Swimming 2020/Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle
General information
Sport	Swimming 2020
Date	27-28 July 2021
Competitors	71 athletes
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Kyle Chalmers
Silver	Pieter Timmers
Bronze	Nathan Adrian
Conditions
Length	100 metres
Medalists
	Caeleb Dressel
	Kyle Chalmers
	Kliment Kolesnikov

The men's 100 metre freestyle of Swimming 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 27-28 July 2021 in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With 71 athletes competing, the event was won by Caeleb Dressel from United States, with Kyle Chalmers from Australia taking the silver medal and Kliment Kolesnikov from ROC 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

Seventy-one athletes qualified for the event with Caeleb Dressel as the first swimmer since 2009 to have recorded a time below 47 seconds. At the most recent world championships, he beat defending Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers by only a tenth of a second, with the competition behind them staying very open. Kliment Kolesnikov won the European championships in a close battle against Alessandro Miressi, with Andrei Minakov, Zach Apple, Nandor Nemeth, and Maxime Grousset also staying within range. Other potential medal contenders and outsiders also included Hwang Sun-woo, David Popovici, and He Junyi.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	30 July 2009		Cesar Cielo Filho	46.91
OR	13 August 2008		Eamon Sullivan	47.05

Summary

Round 1

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Alexander Shah	53.41	NR
2		Olt Kondirolli	54.33	PR
3		Yazan Al Bawwab	54.51
4		Andrew Fowler	55.23
5		Sangay Tenzin	57.57	PR
6		Mubal Azzam Ibrahim	58.37
7		Edgar Richardson Iro	1:00.13

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Danilo Rosafio	52.54
2		Jagger Stephens	52.72
3		Delron Felix	52.99
4		Mathieu Marquet	53.56
5		Bosko Radulovic	53.60
6		Syed Muhammad Haseeb Tariq	53.81
7		Atuhaire Ogola Ambala	54.23
8		Belly-Cresus Ganira	54.33	NR

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Mokhtar Al-Yamani	50.52	NR
2		Andrew Chetcuti	51.47
3		Yousuf Almatrooshi	51.50
4		Stefano Mitchell	51.64
5		Kledi Kadiu	51.65
6		Issa Samir Hamed Al Adawi	51.81
7		Jean-Luc Zephir	51.94
8		Miguel Mena	51.99

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Ian Yentou Ho	49.49	PR
2		Artur Barseghyan	49.78	NR
3		Nikolas Antoniou	50.00
4		Khurshidjon Tursunov	50.14
5		Peter Wetzlar	50.31	NR
6		Samy Boutouil	50.37
7		Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	50.48
8		Matthew Abeysinghe	50.62

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Nikola Miljenic	49.25
2		Ali Khalafalla	49.31
2		Mikel Schreuders	49.31
4		Alberto Mestre	49.44
5		Luke Gebbie	49.64	NR
6		Joseph Schooling	49.84
7		Benjamin Hockin	50.41
8		Emir Muratovic	50.43

Heat 6 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Jacob Whittle	48.44	Q, PR
2		Stan Pijnenburg	48.53	PR
3		Dylan Carter	48.66
4		Damian Wierling	48.83
5		Robin Hanson	49.07
6		Meiron Amir Cheruti	49.26
7		Gabriel Santos	49.33
8		Oussama Sahnoune	49.65

Heat 7 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kliment Kolesnikov	47.89	Q
2		Hwang Sun-woo	47.97	Q
3		Zach Apple	48.16	Q
4		Joshua Liendo Edwards	48.34	Q
5		Roman Mityukov	48.43	Q
6		Apostolos Christou	48.50
7		Szebasztian Szabo	48.51
8		Mehdy Metella	48.68

Heat 8 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kyle Chalmers	47.77	Q
2		Andrei Minakov	48.00	Q
3		Yuri Kisil	48.15	Q, PR
4		Maxime Grousset	48.25	Q
5		Andrej Barna	48.30	Q
6		He Junyi	48.50
7		Pedro Spajari	48.74
8		Matthew Richards	DNS

