Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 27 July. The heats and semifinals were held on 26 July.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. World record 47.84 Sydney, Australia 19 September 2000Championship record 48.74 Perth, Australia 15 January 1998

The following records were established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 26 July Semifinal 2 Pieter van den Hoogenband 48.57 CR 27 July Final Anthony Ervin 48.33 CR

Results

Heats Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Pieter van den Hoogenband 48.96 Q 2 Anthony Ervin 49.08 Q 3 Ian Thorpe 49.21 Q 4 Torsten Spanneberg 49.40 Q 5 Ashley Callus 49.46 Q 6 Jason Lezak 49.51 Q 7 José Meolans 49.65 Q 7 Stefan Nystrand 49.65 Q 9 Attila Zubor 49.65 Q 10 Lars Frölander 49.76 Q 11 Salim Iles 49.80 Q 11 Gustavo Borges 49.80 Q 13 Lars Conrad 49.89 Q 14 Duje Draganja 49.90 Q 15 Edvaldo Valério 50.03 Q 16 Johan Kenkhuis 50.08 Q 17 Roland Schoeman 50.13 17 Bartosz Kizierowski 50.13 19 Vyacheslav Shyrshov 50.22 20 Karel Novy 50.25 21 Simone Cercato 50.41 22 Rolandas Gimbutis 50.65 23 Nicholas Folker 50.66 24 Ivan Mladina 50.73 25 Jorge Ulibarri 50.76 26 Yoshihiro Okumura 50.91 27 Riley Janes 51.19 28 Shunsuke Ito 51.29 29 Maxim Korshunov 51.40 30 Oleksandr Volynets 51.52 31 Oswaldo Quevedo 51.63 32 Kim Min-Seok 51.71 33 Danil Haustov 51.78 34 Xie Xufeng 51.81 35 Christoph Bühler 51.87 36 Ouyang Kunpeng 51.88 37 Saulius Binevičius 51.97 38 Carl Probert 52.15 39 Alejandro Siqueiros 52.30 40 Camilo Becerra 52.41 41 Wu Nien-Pin 52.70 42 Mark Chay 52.77 43 Ismael Ortiz 52.93 44 Brendan Ashby 53.14 45 Gustavo Barrios 53.34 46 Ernest Teo 53.39 47 Christophe Lim Wen Ying 53.64 48 Jacob Fraire 53.76 49 Harbeth Fu Wing 53.79 50 Victor Rogut 53.93 51 Chon Kit Alias Joao Tang 53.94 52 Gregory Arkhurst 54.01 53 Christophee Backisavs 54.05 54 Ronald Cowen 54.65 55 Nicholas Diaper 54.71 56 Kenny Roberts 54.76 57 Cliff Gittens 54.96 58 Vakhtang Beridze 54.99 59 Jiang Bing-Ru 55.03 60 Obaid Ahmed Al Jassimi 55.05 61 Saad Khalloqi 55.08 62 Khuwiater Saeed Had Al Dhaheri 55.15 63 Gael Souci 55.21 64 Khaly Ciss 55.25 65 Davy Rolando Bisslik 55.32 66 Aleksey Bortnikov 55.56 67 Barnsley Albert 55.91 68 Arwut Chinnapasaen 55.92 69 Wing Cheung Victor Wong 56.24 70 Omar Núñez 56.75 71 Yu Lung Lubrey Lim 57.23 72 Zie Ahmed Oyattara 57.44 73 Onan Thom 57.56 74 Hamid Nassir 57.68 75 Rainui Teriipaia 57.69 76 João Aguiar 57.76 77 Seung Gin Lee 57.83 78 Mark Unpingco 58.33 79 William Kang 58.36 80 Ganaa Galbadrakh 58.49 81 Nuno Miguel Cardoso Rola 58.51 82 Dean Palacios 58.77 83 Sule Cole Shade 1:01.70 84 Rony Bakale 1:02.38 85 Joe Atuhairwe 1:07.71 86 Ibrahim Ismael Mamadou 1:11.78 87 Fabrice Ndikumana 1:15.05 88 Joshua Robert Marfleet 1:29.41 – Eithan Urbach DNS – Hesham Shehab DNS – Richard Sam Bera DNS – George Bovell DNS – Lorenzo Vismara DNS – Peter Mankoč DNS

Semifinals Rank Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 Pieter van den Hoogenband 48.57 Q, CR 2 Ian Thorpe 48.96 Q 3 Attila Zubor 49.32 Q 4 Ashley Callus 49.38 Q 5 Anthony Ervin 49.43 Q 6 Jason Lezak 49.49 Q 7 Lars Frölander 49.54 Q 8 Torsten Spanneberg 49.60 Q 9 José Meolans 49.69 10 Duje Draganja 49.79 11 Stefan Nystrand 49.80 12 Gustavo Borges 49.89 13 Salim Iles 49.90 14 Lars Conrad 49.92 15 Edvaldo Valério 49.93 16 Johan Kenkhuis 50.05

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Anthony Ervin 48.33 CR, AM Pieter van den Hoogenband 48.43 Lars Frölander 48.79 4 Ian Thorpe 48.81 5 Attila Zubor 49.13 6 Torsten Spanneberg 49.35 7 Ashley Callus 49.39 8 Jason Lezak 49.51

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