Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

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Men's 100 metre freestyle
at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Venue Tollcross International Swimming Centre
Dates26 July 2014 (2014-07-26) (heats & semis)
27 July 2014 (2014-07-27) (final)
Competitors66 from 37 nations
Winning time48.11
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Australia.svg  Australia
  2010
2018  

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 26 and 27 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.

Contents

The medals were presented by Cliff Williams, Secretary General of The Antigua and Barbuda Olympic Association and the quaichs were presented by Steve Montgomery, Managing Director of First ScotRail.

Records

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

World recordFlag of Brazil.svg  César Cielo  (BRA)46.91 Rome, Italy 30 July 2009 [1] [2]
Commonwealth recordFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Eamon Sullivan  (AUS)47.05 Beijing, China 13 August 2008
Games recordFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Brent Hayden  (CAN)47.98 Delhi, India 7 October 2010 [3]

Results

Heats

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
194 James Magnussen Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 48.47Q
284 Cameron McEvoy Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 49.46Q
374 Adam Brown Flag of England.svg  England 49.60Q
486 Leith Shankland Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 49.64Q
596 Dylan Carter Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 49.72Q
695 Tommaso D'Orsogna Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 49.73Q
773 Yuri Kisil Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 49.85Q
893 Calum Jarvis Flag of Wales 2.svg  Wales 50.05Q
983 James Disney-May Flag of England.svg  England 50.25Q
1087 Bradley Vincent Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 50.59Q
1177 Jason Dunford Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 50.60Q
1292 Curtis Coulter Ulster banner.svg  Northern Ireland 50.63Q
1381 Otto Putland Flag of Wales 2.svg  Wales 50.66Q
=1475 Benjamin Proud Flag of England.svg  England 50.69Q
97 Clayton Jimmie Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
1685 Roy-Allan Burch Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda 50.84Q
1791 Clement Lim Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 50.93
1882 David Thompson Ulster banner.svg  Northern Ireland 51.15
1976 Caydon Muller Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 51.27
2078 Welson Sim Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 51.51
2132 Lim Ching Hwang Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia 51.65
2272 Danny Yeo Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore 51.84
2364 Tom Gallichan Flag of Jersey.svg  Jersey 52.00
2414 Jevon Atkinson Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 52.03
2598 Miles Munro Flag of Guernsey.svg  Guernsey 52.06
2662 Ifalemi Sau Paea Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 52.76
2765 Mathieu Marquet Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 52.94
2863 Mahfizur Rahman Sagor Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh 52.97
2988 Alexandre Bakhtiarov Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 52.99
3066 Conor Munn Ulster banner.svg  Northern Ireland 53.30
3167 Joshua Daniel Flag of Saint Lucia.svg  Saint Lucia 53.55
3257 Issa Mohamed Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 53.96
3354 Alex Bregazzi Flag of the Isle of Man.svg  Isle of Man 54.00
3461 Tom Bielich Flag of the Isle of Man.svg  Isle of Man 54.01
3556 Meli Malani Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 54.05
3651 Igor Mogne Flag of Mozambique.svg  Mozambique 54.10
3755 James Sanderson Flag of Gibraltar.svg  Gibraltar 54.61
=3845 Shakil Fakir Flag of Mozambique.svg  Mozambique 55.08
68 Cherantha de Silva Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
=4044 William Clark Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 55.09
52 Stanford Kawale Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea
4231 Adam Viktora Flag of Seychelles.svg  Seychelles 55.10
4353 Steven Maina Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 55.41
4436 Abeiku Jackson Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana 56.47
4546 Brandon Schuster Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 56.59
4641 Abbiw Jackson Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana 56.87
4742 J'air Smith Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg  Antigua and Barbuda 57.08
4834 Ammaar Ghadiyali Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania 57.50
4915 Chris Regis Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada 57.74
5038 Matthew Shone Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 57.97
5135 Sikandar Khan Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 57.99
5237 Dean Hoffman Flag of Seychelles.svg  Seychelles 58.07
5343 Israr Hussain Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 58.36
5413 Andrew Hopkin Flag of Grenada.svg  Grenada 58.50
5548 Nishwan Ibrahim Flag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 58.74
5624 Collin Akara Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 59.18
5733 Nikolas Sylvester Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 59.43
5823 Tong Li Panuve Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 1:00.34
5947 Mohamed Adnan Flag of Maldives.svg  Maldives 1:01.24
6022 Storm Halbich Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1:01.90
6127 Dillon Gooding Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1:01.93
6221 Ben Dillon Flag of Saint Helena.svg  Saint Helena 1:01.94
6326 Patrick Rukundo Flag of Rwanda.svg  Rwanda 1:03.36
25 Nana Antwi Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana DNS
58 Emidio Cuna Flag of Mozambique.svg  Mozambique DNS
71 Ieuan Lloyd Flag of Wales 2.svg  Wales DNS

Semifinals

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
124 James Magnussen Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 48.21Q
214 Cameron McEvoy Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 48.60Q
313 Tommaso D'Orsogna Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 49.05Q
415 Leith Shankland Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 49.35Q
525 Adam Brown Flag of England.svg  England 49.47Q
623 Dylan Carter Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 49.50Q
726 Yuri Kisil Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 49.53Q
822 James Disney-May Flag of England.svg  England 50.01Q
911 Benjamin Proud Flag of England.svg  England 50.06
1016 Calum Jarvis Flag of Wales 2.svg  Wales 50.09
1118 Roy-Allan Burch Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda 50.26
1217 Curtis Coulter Ulster banner.svg  Northern Ireland 50.48
1328 Clayton Jimmie Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 50.50
1412 Bradley Vincent Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 50.52
1521 Otto Putland Flag of Wales 2.svg  Wales 50.61
1627 Jason Dunford Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 50.78

Final

RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg4 James Magnussen Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 48.11
Silver medal icon.svg5 Cameron McEvoy Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 48.34
Bronze medal icon.svg3 Tommaso D'Orsogna Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 49.04
41 Yuri Kisil Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 49.27
57 Dylan Carter Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 49.56
62 Adam Brown Flag of England.svg  England 49.63
76 Leith Shankland Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 49.81
88 James Disney-May Flag of England.svg  England 49.96

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