Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 March (heats and semifinals) and on the evening of 26 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 123 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 117 swam.

Existing records at the start of the event were: World record (WR): 59.13, Brendan Hansen (USA), 1 August 2006 in Irvine, USA. Championship record (CR): 59.37, Brendan Hansen (USA), Montreal 2005 (25 July 2005)

Results

Final Place Lane Name Nationality 50m split Time 5 Brendan Hansen 27.67 00:59.80 4 Kosuke Kitajima 27.79 00:59.96 6 Brenton Rickard 28.15 1:00.58 4 2 Valeriy Dymo 28.18 1:00.60 5 7 Oleg Lisogor 28.07 1:00.83 6 1 Mihail Alexandrov 28.09 1:01.17 7 8 Dmitry Komornikov 28.58 1:01.24 8 3 Alexander Dale Oen 27.93 1:01.67

Semifinals Rank Heat & Lane Name Nationality 50m split Time Notes 1 S2-L4 Kosuke Kitajima 28.31 1:00.05 Q 2 S2-L5 Brendan Hansen 28.09 1:00.13 Q 3 S1-L4 Alexander Dale Oen 28.52 1:00.69 Q 4 S1-L6 Brenton Rickard 28.51 1:00.87 Q 5 S2-L6 Valeriy Dymo 28.64 1:00.88 Q 6 S2-L3 Oleg Lisogor 28.86 1:00.89 Q 7 S2-L7 Mihail Alexandrov 28.33 1:01.08 Q 8 S2-L8 Dmitry Komornikov 28.87 1:01.11 Q8.5 S1.5 1:01.2 O 9 S1-L3 James Gibson 27.95 1:01.24 9 S1-L7 Scott Usher 29.01 1:01.24 11 S2-L1 Chris Cook 28.15 1:01.28 12 S1-L5 Giedrius Titenis 28.82 1:01.48 13 S1-L8 Roman Sloudnov 28.69 1:01.50 14 S1-L2 Cameron van der Burgh 28.76 1:01.80 15 S1-L1 Alessandro Terrin 28.33 1:01.87 16 S2-L2 Hugues Duboscq 28.80 1:01.93

