Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the 2009 FINA World Championships
VenueForo Italico
Dates31 July 2009 (heats, semifinals)
1 August 2009 (final)
Competitors222 from 140 nations
Winning time21.08 seconds
Medalists
gold medal    Brazil
silver medal    France
bronze medal    France
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The heats for the men's 50 metre freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on 31 July (heats and semifinals) and 1 August 2009 (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:

World record  Frédérick Bousquet (FRA) 20.94 Montpellier, France 26 April 2009
Championship record  Roland Schoeman (RSA) 21.69 Montreal, Canada 30 July 2005

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record
31 July Heat 21 George Bovell Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 21.64 CR
31 July Heat 22 César Cielo Filho Brazil Brazil 21.37 CR
31 July Semifinal 1 Duje Draganja Croatia Croatia 21.29 CR
31 July Semifinal 2 Frédérick Bousquet France France 21.21 CR
31 July Swim-off George Bovell Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago 21.20 CR
1 August Final César Cielo Filho Brazil Brazil 21.08 CR

Results

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Heats

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Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes
1 César Cielo  Brazil 21.37 22 4 CR
2 Stefan Nystrand  Sweden 21.56 23 3 NR
3 Frédérick Bousquet  France 21.63 23 4
4 George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 21.64 21 3
5 Nathan Adrian  United States 21.68 22 5
6 Amaury Leveaux  France 21.70 23 5
7 Krisztián Takács  Hungary 21.71 22 6
8 Duje Draganja  Croatia 21.72 21 6
9 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 21.82 21 5
10 Cullen Jones  United States 21.88 21 4
11 Matthew Abood  Australia 21.90 23 2
12 Konrad Czerniak  Poland 21.93 21 7
13 Nicholas Santos  Brazil 21.95 22 3
14 David Dunford  Kenya 21.96 22 8
15 Brent Hayden  Canada 22.03 22 2
16 Graeme Moore  South Africa 22.04 20 6
17 Steffen Deibler  Germany 22.07 21 1
18 Marco Orsi  Italy 22.09 23 6
19 Barry Murphy  Ireland 22.14 18 5 NR
20 Petter Stymne  Sweden 22.18 23 0
21 Kyle Richardson  Australia 22.21 20 7
22 Simon Burnett  Great Britain 22.23 23 9
23 Lukasz Gasior  Poland 22.25 23 7
24 Ioannis Kalargaris  Greece 22.29 20 4
25 Jacinto de Jesus Ayala  Dominican Republic 22.31 20 8 NR
25 Flori Lang   Switzerland 22.31 21 2
27 Alexandre Agostinho  Portugal 22.36 22 9 NR
28 Alexei Puninski  Croatia 22.37 18 7
29 Elvis Burrows  Bahamas 22.39 17 5 NR
30 Jernej Godec  Slovenia 22.41 21 8
31 Norbert Trandafir  Romania 22.50 20 2
32 Ranmaru Harada  Japan 22.51 19 1
32 Apostolos Tsagkarakis  Greece 22.51 20 3
34 Nabil Kebbab  Algeria 22.54 21 0
35 Paulius Viktoravicius  Lithuania 22.55 16 8
36 Kaan Tayla  Turkey 22.57 19 7
36 Lü Zhiwu  China 22.57 20 5
38 Vlad Razvan Caciuc  Romania 22.59 19 4
39 Yoris Grandjean  Belgium 22.62 23 1
40 Adam Brown  Great Britain 22.64 22 0
41 Makoto Ito  Japan 22.66 23 8
42 Terrence Haynes  Barbados 22.70 18 8 NR
43 Paulo Santos  Portugal 22.74 20 1
44 Virdhawal Khade  India 22.79 20 9
45 Brett Fraser  Cayman Islands 22.80 13 1
46 Cai Li  China 22.81 22 1
47 Dmytro Cherkasov  Ukraine 22.86 18 4
48 Juan Cambindo Romanos  Colombia 22.87 18 6
49 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or  Israel 22.90 17 2
50 Roman Kucik  Slovakia 22.91 15 3
50 Mindaugas Sadauskas  Lithuania 22.91 17 1
52 Michal Navara  Slovakia 22.93 15 7
53 Andrejs Dūda  Latvia 22.95 13 3 NR
