The men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany was held from 20 to 21 July 2025. Matthew King from the United States won the gold medal, Pieter Coetze from South Africa took the silver medal and Aleksandr Shchegolev from Individual Neutral Athletes earned the bronze medal.
Schedule All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) Date Time Round20 July 10:13 Heats 19:00 Semifinals 21 July 19:07 Final
Records Prior to the competition, the world and Universiade records were as follows. Category Swimmer Record Date Place Event World record Pan Zhanle 46.40 31 July 2024 Paris, France 2024 Summer Olympics Universiade record Vladimir Morozov 47.62 10 July 2013 Kazan, Russia 2013 Summer Universiade
Results Heats All entered athletes competed across multiple seeded heats in the morning session. Swimmers with the top 16 fastest times advanced, regardless of which individual heat they swam.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 9 5 48.49 2 8 6 48.57 3 9 6 49.00 3 9 3 49.00 5 9 4 49.02 6 10 4 49.06 7 8 3 49.14 8 10 3 49.18 9 8 7 49.40 10 8 5 49.43 11 8 4 49.44 12 6 7 49.46 13 10 5 49.52 14 7 2 49.53 15 10 8 49.56 16 7 5 49.58 17 9 8 49.59 18 8 1 49.60 19 8 2 49.63 20 10 6 49.65 21 10 7 49.71 22 7 6 49.77 23 7 4 49.82 24 5 4 49.84 25 10 2 49.88 26 6 2 49.92 27 6 6 49.99 28 7 7 50.05 29 7 3 50.11 30 9 1 50.14 31 6 4 50.20 32 7 1 Lim Yin Chuen 50.28 33 6 3 50.30 34 9 7 50.31 35 7 8 50.39 36 5 5 50.41 37 6 5 50.47 38 8 8 50.58 39 5 6 50.61 40 5 2 50.64 41 5 7 50.65 41 10 1 50.65 43 1 6 50.87 44 5 8 Ho Siu Lun 51.04 45 6 1 Fan Chen-wei 51.12 46 6 8 51.39 47 3 5 51.45 47 4 3 51.45 49 4 1 Fu Kun-ming 51.50 50 4 5 51.53 51 4 4 51.73 52 5 1 51.78 53 2 4 Ng Chi Hin 51.80 53 1 2 51.80 55 5 3 51.87 56 4 8 51.95 57 4 2 51.96 58 4 6 52.08 59 4 7 52.36 60 3 4 52.54 61 1 1 52.64 62 3 6 52.66 63 3 7 52.70 64 2 3 53.23 65 3 3 53.24 66 3 2 53.45 67 2 7 53.54 68 3 1 54.27 69 3 8 54.29 70 2 5 54.66 71 2 6 55.01 72 2 8 55.16 73 2 1 55.53 74 2 2 55.73 75 1 4 58.41 76 1 7 58.45 77 1 3 59.65 78 1 5 1:03.44
Semifinals The 16 advancing swimmers were split into two semifinal heats of 8 during the evening session. The swimmers recording the top 8 fastest times advanced to the final round.
Rank Heat Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 1 2 3 48.30 2 1 3 48.34 3 2 4 48.47 4 1 2 48.59 5 1 4 48.67 6 1 5 48.77 7 1 6 48.81 8 2 6 49.06 9 2 2 49.16 10 2 1 49.17 11 2 5 49.22 12 2 8 49.29 13 1 1 49.36 14 2 7 49.37 15 1 7 49.56 16 1 8 49.87
Final The fastest 8 swimmers competed in a single race to determine the gold, silver and bronze medalists.
Rank Lane Swimmer Nation Time Notes 5 48.01 4 48.12 2 48.34 4 3 48.40 5 8 48.80 6 7 48.85 7 1 49.03 8 6 49.28
External links Swimming Rhine Ruhr 2025
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