Heat 9 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Thomas Ceccon	47.71	Q, PR
2		Caeleb Dressel	47.73	Q
3		Alessandro Miressi	47.83	Q
4		David Popovici	48.03	Q
5		Nandor Nemeth	48.11	Q
6		Katsumi Nakamura	48.48
7		Cameron McEvoy	48.72
8		Serhii Shevtsov	49.55

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Caeleb Dressel	47.23	Q
2		Alessandro Miressi	47.52	Q
3		Hwang Sun-woo	47.56	Q, AR
4		David Popovici	47.72	Q
5		Maxime Grousset	47.82	Q, PR
6		Jacob Whittle	48.11	PR
7		Joshua Liendo Edwards	48.19
8		Yuri Kisil	48.31

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kliment Kolesnikov	47.11	Q, AR
2		Kyle Chalmers	47.80	Q
3		Nandor Nemeth	47.81	Q, NR
4		Andrej Barna	47.94	NR
5		Andrei Minakov	48.03
6		Zach Apple	48.04
7		Thomas Ceccon	48.05
8		Roman Mityukov	48.53

Final

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Caeleb Dressel	47.02	OR
2		Kyle Chalmers	47.08
3		Kliment Kolesnikov	47.44
4		Maxime Grousset	47.72	PR
5		Hwang Sun-woo	47.82
6		Alessandro Miressi	47.86
7		David Popovici	48.04
8		Nandor Nemeth	48.10

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Caeleb Dressel	United States
	Kyle Chalmers	Australia
	Kliment Kolesnikov	ROC
4	Maxime Grousset	France
5	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea
6	Alessandro Miressi	Italy
7	David Popovici	Romania
8	Nandor Nemeth	Hungary
9	Andrej Barna	Serbia
10	Andrei Minakov	ROC
11	Zach Apple	United States
12	Thomas Ceccon	Italy
13	Jacob Whittle	Great Britain
14	Joshua Liendo Edwards	Canada
15	Yuri Kisil	Canada
16	Roman Mityukov	Switzerland
17	Katsumi Nakamura	Japan
18	Apostolos Christou	Greece
18	He Junyi	China
20	Szebasztian Szabo	Hungary
21	Stan Pijnenburg	Netherlands
22	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago
23	Mehdy Metella	France
24	Cameron McEvoy	Australia
25	Pedro Spajari	Brazil
26	Damian Wierling	Germany
27	Robin Hanson	Sweden
28	Nikola Miljenic	Croatia
29	Meiron Amir Cheruti	Israel
30	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt
30	Mikel Schreuders	Aruba
32	Gabriel Santos	Brazil
33	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela
34	Ian Yentou Ho	Hong Kong
35	Serhii Shevtsov	Ukraine
36	Luke Gebbie	Philippines
37	Oussama Sahnoune	Algeria
38	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia
39	Joseph Schooling	Singapore
40	Nikolas Antoniou	Cyprus
41	Khurshidjon Tursunov	Uzbekistan
42	Peter Wetzlar	Zimbabwe
43	Samy Boutaouil	Morocco
44	Benjamin Hockin	Paraguay
45	Emir Muratovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina
46	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland
47	Mokhtar Al-Yamani	Yemen
48	Matthew Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka
49	Andrew Chetcuti	Malta
50	Yousuf Almatrooshi	United Arab Emirates
51	Stefano Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda
52	Kledi Kadiu	Albania
53	Issa Samir Hamed Al Adawi	Oman
54	Jean-Luc Zephir	Saint Lucia
55	Miguel Mena	Nicaragua
56	Danilo Rosafio	Kenya
57	Jagger Stephens	Guam
58	Delron Felix	Grenanda
59	Alexander Shah	Nepal
60	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius
61	Bosko Radulovic	Montenegro
62	Syed Muhammad Haseeb Tariq	Pakistan
63	Atuhaire Ogula Ambala	Uganda
64	Olt Kondirolli	Kosovo
64	Belly-Cresus Ganira	Burundi
66	Yazan Al Bawwab	Palestine
67	Andrew Fowler	Guyana
68	Sangay Tenzin	Bhutan
69	Mubal Azzam Ibrahim	Maldives
70	Edgar Richardson Iro	Solomon Islands
-	Matthew Richards	Great Britain

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