54 Andrei Radzionau  Belarus 22.98 19 5
55 Roberto Gómez  Venezuela 22.99 16 3
56 Aurelien Kunzi   Switzerland 23.00 19 3
57 Andrii Govorov  Ukraine 23.05 17 9
58 Roy-Allan Burch  Bermuda 23.10 16 5
58 Jani Rusi  Finland 23.10 20 0
60 Crox Acuña  Venezuela 23.13 16 2
60 Joel Greenshields  Canada 23.13 19 2
62 Stanislav Kuzmin  Kazakhstan 23.15 18 3
62 Oliver Elliot Banados  Chile 23.15 19 8
64 Pasha Vahdati Rad  Iran 23.21 13 5
65 Raúl Martínez Colomer  Puerto Rico 23.28 16 6
66 Martyn Forde  Barbados 23.30 18 1
66 Martin Spitzer  Austria 23.30 18 9
68 Daniil Tulupov  Uzbekistan 23.32 16 4
68 Daniel Coakley  Philippines 23.32 19 6
70 Cheah Geoffrey Robin  Hong Kong 23.35 17 6
71 Dominik Koll  Austria 23.42 15 6
72 Vladimir Sidorkin  Estonia 23.43 17 7
73 Martín Kutscher  Uruguay 23.44 19 0
74 Mohammad Bidarian  Iran 23.49 13 0
74 Hycinth Cijntje  Netherlands Antilles 23.49 15 1
74 Conor Leaney  Ireland 23.49 16 9
77 Danil Haustov  Estonia 23.58 15 9
77 Artur Dilman  Kazakhstan 23.58 16 1
79 José Alberto Montoya  Costa Rica 23.63 14 1 NR
80 Nicholas Thomson  Bermuda 23.64 12 9
80 Grant Beahan  Zimbabwe 23.64 15 8
82 Yan Ho Chun  Hong Kong 23.68 17 8
83 Raphaël Stacchiotti  Luxembourg 23.69 17 3
84 Mohammed Madouh  Kuwait 23.74 19 9
85 Mario Montoya  Costa Rica 23.75 14 2
86 Hajder Ensar  Bosnia and Herzegovina 23.77 11 0
86 Sidni Hoxha  Albania 23.77 17 4
88 Branden Whitehurst United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 23.78 9 7
88 Miguel Nesrala  Dominican Republic 23.78 13 8
90 Carlos Viveros Madariaga  Colombia 23.79 12 5
90 Rodion Davelaar  Netherlands Antilles 23.79 14 6
92 Foo Jian Beng  Malaysia 23.80 16 7
93 Kouam Amine  Morocco 23.85 15 4
94 Brad Hamilton  Jamaica 23.87 11 4
95 Lao Kuan Fong  Macau 23.89 14 4
96 Matar Samb  Senegal 23.90 13 4
97 Marcelo Alejandro Alba  Bolivia 23.91 13 2 NR
98 Vasilii Danilov  Kyrgyzstan 23.93 18 0
99 Mikayel Koloyan  Armenia 23.96 15 0
100 Yellow Yeiyah  Nigeria 23.99 11 8
101 Kendrick Uy  Philippines 24.01 15 5
102 Su Shirong Jeffrey  Singapore 24.08 15 2
102 Arwut Chinnapasaen  Thailand 24.08 17 0
104 Kareem Ennab  Jordan 24.15 12 4
105 Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane  Senegal 24.16 12 2
106 Lim Clement  Singapore 24.18 13 6
107 Luke Hall  Eswatini 24.23 12 7
108 Petr Romashkin  Uzbekistan 24.27 14 3
109 Glenn Victor Sutanto  Indonesia 24.34 12 3
110 Zane Jordan  Zambia 24.35 11 7
111 Arjun Jayaprakash  India 24.37 12 6
112 Jonathan Wong  Jamaica 24.40 10 8
113 Harutyun Harutyunyan  Armenia 24.50 13 7
114 Abbas Raad  Lebanon 24.52 14 7
115 Timothy Ferris  Zimbabwe 24.56 14 0
116 Sergej Naumovski  Macedonia 24.57 1 5
117 Fernando Castellanos  Guatemala 24.58 10 5
118 Joshua Mc Leod  Trinidad and Tobago 24.59 12 0
119 Juan Carlos Sikaffy Diaz  Honduras 24.61 11 3
119 Iuri Iazadji  Moldova 24.61 16 0
121 Samson Opuakpo  Nigeria 24.62 10 3
121 Anthony Clark  Tahiti 24.62 11 5
123 Saeed Al Jesmi  United Arab Emirates 24.64 13 9
124 Rony Bakale  Congo 24.71 11 2
125 Julien Brice  Saint Lucia 24.80 9 5
126 Alexander Ray  Namibia 24.82 9 8
127 Humoud Alhumoud  Kuwait 24.84 14 5
128 Niall Christopher Roberts  Guyana 24.96 11 9
129 Kailan Staal  Northern Mariana Islands 25.06 9 6 NR
130 Andrey Molchanov  Turkmenistan 25.09 10 9
131 Wael Koubrousli  Lebanon 25.16 18 2
132 Kari Joannesarson Hoevdanum  Faroe Islands 25.18 2 3
133 Moh'D Aqelah  Jordan 25.22 11 6
134 Patricio Vera  Mozambique 25.24 8 1
135 Daniel Kevin Pryke  Papua New Guinea 25.28 8 3
136 Ivo Chilaule  Mozambique 25.32 9 3
