The Men's 100 metre individual medley competition of the 2021 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 18 and 19 December 2021.

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

Results Heats The heats were started on 18 December at 09:30.Heats results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 5 Daiya Seto 51.52 Q 2 4 2 Caio Pumputis 51.99 Q 3 3 3 Finlay Knox 52.05 Q 4 4 3 Tomoe Hvas 52.48 Q 5 5 4 Marco Orsi 52.53 Q 6 4 7 Hwang Sun-woo 52.56 Q 7 3 2 Yakov Toumarkin 52.62 Q 7 3 4 Kliment Kolesnikov Russian Swimming Federation 52.62 Q 9 5 7 Leonardo Coelho Santos 52.80 Q 10 5 2 Heiko Gigler 52.81 Q 11 3 7 Georgios Spanoudakis 52.85 Q 11 4 4 Marcin Cieślak 52.85 Q 13 5 1 Nic Fink 52.87 Q 14 4 6 Bernhard Reitshammer 52.91 Q 15 4 5 Thomas Ceccon 52.96 Q 16 3 5 Andreas Vazaios 52.98 Q 17 5 3 Michael Andrew 53.04 18 4 1 Alexis Santos 53.08 19 3 0 Stan Pijnenburg 53.29 20 4 0 Louis Croenen 53.32 21 3 6 Andrey Zhilkin Russian Swimming Federation 53.49 22 3 8 Ronny Brännkärr 53.55 23 4 8 Metin Aydın 53.87 24 3 9 Berke Saka 53.90 25 4 9 Ádám Halás 54.00 26 2 7 Balázs Holló 54.05 27 2 6 Roman Mityukov 54.31 28 2 1 Benjamin Hockin 54.70 29 1 3 Munzer Kabbara 54.79 NR 30 2 5 Guido Buscaglia 55.17 31 2 3 Cevin Anders Siim 55.40 32 1 6 Erick Gordillo 55.45 NR 33 2 8 Ronens Kermans 56.27 34 2 0 Ronan Wantenaar 56.92 35 1 5 Tasi Limtiaco 57.05 36 1 2 Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn 57.70 37 2 9 Thomas Wareing 58.33 38 1 4 Manuel Campo 58.95 39 1 7 Mohamed Aan Hussain 2 2 Maximillian Ang 2 4 Jaouad Syoud 3 1 José Martínez 5 0 Mohamed Samy 5 6 Duncan Scott 5 8 Markus Lie 5 9 Jan Šefl

Semifinals The semifinals were started on 18 December at 18:14.Semifinals results Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 6 Kliment Kolesnikov Russian Swimming Federation 51.33 Q 2 1 5 Tomoe Hvas 51.39 Q, NR 3 2 4 Daiya Seto 51.52 Q 4 2 8 Thomas Ceccon 51.86 Q 5 1 8 Andreas Vazaios 51.89 Q 6 2 5 Finlay Knox 51.99 Q 7 1 1 Bernhard Reitshammer 52.03 Q 7 2 3 Marco Orsi 52.03 Q 9 1 3 Hwang Sun-woo 52.13 NR 10 1 2 Heiko Gigler 52.21 11 2 6 Yakov Toumarkin 52.27 12 1 7 Marcin Cieślak 52.45 12 2 2 Leonardo Coelho Santos 52.45 14 1 4 Caio Pumputis 52.65 15 2 7 Georgios Spanoudakis 52.85 16 2 1 Nic Fink 54.07

Final The final was held on 19 December at 18:13.Final results Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Kliment Kolesnikov Russian Swimming Federation 51.09 5 Tomoe Hvas 51.35 NR 6 Thomas Ceccon 51.40 4 3 Daiya Seto 51.46 5 7 Finlay Knox 51.70 NR 6 2 Andreas Vazaios 51.74 7 8 Marco Orsi 51.76 8 1 Bernhard Reitshammer 52.16

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