The Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 11 and 12 December 2024.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:
The following record was established during the competition: Date Event Name Nationality Time Record 12 December Final Qin Haiyang 55.47 CR
Background Qin Haiyang of China had the fastest qualifying time with an Asian record of 55.61, set at the Singapore leg of the 2024 World Cup. He was tied for fourth all-time in the event. The only swimmer ranked above him in the all-time standings competing in Budapest was world record holder Ilya Shymanovich of Belarus (competing as a Neutral Athlete at this competition), who set his mark at 55.28 in 2021. Shymanovich outperformed Qin at the Incheon stop of the World Cup, though his season best of 55.72 also came in Singapore. Kirill Prigoda, competing as a neutral athlete from Russia, was the only other swimmer under 56 seconds so far in the season, having recorded a lifetime best of 55.95. Emre Sakçı of Turkey, a past sub-56 swimmer, entered with a slower season best of 59.53. Simone Cerasuolo of Italy had recently swam a personal best of 56.28, while Germany’s Lucas Matzerath had a lifetime best of 57.04. Japan’s Taku Taniguchi posted a 56.27 at nationals. Caspar Corbeau of the Netherlands and Australia’s Joshua Yong recorded lifetime bests of 56.59 and 56.66 respectively. Aleksandr Zhigalov, also from Russia and competing as a neutral athlete, swam 56.58. Other entrants included Caio Pumputis of Brazil, Bernhard Reitshammer of Austria, Michael Andrew of the United States, Denis Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan, and Finlay Knox of Canada.
SwimSwam predicted Shymanovich would win, Haiyang would take second, and Prigoda would take third.
Results Heats The heats were started on 11 December at 10:13. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 6 4 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 55.82 Q, NR 2 8 4 Qin Haiyang 56.39 Q 3 8 5 Taku Taniguchi 56.59 Q 4 5 5 Denis Petrashov 56.65 Q, NR 4 7 4 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 56.65 Q 6 8 3 Caspar Corbeau 56.71 Q 7 7 6 Ludovico Viberti 56.86 Q 8 6 5 Aleksandr Zhigalov Neutral Athletes B 56.90 Q 9 7 3 Joshua Yong 56.99 Q 10 6 6 Carles Coll 57.07 Q, NR 11 5 6 Jan Kałusowski 57.23 Q, NR 11 7 5 Simone Cerasuolo 57.23 Q 13 7 2 Yamato Fukasawa 57.26 Q 14 8 6 Choi Dong-yeol 57.29 Q, NR 15 8 2 Bernhard Reitshammer 57.34 Q 16 8 0 Chris Smith 57.38 Q 17 6 3 Emre Sakçı 57.39 R 18 8 9 Melvin Imoudu 57.44 R 19 5 3 Michael Andrew 57.57 20 6 7 Caio Pumputis 57.60 21 6 0 Lucas Matzerath 57.61 22 7 7 Koen de Groot 57.65 23 8 8 Daniel Kertes 57.71 24 8 1 Archie Goodburn 57.81 25 6 9 Andrius Šidlauskas 57.88 26 5 9 Finlay Knox 57.90 27 6 2 Joshua Collett 57.94 28 7 1 Volodymyr Lisovets 58.13 29 8 7 Berkay Ömer Öğretir 58.36 30 4 2 Ronan Wantenaar 58.59 NR 30 7 0 Adam Mak 58.59 32 7 8 Eoin Corby 58.63 33 4 3 Kristian Pitshugin 58.67 34 6 1 Juan García 58.73 35 4 0 Jørgen Scheie Bråthen 58.98 36 6 8 Snorri Dagur Einarsson 59.01 37 4 5 Maksim Manolov 59.20 38 3 4 Vicente Villanueva 59.22 NR 39 4 1 Louis Droupy 59.33 40 4 7 Arkadios Aspougalis 59.46 41 5 7 Ralf Roose 59.52 42 5 2 Dávid Horváth 59.61 43 7 9 Chao Man Hou 59.74 44 4 8 Joao Carneiro 59.82 45 3 3 Amro Al-Wir NR 46 5 0 Panayiotis Panaretos 47 1 4 Samy Boutouil NR 48 5 1 Davin Lindholm 49 3 8 Steven Insixiengmay 50 3 7 Emmanuel Gadson 51 3 5 Adrian Robinson NR 52 1 5 Mohammed Alotaibi NR 53 3 2 Josué Domínguez 54 5 4 Constantin Malachi 55 3 1 Jacob Story NR 56 4 6 Daniils Bobrovs 57 2 4 Zach Moyo NR 58 2 5 Raul Antadillas 59 2 3 Haniel Kudwoli 60 4 9 Ashot Chakhoyan 61 2 6 Saud Ghali NR 62 3 0 Luis Weekes 63 2 7 Hussaine Taha 64 2 9 Mohamed Abujiba NR 65 3 9 Ganzorigtyn Sugar 66 1 6 Kim Won-ju 67 1 3 Anas Ganedi 68 2 2 Selim Nazarov 69 2 1 Kouki Cerezo Watanabe 70 2 8 Fode Amara Camara 71 2 0 Yves Munyu Kupiata 3 6 Giacomo Casadei 4 4 Patrick Pelegrina 5 8 Arsen Kozhakhmetov 1 2 Alemekezeke Chinyamu
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 11 December at 18:24. Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 56.02 Q 2 1 4 Qin Haiyang 56.04 Q 3 2 3 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 56.21 Q 4 2 2 Taku Taniguchi 56.40 Q 5 1 2 Aleksandr Zhigalov Neutral Athletes B 56.50 Q 6 1 4 Denis Petrashov 56.52 Q, NR 7 1 3 Caspar Corbeau 56.60 Q 7 2 6 Ludovico Viberti 56.60 Q 9 2 1 Joshua Yong 56.62 R, OC 10 1 7 Carles Coll 56.67 R, NR 11 1 7 Simone Cerasuolo 56.94 12 2 6 Jan Kałusowski 56.98 NR 13 2 5 Yamato Fukasawa 57.07 14 1 8 Chris Smith 57.11 15 2 8 Bernhard Reitshammer 57.28 16 1 1 Choi Dong-yeol 57.30
Final The final was started on 12 December at 18:38. Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Qin Haiyang 55.47 CR, AS 4 Kirill Prigoda Neutral Athletes B 55.49 NR 3 Ilya Shymanovich Neutral Athletes A 55.60 4 7 Denis Petrashov 55.91 NR 5 6 Taku Taniguchi 56.32 6 2 Aleksandr Zhigalov Neutral Athletes B 56.35 7 1 Caspar Corbeau 56.46 7 8 Ludovico Viberti 56.46
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