The swimming competition at the 12th FINA World Aquatics Championships was held in Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, from 25 March to 1 April 2007. This portion of the 2007 Worlds featured 40 events (20 for males, 20 for females), all swum in a long course (50 m) pool: freestyle: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m; backstroke: 50 m, 100 m and 200 m; breaststroke: 50 m, 100 m and 200 m; butterfly: 50 m, 100 m and 200 m; individual medley (I.M.): 200 m and 400 m; and relays: 4 × 100 m free, 4 × 200 m free, and 4 × 100 m medley.
Further explanations The 2007 World Championships served in qualifying for the Swimming portion at the 2008 Olympics in two ways:
It was the main relay qualifier, with the top-12 finishers in each relay automatically qualifying for the 16-entry field at the 2008 Olympics (the other 4 teams were filled with the 4 fastest remaining nations). Those nations who did not have swimmers who meet the Olympic qualifying times, and wanted a "wildcard" entry into the Olympics, need to have their potential swimmers swim at the 2007 Worlds.
Participating nations 166 nations had 1,142 swimmers entered at the 2007 Worlds:Entries by Nation report for Swimming from the 2007 FINA World Aquatics Championships, published by Omega Timing on 2007-03-20. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
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Event schedule
Morning/heats sessions began at 10:00 a.m., with the evening sessions (semifinals and finals) beginning at 7:00 p.m. All events were contested in a long-course (50 m) pool. In the 50 m, 100 m, and 200 m events, heats/semifinals/finals were held; with heats in the morning of the first day of the event, semifinals that evening, and finals the next evening. For races 400 m, 800 m, or 1500 m in length, only heats and finals were held. For the 400 m events (both individual and relay), heats and finals were held on the same day. For the individual 800 m and 1500 m free events, heats were held in the morning with finals in the next day's evening session (approximately 36 hours apart). For the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, heats and finals were the same day (matching the other 2 relays). dateMorning session Preliminary heats (10:00 a.m.)Evening session Finals & semifinals (7:00 p.m.) Sunday25 March2007 women's 100 fly men's 400 free women's 200 I.M. men's 50 fly women's 400 free men's 100 breast women's 4 × 100 free relay men's 4 × 100 free relay swim-off: men's 50 fly women's 100 fly (semifinals) men's 400 free (final) women's 200 I.M. (semifinals) men's 50 fly (semifinals) women's 400 free (final) men's 100 breast (semifinals) women's 4 × 100 free relay (final) men's 4 × 100 free relay (final)Monday26 March2007 women's 100 back men's 200 free women's 100 breast men's 100 back women's 1500 free men's 100 breast (final) women's 100 fly (final) men's 100 back (semifinals) women's 100 breast (semifinals) men's 50 fly (final) women's 100 back (semifinals) men's 200 free (semifinals) women's 200 I.M. (final)Tuesday27 March2007 men's 50 breast men's 200 fly women's 200 free men's 800 free men's 200 free (final) women's 100 back (final) men's 50 breast (semifinals) women's 1500 free (final) men's 100 back (final) women's 200 free (semifinals) men's 200 fly (semifinals) women's 100 breast (final)Wednesday28 March2007 women's 50 back men's 100 free women's 200 fly men's 200 I.M. men's 100 free (semifinals) women's 50 back (semifinals) men's 200 fly (final) women's 200 free (final) men's 50 breast (final) women's 200 fly (semifinals) men's 200 I.M. (semifinals) men's 800 free (final)Thursday29 March2007 women's 100 free men's 200 back women's 200 breast men's 200 breast women's 4 × 200 free relay women's 100 free (semifinals) men's 200 