The men's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 26 July. The heats and semifinals took place on 25 July, with the final being held on 26 July.

Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows: World record 51.81 Canberra, Australia 12 December 1999Championship record 52.25 Perth, Australia 16 January 1998

The following record was established during the competition: DateRoundNameNationTimeRecord 25 July 2001 Semifinal Lars Frölander 52.17 CR 26 July 2001 Final Lars Frölander 52.10 CR

Results

Heats

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Andriy Serdinov 52.97 Q 2 Vladislav Kulikov 53.03 Q 3 Mike Mintenko 53.04 Q 3 Geoff Huegill 53.04 Q 5 Ian Crocker 53.08 Q 6 Franck Esposito 53.11 Q 7 Lars Frölander 53.14 Q 8 Thomas Rupprath 53.31 Q 9 Igor Martchenko 53.52 Q 10 Takashi Yamamoto 53.53 Q 10 Joris Keizer 53.53 Q 12 Tero Välimaa 53.66 Q 13 Jere Hård 53.73 Q 14 Michael Klim 53.83 Q 15 Denys Sylantyev 53.86 Q 16 Ouyang Kunpeng 53.94 Q 17 Peter Mankoč 54.03 18 Zsolt Gáspár 54.06 19 Daniel Jones 54.20 20 Ryo Takayasu 54.22 21 Ioan Gherghel 54.26 22 Fernando Alves 54.36 22 Christian Galenda 54.36 24 Daniel Morales 54.50 25 Simão Morgado 54.64 26 Pablo Martín Abal 54.65 27 Milorad Čavić 54.71 28 Camilo Becerra 54.79 29 Andrew Livingston 54.93 30 Fabian Friedrich 54.98 31 Ivan Mladina 55.03 32 Oswaldo Quevedo 55.18 33 Cesar Uribe 55.19 34 Aleksandar Miladinovski 55.30 34 Jesús González 55.30 36 Ioannis Drymonakos 55.95 37 Dzmitri Koshel 56.19 38 Luc Decker 56.23 39 Lorenz Liechti 56.47 40 Zoran Lazarevski 56.56 41 Yu Jeong-Nam 56.59 42 Petter Sjodal 56.64 43 Oleg Lyashko 56.89 43 Joe Jae-Hyon 56.89 45 Benjamin Gan 56.97 46 Danil Haustov 57.09 47 Wu Nien-Pin 57.34 48 Mark Chay 57.66 49 Carlos Meléndez 58.54 50 Yu Lung Lubrey Lim 58.56 51 Nicholas Diaper 58.59 52 Gustavo Barrios 58.98 53 Sergio Rafael De Leon Alfaro 59.02 54 Chon Kit Alias Joao Tang 59.14 55 Davy Bisslik 59.22 56 Chen Jui-Chen 59.36 57 Kenny Roberts 59.45 58 Khuwiater Saeed Had Al Dhaheri 59.47 59 Christophe Lim Wen Ying 1:00.04 60 Obaid Ahmed Al Jassimi 1:00.25 61 Bertrand Bristol 1:00.38 62 Keng Ip Lou 1:00.42 63 Hamid Nassir 1:00.74 64 Omar Núñez 1:00.87 65 Zulfiqar Ali 1:00.97 66 Naji Ferguson 1:01.11 67 Gael Souci 1:01.36 68 Zaid Saeed 1:02.93 69 João Carlos Paquet Aguiar 1:03.52 70 Dean Palacios 1:03.71 71 Bayarerdene Soninerdene 1:04.82 72 Loren Lindborg 1:09.38 – Nuno Miguel Cardoso Rola DSQ – Georgi Palazov DSQ – Derya Büyükuncu DNS

Semifinals

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Lars Frölander 52.17 Q, CR 2 Michael Klim 52.50 Q 3 Takashi Yamamoto 52.55 Q 4 Ian Crocker 52.63 Q 5 Mike Mintenko 52.81 Q 6 Geoff Huegill 52.91 Q 7 Franck Esposito 52.96 Q 8 Vladislav Kulikov 52.98 Q 9 Jere Hård 53.08 10 Denys Sylantyev 53.17 11 Tero Välimaa 53.19 11 Andriy Serdinov 53.19 13 Thomas Rupprath 53.27 14 Igor Martchenko 53.67 15 Joris Keizer 53.72 16 Ouyang Kunpeng 54.00

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Lars Frölander 52.10 CR Ian Crocker 52.25 Geoff Huegill 52.36 4 Takashi Yamamoto 52.56 5 Vladislav Kulikov 52.69 6 Mike Mintenko 52.82 7 Michael Klim 52.91 8 Franck Esposito 53.33

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