Heats Rank Heat & Lane Name Nationality 50m split Time Note 1 H14-L5 Kosuke Kitajima 28.33 00:59.96 Q 2 H15-L5 Alexander Dale Oen 28.59 1:00.34 Q 3 H16-L4 Brendan Hansen 28.66 1:00.59 Q 4 H09-L4 Giedrius Titenis 28.76 1:00.92 Q 5 H14-L4 Oleg Lisogor 28.83 1:00.99 Q 6 H14-L3 James Gibson 28.26 1:01.03 Q 7 H14-L3 Valeriy Dymo 28.82 1:01.06 Q 7 H15-L4 Brenton Rickard 28.77 1:01.06 Q 9 H16-L3 Hugues Duboscq 28.85 1:01.08 Q 10 H12-L2 Cameron van der Burgh 28.73 1:01.12 Q 11 H11-L4 Mihail Alexandrov 28.60 1:01.15 Q 12 H16-L2 Scott Usher 29.31 1:01.36 Q 13 H16-L6 Chris Cook 29.00 1:01.49 Q 14 H15-L7 Alessandro Terrin 28.38 1:01.61 Q 15 H14-L2 Dmitry Komornikov 28.95 1:01.66 Q 16 H16-L5 Roman Sloudnov 29.09 1:01.69 Q (swim-off) 16 H15-L8 Robin van Aggele 28.67 1:01.69 (swim-off) 18 H16-L1 Mike Brown 29.13 1:01.75 19 H12-L4 Glenn Snyders 29.36 1:01.91 20 H11-L3 Jiri Jedlicka 29.23 1:01.92 21 H16-L7 Edoardo Giorgetti 29.78 1:01.95 22 H15-L6 Makoto Yamashita 29.12 1:02.08 23 H14-L8 Henrique Barbosa 28.81 1:02.13 24 H13-L1 LAI Zhongjian 29.62 1:02.18 25 H15-L1 Valentin Preda 28.74 1:02.19 26 H15-L2 Richárd Bodor 29.20 1:02.28 27 H13-L2 Jim Piper 29.06 1:02.36 28 H14-L1 Johannes Neumann 29.11 1:02.50 29 H13-L8 Sławomir Wolniak 29.06 1:02.50 30 H14-L7 Felipe Lima 29.23 1:02.58 31 H12-L5 Maxim Podoprigora 29.76 1:02.71 31 H12-L8 Thabang Moeketsane 29.05 1:02.71 33 H11-L5 Mladen Tepavčević 29.42 1:02.80 33 H13-L4 Sławomir Kuczko 29.81 1:02.80 35 H12-L1 Chris Boe Christensen 29.84 1:02.83 36 H16-L8 Emil Tahirovič 28.52 1:02.85 37 H13-L6 Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson 29.47 1:02.91 38 H11-L6 Edvinas Dautartas 29.07 1:03.07 39 H10-L6 Sofiane Daid 29.31 1:03.09 40 H12-L6 Dániel Gyurta 30.13 1:03.33 41 H13-L5 WANG Haibo 29.99 1:03.38 42 H12-L7 Malick Fall 29.62 1:03.42 43 H10-L7 Tomas Fucik 29.59 1:03.44 44 H15-L3 Romanos Iasonas Alyfantis 29.40 1:03.51 45 H11-L2 Mikalai Vasilyeu 29.61 1:03.62 46 H12-L3 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov 29.99 1:03.70 47 H10-L2 Tom Be'eri 30.07 1:03.72 47 H10-L1 Michael Malul 29.65 1:03.72 49 H11-L8 Alwin de Prins 29.69 1:04.00 50 H11-L7 Martti Aljand 30.31 1:04.13 51 H13-L7 Matjaž Markič 28.96 1:04.20 52 H09-L3 Sujong Sin South Korea 30.46 1:04.31 53 H10-L3 Hsin Hung Chiang 30.25 1:04.49 54 H09-L6 Dean Kent 30.20 1:04.51 55 H10-L4 Nikola Delic 29.68 1:04.58 56 H9-L5 Andrei Capitanciuc 30.24 1:04.76 57 H10-L8 Dimitri Waeber 29.88 1:04.80 58 H07-L6 Wael Koubrously 30.66 1:04.83 59 H08-L1 Vidvuds Maculevics 30.17 1:05.36 60 H11-L1 Wei Wen Wang 30.79 1:05.38 61 H09-L7 Sergiu Postica 30.24 1:05.45 62 H09-L2 Mohammad Alirezaei 29.99 1:05.64 63 H07-L3 Radomyos Matjiur 30.65 1:05.70 64 H08-L2 Diego Bonilla 30.79 1:05.75 65 H09-L8 Herry Yudhianto 31.39 1:05.81 66 H09-L1 Andrei Cross 29.91 1:05.91 67 H08-L4 Edgar Robert Crespo 31.08 1:06.00 68 H07-L4 Rainui Terupaia 30.37 1:06.10 69 H08-L5 Jin Leonard Tan 30.75 1:06.14 70 H08-L6 Andrey Morkovin 31.36 1:06.46 70 H08-L7 Billy Arfianto 31.70 1:06.46 72 H10-L5 Kirils Sanzarovecs 30.54 1:06.65 73 H07-L1 Kevin Hensley Virgin Islands 30.56 1:06.86 74 H06-L7 Josh Laban Virgin Islands 31.66 1:07.28 75 H08-L3 Gerard Bordado 31.12 1:07.37 76 H08-L8 Kee Guan Benjamin Ng 31.36 1:07.92 77 H06-L5 Milan Glamocic 31.50 1:07.99 78 H07-L7 Yusuf Alyousuf 31.97 1:08.22 79 H07-L2 Mustafa Al-Saleh 32.17 1:08.34 80 H07-L8 See Tuan Yap 31.78 1:08.39 81 H06-L8 Eric Williams 31.94 1:08.77 82 H07-L5 Genaro Mathias Prono Britez 31.56 1:08.89 83 H06-L6 Erik Rajohnson 32.70 1:09.01 84 H06-L4 Antonio Leon Candia 31.11 1:09.32 85 H05-L4 Amar Shah 31.53 1:09.67 86 H04-L5 Celestino Aguon 32.88 1:10.46 87 H06-L2 Chisela Kanchela 32.01 1:10.64 88 H05-L3 Melvin Chua 33.04 1:10.65 89 H04-L4 Hei Ming Lao 33.01 1:10.84 90 H03-L4 Boldbaataryn Bütekh-Uils 32.50 1:11.06 91 H05-L1 Rodion Davelaar 33.59 1:11.38 92 H04-L7 Omar Jasim 32.38 1:11.38 93 H05-L5 Alexander Rivero 32.49 1:11.62 94 H06-L1 Osama Al Araj 32.92 1:11.73 95 H05-L7 Aram Nazaryan 33.18 1:12.21 96 H05-L8 Jehad Al Henidi 33.13 1:12.72 97 H04-L8 Guvanch Ataniyazov 33.67 1:13.12 98 H04-L1 Eric Artur Medina Su 33.86 1:13.17 99 H05-L2 Onan Thom 34.20 1:13.62 100 H04-L6 Kevin Cheung 34.05 1:13.87 101 H04-L2 Gavin Sants 34.69 1:13.88 102 H05-L6 Jamie Zammitt 33.91 1:14.43 103 H02-L3 A. Aldhaheri 35.72 1:15.93 104 H03-L6 Eli Ebenezer Wong 35.72 1:15.95 105 H03-L2 Julio Smith 34.48 1:16.55 106 H03-L3 Sadeq Damrah 34.92 1:16.60 107 H03-L1 Hassan Ashraf 35.15 1:17.26 108 H03-L8 Michael Taylor 36.22 1:17.79 109 H03-L5 Monder Al-Jabali 35.89 1:20.40 110 H02-L6 Rahim Karmali 37.32 1:21.27 111 H01-L5 Jackson Niyomugabo 39.45 1:25.87 112 H02-L8 Anthony Kpetnky 33.86 1:29.60 113 H01-L3 Seele Benjamin Ntai 42.54 1:31.58 NR 114 H01-L4 Boipelo Makhothi 42.16 1:32.63 115 H02-L1 Vincent Leatualevao 41.39 1:32.86 116 H02-L5 Robert Scanlan 41.55 1:34.98 117 H02-L4 Abubakarr Jalloh 45.22 1:44.93 999 H02-L2 M. Alhousseini Alhassan DNS 999 H02-L7 Julio Yao Bessan DNS 999 H03-L7 Thi Hue Pham DNS 999 H04-L3 João Aguiar DNS 999 H06-L3 Shajahan Ali Rony DNS 999 H13-L3 Vanja Rogulj DNS

Swim-off for semis (16th place) Roman Sloudnov, Russia – 1:01.97 (Q) Robin van Aggele, Netherlands – 1:02.54

See also Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke (previous Worlds) Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre breaststroke (next year's top event) Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke (next Worlds)

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