I.M. (final) women's 200 breast (semifinals) men's 100 free (final) women's 200 fly (final) men's 200 breast (semifinals) women's 50 back (final) men's 200 back (semifinals) women's 4 × 200 free relay (final)Friday30 March2007 women's 50 fly men's 50 free women's 800 free men's 100 fly women's 200 back men's 4 × 200 free relay women's 100 free (final) men's 200 back (final) women's 50 fly (semifinals) men's 50 free (semifinals) women's 200 breast (final) men's 100 fly (semifinals) women's 200 back (semifinals) men's 200 breast (final) men's 4 × 200 free relay (final) swim-off: men's 50 free swim-off: men's 100 fly Saturday31 March2007 women's 50 free men's 50 back women's 50 breast men's 1500 free women's 4 × 100 medley relay women's 50 fly (final) men's 50 free (final) women's 200 back (final) women's 50 breast (semifinals) men's 100 fly (final) women's 50 free (semifinals) men's 50 back (semifinal) women's 800 free (final) women's 4 × 100 medley relay (final)Sunday1 April2007 men's 400 I.M. women's 400 I.M. men's 4 × 100 medley relay men's 50 back (final) women's 50 breast (final) men's 400 I.M. (final) women's 50 free (final) men's 1500 free (final) women's 400 I.M. (final) men's 4 × 100 medley relay (final)
Results Key WR - World Record CR - Championship Record
Men's events 50 m freestyledetailsBen Wildman-Tobriner 21.88Cullen Jones 21.94Stefan Nystrand 21.97NR100 m freestyledetailsFilippo MagniniBrent Hayden 48.4348.43NR Eamon Sullivan 48.47200 m freestyledetailsMichael Phelps 1:43.86WRPieter van den Hoogenband 1:46.28Park Tae-Hwan 1:46.73AS400 m freestyleOussama Mellouli of Tunisia originally won the men's 800 m freestyle and finished second in the men's 400 m freestyle. On 11 September 2007, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland disqualified Mellouli and banned him for 18 months (effective retroactively to 30 October 2006) after he tested positive for amphetamines. detailsPark Tae-Hwan 3:44.30ASGrant Hackett 3:45.43Yury Prilukov 3:45:47800 m freestyle detailsPrzemysław Stańczyk 7:47.91NRCraig Stevens 7:48.67Federico Colbertaldo 7:49.98NR1500 m freestyledetailsMateusz Sawrymowicz 14:45.94ERYury Prilukov 14:47.29NRDavid Davies 14:51.2150 m backstroke detailsGerhard Zandberg 24.98AFThomas Rupprath 25.20Liam Tancock 25.23100 m backstroke detailsAaron Peirsol 52.98WRRyan Lochte 53.50Liam Tancock 53.61NR200 m backstrokedetailsRyan Lochte 1:54.32WRAaron Peirsol 1:54.80Markus Rogan 1:56.02NR50 m breaststrokedetailsOleg Lisogor 27.66Brendan Hansen 27.69Cameron van der Burgh 27.88100 m breaststrokedetailsBrendan Hansen 59.80Kosuke Kitajima 59.96Brenton Rickard 1:00.58200 m breaststrokedetailsKosuke Kitajima 2:09.80Brenton Rickard 2:10.99Loris Facci 2:11.0350 m butterflydetailsRoland Schoeman 23.18Ian Crocker 23.47Jakob Andkjær 23.56NR100 m butterflydetailsMichael Phelps 50.77Ian Crocker 50.82Albert Subirats 51.82200 m butterflydetailsMichael Phelps1:52.09WRWu Peng 1:55.13Nikolay Skvortsov 1:55.22=NR200 m individual medleydetailsMichael Phelps 1:54.98WRRyan Lochte 1:56.19László Cseh 1:56.92ER400 m individual medleydetailsMichael Phelps 4:06.22WRRyan Lochte 4:09.74Luca Marin 4:09.88NR4 × 100 m freestyle relaydetailsMichael Phelps (48.42)Neil Walker (48.31)Cullen Jones (48.67)Jason Lezak (47.32)Garrett Weber-GaleBen Wildman-Tobriner 3:12.72CRMassimiliano Rosolino (49.35)Alessandro Calvi (49.06)Christian Galenda (48.45)Filippo Magnini (47.18) Lorenzo Vismara 3:14.04ERFabien Gilot (49.18)Frédérick Bousquet (48.48)Julien Sicot (48.84)Alain Bernard (48.18)Grégory MalletAmaury Leveaux 3:14.68NR4 × 200 m freestyle relaydetailsMichael Phelps (1:45.36)Ryan Lochte (1:45.86)Klete Keller (1:46.31)Peter Vanderkaay (1:45.71)Jayme CramerDave Walters 7:03.24WRPatrick Murphy (1:48.55)Andrew Mewing (1:47.52)Grant Brits (1:48.21)Kenrick Monk (1:45.77)Nick Ffrost 7:10.05Brian Johns (1:48.46)Brent Hayden (1:46.59)Rick Say (1:47.59)Andrew Hurd (1:48.06) 7:10.704 × 100 m medley relay detailsMatt Welsh (54.78)Brenton Rickard (59.63)Andrew Lauterstein (52.63)Eamon Sullivan (47.89)Hayden StoeckelMichael KlimKenrick Monk 3:34.93Tomomi Morita (54.76)Kosuke Kitajima (59.23)Takashi Yamamoto (51.90)Daisuke Hosokawa (49.27)Masafumi Yamaguchi 3:35.16ASArkady Vyatchanin (54.08)Dmitry Komornikov (1:00.65)Nikolay Skvortsov (52.13)Evgeny Lagunov (48.65)Roman SloudnovAndrey Kapralov 3:35.51
