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 Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: World record 20.94 Montpellier, France 26 April 2009Championship record 21.69 Montreal, Canada 30 July 2005

The following records were established during the competition:

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

Results

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

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

Swim-off Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes 1 George Bovell 21.20 4 CR, NR 2 Krisztián Takács 21.42 5 NR

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Lane Notes César Cielo Filho 21.08 6 CR, AM Frédérick Bousquet 21.21 4 Amaury Leveaux 21.25 3 4 Duje Draganja 21.38 5 5 Cullen Jones 21.47 2 6 Nathan Adrian 21.49 1 7 George Bovell 21.51 8 8 Stefan Nystrand 21.53 7

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