136 Heshan Bandara Unamboowe  Sri Lanka 25.32 10 6
138 Eli Ebenezer Wong  Northern Mariana Islands 25.34 8 4
139 Omar Jasam  Bahrain 25.35 12 1
140 Jean Hugues Gregoire  Mauritius 25.42 8 7
141 Nicholas Coard  Grenada 25.43 8 8
142 Andrea Agius  Malta 25.45 8 9
143 Adama Ouedraogo  Burkina Faso 25.48 1 3
144 Oriol Cunat  Andorra 25.49 6 4
144 Shane Mangroo  Seychelles 25.49 8 6
146 Peter Popahun Pokawin  Papua New Guinea 25.53 7 4
147 Ronny Vencatachellum  Mauritius 25.55 7 1
147 Fernando Medrano  Nicaragua 25.55 8 5
149 Erik Rajohnson  Madagascar 25.56 11 1
150 Diguan Pigot  Suriname 25.59 6 9
151 Rainui Teriipaia  French Polynesia 25.68 10 4
152 Nather Ahmed AlHamoud  Saudi Arabia 25.75 14 9
153 Kerson Hadley  Micronesia 25.84 4 0
154 Jesse Nilon  Samoa 25.90 7 7
155 Edward Caruana Dingli  Malta 25.93 9 9
156 Gary Pineda  Guatemala 25.98 7 9
156 Sergey Krovyakov  Turkmenistan 25.98 10 0
158 Fabian Gregory Binns  Guyana 25.99 3 9
159 Mark Paul Thompson  Zambia 26.06 7 6
160 Carlos Alberto  Angola 26.10 7 3
160 Esau Simpson  Grenada 26.10 9 0
162 Jean-Luc Augier  Saint Lucia 26.17 7 0
163 Siu Kent Chung  Brunei 26.19 7 5
164 Ibrahim Maliki  Niger 26.26 2 0
164 Douglas Miller  Fiji 26.26 5 8
166 Florenc Llanaj  Albania 26.36 10 1
167 Tural Abbasov  Azerbaijan 26.40 7 2
168 Ganzi Mugula  Uganda 26.42 5 7
169 Elaijie Erasito  Fiji 26.48 7 8
170 Quenton Dupont  Eswatini 26.49 6 7
171 Batsaikhan Dulguun  Mongolia 26.54 9 4
172 Ahmed Salam Ali Al-Dulaimi  Iraq 26.80 3 6
173 Jake Villarreal  Marshall Islands 26.88 6 3
174 Shawn Brady  Marshall Islands 27.03 6 6
175 Saif Alaslam Saeed Al-Saadi  Iraq 27.29 3 2
176 Narantsog Tsogjargal  Mongolia 27.47 5 3
177 Hem Thon Ponloeu  Cambodia 27.51 6 2
178 Fahad Alqooz  Bahrain 27.59 4 4
179 Shailesh Shumsher Rana  Nepal 27.62 5 4
180 Inayath Hassan  Maldives 27.68 5 1
181 Ron Roucou  Seychelles 27.72 8 2
182 Nadir Elmofti  Libya 27.83 6 1
182 Mohamed Mujahid  Maldives 27.83 6 8
184 Prasiddha Jung Shah  Nepal 27.86 6 5
185 Dionisio Augustine II  Micronesia 27.87 3 4
186 Maung Htet Zin  Myanmar 27.96 5 2
187 Jules Yao Bessan  Benin 27.99 1 2
188 Wei Ching Maou  American Samoa 28.14 5 0
189 Abib Sereme  Mali 28.48 1 6
190 Barouf Ali  Comoros 28.53 10 2
191 Petero Okotai  Cook Islands 28.70 4 5
192 Gil Alexandre Koy  Central African Republic 28.93 2 7
193 Rama Leray Christ-Alex  Burundi 28.94 6 0
194 Esebei Doran  Palau 28.99 3 3
195 Sedarath Sao  Cambodia 29.07 5 9
196 Samson Makere  Tanzania 29.31 2 8
197 Alisher Chingizov  Tajikistan 29.46 5 5
198 Mohamed Coulibaly  Mali 29.60 2 4
198 Koang Gatkos Gor  Ethiopia 29.60 4 3
200 Salum Mapunda  Tanzania 29.72 4 6
200 Kwizera Cedric  Burundi 29.72 5 6
202 Boubacar Alou Moussa  Niger 30.19 3 1
203 Christian Nassif  Central African Republic 30.56 1 4
204 Abdoulkader Houssein  Djibouti 30.71 4 1
205 Kokou Messan Amegashie  Togo 31.41 3 8
206 Robert Scanlan  American Samoa 31.56 4 8
207 Saido Kamilov  Tajikistan 32.32 3 5
208 Alberto Papus de Meideros  Benin 32.54 1 7
209 Mohamed Ahmed Lebyadh  Mauritania 1:02.51 4 7
Mpunga Mboyo Landry  DR Congo DNS 2 1
Aleksandar Jeremic  Macedonia DNS 2 2
Reginald Douglas  Saint Kitts and Nevis DNS 2 5
Abu Bakarr Jalloh  Sierra Leone DNS 2 6
Gibrilla Bamba  Sierra Leone DNS 3 0
Houmed Hassan Ali  Djibouti DNS 3 7
Modou Gaye  Mauritania DNS 4 2
Lansana Sidibe  Guinea DNS 4 9
Richard Randrianandraina  Madagascar DNS 10 7
Attoumani Aboudou  Comoros DNS 12 8
Jakob Andkjær  Denmark DNS 21 9
Yevgeny Lagunov  Russia DNS 22 7
Kalugala Vithanage  Sri Lanka DQ 8 0

