The men's 100 metre breaststroke 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 DateWorld recordChampionship recordBrenton Rickard58.58RomeJuly 27, 2009

Results

Heats

83 swimmers participated in 11 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 10 4 Alexander Dale Oen Q 2 9 2 Glenn Snyders Q, NR 3 11 4 Kosuke Kitajima Q 4 10 3 Felipe França Silva Q 5 9 6 Fabio Scozzoli Q 6 9 3 Mark Gangloff Q 7 11 3 Christian Sprenger Q 8 9 4 Ryo Tateishi Q 9 9 5 Hugues Duboscq Q 10 11 5 Cameron van der Burgh Q 11 11 7 Dániel Gyurta Q 12 10 8 Giedrius Titenis Q 13 10 5 Brenton Rickard Q 14 11 1 Hendrik Feldwehr Q 15 10 7 Michael Jamieson Q 16 10 1 Lennart Stekelenburg Q 17 9 7 Roman Sludnov 18 11 8 Andrew Dickens 19 8 8 Dragos Arache 20 8 4 Igor Borysik 20 8 2 Mattia Pesce 22 10 2 Christian vom Lehn 23 8 6 Xie Zhi 24 11 2 Felipe Lima 25 11 6 Mihail Alexandrov 26 8 5 Kristopher Gilchrist 27 7 1 Jakob Sveinsson 28 8 1 Valerii Dymo 29 7 6 Matjaž Markič 30 7 5 Laurent Carnol 31 6 5 Čaba Silađi 32 9 8 Anton Lobanov 33 7 3 Damir Dugonjič 34 10 6 Neil Versfeld 35 5 8 Petr Bartunek 36 7 4 Chen Cheng 37 6 3 Choi Kyu-Woong 38 8 3 Vladislav Polyakov 39 7 7 Hunor Mate 40 6 6 Édgar Crespo 41 7 2 Ákos Molnár 42 5 4 Carlos Almeida NR 43 8 7 Dawid Szulich 44 5 1 Miguel Ferreira NR 45 4 3 Gal Nevo 46 6 7 Lovro Bilonić 47 9 1 Barry Murphy 48 5 5 Malick Fall 49 5 6 Sandeep Sejwal 50 5 7 Tomáš Klobučník 51 6 1 Ömer Aslanoğlu 51 6 8 Jakob Dorch 53 4 4 Jorge Murillo 54 6 2 Martti Aljand 55 7 8 Panagiotis Samilidis 56 5 2 Genaro Britez 57 5 3 David Oliver Mercado 58 6 4 Indra Gunawan 59 4 6 Amini Fonua 60 4 7 Azad Al-Barazi 61 4 2 Nabil Kebbab 61 4 1 Rodion Davelaar 63 3 5 Timothy Ferris NR 64 4 8 Julian Fletcher 65 3 4 Diego Santander 66 3 3 Juan Guerra 67 3 1 Diguan Pigot 68 3 8 Andrea Agius NR 69 3 6 Mubarak Al-Besher 70 2 4 Jordy Groters 71 3 7 Oluseyi Fatayi-Williams 72 2 5 Benjamin Schulte 73 2 6 Wael Koubrousli 74 2 3 Tarco Liobet 75 3 2 Shajahan Ali 76 2 1 Mamitina Ramanantsoa 77 2 2 Indra Rakotondrazanaka 78 2 8 Mamadou Fofana 79 1 4 Fdingue Ekane 80 2 7 Ruslan Oliftaev 81 1 3 Thierry Videgni 4 5 Mohammad Alirezaei DNS 1 5 Mohamed Camara DSQ

Mohammad Alirezaei pulled out of his heat because Israeli Gal Nevo was also scheduled to swim in the heat. Iran does not recognize Israel as a country.

Semifinals The semifinals were held 19:06.

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Cameron van der Burgh 1:00.07 Q 2 3 Mark Gangloff 1:00.19 Q 3 7 Giedrius Titenis 1:00.26 Q 4 6 Ryo Tateishi 1:00.36 5 8 Lennart Stekelenburg 1:00.50 6 4 Glenn Snyders 1:00.59 7 5 Felipe França Silva 1:00.73 8 1 Hendrik Feldwehr 1:00.91

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Alexander Dale Oen Q 2 5 Kosuke Kitajima Q 3 3 Fabio Scozzoli Q, NR 4 1 Brenton Rickard Q 5 7 Dániel Gyurta Q, NR 6 6 Christian Sprenger 7 2 Hugues Duboscq 8 8 Michael Jamieson

Final The final was held 19:27. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Alexander Dale Oen NR 3 Fabio Scozzoli NR 2 Cameron van der Burgh 4 5 Kosuke Kitajima 5 6 Brenton Rickard 6 1 Dániel Gyurta 6 8 Giedrius Titenis 8 7 Mark Gangloff

References

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