Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle

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Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Venue Georgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date25 July 1996 (heats & finals)
Competitors65 from 59 nations
Winning time22.13
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Alexander Popov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Silver medal icon.svg Gary Hall Jr. Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg Fernando Scherer Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
  1992
2000  

The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 25 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States. [1]

Records

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

World recordFlag of the United States.svg  Tom Jager  (USA)21.81 Nashville, United States 24 March 1990
Olympic recordOlympic flag.svg  Alexander Popov  (EUN)21.91 Barcelona, Spain 30 July 1992

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). [2]

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
194 Alexander Popov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22.22Q
284 Gary Hall, Jr. Flag of the United States.svg  United States 22.36Q
371 Jiang Chengji Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 22.55Q, AS
482 Brendon Dedekind Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 22.60Q
561 Ricardo Busquets Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 22.61Q, NR
695 David Fox Flag of the United States.svg  United States 22.64Q
773 Bengt Zikarsky Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22.68QSO
78 Francisco Sánchez Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).png  Venezuela QSO, NR
85 Fernando Scherer Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil QSO
1086 Mark Foster Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 22.73q
1198 Allan Murray Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 22.75q, NR
1281 Yuriy Vlasov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 22.77q
1392 Pieter van den Hoogenband Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 22.82q
1483 Christophe Kalfayan Flag of France.svg  France 22.83q
1576 René Gusperti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 22.85q
1693 Gustavo Borges Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 22.86q
1772 Pavlo Khnykin Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 22.91
1877 Raimundas Mažuolis Flag of Lithuania (1988-2004).svg  Lithuania 22.98
96 Chris Fydler Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
2087 Vladimir Predkin Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 23.03
2175 Alexander Lüderitz Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 23.06
2291 Aleh Rukhlevich Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus 23.12
2374 José Meolans Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 23.21
2497 Yoav Bruck Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 23.22
2564 Felipe Delgado Flag of Ecuador (1900-2009).svg  Ecuador 23.26
2662 Sergey Borisenko Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 23.29
68 Indrek Sei Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia NR
2867 Bartosz Kizierowski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 23.34
2955 Sion Brinn Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 23.35 NR
3066 Juan Benavides Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 23.36
3158 Stavros Michaelides Flag of Cyprus (1960-2006).svg  Cyprus 23.37
3256 Enrico Linscheer Flag of Suriname.svg  Suriname 23.45
3363 Pär Lindström Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 23.47
3465 Georgios Giziotis Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 23.56
3548 Yukihiro Matsushita Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 23.60
3644 Salim Iles Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 23.61 NR
45 Janne Blomqvist Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
88 Dzmitry Kalinouski Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus
3954 Hugues Legault Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 23.63
4033 Nicholas Tongue Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 23.73
51 Paulo Trindade Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
4234 Arthur Li Kai Yien Flag of Hong Kong (1959-1997).svg  Hong Kong 23.77
4335 Maxim Cazmirciuc Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 23.78
4457 Richard Sam Bera Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia 23.80
4543 Ravil Nachaev Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan 23.93
4636 Darrick Bollinger Flag of Guam.svg  Guam 23.97
4746 Tamer Hamed Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 24.02
4853 Nicholas O'Hare Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 24.03
4947 Sebastian Xavier Flag of India.svg  India 24.15
5042 Alen Lončar Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 24.17
5132 Kaan Berberoğlu Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 24.37
5241 Vitaly Vasilyev Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Kyrgyzstan 24.54
5326 Khemo Rivera Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg  Virgin Islands 24.62 NR
5423 Howard Hinds Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1986-2010).svg  Netherlands Antilles 24.63
5531 Tamás Kerékjártó Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 24.67
5625 Huang Chih-yung Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 24.89
5722 Alfredo Carrillo Flag of Paraguay (1990-2013).svg  Paraguay 24.91
5838 Sng Ju Wei Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 25.04
5937 Emin Guliyev Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 25.23
6014 Woodrow Lawrence Flag of Dominica.svg  Dominica 27.88
6115 Moosa Nazim Flag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 28.37
6213 René Makosso Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg  Republic of the Congo 30.00
6321 Michael Collier Flag of Sierra Leone.svg  Sierra Leone 34.21
52 Alexandru Ioanovici Flag of Romania.svg  Romania DSQ
24 Musa Bakare Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria DNS

Swim-off

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
13 Fernando Scherer Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 22.71Q
25 Francisco Sánchez Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).png  Venezuela 22.74Q
4 Bengt Zikarsky Flag of Germany.svg  Germany DSQq

Finals

[3]

Final B

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
92 Pieter van den Hoogenband Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 22.67 NR
104 Bengt Zikarsky Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 22.73
116 Yuriy Vlasov Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 22.82
123 Allan Murray Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas 22.92
8 Gustavo Borges Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
141 René Gusperti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 22.96
7 Christophe Kalfayan Flag of France.svg  France
165 Mark Foster Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 23.01

Final A

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 Alexander Popov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 22.13
Silver medal icon.svg5 Gary Hall, Jr. Flag of the United States.svg  United States 22.26
Bronze medal icon.svg1 Fernando Scherer Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 22.29 SA
43 Jiang Chengji Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 22.33 AS
56 Brendon Dedekind Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 22.59
67 David Fox Flag of the United States.svg  United States 22.68
78 Francisco Sánchez Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).png  Venezuela 22.72
82 Ricardo Busquets Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 22.73

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References

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  2. "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 50m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996 . LA84 Foundation. p. 35. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
  3. "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 50m Freestyle Finals" (PDF). Atlanta 1996 . LA84 Foundation. p. 35. Retrieved 9 September 2017.