Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Paris La Défense Arena after it was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events
Venue	Paris La Défense Arena
Dates	30 July 2024 (Heats and Semis) 31 July 2024 (Final)
Competitors	79 from 70 nations
Winning time	46.40 WR
Medalists
Pan Zhanle   China Kyle Chalmers   Australia David Popovici   Romania
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The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 30 and 31 July 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, which was converted to a swimming pool for the swimming events. ^[1] Since an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Records

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

World record	Pan Zhanle  (CHN)	46.80	Doha, Qatar	11 February 2024
Olympic record	Caeleb Dressel  (USA)	47.02	Tokyo, Japan	29 July 2021

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Record
27 July	Final*	Pan Zhanle	China	46.92	OR
31 July	Final	Pan Zhanle	China	46.40	WR

* Split from the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay

Qualification

Further information: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of two qualified athletes in each individual event, but only if both of them had attained the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT). ^[2] For this event, the OQT was 48.34 seconds. World Aquatics then considered athletes qualifying through universality; NOCs were given one event entry for each gender, which could be used by any athlete regardless of qualification time, providing the spaces had not already been taken by athletes from that nation who had achieved the OQT. ^{[2] [3]} Finally, the rest of the spaces were filled by athletes who had met the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT), which was 48.58 for this event. ^[2] In total, 32 athletes qualified through achieving the OQT, 46 athletes qualified through universality places and one athlete qualified through achieving the OCT. ^[3]

Top 10 fastest qualification times ^[3]

Swimmer	Country	Time	Competition
Pan Zhanle	China	00:46:80	2024 World Aquatics Championships
David Popovici	Romania	00:46:88	2024 European Championships
Jack Alexy	United States	00:47:08	2024 United States Olympic Trials
Kyle Chalmers	Australia	00:47:15	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Chris Guiliano	United States	00:47:25	2024 United States Olympic Trials
Maxime Grousset	France	00:47:33	2024 French Elite Championships
Matthew Richards	Great Britain	00:47:45	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Nándor Németh	Hungary	00:47:49	2024 European Championships
Alessandro Miressi	Italy	00:47:54	2023 World Aquatics Championships
Joshua Liendo	Canada	00:47:55	2024 Canadian Olympic Trials