Semifinals

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Rank Name Nationality Time Heat Lane Notes
1 Frédérick Bousquet  France 21.21 2 5 CR
2 Duje Draganja  Croatia 21.29 1 6
3 Amaury Leveaux  France 21.32 1 3
4 César Cielo Filho  Brazil 21.35 2 4
5 Cullen Jones  United States 21.40 1 2 NR
6 Stefan Nystrand  Sweden 21.45 1 4 NR
7 Nathan Adrian  United States 21.46 2 3
8 George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 21.65 1 5
8 Krisztián Takács  Hungary 21.65 2 6
10 Nicholas Santos  Brazil 21.69 2 1
11 Konrad Czerniak  Poland 21.72 1 7
11 Graeme Moore  South Africa 21.72 1 8
13 Brent Hayden  Canada 21.73 2 8 NR
14 Matthew Abood  Australia 21.74 2 7
15 Roland Schoeman  South Africa 21.78 2 2
16 David Dunford  Kenya 21.89 1 1 NR

Swim-off

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Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes
1 George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 21.20 4 CR, NR
2 Krisztián Takács  Hungary 21.42 5 NR

Final

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Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) César Cielo Filho  Brazil 21.08 6 CR, AM
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Frédérick Bousquet  France 21.21 4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Amaury Leveaux  France 21.25 3
4 Duje Draganja  Croatia 21.38 5
5 Cullen Jones  United States 21.47 2
6 Nathan Adrian  United States 21.49 1
7 George Bovell  Trinidad and Tobago 21.51 8
8 Stefan Nystrand  Sweden 21.53 7
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  • "13th FINA World Championships: Men's 50m Freestyle: Heats: Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15.
  • "13th FINA World Championships: Men's 50m Freestyle: Semifinals: Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-06.
  • "13th FINA World Championships: Men's 50m Freestyle: Swim-off: Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-06.
  • "13th FINA World Championships: Men's 50m Freestyle: Final: Results Summary" (PDF). Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-04.