Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the 2007 FINA World Championships
Venue Rod Laver Arena
Dates 30 March 2007 (heats, semifinals)
31 March 2007 (final)
Competitors 191 from 122 nations
Winning time 21.88 seconds
Medalists
  Benjamin
Wildman-Tobriner		   United States
  Cullen Jones   United States
  Stefan Nystrand   Sweden
«2005 2009»
2007 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
1 m men women
3 m men women
10 m men women
Synchronised
3 m men women
10 m men women
Open water swimming
5 km men women
10 km men women
25 km men women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
Backstroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Synchronised swimming
Solo Technical Free
Duet Technical Free
Team Technical Free
Combination
Water polo
men    •   women
Main article: Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships

The men's 50 metre freestyle event was the 28th event contested of the swimming events at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships at the Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia. The heats were held in the morning session of the meet on 30 March 2007, with the semifinals in the evening session of the same day. The final was held on the evening of 31 March 2007.

Contents

Records

Prior to the championships, the following world and World Championship records were listed by FINA.

World record
21.64  Alexander Popov (RUS) Moscow, Russia 16 June 2000
Championship record
21.69  Roland Schoeman (RSA) Montreal, Canada 30 July 2005

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 23 4 Bartosz Kizierowski  Poland 22.03
2 23 5 Eamon Sullivan  Australia 22.06
3 24 4 Cullen Jones  USA 22.09
4 23 6 Stefan Nystrand  Sweden 22.12
5 24 3 Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner  USA 22.20
6 22 2 César Cielo Filho  Brazil 22.25
7 23 2 Alain Bernard  France 22.26
8 24 5 Frédérick Bousquet  France 22.33
8 24 2 Eduard Lorente Ginesta  Spain 22.33
10 22 5 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 22.34
11 24 1 Jernej Godec  Slovenia 22.39
12 23 7 Petter Stymne  Sweden 22.46
13 24 6 Brent Hayden  Canada 22.50
14 23 3 Ashley Callus  Australia 22.55
15 21 8 Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa 22.60
16 22 3 Salim Iles  Algeria 22.63
17 24 8 George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 22.64
18 23 8 Makoto Ito  Japan 22.66
19 21 5 Simon Burnett  Great Britain 22.69
20 21 2 Matti Rajakylä  Finland 22.73
21 21 4 Andrey Grechin  Russia 22.76
22 22 8 Apostolos Tsagkarakis  Greece 22.77
23 24 7 Rafed-Zyad Almasri  Syria 22.82
24 22 6 Yevgeny Lagunov  Russia 22.83
24 23 1 Matthew Rose  Canada 22.83
26 18 6 Bruno Barbic  Croatia 22.86
27 22 1 Cai Li  China 22.98
28 22 7 Rolandas Gimbutis  Lithuania 23.00
29 21 7 Jakob Andkjær  Denmark 23.01
30 18 3 Octavian Guţu  Romania 23.06
31 18 5 Jacinto Ayala  Dominican Republic 23.09
32 21 6 Yoris Grand Jean  Belgium 23.10
33 19 3 Stanislau Neviarouski  Belarus 23.13
34 20 6 Lorenzo Vismara  Italy 23.16
35 19 1 Octavio Alesi  Venezuela 23.18
36 17 2 Camilo Becerra  Colombia 23.25
37 17 3 Cameron Gibson  New Zealand 23.30
37 21 1 Norbert Trandafir  Romania 23.30
39 19 7 Mark Herring  New Zealand 23.32
40 18 1 Mario Todorovic  Croatia 23.33
40 20 1 Paul Kutscher  Uruguay 23.33
42 15 8 David Dunford  Kenya 23.35
43 19 6 Jere Hård  Finland 23.36
44 20 2 Yuriy Yegoshin  Ukraine 23.37
44 20 7 Karel Novy  Switzerland 23.37
46 17 4 Alessandro Gaffuri  Switzerland 23.43
46 19 2 Nicolas Oliveira  Brazil 23.43
48 20 8 Michael Schubert  Germany 23.44
49 17 1 Robin Dale Oen  Norway 23.50
49 20 3 Jose Gabriel Melconian Alvez  Uruguay 23.50
51 18 2 Josh Laban Virgin Islands 23.64
52 17 8 Alaxandr Sklyar  Kazakhstan 23.69
53 20 4 Yang Shi  China 23.73
54 18 4 Vitaly Khan  Kazakhstan 23.74
55 16 4 Hiroaki Yamamoto  Japan 23.76
55 19 8 Ravil Nachaev  Uzbekistan 23.76
57 17 6 Terrence Haynes  Barbados 23.80
58 17 7 Carl Probert  Fiji 23.84
59 19 5 Alexandre Bakhtiarov  Cyprus 23.85
60 18 7 Giedrius Titenis  Lithuania 23.97
61 19 4 Roy-Allan Saul Burch  Bermuda 23.98
62 16 1 Martyn Forde  Barbados 23.99
63 14 6 Namgyun Lim  South Korea 24.01
64 18 8 Shai Liwnat  Israel 24.03
65 20 5 Arwut Chinnapasaen  Thailand 24.05
66 15 4 Virdhawal Khade  India 24.06
67 16 5 Crox Acuña  Venezuela 24.12
68 15 6 Jan Roodzant  Aruba 24.18
69 17 5 Vasilii Danilov  Kyrgyzstan 24.22
70 16 3 Basil Kaaki  Lebanon 24.31
71 16 6 Mohammad Bidaryan  Iran 24.38
72 15 3 Quee Lim Ernest Teo  Singapore 24.48
73 15 2 Kai Yi Russell Ong  Singapore 24.49
74 16 7 Varun Divgikar  India 24.53
75 14 3 Rama Vyombo  Kenya 24.55
76 15 1 Yellow Yeiyah  Nigeria 24.62
77 14 1 Kristian Olsen  Faroe Islands 24.65
78 16 2 Mikael Koloyan  Armenia 24.67
79 12 1 Charles Ridaura Carbonell  Andorra 24.68
