Swimming 2020/Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle
General information
Sport	Swimming 2020
Date	30 July-1 August 2021
Competitors	73 athletes
Venue	Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Previous medalists
Gold	Anthony Ervin
Silver	Florent Manaudou
Bronze	Nathan Adrian
Conditions
Length	50 metres
Medalists
	Caeleb Dressel
	Florent Manaudou
	Bruno Fratus

The men's 50 metre freestyle of Swimming 2020 during the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 30 July-1 August 2021 in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. With 73 athletes competing, the event was won by Caeleb Dressel from United States, with Florent Manaudou from France taking the silver medal and Bruno Fratus from Brazil 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-three athletes qualified for the event with Caeleb Dressel as the big favorite in the field. The American took the gold medal at the most recent world championships, almost half a second ahead of Bruno Fratus and Kristian Gkolomeev, with 2013 world championships silver medalist Vladimir Morozov just missing out on a medal. In such a quick event, medal contenders were plenty, with defending silver medalist Florent Manaudou, 2018 European champion Benjamin Proud, reigning European champion Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, and junior world record holder Michael Andrew also in the field. Other potential medal contenders and outsiders also included Thom de Boer, Pawel Juraszek, Lorenzo Zazzeri, and Kliment Kolesnikov.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	18 December 2009		Cesar Cielo Filho	20.91
OR	16 August 2008		Cesar Cielo Filho	21.30

Summary

Round 1

Heat 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Adam Girard de Langlade Mpali	27.66	PR
2		Jose Joao da Silva Viegas	28.59	PR
3		Diosdado Miko Eyanga	31.03

Heat 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Charly Ndjoume	27.22	PR
2		Houssein Gaber Ibrahim	27.41	PR
3		Ebrima Sorry Buaro	27.44	PR
4		Shawn Dingilius Wallace	27.46
5		Fahim Anwari	27.67	PR
6		Phillip Kinono	27.86	PR

Heat 3 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Mawupemon Otogbe	25.68	NR
2		Troy Pina	25.97
3		Santisouk Inthavong	26.04
4		Olimjon Ishanov	26.12
5		Mamadou Bah	26.52	NR
6		Abdelmalik Muktar	26.65	NR
7		Simanga Dlamini	26.94	PR
8		Joshua Wyse	27.90

Heat 4 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Shane Cadogan	24.71
2		Alassane Seydou Lancina	24.75
3		Md Ariful Islam	24.81	NR
4		Puch Hem	24.91	NR
5		Marc Pascal Pierre Dansou	24.99	PR
6		Adama Ouedraogo	25.22	NR
7		Eloi Maniraguha	25.38
8		Shaquille Moosa	25.54

Heat 5 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Luke Gebbie	22.84
2		Emir Muratovic	22.91
3		Artur Barseghyan	23.14
4		Alaa Maso	23.30
5		Nikolas Antoniou	23.38
6		Ghirmai Efrem	23.94
7		Filipe Gomes	24.00
8		Delgerkhuu Myagmar	24.63

Heat 6 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Andrej Barna	22.29
2		Dylan Carter	22.46
2		Brett Fraser	22.46
4		Enzo Martinez	22.52
5		Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	22.56
6		Santiago Grassi	22.67
7		Hwang Sun-woo	22.74
8		David Popovici	22.77

Heat 7 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Vladyslav Bukhov	21.73	Q
2		Santo Condorelli	22.14
3		Heiko Gigler	22.17
4		Ali Khalafalla	22.22
5		Gabriel Castano Garcia	22.32
6		Konrad Czerniak	22.33
7		Ian Yentou Ho	22.45
8		Oussama Sahnoune	22.61

Heat 8 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Bruno Fratus	21.67	Q
2		Thom de Boer	21.75	Q
3		Jesse Puts	21.84	Q
4		Brent Hayden	21.85	Q
5		Michael Andrew	21.89	Q
6		Maxime Grousset	21.97	Q
7		Joshua Liendo Edwards	22.03
8		Nikola Miljenic	22.14

Heat 9 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Kristian Gkolomeev	21.66	Q
2		Kliment Kolesnikov	21.88	Q, PR
3		Vladimir Morozov	21.92	Q
4		Alberto Mestre	21.96	Q
5		Meiron Amir Cheruti	22.01
6		Yu Hexin	22.14
7		Bjoern Seeliger	22.19
8		Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	22.25

