The men's 50-metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

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

The following records were established during the competition:

Date Round Name Nationality Time Record 30 July Final A Alexander Popov 21.91

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds: heats and finals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advanced to final A, where they competed for the top 8 places. The swimmers with the next 8 times in the heats swam in final B, for ninth through the sixteenth place. Swim-offs were used as necessary to determine advancement.

Results

Heats Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q), while the next eight to final B (q).

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 8 4 Alexander Popov 22.21 Q 2 10 4 Matt Biondi 22.32 Q 3 9 4 Tom Jager 22.45 Q 4 10 1 Gennadiy Prigoda 22.57 Q 5 9 3 Peter Williams 22.65 Q 6 9 6 Christophe Kalfayan 22.70 Q 9 5 Nils Rudolph Q 8 10 5 Mark Foster 22.72 Q 9 8 5 Raimundas Mažuolis 22.77 q 10 9 2 Mark Pinger 22.88 q 11 10 3 Pär Lindström 22.92 q 10 7 René Gusperti q 13 8 3 Darren Lange 23.01 q 8 6 Stéphan Caron q, 15 8 2 Gustavo Borges 23.10 q 10 2 Angus Waddell q 17 8 7 Dano Halsall 23.15 q 18 8 8 Krzysztof Cwalina 23.20 19 10 6 Mike Fibbens 23.27 20 6 5 Stavros Michaelides 23.34 21 9 1 Allan Murray 23.35 22 9 8 Darryl Cronjé 23.39 23 1 6 Mladen Kapor 23.42 24 7 2 Ricardo Busquets 23.44 25 7 4 Stéfan Voléry 23.47 26 7 5 Nikos Paleokrassas 23.51 27 7 8 Rodrigo González 23.52 28 7 3 Nikos Steliou 23.55 29 10 8 Franz Mortensen 23.61 30 5 5 Janne Blomqvist 23.63 31 8 1 Indrek Sei 23.68 32 7 7 Yoav Bruck 23.72 33 6 2 Enrico Linscheer 23.74 34 4 7 Todd Torres 23.79 7 1 Nicholas Sanders 36 7 6 Paulo Trindade 23.81 37 6 1 Mark Weldon 23.87 6 4 Mohamed El-Azoul 39 6 3 Michael Wright 23.90 40 5 3 Stephen Clarke 23.95 41 5 7 Teófilo Ferreira 24.13 6 8 Musa Bakare 43 5 4 Pedro Lima 24.14 44 5 1 Geribryan Mewett 24.20 45 5 2 Ian Steed Raynor 24.23 46 3 5 Ivor Le Roux 24.32 47 4 1 Toshiaki Kurasawa 24.61 48 4 3 Laurent Alfred 24.66 49 1 7 Mouhamed Diop 24.69 50 6 6 Frank Leskaj 24.72 51 4 8 Rhoderick McGown 24.75 52 4 6 Patrick Sagisi 24.78 53 5 8 Marc Verbeeck 24.85 54 2 4 Adrian Romero 25.12 55 3 4 Plutarco Castellanos 25.27 56 4 2 Kenneth Yeo 25.29 57 1 2 Bruno N'Diaye 25.35 58 2 3 Ivan Roberts 25.44 59 3 3 Wu Tat Cheung 25.45 60 3 2 Andrés Sedano 25.53 61 3 6 Émile Lahoud 25.76 62 2 5 Mohamed Bin Abid 25.79 63 3 1 Gustavo Bucaro 25.84 64 3 7 Ahmad Faraj 25.91 65 2 7 Carl Probert 26.31 66 2 2 Filippo Piva 26.41 67 2 6 Roberto Pellandra 26.51 68 2 1 Kenny Roberts 26.78 69 1 1 Gilles Coudray 28.11 70 1 4 Foy Gordon Chung 28.75 71 1 5 Ahmed Imthiyaz 29.27 72 1 3 Mohamed Rasheed 30.37 5 6 Yves Clausse 4 5 José Mossiane 4 4 Tsutomu Nakano 9 7 Joakim Holmqvist

Finals

Final B Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 9 2 Darren Lange 22.69 10 4 Raimundas Mažuolis 22.71 11 5 Mark Pinger 22.88 6 Pär Lindström 13 1 Gustavo Borges 23.01 14 3 René Gusperti 23.04 15 7 Angus Waddell 23.06 16 8 Dano Halsall 23.18

Final A Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Alexander Popov 21.91 5 Matt Biondi 22.09 3 Tom Jager 22.30 4 2 Peter Williams 22.50 1 Christophe Kalfayan 6 8 Mark Foster 22.52 7 6 Gennadiy Prigoda 22.54 8 7 Nils Rudolph 22.73

References

External links Official Report