80 14 8 Kieran Locke Virgin Islands 24.69
81 13 5 Harutyun Harutyunyan  Armenia 24.71
82 10 6 Youssef Hafdi  Morocco 24.73
83 15 7 Dmitriy Loginov  Uzbekistan 24.79
84 15 5 Wei Wen Wang  Chinese Taipei 24.82
85 14 4 Nikola Ustadvich  Peru 24.85
86 11 5 Luke Hall  Swaziland 24.88
87 13 7 Rodion Davelaar  Netherlands Antilles 24.93
88 14 7 Manuel Alonso Yabar-Davila  Peru 24.95
89 12 7 Daniel Lee  Sri Lanka 24.99
90 14 5 Brian Howard Ho  Indonesia 25.01
91 11 8 Amine Kouam  Morocco 25.08
92 11 4 Marcelo Alba  Bolivia 25.11
93 12 4 Anas Hamadeh  Jordan 25.13
94 13 3 Obaid Ahmed Obaid Al Jesmi  United Arab Emirates 25.20
95 11 3 Gael Adam  Mauritius 25.24
96 13 8 Christopher Duenas  Guam 25.29
97 10 7 Rainui Terupaia  Tahiti 25.38
97 12 2 Daryl Kurt Harford  Grenada 25.38
99 13 1 Jose Enmanuel Lobo Martinez  Paraguay 25.39
99 14 2 Srdjan Vujasin  Bosnia and Herzegovina 25.39
101 13 6 Yassir Abalalla  Bolivia 25.44
102 9 4 Yannick Roberts  Guyana 25.46
103 13 2 Goran Stamenov  Macedonia 25.55
104 9 6 Jonathan Calderon  Saint Lucia 25.61
105 12 5 Marc Pascal Pierre Dansou  Benin 25.70
106 8 5 Alois Patrice Kouadjo Dansou  Benin 25.79
106 9 7 Andrey Molchanov  Turkmenistan 25.79
106 12 6 Otiko Kpliboh  Nigeria 25.79
109 9 3 Eric Chang  Malaysia 25.88
110 10 1 Wui Chon Cheong  Macau 25.89
111 10 4 Leonel dos Santos Matonse  Mozambique 25.97
112 12 8 Julio Cesar Rivera Coello  Honduras 25.98
113 10 2 Heshan Unamboowe  Sri Lanka 25.99
114 12 3 Naji Askia Ferguson  Grenada 26.01
115 7 3 Pál Joensen  Faroe Islands 26.03
115 8 4 Kin Wa Cheong  Macau 26.03
117 11 7 Heimanu Sichan  Tahiti 26.05
118 8 3 Loai Tashkandi  Saudi Arabia 26.15
119 9 8 Adil Baig  Pakistan 26.16
119 10 8 Carlos Shimizu  Guam 26.16
121 8 8 Zane Jordan  Zambia 26.23
122 11 6 Genaro Mathias Prono Britez  Paraguay 26.24
123 8 2 Jean-Luc Augier  Saint Lucia 26.25
124 8 6 Joshua Marfleet  Samoa 26.29
125 10 3 Tamir Andrei  Mongolia 26.34
126 6 4 Niall Roberts  Guyana 26.39
127 8 7 Hazem Tashkandi  Saudi Arabia 26.49
128 11 1 Monder Al-Jabali  Libya 26.62
129 7 5 Marbi Hani  Albania 26.67
130 1 6 Raukura Waiti  Cook Islands 26.75
131 6 3 Mduduzi Fanuwakme Xaba  Swaziland 26.78
132 6 5 Ibrahim Maliki Amadou  Niger 26.95
133 7 7 Kyaw Zin  Myanmar 27.01
134 7 4 Fadi Awesat  Palestinian territories 27.06
135 9 2 Tural Abbasov  Azerbaijan 27.21
136 6 2 Batchuluun Mendbayar  Mongolia 27.31
136 7 6 Eli Ebenezer Wong  Northern Mariana Islands 27.31
138 11 2 Timur Kartabaev  Kyrgyzstan 27.44
139 4 4 Justine Rodriguez  Federated States of Micronesia 27.45
140 7 2 Nareth Sovan  Cambodia 27.55
141 7 8 Sami Nassar  Palestinian territories 27.58
142 6 1 Sergey Krovyakov  Turkmenistan 27.67
143 6 6 Stephenson Wallace  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27.71
144 5 5 Michael Taylor  Marshall Islands 27.83
145 5 2 Tony Augustine  Federated States of Micronesia 27.85
146 5 8 Prasiddha Jung Shah  Nepal 27.94
147 4 7 Isao Misech  Palau 28.29
148 2 8 Muwanguzi Muzafuru  Uganda 28.30
149 1 7 Khaykeo Viengmany  Laos 28.51
150 5 1 Justin Decoster  Marshall Islands 28.55
151 4 5 Hassan Ashraf  Maldives 28.63
152 6 7 Kevin Cheung Ho Yan  Mauritius 28.80
153 5 7 Ching Maou Wei  American Samoa 29.08
154 2 1 Attoumani Mohamed  Comoros 29.10
155 4 2 Dante Williams  Netherlands Antilles 29.42
156 9 1 Khalid Rushaka  Tanzania 29.44
157 1 3 Petero Okotai  Cook Islands 29.54
158 3 5 Rahim Karmali  Uganda 29.59
159 5 4 Rajib Chitrakar  Nepal 29.68
160 3 4 Aimable Habimana  Rwanda 29.88
161 4 1 Ibrahim Areesh  Maldives 30.14
162 2 5 Okai Opanka Adu  Ghana 30.27
163 6 8 Abdulsalam Al Gadabi  Yemen 31.25
164 5 3 Aymard Lumuamu−Dimbu  Republic of the Congo 31.57
165 1 1 Thepphithak Chindavong  Laos 31.67
166 3 3 Cooper Theodore Graf  Northern Mariana Islands 31.78
167 2 3 Bernard Blewudzi  Ghana 32.11
168 2 2 Boipelo Makhothi  Lesotho 32.29
169 3 6 Vincent Leatualevao Jr.  American Samoa 32.37
170 5 6 Abubakarr Jalloh  Sierra Leone 32.41
171 4 3 Iglay Dangassat−Sissoulou  Republic of the Congo 33.15
172 1 2 Rene Jacob Yougbare  Burkina Faso 33.91
173 2 6 Salfo Ilbouda  Burkina Faso 34.42
174 8 1 Gibrilla Bamba  Sierra Leone 38.00
175 3 2 Lehlohonolo Moromella  Lesotho 38.06
– 2 4 Amrane Abderemane  Comoros DNS
– 2 7 Milorad Čavić  Serbia DNS
– 3 1 Modou Gaye  Mauritania DNS
– 3 7 Alisher Chingizov  Tajikistan DNS
– 3 8 Mohamed Ahmed Lebyadh  Mauritania DNS
– 4 6 Mohamed Karsani  Sudan DNS
– 4 8 Akibou Yacouba Ali Maiga  Niger DNS
– 7 1 Essossimana Awizoba  Togo DNS
– 9 5 Joao Matias  Angola DNS
– 13 4 Joao Aguiar  Angola DNS
– 16 8 Samson Makere  Tanzania DNS
– 21 3 Pieter van den Hoogenband  Netherlands DNS
– 22 4 Oleksandr Volynets  Ukraine DNS
– 1 4 Jackson Niyomugabo  Rwanda DSQ
– 1 5 Herve Nkurrnziza  Burundi DSQ
– 10 5 Chakyl Camal  Mozambique DSQ

