Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle
Introduction 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.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows:'''World record'''    '''20.94'''  Montpellier, France  26 April 2009'''Championship record'''    '''21.69'''  Montreal, Canada  30 July 2005The following records were established during the competition:DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord 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'''
Results ===Heats=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Heat  Lane  Notes 1  César Cielo    21.37  22  4  '''CR''' 2  Stefan Nystrand    21.56  23  3  '''NR''' 3  Frédérick Bousquet    21.63  23  4   4  George Bovell    21.64  21  3   5  Nathan Adrian    21.68  22  5   6  Amaury Leveaux    21.70   23  5   7  Krisztián Takács    21.71  22  6   8  Duje Draganja    21.72  21  6   9  Roland Schoeman    21.82  21  5   10  Cullen Jones    21.88  21  4   11  Matthew Abood    21.90  23  2   12  Konrad Czerniak    21.93  21  7   13  Nicholas Santos    21.95  22  3   14  David Dunford    21.96  22  8   15  Brent Hayden    22.03  22  2  16  Graeme Moore    22.04  20  6  17  Steffen Deibler    22.07  21  1  18  Marco Orsi    22.09  23  6  19  Barry Murphy    22.14  18  5  '''NR''' 20  Petter Stymne    22.18  23  0  21  Kyle Richardson    22.21  20  7  22  Simon Burnett    22.23  23  9  23  Lukasz Gasior    22.25  23  7  24  Ioannis Kalargaris    22.29  20  4  25  Jacinto de Jesus Ayala    22.31  20  8 '''NR''' 25  Flori Lang    22.31  21  2  27  Alexandre Agostinho    22.36  22  9  '''NR''' 28  Alexei Puninski    22.37  18  7  29  Elvis Burrows    22.39  17  5 '''NR''' 30  Jernej Godec    22.41  21  8  31  Norbert Trandafir    22.50  20  2  32  Ranmaru Harada    22.51  19  1  32  Apostolos Tsagkarakis    22.51  20  3  34  Nabil Kebbab    22.54  21  0  35  Paulius Viktoravicius    22.55  16  8  36  Kaan Tayla    22.57  19  7  36  Lü Zhiwu    22.57  20  5  38  Vlad Razvan Caciuc    22.59  19  4  39  Yoris Grandjean    22.62  23  1  40  Adam Brown    22.64  22  0  41  Makoto Ito    22.66  23  8  42  Terrence Haynes    22.70  18  8 '''NR''' 43  Paulo Santos    22.74  20  1  44  Virdhawal Khade    22.79  20  9  45  Brett Fraser    22.80  13  1  46  Cai Li    22.81  22  1  47  Dmytro Cherkasov    22.86  18  4  48  Juan Cambindo Romanos    22.87  18  6  49  Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or    22.90  17  2  50  Roman Kucik    22.91  15  3  50  Mindaugas Sadauskas    22.91  17  1  52  Michal Navara    22.93  15  7  53  Andrejs Dūda    22.95  13  3  '''NR''' 54  Andrei Radzionau    22.98  19  5  55  Roberto Gómez    22.99  16  3  56  Aurelien Kunzi    23.00  19  3  57  Andrii Govorov    23.05  17  9  58  Roy-Allan Burch    23.10  16  5  58  Jani Rusi    23.10  20  0  60  Crox Acuña    23.13  16  2  60  Joel Greenshields    23.13  19  2  62  Stanislav Kuzmin    23.15  18  3  62  Oliver Elliot Banados    23.15  19  8  64  Pasha Vahdati Rad    23.21  13  5  65  Raúl Martínez Colomer    23.28  16  6  66  Martyn Forde    23.30  18  1  66  Martin Spitzer    23.30  18  9  68  Daniil Tulupov    23.32  16  4  68  Daniel Coakley    