The Men's 100 Freestyle at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 18 – 19 December in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On 18 December 125 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning, with the top-16 advancing onto Semifinals that evening. The top-8 from Semifinals then advanced to the final the next evening.

Records At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWRAmaury Leveaux 44.94 Rijeka 13 December 2008 CR Nathan Adrian 46.67 Manchester 13 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationTimeWRCR 18 December 2010 Heats Fabien Gilot 46.62 CR 18 December 2010 Semifinals César Cielo Filho 46.01 CR 19 December 2010 Final César Cielo Filho 45.74 CR

Results

Heats Rank Heat Lane Name Time Notes 1 15 6 46.62 Q, CR 2 16 5 46.66 Q 3 15 4 46.83 Q 3 16 6 46.83 Q 5 16 2 46.94 Q 6 16 4 47.00 Q 7 16 3 47.03 Q 8 15 7 47.04 Q 9 15 5 47.06 Q 10 15 3 47.19 Q 11 14 2 47.23 Q 12 14 3 47.32 Q 13 14 4 47.34 Q 14 15 2 47.40 Q 15 16 8 47.60 Q 16 14 1 47.61 * 17 12 2 47.67 Q 18 14 6 47.69 19 15 1 47.72 20 13 2 47.81 21 14 8 47.87 22 15 8 48.20 23 13 3 48.29 24 10 1 48.53 25 13 6 48.59 25 14 5 48.59 25 16 7 48.59 28 10 7 48.77 29 10 2 48.80 30 14 7 48.82 31 12 6 48.83 32 11 8 48.99 33 1 4 49.04 34 11 5 49.05 35 13 5 49.18 36 12 3 49.36 37 11 7 49.42 NR 38 13 8 49.43 39 12 8 49.52 40 13 4 49.53 41 12 5 49.63 42 13 7 49.66 43 1 6 49.71 44 12 4 49.72 45 12 7 49.75 46 13 1 49.76 47 9 4 49.80 48 10 6 49.83 49 10 5 50.01 50 10 3 50.09 51 11 1 50.12 52 9 5 50.19 53 8 5 50.20 54 10 8 50.30 55 10 4 50.34 56 11 3 50.45 57 11 2 50.50 58 11 6 50.57 59 11 4 50.65 60 9 1 50.86 61 9 8 51.05 62 8 4 51.12 63 8 6 51.18 64 8 2 51.30 65 7 3 51.38 66 9 6 51.64 67 7 7 51.68 68 9 2 51.74 69 9 7 51.93 70 8 1 52.03 71 9 3 52.32 72 5 7 52.64 72 8 8 52.64 74 6 8 53.04 75 7 2 53.07 76 7 6 53.27 77 7 8 53.30 78 6 2 53.36 79 6 5 53.52 79 6 3 53.52 81 5 3 53.60 82 7 4 53.87 83 6 4 53.90 84 8 3 53.94 85 5 4 54.32 85 5 8 54.32 87 5 5 54.35 88 5 6 54.36 89 5 2 54.42 90 4 5 54.43 91 8 7 54.75 92 6 1 54.77 93 7 1 54.78 94 4 6 54.80 95 7 5 55.12 96 6 6 55.67 97 1 2 56.52 98 4 4 56.71 99 4 3 56.82 100 2 2 56.85 101 1 3 56.98 102 4 7 57.64 103 5 1 57.86 104 4 2 57.96 105 3 2 59.48 106 1 5 59.66 NR 107 4 8 1:00.10 108 3 5 1:00.23 109 2 6 1:00.28 110 2 8 1:00.59 111 3 3 1:01.72 112 4 1 1:01.97 113 3 6 1:04.60 114 2 1 1:05.01 115 2 4 1:06.85 116 2 7 1:08.53 117 2 5 1:10.00 118 3 1 1:11.23 119 2 3 1:12.87 3 4 3 7 3 8 6 7 12 1 16 1 Fraser scratched the semifinals, so Dunford (17th) advanced to the semifinals in his place.

Semifinals Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 César Cielo 46.01 Q, CR 2 2 4 Fabien Gilot 46.11 Q 3 2 6 Matthew Abood 46.61 Q 4 1 6 Alain Bernard 46.71 Q 5 1 2 Stefan Nystrand 46.75 Q 6 1 7 Luca Dotto 46.93 Q 7 1 5 Nikita Lobintsev 46.98 Q 8 1 4 Nathan Adrian 46.99 Q 9 1 1 Graeme Moore 47.01 10 2 2 Konrad Czerniak 47.08 10 2 3 Garrett Weber-Gale 47.08 12 2 1 Filippo Magnini 47.12 13 1 3 Danila Izotov 47.18 14 1 8 David Dunford 47.23 15 2 7 Kyle Richardson 47.27 16 2 8 Jason Dunford 47.49

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 César Cielo 45.74 CR, SA 5 Fabien Gilot 45.97 1 Nikita Lobintsev 46.35 4 6 Alain Bernard 46.37 5 3 Matthew Abood 46.40 6 8 Nathan Adrian 46.44 7 7 Luca Dotto 46.68 8 2 Stefan Nystrand 46.81

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