Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre breaststroke
Championship:	2015 World Aquatics Championships
Dates:	2 August (heats and semifinals) 3 August (final)
Competitors:	77
Nations:	71
Win Value:	58.52
Gold:	Adam Peaty
Goldnoc:	GBR
Silver:	Cameron van der Burgh
Silvernoc:	RSA
Bronze:	Ross Murdoch
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2013
Next:	2017

The Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 2 August with the heats and the semifinals and 3 August with the final.^[1]

Records

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

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
2 August	Heat 9	align=left		align=left		58.52	CR
2 August	Semifinal 1	align=left		align=left		58.49	CR
2 August	Semifinal 2	align=left		align=left		58.18	CR

Results

Heats

The heats were held at 11:34.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	9	4				Q, CR
2	8	5				Q
3	9	2				Q
4	7	4				Q
5	9	5				Q
6	7	6				Q
7	9	0				Q
8	7	5				Q
9	9	1				Q
10	7	3				Q
11	9	3				Q
12	7	7			1:00.01	Q
13	8	7			1:00.05	Q
14	7	1			1:00.26	Q
14	9	6			1:00.26	Q
16	8	6			1:00.35	Q
17	8	8			1:00.36
18	9	7			1:00.44
19	6	4			1:00.53
20	6	2			1:00.63
21	6	7			1:00.67
22	8	3			1:00.71
23	9	8			1:00.77
24	8	1			1:00.80
25	8	0			1:00.82
26	6	5			1:00.94
27	7	2			1:00.96
28	8	4			1:01.13
29	8	2			1:01.26
30	6	0			1:01.44
31	7	9			1:01.63
32	6	3			1:01.75
33	8	9			1:01.98
34	9	9			1:01.99
35	5	5			1:02.01	NR
36	6	1			1:02.17
37	7	8			1:02.20
38	6	8			1:02.22
39	6	9			1:02.35
40	5	2			1:02.37
41	5	4			1:02.40
42	5	6			1:02.51
43	7	0			1:02.58
44	5	7			1:02.69
45	4	4			1:02.89
46	6	6			1:02.90
47	5	8			1:03.08
48	5	3			1:03.21
49	4	3			1:03.46
50	5	1			1:03.50
51	4	8			1:03.66
52	4	1			1:03.80
53	4	2			1:03.84
54	5	9			1:03.91
55	4	9			1:04.03
56	4	6			1:04.28
57	4	5			1:04.30
58	4	7			1:04.45
59	3	3			1:05.86
60	3	4			1:06.14
61	3	6			1:06.49
62	4	0			1:06.65
63	3	0			1:07.19
64	3	5			1:07.28
65	3	7			1:07.29
66	3	8			1:07.34
67	3	9			1:08.22
68	3	2			1:08.36
69	2	5			1:08.39
70	5	0			1:09.08
71	2	6			1:09.59
72	2	2			1:13.12
73	2	4			1:14.02
74	1	4			1:16.13
75	2	1			1:18.21
76	2	8			1:55.91
	3	1
	1	3
	1	5
	2	3
	2	7

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 2 August at 18:35.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			58.49	Q, CR
2	6			58.96	Q, NR
3	3			59.63	Q
4	5			59.75	Q
5	7			59.88
6	2			1:00.31
7	1			1:00.43
8	8			1:00.62

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4			58.18	Q, CR
2	5			59.39	Q
3	6			59.60	Q, NR
4	2			59.66	Q
5	7			59.86
6	3			59.89
7	1			1:00.14
8	8			1:00.19

Final

The final was held on 3 August at 17:32.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			58.52
	5			58.59
	8			59.09
4	6			59.42
5	1			59.44
6	3			59.56
7	2			59.84
8	7

Notes and References

1. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000020A00FFFFFFFFFFFF01 Start list
2. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000020A00FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Heats results
3. http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000020A01FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Semifinals results
4. http://omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010F020000020A02FFFFFFFFFFFF02 Final results