Results

Heats

Results ^[4]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	8	4	Jack Alexy	United States	47.57	Q
2	8	5	Maxime Grousset	France	47.70	Q
3	9	4	David Popovici	Romania	47.92	Q
4	9	3	Nándor Németh	Hungary	47.93	Q
5	8	6	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	48.01	Q
6	10	5	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	48.07	Q
7	8	3	Alessandro Miressi	Italy	48.24	Q
8	9	5	Chris Guiliano	United States	48.25	Q
	10	2	Josha Salchow	Germany	48.25	Q
10	9	6	Andrej Barna	Serbia	48.34	Q
	10	6	Joshua Liendo	Canada	48.34	Q
12	10	7	Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	48.35	Q
13	8	7	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	48.40	Q
	10	3	Matthew Richards	Great Britain	48.40	Q
	10	4	Pan Zhanle	China	48.40	Q
16	8	2	Hwang Sun-woo	South Korea	48.41	Q, WD
17	10	8	William Yang	Australia	48.46	q
18	9	1	Jacob Whittle	Great Britain	48.47
19	7	8	Sergio de Celis	Spain	48.49
20	8	1	Danas Rapšys	Lithuania	48.53
21	7	6	Tomer Frankel	Israel	48.66
22	10	1	Wang Haoyu	China	48.79
23	7	4	Sean Niewold	Netherlands	48.82
	7	5	Rafael Fente-Damers	France	48.82
	9	8	Leonardo Deplano	Italy	48.82
26	5	5	Lamar Taylor	Bahamas	48.84
	6	4	Mikel Schreuders	Aruba	48.84
28	9	7	Diogo Ribeiro	Portugal	48.88
29	7	2	Yuri Kisil	Canada	49.06
30	6	5	Ralph Daleiden	Luxembourg	49.12
31	7	7	Cameron Gray	New Zealand	49.24
32	7	1	Jorge Iga	Mexico	49.28
33	8	8	Nikola Miljenić	Croatia	49.34
34	7	3	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	49.35
35	9	2	Marcelo Chierighini	Brazil	49.38
36	6	7	Jakub Majerski	Poland	49.44
37	6	2	Alberto Mestre	Venezuela	49.51
38	6	3	Jonathan Tan	Singapore	49.60
39	6	1	Daniel Gracík	Czech Republic	49.65
40	6	6	Björn Seeliger	Sweden	49.70
41	6	8	Adilbek Mussin	Kazakhstan	49.92
42	5	3	Simon Doueihy	Lebanon	50.10
43	4	1	Nikolas Antoniou	Cyprus	50.35
44	4	3	Jayhan Odlum-Smith	Saint Lucia	50.39
	4	5	Yousuf Al-Matrooshi	United Arab Emirates	50.39
46	5	4	Jack Kirby	Barbados	50.42
47	4	4	Leo Nolles	Uruguay	50.58
48	5	8	Samyar Abdoli	Iran	50.63
49	5	6	Dulyawat Kaewsriyong	Thailand	50.64
50	4	8	Enkhtamir Batbayar	Mongolia	50.81
51	4	2	Matthieu Seye	Senegal	50.84
52	4	6	Harry Stacey	Ghana	51.12
53	3	6	Zaid Al-Sarraj	Saudi Arabia	51.21
54	4	7	Kyle Abeysinghe	Sri Lanka	51.42
55	5	7	Ian Ho	Hong Kong	51.46
56	5	2	Artur Barseghyan	Armenia	51.54
57	5	1	Javier Núñez	Dominican Republic	51.55
58	3	4	Adell Sabovic	Kosovo	51.77
59	3	1	Alexander Shah	Nepal	51.91	NR
60	2	5	Ovesh Purahoo	Mauritius	52.22
61	3	5	Musa Zhalayev	Turkmenistan	52.29
62	3	7	Grisi Koxhaku	Albania	52.32
63	3	8	Mohamad Zubaid	Kuwait	52.35
64	3	3	Henrique Mascarenhas	Angola	52.52
65	2	4	Nixon Hernández	El Salvador	52.73
66	3	2	Johann Stickland	Samoa	52.94
67	2	3	Antoine De Lapparent	Cambodia	52.95
68	2	2	Irvin Hoost	Suriname	52.99
69	2	6	Samiul Islam Rafi	Bangladesh	53.10
70	2	7	Issa Al-Adawi	Oman	53.19
71	2	1	Collins Saliboko	Tanzania	53.38
72	1	4	Josh Tarere	Papua New Guinea	53.85
73	1	6	Phone Pyae Han	Myanmar	55.56
74	1	3	Sangay Tenzin	Bhutan	56.08
75	2	8	Yousef Abubaker	Libya	56.19
76	1	5	Alexien Kouma	Mali	56.34
77	1	2	Johnathan Silas	Vanuatu	59.38	NR
78	1	7	Giorgio Armani Nguichie Kamseu Kamogne	Cameroon	1:03.42
79	1	1	Hadji Hassane	Comoros	1:07.21

Semifinals

The swimmers with the best 8 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the final.

Results ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	2	8	Pan Zhanle	China	47.21	Q
2	1	3	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	47.58	Q
3	1	5	Nándor Németh	Hungary	47.61	Q
4	1	4	Maxime Grousset	France	47.63	Q
5	2	5	David Popovici	Romania	47.66	Q
6	2	4	Jack Alexy	United States	47.68	Q
7	1	6	Chris Guiliano	United States	47.72	Q
8	2	2	Josha Salchow	Germany	47.94	Q
9	2	6	Alessandro Miressi	Italy	47.95
10	1	7	Guilherme Caribé	Brazil	48.03
11	2	7	Josh Liendo	Canada	48.06
12	1	1	Matthew Richards	Great Britain	48.09
13	2	3	Jordan Crooks	Cayman Islands	48.10
14	1	2	Andrej Barna	Serbia	48.11
15	1	8	William Yang	Australia	48.42
16	2	1	Velimir Stjepanović	Serbia	48.78

Final

External videos
Men's 100 metre freestyle final

Results ^[6]

Rank	Lane	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
	4	Pan Zhanle	China	46.40	WR
	5	Kyle Chalmers	Australia	47.48
	2	David Popovici	Romania	47.49
4	3	Nándor Németh	Hungary	47.50
5	6	Maxime Grousset	France	47.71
6	8	Josha Salchow	Germany	47.80	NR
7	7	Jack Alexy	United States	47.96
8	1	Chris Guiliano	United States	47.98

Statistics ^[7]

Name	15 metre split (s)	50 metre split (s)	50–65 metre split (s)	Time (s)	Stroke rate (strokes/min)
Pan Zhanle	5.45	22.28	6.57	46.40	51.6
Kyle Chalmers	5.61	23.03	6.60	47.48	52.1
David Popovici	5.66	22.94	6.61	47.49	51.7
Nándor Németh	5.61	22.90	6.71	47.50	54.8
Maxime Grousset	5.33	22.61	6.60	47.71	53.0
Josha Salchow	5.62	22.93	6.88	47.80	50.6
Jack Alexy	5.55	22.63	6.82	47.96	48.0
Chris Guiliano	5.40	22.82	6.67	47.98	49.6

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