23.32  19  6  70  Cheah Geoffrey Robin    23.35  17  6  71  Dominik Koll    23.42  15  6  72  Vladimir Sidorkin    23.43  17  7  73  Martín Kutscher    23.44  19  0  74  Mohammad Bidarian    23.49  13  0  74  Hycinth Cijntje    23.49  15  1  74  Conor Leaney    23.49  16  9  77  Danil Haustov    23.58  15  9  77  Artur Dilman    23.58  16  1  79  José Alberto Montoya    23.63  14  1 '''NR''' 80  Nicholas Thomson    23.64  12  9  80  Grant Beahan    23.64  15  8  82  Yan Ho Chun    23.68  17  8  83  Raphaël Stacchiotti    23.69  17  3  84  Mohammed Madouh    23.74  19  9  85  Mario Montoya    23.75  14  2  86  Hajder Ensar    23.77  11  0  86  Sidni Hoxha    23.77  17  4  88  Branden Whitehurst   Virgin Islands  23.78  9  7  88  Miguel Nesrala    23.78  13  8  90  Carlos Viveros Madariaga    23.79  12  5  90  Rodion Davelaar    23.79  14  6  92  Foo Jian Beng    23.80  16  7  93  Kouam Amine    23.85  15  4  94  Brad Hamilton    23.87  11  4  95  Lao Kuan Fong    23.89  14  4  96  Matar Samb    23.90  13  4  97  Marcelo Alejandro Alba    23.91  13  2  '''NR''' 98  Vasilii Danilov    23.93  18  0  99  Mikayel Koloyan    23.96  15  0  100  Yellow Yeiyah    23.99  11  8  101  Kendrick Uy    24.01  15  5  102  Su Shirong Jeffrey    24.08  15  2  102  Arwut Chinnapasaen    24.08  17  0  104  Kareem Ennab    24.15  12  4  105  Abdoul Khadre Mbaye Niane    24.16  12  2  106  Lim Clement    24.18  13  6  107  Luke Hall    24.23  12  7  108  Petr Romashkin    24.27  14  3  109  Glenn Victor Sutanto    24.34  12  3  110  Zane Jordan    24.35  11  7  111  Arjun Jayaprakash    24.37  12  6  112  Jonathan Wong    24.40  10  8  113  Harutyun Harutyunyan    24.50  13  7  114  Abbas Raad    24.52  14  7  115  Timothy Ferris    24.56  14  0  116  Sergej Naumovski    24.57  1  5  117  Fernando Castellanos    24.58  10  5  118  Joshua Mc Leod    24.59  12  0  119  Juan Carlos Sikaffy Diaz    24.61  11  3  119  Iuri Iazadji    24.61  16  0  121  Samson Opuakpo    24.62  10  3  121  Anthony Clark    24.62  11  5  123  Saeed Al Jesmi    24.64  13  9  124  Rony Bakale    24.71  11  2  125  Julien Brice    24.80  9  5  126  Alexander Ray    24.82  9  8  127  Humoud Alhumoud    24.84  14  5  128  Niall Christopher Roberts    24.96  11  9  129  Kailan Staal    25.06  9  6  NR 130  Andrey Molchanov    25.09  10  9  131  Wael Koubrousli    25.16  18  2  132  Kari Joannesarson Hoevdanum    25.18  2  3  133  Moh'D Aqelah    25.22  11  6  134  Patricio Vera    25.24  8  1  135  Daniel Kevin Pryke    25.28  8  3  136  Ivo Chilaule    25.32  9  3  136  Heshan Bandara Unamboowe    25.32  10  6  138  Eli Ebenezer Wong    25.34  8  4  139  Omar Jasam    25.35  12  1  140  Jean Hugues Gregoire    25.42  8  7  141  Nicholas Coard    25.43  8  8  142  Andrea Agius    25.45  8  9  143  Adama Ouedraogo    25.48  1  3  144  Oriol Cunat    25.49  6  4  144  Shane Mangroo    25.49  8  6  146  Peter Popahun Pokawin    25.53  7  4  147  Ronny Vencatachellum    25.55  7  1  147  Fernando Medrano    25.55  8  5  149  Erik Rajohnson    25.56  11  1  150  Diguan Pigot    25.59  6  9  151  Rainui Teriipaia    25.68  10  4  152  Nather Ahmed AlHamoud    25.75  14  9  153  