Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 50 metre butterfly
Competition:	2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	July 24, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 25, 2011 (final)
Competitors:	56
Nations:	52
Win Value:	23.10
Gold:	César Cielo
Goldnoc:	BRA
Silver:	Matthew Targett
Silvernoc:	AUS
Bronze:	Geoff Huegill
Bronzenoc:	AUS
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 24 and 25. The heats and semifinals took place July 24 and the final was held July 25.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Rafael Muñoz		align=left	22.43	Málaga	April 5, 2009
Championship record	Milorad Čavić		align=left	22.67	Rome	July 27, 2009

Results

Heats

56 swimmers participated in 7 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	4			23.26	Q
2	6	4			23.27	Q
3	5	6			23.31	Q
4	5	5			23.48	Q
5	6	5			23.50	Q
6	7	7			23.51	Q
7	6	8			23.52	Q, NR
8	5	4			23.53	Q
9	6	3			23.63	Q
10	7	3			23.64	Q
11	6	6			23.73	Q
12	5	2			23.76	Q
13	7	8			23.82	Q
14	7	5			23.84	Q
15	5	8			23.94	Q
16	7	2			23.96	S-Off
16	7	1			23.96	S-Off
18	6	7			23.99
19	4	4			24.01
20	7	6			24.05
21	5	1			24.09
22	4	2			24.14
23	4	3			24.19
23	5	3			24.19
25	6	1			24.26
26	4	1			24.29
27	6	2			24.33
28	5	7			24.35
29	4	8			24.41
30	4	5			24.43
31	4	6			24.59
32	4	7			24.65
33	3	6			25.36
34	3	5			25.37
35	3	4			25.41
36	3	8			25.50
37	3	7			25.54
38	2	4			26.05
39	3	2			26.06
40	3	1			26.20
41	3	3			26.22
42	1	3			27.51
43	2	5			28.90
44	1	1			29.02
45	2	3			29.03
46	2	2			29.36
47	2	6			29.58
48	1	6			29.95
49	1	4			30.03
50	2	7	Tolga Akcayli		30.05
51	1	2			30.59
52	2	1			30.64
53	2	8			31.29
54	1	7			36.25
	1	8			DNS
	1	5			DSQ

Swimoff

As two swimmers had the same time in the heats at place 16 they had to participate in a swimoff to determine the last semifinal swimmer.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			23.77	Q
2	5			23.84

Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 18:30.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			23.26	Q
2	5			23.34	Q
3	6			23.41	Q
4	1			23.42	Q
5	2			23.48
6	3			23.54
7	7			23.59
8	8			23.73

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			23.19	Q
2	5			23.32	Q
3	2			23.39	Q
3	3			23.39	Q
5	6			23.48	NR
6	7			23.68
7	8			23.74
8	1			23.95

Final

The final was held at 18:39.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			23.10
	1			23.28
	5			23.35
4	8			23.38
5	3			23.49
6	2			23.55
7	6			23.60
8	7			23.64

External links

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 50 metre butterfly entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly (heats). Omega Timing. 2011-07-24. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120331094341/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2011/shanghai2011/C74A_Results%20(Summary%20-%20Individual)_4_Men_50_Fly.pdf. 2012-03-31.
2. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly (swimoff). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25.
3. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2011-07-24.
4. Web site: 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 m butterfly (final). Omega Timing. 2011-07-25.