Swimming 2020/Men's 100 metre butterfly

The men's 100 metre butterfly of Swimming 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 29-31 July 2021 in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With 59 athletes competing, the event was won by Caeleb Dressel from United States, with Kristof Milak from Hungary taking the silver medal and Noe Ponti from Switzerland taking bronze.

Format[]

The competition exists out of three rounds, each with races of up to nine athletes. In the first round, the sixteen fastest athletes qualify for the semifinals. In the semifinals, the two fastest athletes of each race, as well as the four fastest non-qualifiers advance to the final. The fastest competitor in the final is the winner of the event.

Preview[]

Fifty-nine athletes qualified for the event with Caeleb Dressel as the outstanding favorite for the title. The reigning world champion and world record holder was the only active swimmer to have recorded a time faster than 50 seconds, with Kristof Milak and Matthew Temple only barely coming within a second from the American. Andrei Minakov won silver at the most recent world championships, with also veteran Mehdy Metella, Josif Miladinov, James Guy, Takeshi Kawamoto, and Naoki Mizunuma among the medal contenders. Other potential outsiders also included Jakub Majerski, Noe Ponti, defending silver medalist Chad le Clos, and defending Olympic champion Joseph Schooling.

Athlete	Nationality
Abdulla Essa Ahmed Ali Yusuf	Bahrain
Salvador Gordo	Angola
Yousif Bu Arish	Saudi Arabia
Steven Aimable	Senegal
Abeku Jackson	Ghana
Abbas Qali	Kuwait
Moon Seung-woo	South Korea
Sajan Prakash	India
Benjamin Hockin	Paraguay
Navaphat Wongcharoen	Thailand
Davidson Vincent	Haiti
Kregor Zirk	Estonia
Tomoe Hvas	Norway
Ihor Troianovskyi	Ukraine
Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei
Daniel Martin	Romania
Nikola Miljenic	Croatia
Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago
Shane Ryan	Ireland
Matheus Gonche	Brazil
Gal Cohen Groumi	Israel
Umit Can Gures	Turkey
Zheng Wen Quah	Singapore
Jan Sefl	Czech Republic
Santiago Grassi	Argentina
Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria
Louis Croenen	Belgium
Nyls Korstanje	Netherlands
Youssef Ramadan	Egypt
Tomer Frankel	Israel
Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus
Simon Bucher	Austria
Sun Jiajun	China
Matthew Sates	South Africa
Joseph Schooling	Singapore
Santo Condorelli	Italy
Federico Burdisso	Italy
Naoki Mizunuma	Japan
Matthew Temple	Australia
Josif Miladinov	Bulgaria
Chad le Clos	South Africa
Luis Carlos Martinez	Guatemala
Pawel Korzeniowski	Poland
Marius Kusch	Germany
Szebasztian Szabo	Hungary
Takeshi Kawamoto	Japan
Kristof Milak	Hungary
Mehdy Metella	France
Noe Ponti	Switzerland
Joshua Liendo Edwards	Canada
Vinicius Lanza	Brazil
David Morgan	Australia
Tom Shields	United States
James Guy	Great Britain
Caeleb Dressel	United States
Andrei Minakov	ROC
Jakub Majerski	Poland
Mikhail Vekovishchev	ROC
Jacob Thomas Taylor Peters	Great Britain

Current Records[]

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	26 July 2019		Caeleb Dressel	49.50
OR	12 August 2016		Joseph Schooling	50.39

Summary[]

Round 1[]

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Salvador Gordo	55.96
2		Yousif Bu Arish	56.29	NR
3		Abdulla Essa Ahmed Ali Yusuf	DQ

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Abeku Jackson	53.39	NR
2		Sajan Prakash	53.45
3		Moon Seung-woo	53.59
4		Abbas Qali	53.63
5		Steven Aimable	53.64	NR
6		Navaphat Wongcharoen	54.36
7		Benjamin Hockin	54.81
7		Davidson Vincent	54.81

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Tomoe Hvas	52.22	PR
2		Dylan Carter	52.36	NR
3		Wang Kuan-hung	54.44
4		Shane Ryan	52.52	NR
5		Nikola Miljenic	52.68
6		Kregor Zirk	52.82	PR
7		Daniel Martin	55.09
8		Ihor Troianovskyi	DNS

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Santiago Grassi	52.07
2		Louis Croenen	52.23
3		Antani Ivanov	52.25
4		Zheng Wen Quah	52.39
5		Umit Can Gures	52.44
6		Jan Sefl	52.52
7		Matheus Gonche	53.02
8		Gal Cohen Groumi	DNS

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Nyls Korstanje	51.54	Q, NR
2		Youssef Ramadan	51.67	Q, NR
3		Sun Jiajun	51.74	Q, PR
4		Tomer Frankel	51.99
5		Matthew Sates	52.34
6		Simon Bucher	52.52
7		Yauhen Tsurkin	52.90
8		Joseph Schooling	53.12

