Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
Dates	7 April (heats, semifinals) 8 April (final)
Competitors	56 from 30 nations
Winning time	48.02
Medalists
Duncan Scott    Scotland   Chad le Clos    South Africa   Kyle Chalmers    Australia
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The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 7 and 8 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

Records

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

World record	César Cielo  (BRA)	46.91	Rome, Italy	30 July 2009
Commonwealth record	Cameron McEvoy  (AUS)	47.04	Adelaide, Australia	11 April 2016
Games record	Brent Hayden  (CAN)	47.98	Delhi, India	7 October 2010

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 7 April at 11:37. ^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	8	5	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	48.81	Q
2	6	4	Jack Cartwright	Australia	48.85	Q
3	8	3	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	48.96	Q
4	8	4	Duncan Scott	Scotland	48.99	Q
5	7	5	Yuri Kisil	Canada	49.06	Q
6	7	3	Matthew Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka	49.11	Q, NR
7	6	5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	49.17	Q
8	7	4	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	49.20	Q
9	6	3	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	49.41	Q
10	7	6	Calum Jarvis	Wales	49.65	Q
10	8	7	Daniel Hunter	New Zealand	49.65	Q
12	7	2	Jordan Sloan	Northern Ireland	49.72	Q
13	6	7	David Cumberlidge	England	49.77	Q
14	6	2	Matthew Stanley	New Zealand	49.79	Q
15	8	6	Jack Thorpe	Scotland	49.82	Q
16	6	6	Sam Perry	New Zealand	49.90	Q
17	5	4	Bradley Vincent	Mauritius	49.93
18	7	7	Kieran McGuckin	Scotland	50.02
19	7	1	Ruslan Gaziev	Canada	50.04
20	6	8	Calvyn Justus	South Africa	50.06
21	7	8	David Thompson	Northern Ireland	50.22
22	5	2	Calum Bain	Northern Ireland	50.47
23	6	1	Elliot Clogg	England	50.56
24	5	3	Igor Mogne	Mozambique	50.74
25	8	2	Darren Lim	Singapore	50.79
26	8	1	Miles Munro	Guernsey	50.80
27	5	5	Welson Sim	Malaysia	50.91
28	5	6	Keith Kit Sern Lim	Malaysia	51.04
29	4	4	Alex Sobers	Barbados	51.12
30	5	8	Jean-Luc Zephir	Saint Lucia	51.66
31	4	3	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	51.71
32	5	1	Samuel Seghers	Papua New Guinea	51.94
33	3	7	Brandon Schuster	Samoa	51.95
34	8	8	Cherantha de Silva	Sri Lanka	52.08
35	5	7	Kyle Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka	52.20
36	4	6	Gregory Anodin	Mauritius	52.97
37	4	7	Denilson da Costa	Mozambique	53.30
38	2	6	Steven Maina	Kenya	53.53
39	2	3	Paul Elaisa	Fiji	53.96
40	3	4	Epeli Rabua Herbert	Fiji	54.02
41	4	8	Syed Muhammad Haseeb Tariq	Pakistan	54.21
42	3	6	Dean Hoffman	Seychelles	54.35
43	3	3	Iain McCallum	Cayman Islands	54.56
44	3	5	James Sanderson	Gibraltar	54.57
45	2	1	Leonard Kalate	Papua New Guinea	54.91
46	4	2	Stefano Mitchell	Antigua and Barbuda	54.95
47	2	5	Jadon Wuilliez	Antigua and Barbuda	55.21
48	2	4	Adam Moncherry	Seychelles	55.90
49	3	8	Josh Tarere	Papua New Guinea	56.12
50	3	1	Andrew Fowler	Guyana	56.33
51	3	2	Temaruata Strickland	Cook Islands	57.33
52	2	7	Alexander Cyrus	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	57.56
53	2	2	Nikolas Sylvester	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	58.67
54	1	3	Ben Dillon	Saint Helena	58.95
55	1	4	Duwaine Yon	Saint Helena	1:00.47
56	1	5	Colby Thomas	Saint Helena	1:03.36
	4	1	Issa Mohamed	Kenya	DNS
	4	5	N'Nhyn Fernander	Bahamas	DNS

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 7 April at 20:59. ^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	48.50	Q
2	5	Duncan Scott	Scotland	48.72	Q
3	4	Jack Cartwright	Australia	48.73	Q
4	3	Matthew Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka	49.43
5	1	Matthew Stanley	New Zealand	49.61
6	2	Calum Jarvis	Wales	49.77
7	8	Sam Perry	New Zealand	49.83
8	7	Jordan Sloan	Northern Ireland	49.88

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Chad le Clos	South Africa	48.61	Q
2	4	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	48.70	Q
2	3	Yuri Kisil	Canada	48.79	Q
4	5	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	49.06	Q
5	7	Daniel Hunter	New Zealand	49.11	Q
6	2	Markus Thormeyer	Canada	49.22
7	8	Jack Thorpe	Scotland	49.75
8	1	David Cumberlidge	England	49.90

Final

The final was held on 8 April at 19:43. ^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Duncan Scott	Scotland	48.02
	5	Chad le Clos	South Africa	48.15
	3	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	48.15
4	4	Cameron McEvoy	Australia	48.44
5	1	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	48.60
6	2	Jack Cartwright	Australia	48.62
7	7	Yuri Kisil	Canada	48.80
8	8	Daniel Hunter	New Zealand	49.30

References

1. "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-07. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
2. Semifinals results
3. Final results