Heat 10 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Caeleb Dressel	21.32	Q
2		Florent Manaudou	21.65	Q
3		Lorenzo Zazzeri	21.86	Q
4		Benjamin Proud	21.93	Q
5		Pawel Juraszek	21.97	Q
6		Bradley Tandy	22.22
7		Maxim Lobanovskij	22.25
8		Cameron McEvoy	22.31

Semifinals

Semifinal 1 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Florent Manaudou	21.53	Q
2		Bruno Fratus	21.60	Q
3		Thom de Boer	21.78	Q
4		Kliment Kolesnikov	21.82	PR
4		Brent Hayden	21.82
6		Pawel Juraszek	21.88
7		Alberto Mestre	22.22
8		Vladimir Morozov	22.25

Semifinal 2 Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Caeleb Dressel	21.42	Q
2		Kristian Gkolomeev	21.60	Q
3		Benjamin Proud	21.67	Q
3		Michael Andrew	21.67	Q
5		Lorenzo Zazzeri	21.75	Q, PR
6		Vladyslav Bukhov	21.83
7		Jesse Puts	21.87
7		Maxime Grousset	21.87

Final

Final Results
Rank	Nat.	Athlete	Time	Info
1		Caeleb Dressel	21.07	OR
2		Florent Manaudou	21.55
3		Bruno Fratus	21.57
4		Michael Andrew	21.60
5		Benjamin Proud	21.72
5		Kristian Gkolomeev	21.72
7		Lorenzo Zazzeri	21.78
8		Thom de Boer	Netherlands

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality
	Caeleb Dressel	United States
	Florent Manaudou	France
	Bruno Fratus	Brazil
4	Michael Andrew	United States
5	Benjamin Proud	Great Britain
5	Kristian Gkolomeev	Greece
7	Lorenzo Zazzeri	Italy
8	Thom de Boer	Netherlands
9	Kliment Kolesnikov	ROC
9	Brent Hayden	Canada
11	Vladyslav Bukhov	Ukraine
12	Jesse Puts	Netherlands
12	Maxime Grousset	France
14	Pawel Juraszek	Poland
15	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela
16	Vladimir Morozov	ROC
17	Meiron Amir Cheruti	Israel
18	Jsohua Liendo Edwards	Canada
19	Santo Condorelli	Italy
19	Nikola Miljenic	Croatia
19	Yu Hexin	China
22	Heiko Gigler	Austria
23	Bjoern Seeliger	Sweden
24	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt
24	Bradley Tandy	South Africa
26	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland
26	Maxim Lobanovskij	Hungary
28	Andrej Barna	Serbia
29	Cameron McEvoy	Australia
30	Gabriel Castano Garcia	Mexico
31	Konrad Czerniak	Poland
32	Ian Yentou Ho	Hong Kong
33	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago
33	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands
35	Enzo Martinez	Uruguay
36	Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Suriname
37	Oussama Sahnoune	Algeria
38	Santiago Grassi	Argentina
39	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea
40	David Popovici	Romania
41	Luke Gebbie	Philippines
42	Emir Muratovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina
43	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia
44	Alaa Maso	Refugee Olympic Team
45	Nikolas Antoniou	Cyprus
46	Ghirmai Efrem	Eritrea
47	Felipe Gomes	Malawi
48	Delgerkhuu Myagmar	Mongolia
49	Shane Cadogan	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
50	Alassane Seydou Lancina	Niger
51	Md Ariful Islam	Bangladesh
52	Puch Hem	Cambodia
53	Marc Pascal Pierre Dansou	Benin
54	Adama Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso
55	Eloi Maniraguha	Rwanda
56	Shaquille Moosa	Zambia
57	Mawupemon Otogbe	Togo
58	Troy Pina	Cape Verde
59	Santisouk Inthavong	Laos
60	Olimjon Ishanov	Tajikistan
61	Mamadou Bah	Guinea
62	Abdelmalik Muktar	Ethiopia
63	Simanga Dlamini	Eswatini
64	Charly Ndjoume	Cameroon
65	Houssein Gaber Ibrahim	Djibouti
66	Ebrima Sorry Buaro	The Gambia
67	Shawn Dingilius Wallace	Palau
68	Adam Girard de Langlade Mpali	Gabon
69	Fahim Anwari	Afghanistan
70	Phillip Kinono	Marshall Islands
71	Joshua Wyse	Sierra Leone
72	Jose Joao da Silva Viegas	Timor Leste
73	Diosdado Miko Eyanga	Equatorial Guinea

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