.44

Final

The final was held at 18:42.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			50.71
	5			51.15	NR
	3			51.26
4	1			51.59
5	6			51.75
6	2			51.86
7	8			52.21
8	7			52.36

External links

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre butterfly entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-29.
2. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-29.
3. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre butterfly (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-30.