The Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 2 August with the heats and the semifinals and 3 August with the final.Start list

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 2 August Heat 9 Adam Peaty 58.52 CR 2 August Semifinal 1 Cameron van der Burgh 58.49 CR 2 August Semifinal 2 Adam Peaty 58.18 CR

Results Heats The heats were held at 11:34.Heats results

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 9 4 Adam Peaty Q, CR 2 8 5 Cameron van der Burgh Q 3 9 2 Dmitriy Balandin Q 4 7 4 Ross Murdoch Q 5 9 5 Felipe França Silva Q 6 7 6 Hendrik Feldwehr Q 7 9 0 Kirill Prigoda Q 8 7 5 Giedrius Titenis Q 9 9 1 Jake Packard Q 10 7 3 Yasuhiro Koseki Q 11 9 3 Cody Miller Q 12 7 7 Christian vom Lehn 1:00.01 Q 13 8 7 Nic Fink 1:00.05 Q 14 7 1 Richard Funk 1:00.26 Q 14 9 6 Felipe Lima 1:00.26 Q 16 8 6 Čaba Silađi 1:00.35 Q 17 8 8 Damir Dugonjič 1:00.36 18 9 7 Glenn Snyders 1:00.44 19 6 4 Anton Sveinn McKee 1:00.53 20 6 2 Vladislav Mustafin 1:00.63 21 6 7 Jorge Murillo 1:00.67 22 8 3 Dániel Gyurta 1:00.71 23 9 8 Tomáš Klobučník 1:00.77 24 8 1 Giacomo Perez d'Ortona 1:00.80 25 8 0 Laurent Carnol 1:00.82 26 6 5 Yannick Käser 1:00.94 27 7 2 Li Xiang 1:00.96 28 8 4 Christian Sprenger 1:01.13 29 8 2 Ryo Tateishi 1:01.26 30 6 0 Matti Mattsson 1:01.44 31 7 9 Carlos Claverie 1:01.63 32 6 3 Erik Persson 1:01.75 33 8 9 Marcin Stolarski 1:01.98 34 9 9 Martti Aljand 1:01.99 35 5 5 Youssef El-Kamash 1:02.01 NR 36 6 1 Sandeep Sejwal 1:02.17 37 7 8 Lorenzo Antonelli 1:02.20 38 6 8 Alex Murphy 1:02.22 39 6 9 Demir Atasoy 1:02.35 40 5 2 Édgar Crespo 1:02.37 41 5 4 Joshua Hall 1:02.40 42 5 6 Azad Al-Barazi 1:02.51 43 7 0 Panagiotis Samilidis 1:02.58 44 5 7 Renato Prono 1:02.69 45 4 4 Wong Fu Kang 1:02.89 46 6 6 Petr Bartůněk 1:02.90 47 5 8 Lachezar Shumkov 1:03.08 48 5 3 Nikolajs Maskaļenko 1:03.21 49 4 3 Chao Man Hou 1:03.46 50 5 1 Dustin Tynes 1:03.50 51 4 8 Jordy Groters 1:03.66 52 4 1 Julian Fletcher 1:03.80 53 4 2 Benjamin Schulte 1:03.84 54 5 9 Mauro Castillo 1:03.91 55 4 9 James Lawson 1:04.03 56 4 6 Amini Fonua 1:04.28 57 4 5 Malick Fall 1:04.30 58 4 7 Anton Zheltyakov 1:04.45 59 3 3 Arya Nasimi Shad 1:05.86 60 3 4 Jesús Flores 1:06.14 61 3 6 Ramazan Taimatov 1:06.49 62 4 0 Darren Chan 1:06.65 63 3 0 Adriel Sanes 1:07.19 64 3 5 Julian Harding 1:07.28 65 3 7 Alexander Axiotis 1:07.29 66 3 8 Serginni Marten 1:07.34 67 3 9 Nazih Nazeyek 1:08.22 68 3 2 José Alberto Quintanilla 1:08.36 69 2 5 Corey Ollivierre 1:08.39 70 5 0 Mubarak Al-Besher 1:09.08 71 2 6 Kaito Yanai 1:09.59 72 2 2 Nikolas Sylvester 1:13.12 73 2 4 Daniel Gill 1:14.02 74 1 4 Htut Ahnt Khaung 1:16.13 75 2 1 Kiran Karki 1:18.21 76 2 8 Mocheta Makara 1:55.91 3 1 Markos Kalopsidiotis 1 3 Alhassane Fofana 1 5 Stephane Fokam 2 3 Alassane Seydou 2 7 Simanga Dlamini

Semifinals The semifinals were held on 2 August at 18:35.Semifinals results

Semifinal 1 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Cameron van der Burgh 58.49 Q, CR 2 6 Giedrius Titenis 58.96 Q, NR 3 3 Hendrik Feldwehr 59.63 Q 4 5 Ross Murdoch 59.75 Q 5 7 Christian vom Lehn 59.88 6 2 Yasuhiro Koseki 1:00.31 7 1 Richard Funk 1:00.43 8 8 Čaba Silađi 1:00.62

Semifinal 2 Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 4 Adam Peaty 58.18 Q, CR 2 5 Dmitriy Balandin 59.39 Q 3 6 Kirill Prigoda 59.60 Q, NR 4 2 Jake Packard 59.66 Q 5 7 Cody Miller 59.86 6 3 Felipe França Silva 59.89 7 1 Nic Fink 1:00.14 8 8 Felipe Lima 1:00.19

Final

The final was held on 3 August at 17:32.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Adam Peaty 58.52 5 Cameron van der Burgh 58.59 8 Ross Murdoch 59.09 4 6 Dmitriy Balandin 59.42 5 1 Jake Packard 59.44 6 3 Giedrius Titenis 59.56 7 2 Kirill Prigoda 59.84 8 7 Hendrik Feldwehr

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