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

Event:	Men's 100 metre freestyle
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 27, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 28, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	108
Nations:	89
Win Value:	47.63
Gold:	James Magnussen
Goldnoc:	AUS
Silver:	Brent Hayden
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	William Meynard
Bronzenoc:	FRA
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 27 with the heats and the semifinals and July 28 with the finale.

Records

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

Results

Heats

106 swimmers participated in 14 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	12	3				Q
2	13	5				Q
3	14	2				Q
4	12	4				Q
5	12	5				Q
6	13	6				Q
7	13	7				Q
8	13	4				Q
9	14	1				Q
10	11	4				Q
11	14	4				Q
12	12	6				Q
13	14	6				Q
14	13	2				Q
15	12	7				Q
16	14	7				Q
17	10	8
18	10	5
19	14	5
20	14	3
21	12	1
21	14	8
23	9	4
24	12	2
25	13	3
26	12	8
27	11	3
28	11	2
29	10	6
30	11	8
31	11	1
32	13	1
33	10	7
34	10	4
35	11	6
36	10	2
37	11	7
38	10	3
38	11	5
40	10	1
41	9	2
41	9	5
41	9	7
44	8	1
45	9	3
46	7	4
47	7	5				NR
48	8	7
49	8	4
50	9	6
51	8	5
52	8	8
53	8	6
54	7	8				NR
55	9	1
56	8	2
57	6	5
58	7	7
59	6	7
60	6	4
61	7	2
62	8	3
63	9	8
64	7	6
65	6	6				NR
66	7	1
67	6	8
68	5	8
69	6	3
70	6	2
71	6	1
72	5	4
73	5	2
74	5	1
74	5	3
74	5	7
77	4	3
78	4	2
79	5	6
80	4	4
81	4	1
82	5	5
83	4	7
84	4	5
85	4	8
86	4	6
87	3	5
88	3	1
89	3	2
90	2	6
91	3	6
92	2	4
93	3	7
94	3	4
95	2	2
95	2	1
97	2	3
98	2	5
99	3	8
100	3	3
101	1	4
102	2	7
103	1	6
104	1	3
105	2	8
-	1	5				DSQ
-	7	3				DNS
-	13	8				DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:02.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			47.90	Q
2	6			48.05	Q
3	5			48.34	Q
4	8			48.49
5	3			48.67
6	1			48.86
7	2			48.96
8	7			49.00

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			48.25	Q
2	7			48.30	Q
3	6			48.41	Q
4	1			48.44	Q
5	3			48.46	Q
6	8			48.48
7	5			48.50
8	2			48.59

Final

The final was held at 18.35.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			47.63
	6			47.95
	3			48.00
4	2			48.01
5	8			48.13
6	5			48.23
7	1			48.24
8	7			48.27

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-27.
2. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-27.
3. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-28. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120131223407/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/C73A1_Results%20%28One%20Heat%20-%20Individual%29_119_Heat1_Men_100_Free.pdf. 2012-01-31.