Heat 6 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Josif Miladinov	51.28	Q
2		Luis Carlos Martinez	51.29	Q, NR
3		Matthew Temple	51.39	Q
4		Naoki Mizunuma	51.57	Q
5		Federico Burdisso	51.82
6		Chad le Clos	51.89
7		Pawel Korzeniowski	52.00
8		Santo Condorelli	52.32

Heat 7 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kristof Milak	50.62	Q
2		Noe Ponti	51.24	Q
3		Joshua Liendo Edwards	51.52	Q
4		Mehdy Metella	51.53	Q
5		Szebasztian Szabo	51.67	Q
6		Takeshi Kawamoto	51.93
7		Marius Kusch	52.05
8		Vinicius Lanza	52.08

Heat 8 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Caeleb Dressel	50.39	Q, OR
2		Jakub Majerski	50.97	Q, NR
3		Andrei Minekov	51.00	Q
4		Tom Shields	51.57	Q
5		Mikhail Vekovishchev	51.89
6		Jacob Thomas Taylor Peters	52.07
7		David Morgan	52.31
8		James Guy	DNS

Semifinals[]

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kristof Milak	50.31	Q, OR
2		Josif Miladinov	51.06	Q
3		Andrei Minakov	51.11	Q
4		Matthew Temple	51.12	Q
5		Mehdy Metella	51.32
6		Naoki Mizunuma	51.46
7		Sun Jiajun	51.82
8		Youssef Ramadan	52.27

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Caeleb Dressel	49.71	Q, OR
2		Noe Ponti	50.76	Q, NR
3		Jakub Majerski	51.24	Q
4		Luis Carlos Martinez	51.30	Q
5		Joshua Liendo Edwards	51.50
6		Nyls Korstanje	51.80
7		Szebasztian Szabo	51.89
8		Tom Shields	51.99

Final[]

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Caeleb Dressel	49.45	WR
2		Kristof Milak	49.68	AR
3		Noe Ponti	50.74	NR
4		Andrei Minakov	50.88
5		Jakub Majerski	50.92	NR
5		Matthew Temple	50.92
7		Luis Carlos Martinez	51.09	NR
8		Josif Miladinov	51.49

Results[]

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Caeleb Dressel	United States
	Kristof Milak	Hungary
	Noe Ponti	Switzerland
4	Andrei Minakov	ROC
5	Jakub Majerski	Poland
5	Matthew Temple	Australia
7	Luis Carlos Martinez	Guatemala
8	Josif Miladinov	Bulgaria
9	Mehdy Metella	France
10	Naoki Mizunuma	Japan
11	Joshua Liendo Edwards	Canada
12	Nyls Korstanje	Netherlands
13	Sun Jiajun	China
14	Szebasztian Szabo	Hungary
15	Tom Shields	United States
16	Youssef Ramadan	Egypt
17	Federico Burdisso	Italy
18	Chad le Clos	South Africa
18	Mikhail Vekovishchev	ROC
20	Takeshi Kawamoto	Japan
21	Tomer Frankel	Israel
22	Pawel Korzeniowski	Poland
23	Marius Kusch	Germany
24	Santiago Grassi	Argentina
25	Jacob Thomas Taylor Peters	Great Britain
26	Vinicius Lanza	Brazil
27	Tomoe Hvas	Norway
28	Louis Croenen	Belgium
29	Antani Ivanov	Bulgaria
30	David Morgan	Australia
31	Santo Condorelli	Italy
32	Matthew Sates	South Africa
33	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago
34	Zheng Wen Quah	Singapore
35	Wang Kuan-hung	Chinese Taipei
35	Umit Can Gures	Turkey
37	Shane Ryan	Ireland
37	Jan Sefl	Czech Republic
37	Simon Bucher	Austria
40	Nikola Miljenic	Croatia
41	Kregor Zirk	Estonia
42	Yauhen Tsurkin	Belarus
43	Matheus Gonche	Brazil
44	Joseph Schooling	Singapore
45	Abeku Jackson	Ghana
46	Sajan Prakash	India
47	Moon Seung-woo	South Korea
48	Abbas Qali	Kuwait
49	Steven Aimable	Senegal
50	Navaphat Wongcharoen	Thailand
51	Benjamin Hockin	Paraguay
51	Davidson Vincent	Haiti
53	Daniel Martin	Romania
54	Salvador Gordo	Angola
55	Yousif Bu Arish	Saudi Arabia
-	Ihor Troianovskyi	Ukraine
-	Gal Cohen Groumi	Israel
-	James Guy	Great Britain
-	Abdulla Essa Ahmed Ali Yusuf	Bahrain

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Men
Freestyle	Backstroke
50 m	100 m
100 m	200 m
200 m	Breaststroke
400 m	100 m
800 m	200 m
1500 m
Butterfly	Individual Medley
100 m	200 m
200 m	400 m
Freestyle Relay
4x100 m	4x100 m medley
4x200 m	10 km open water
Women
Freestyle	Backstroke
50 m	100 m
100 m	200 m
200 m	Breaststroke
400 m	100 m
800 m	200 m
1500 m
Butterfly	Individual Medley
100 m	200 m
200 m	400 m
Freestyle Relay
4x100 m	4x100 m medley
4x200 m	10 km open water
Mixed
4x100 m medley