Women's events 50 m freestyledetailsLibby Lenton 24.53Therese Alshammar 24.62Marleen Veldhuis 24.70100 m freestyledetailsLibby Lenton 53.40=CR, OCMarleen Veldhuis 53.70NRBritta Steffen 53.74200 m freestyledetailsLaure Manaudou 1:55.52WRAnnika Lurz 1:55.68NRFederica Pellegrini 1:56.97400 m freestyledetailsLaure Manaudou 4:02.61CROtylia Jędrzejczak 4:04.23NRAi Shibata 4:05.19AS800 m freestyledetailsKate Ziegler 8:18.52CRLaure Manaudou 8:18.80NRHayley Peirsol 8:26.411500 m freestyledetailsKate Ziegler 15:53.05CRFlavia Rigamonti 15:55.38NRAi Shibata 15:58.55AS50 m backstrokedetailsLeila Vaziri 28.16WRAleksandra Gerasimenya 28.46Tayliah Zimmer 28.50100 m backstrokedetailsNatalie Coughlin 59.44WRLaure Manaudou 59.87ERReiko Nakamura 1:00.40NR200 m backstrokedetailsMargaret Hoelzer 2:07.16CR, AMKirsty Coventry 2:07.54AFReiko Nakamura 2:08.54NR50 m breaststrokedetailsJessica Hardy 30.63Leisel Jones 30.70Tara Kirk31.05100 m breaststrokedetailsLeisel Jones 1:05.72CRTara Kirk 1:06.34Anna Khlistunova 1:07.27ER200 m breaststrokedetailsLeisel Jones 2:21.84Kirsty BalfourMegan Jendrick 2:25.94 50 m butterflydetailsTherese Alshammar 25.91Danni Miatke 26.05OCInge Dekker 26.11100 m butterflydetailsLibby Lenton 57.15CR, =OCJessicah Schipper 57.24Natalie Coughlin 57.34AM200 m butterflydetailsJessicah Schipper 2:06.39Kim Vandenberg 2:06.71Otylia Jędrzejczak 2:06.90200 m individual medleydetailsKatie Hoff 2:10.13CRKirsty Coventry 2:10.76AFStephanie Rice 2:11.42OC400 m individual medleydetailsKatie Hoff 4:32.89WRYana Martynova 4:40.14NRStephanie Rice 4:41.194 × 100 m freestyle relay detailsLibby Lenton (53.42) CR, =OCMelanie Schlanger (53.95)Shayne Reese (54.90)Jodie Henry (53.21)Danni MiatkeSally Foster 3:35.48CR, OCNatalie Coughlin (54.13)Lacey Nymeyer (53.50)Amanda Weir (54.02)Kara Lynn Joyce (54.03)Dana Vollmer 3:35.68AMInge Dekker (54.57)Ranomi Kromowidjojo (54.82)Femke Heemskerk (54.13)Marleen Veldhuis (53.29)Chantal Groot 3:36.81NR4 × 200 m freestyle relay detailsNatalie Coughlin (1:56.43) AMDana Vollmer (1:57.49)Lacey Nymeyer (1:59.19)Katie Hoff (1:56.98)Amanda WeirMargaret HoelzerKara Lynn Joyce 7:50.09WRMeike Freitag (1:59.56)Britta Steffen (1:57.58)Petra Dallmann (2:00.40)Annika Lurz (1:56.28) 7:53.82Alena Popchanka (1:57.86)Sophie Huber (1:58.80)Aurore Mongel (2:01.04)Laure Manaudou (1:58.26)Céline Couderc 7:55.96NR4 × 100 m medley relaydetailsEmily Seebohm (1:00.79)Leisel Jones (1:04.94)Jessicah Schipper (57.18)Libby Lenton (52.83)Tarnee WhiteFelicity GalvezJodie Henry 3:55.74WRNatalie Coughlin (1:00.66)Tara Kirk (1:06.37)Rachel Komisarz (57.06)Lacey Nymeyer (54.22)Leila VaziriJessica HardyDana VollmerAmanda Weir 3:58.31Xu Tianlongzi (1:01.06)Luo Nan (1:09.08)Zhou Yafei (57.84)Xu Yanwei (53.99) 4:01.97
Medal table
On 11 September 2007, an anti-doping ban was issued to Tunisia's Oussama Mellouli, with a retroactive nullification of his results which included his swims at the 2007 Worlds. Mellouli had finished in the top-3 in 2 events, and consequently, his results nullification adjusted the overall medals standings, particularly effecting Australia, Italy, Poland, Russia and Tunisia (Tunisia was removed all together, as Mellouli was the country's only medal winner).
Records The following world and championship records were broken during the competition.
World records