Semifinals

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 5 Stefan Nystrand  Sweden 21.99
2 2 5 Cullen Jones  United States 22.00
3 1 3 César Cielo Filho  Brazil 22.09
4 2 4 Bartosz Kizierowski  Poland 22.13
5 1 4 Eamon Sullivan  Australia 22.19
6 2 3 Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner  United States 22.23
7 1 2 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 22.24
8 2 1 Brent Hayden  Canada 22.31
9 2 2 Eduardo Lorente  Spain 22.40
9 2 6 Alain Bernard  France 22.40
11 2 8 Gerhard Zandberg  South Africa 22.44
12 1 6 Frédérick Bousquet  France 22.50
13 1 8 Salim Iles  Algeria 22.56
14 2 7 Jernej Godec  Slovenia 22.59
15 1 1 Ashley Callus  Australia 22.63
16 1 7 Petter Stymne  Sweden 22.64

Final

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
7 Benjamin Wildman-Tobriner  United States 21.88
5 Cullen Jones  United States 21.94
4 Stefan Nystrand  Sweden 21.97
4 6 Bartosz Kizierowski  Poland 22.00
5 2 Eamon Sullivan  Australia 22.05
6 3 César Cielo Filho  Brazil 22.12
7 1 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 22.16
8 8 Brent Hayden  Canada 22.28

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