Men's 50 metre freestyle at the 2009 FINA World Championships | ||||||||||
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Venue | Foro Italico | |||||||||
Dates | 31 July 2009 (heats, semifinals) 1 August 2009 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 222 from 140 nations | |||||||||
Winning time | 21.08 seconds | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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2009 FINA World Championships | ||
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Diving | ||
Individual | ||
1 m | men | women |
3 m | men | women |
10 m | men | women |
Synchronised | ||
3 m | men | women |
10 m | men | women |
Open water swimming | ||
5 km | men | women |
10 km | men | women |
25 km | men | women |
Swimming | ||
Freestyle | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
Backstroke | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
50 m | men | women |
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
4×200 m | men | women |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
Synchronised swimming | ||
Solo | ||
Technical | women | |
Free | women | |
Duet | ||
Technical | women | |
Free | women | |
Team | ||
Technical | women | |
Free | women | |
Combination | women | |
Water polo | ||
Tournament | men | women |
The heats for the men's 50 metre freestyle race at the 2009 World Championships took place on 31 July (heats and semifinals) and 1 August 2009 (final) at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:
World record | Frédérick Bousquet (FRA) | 20.94 | Montpellier, France | 26 April 2009 |
Championship record | Roland Schoeman (RSA) | 21.69 | Montreal, Canada | 30 July 2005 |
The following records were established during the competition:
Date | Round | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
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31 July | Heat 21 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.64 | CR |
31 July | Heat 22 | César Cielo Filho | Brazil | 21.37 | CR |
31 July | Semifinal 1 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 21.29 | CR |
31 July | Semifinal 2 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 21.21 | CR |
31 July | Swim-off | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.20 | CR |
1 August | Final | César Cielo Filho | Brazil | 21.08 | CR |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Heat | Lane | Notes |
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1 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 21.21 | 2 | 5 | CR |
2 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 21.29 | 1 | 6 | |
3 | Amaury Leveaux | France | 21.32 | 1 | 3 | |
4 | César Cielo Filho | Brazil | 21.35 | 2 | 4 | |
5 | Cullen Jones | United States | 21.40 | 1 | 2 | NR |
6 | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | 21.45 | 1 | 4 | NR |
7 | Nathan Adrian | United States | 21.46 | 2 | 3 | |
8 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.65 | 1 | 5 | |
8 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 21.65 | 2 | 6 | |
10 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 21.69 | 2 | 1 | |
11 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 21.72 | 1 | 7 | |
11 | Graeme Moore | South Africa | 21.72 | 1 | 8 | |
13 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 21.73 | 2 | 8 | NR |
14 | Matthew Abood | Australia | 21.74 | 2 | 7 | |
15 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 21.78 | 2 | 2 | |
16 | David Dunford | Kenya | 21.89 | 1 | 1 | NR |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Lane | Notes |
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1 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.20 | 4 | CR |
2 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 21.42 | 5 | NR |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Lane | Notes |
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César Cielo Filho | Brazil | 21.08 | 6 | CR , AM | |
Frédérick Bousquet | France | 21.21 | 4 | ||
Amaury Leveaux | France | 21.25 | 3 | ||
4 | Duje Draganja | Croatia | 21.38 | 5 | |
5 | Cullen Jones | United States | 21.47 | 2 | |
6 | Nathan Adrian | United States | 21.49 | 1 | |
7 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 21.51 | 8 | |
8 | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | 21.53 | 7 |
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