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. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld record Championship recordCésar Cielo 46.91 RomeJuly 30, 2009

Results

Heats 106 swimmers participated in 14 heats.

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 12 3 William Meynard Q 2 13 5 James Magnussen Q 3 14 2 Filippo Magnini Q 4 12 4 César Cielo Q 5 12 5 Fabien Gilot Q 6 13 6 Andrey Grechin Q 7 13 7 Sebastiaan Verschuren Q 8 13 4 Nathan Adrian Q 9 14 1 Graeme Moore Q 10 11 4 Gideon Louw Q 11 14 4 Brent Hayden Q 12 12 6 Nikita Lobintsev Q 13 14 6 Luca Dotto Q 14 13 2 Park Tae-Hwan Q 15 12 7 Konrad Czerniak Q 16 14 7 James Roberts Q 17 10 8 Brett Fraser 18 10 5 Hanser García 19 14 5 Marco di Carli 20 14 3 Jason Lezak 21 12 1 Adam Brown 21 14 8 Takuro Fujii 23 9 4 David Dunford 24 12 2 Bruno Fratus 25 13 3 Simon Burnett 26 12 8 Lü Zhiwu 27 11 3 Dominik Kozma 28 11 2 Martin Verner 29 10 6 Mindaugas Sadauskas 30 11 8 Odysseas Meladinis 31 11 1 Jasper Aerents 32 13 1 Stefan Nystrand 33 10 7 Nabil Kebbab 34 10 4 Flori Lang 35 11 6 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or 36 10 2 Ben Hockin 37 11 7 Velimir Stjepanović 38 10 3 Mario Todorović 38 11 5 Jiang Haiqi 40 10 1 Crox Ernesto Acuna 41 9 2 Gabriel Melconian 41 9 5 Virdhaval Vikram Khade 41 9 7 Ryan Pini 44 8 1 Uvis Kalnins 45 9 3 Alexandre Agostinho 46 7 4 Branden Whitehurst 47 7 5 Roy-Allan Burch NR 48 8 7 Sidni Hoxha 49 8 4 Ensar Hajder 50 9 6 Matias Aguilera 51 8 5 Charles William Walker 52 8 8 Ivars Akmentins 53 8 6 Shebab Younis 54 7 8 Amine Kouame NR 55 9 1 Hoàng Quý Phước 56 8 2 Mohammad Bidarian 57 6 5 Luke Hall 58 7 7 Jemal le Grand 59 6 7 Quinton Delie 60 6 4 José Montoya 61 7 2 Kevin Avila 62 8 3 Mohamed Madouh 63 9 8 Phạm Thành Nguyện 64 7 6 Mikael Koloyan 65 6 6 Gerard Baldrich Pujol NR 66 7 1 Christopher Duenas 67 6 8 Andrew Rutherfurd 68 5 8 Esau Simpson 69 6 3 Kareem Ennab 70 6 2 Nicholas Coard 71 6 1 Mahfizur Rahman Sagor 72 5 4 Anthony Clark 73 5 2 Abbas Raad 74 5 1 Niall Roberts 74 5 3 Chakyl Camal 74 5 7 Julien Brice 77 4 3 Sergey Krovyakov 78 4 2 Douglas Miller 79 5 6 Sofyan El Gadi 80 4 4 Omar Núñez 81 4 1 Christian Nikles 82 5 5 Tamir Andrei 83 4 7 Israr Hussain 84 4 5 Shane Mangroo 85 4 8 Mamadou Soumare 86 4 6 Tepaia Payne 87 3 5 Atta Tano Claver 88 3 1 Husam Ahmed 89 3 2 Inayath Hassan 90 2 6 Farhan Farhan 91 3 6 Zangan Gunsennorou 92 2 4 Prasiddha Jung Shah 93 3 7 Shailesh Shumsher Rana 94 3 4 Dionisio Augustine II 95 2 2 Shawn Dingilius-Wallace 95 2 1 Giordan Harris 97 2 3 Fdingue Ekane 98 2 5 Beni-Bertrand Binobagira 99 3 8 Ammaar Ghadiyali 100 3 3 Athoumani Youssouf 101 1 4 Amadou Camara 102 2 7 Kyle Zreibe 103 1 6 Daniel Langinbelik 104 1 3 Godonou Wilfrid Tevoedjre 105 2 8 Janvier Niyonkuru - 1 5 Ahmed Chawali DSQ - 7 3 Brad Hamilton DNS - 13 8 Markus Deibler DNS

Semifinals The semifinals were held at 18:02.

Semifinal 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 James Magnussen 47.90 Q 2 6 Nathan Adrian 48.05 Q 3 5 César Cielo 48.34 Q 4 8 James Roberts 48.49 5 3 Andrey Grechin 48.67 6 1 Park Tae-Hwan 48.86 7 2 Gideon Louw 48.96 8 7 Nikita Lobintsev 49.00

Semifinal 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 William Meynard 48.25 Q 2 7 Brent Hayden 48.30 Q 3 6 Sebastiaan Verschuren 48.41 Q 4 1 Luca Dotto 48.44 Q 5 3 Fabien Gilot 48.46 Q 6 8 Konrad Czerniak 48.48 7 5 Filippo Magnini 48.50 8 2 Graeme Moore 48.59

Final The final was held at 18.35.

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 James Magnussen 47.63 6 Brent Hayden 47.95 3 William Meynard 48.00 4 2 César Cielo 48.01 5 8 Fabien Gilot 48.13 6 5 Nathan Adrian 48.23 7 1 Luca Dotto 48.24 8 7 Sebastiaan Verschuren 48.27

References

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