Kerson Hadley    25.84  4  0  154  Jesse Nilon    25.90  7  7  155  Edward Caruana Dingli    25.93  9  9  156  Gary Pineda    25.98  7  9  156  Sergey Krovyakov    25.98  10  0  158  Fabian Gregory Binns    25.99  3  9  159  Mark Paul Thompson    26.06  7  6  160  Carlos Alberto    26.10  7  3  160  Esau Simpson    26.10  9  0  162  Jean-Luc Augier    26.17  7  0  163  Siu Kent Chung    26.19  7  5  164  Ibrahim Maliki    26.26  2  0  164  Douglas Miller    26.26  5  8  166  Florenc Llanaj    26.36  10  1  167  Tural Abbasov    26.40  7  2  168  Ganzi Mugula    26.42  5  7  169  Elaijie Erasito    26.48  7  8  170  Quenton Dupont    26.49  6  7  171  Batsaikhan Dulguun    26.54  9  4  172  Ahmed Salam Ali Al-Dulaimi    26.80  3  6  173  Jake Villarreal    26.88  6  3  174  Shawn Brady    27.03  6  6  175  Saif Alaslam Saeed Al-Saadi    27.29  3  2  176  Narantsog Tsogjargal    27.47  5  3  177  Hem Thon Ponloeu    27.51  6  2  178  Fahad Alqooz    27.59  4  4  179  Shailesh Shumsher Rana    27.62  5  4  180  Inayath Hassan    27.68  5  1  181  Ron Roucou    27.72  8  2  182  Nadir Elmofti    27.83  6  1  182  Mohamed Mujahid    27.83  6  8  184  Prasiddha Jung Shah    27.86  6  5  185  Dionisio Augustine II    27.87  3  4  186  Maung Htet Zin    27.96  5  2  187  Jules Yao Bessan    27.99  1  2  188  Wei Ching Maou    28.14  5  0  189  Abib Sereme    28.48  1  6  190  Barouf Ali    28.53  10  2  191  Petero Okotai    28.70  4  5  192  Gil Alexandre Koy    28.93  2  7  193  Rama Leray Christ-Alex    28.94  6  0  194  Esebei Doran    28.99  3  3  195  Sedarath Sao    29.07  5  9  196  Samson Makere    29.31  2  8  197  Alisher Chingizov    29.46  5  5  198  Mohamed Coulibaly    29.60  2  4  198  Koang Gatkos Gor    29.60  4  3  200  Salum Mapunda    29.72  4  6  200  Kwizera Cedric    29.72  5  6  202  Boubacar Alou Moussa    30.19  3  1  203  Christian Nassif    30.56  1  4  204  Abdoulkader Houssein    30.71  4  1  205  Kokou Messan Amegashie    31.41  3  8  206  Robert Scanlan    31.56  4  8  207  Saido Kamilov    32.32  3  5  208  Alberto Papus de Meideros    32.54  1  7  209  Mohamed Ahmed Lebyadh    1:02.51  4  7  —   Mpunga Mboyo Landry    DNS  2  1  —  Aleksandar Jeremic    DNS  2  2  —  Reginald Douglas    DNS  2  5  —  Abu Bakarr Jalloh    DNS  2  6  —  Gibrilla Bamba    DNS  3  0  —  Houmed Hassan Ali    DNS  3  7  —  Modou Gaye    DNS  4  2  —  Lansana Sidibe    DNS  4  9  —  Richard Randrianandraina    DNS  10  7  —  Attoumani Aboudou    DNS  12  8  —  Jakob Andkjær    DNS  21  9  —  Yevgeny Lagunov    DNS  22  7  —  Kalugala Vithanage    DQ  8  0 ===Semifinals=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Heat  Lane  Notes 1  Frédérick Bousquet    21.21  2  5  '''CR''' 2  Duje Draganja    21.29  1  6   3  Amaury Leveaux    21.32   1  3   4  César Cielo Filho    21.35  2  4   5  Cullen Jones    21.40  1  2  '''NR''' 6  Stefan Nystrand    21.45  1  4  '''NR''' 7  Nathan Adrian    21.46  2  3   8  George Bovell    21.65  1  5   8  Krisztián Takács    21.65  2  6   10  Nicholas Santos    21.69  2  1   11  Konrad Czerniak    21.72  1  7   11  Graeme Moore    21.72  1  8  13  Brent Hayden    21.73  2  8  '''NR''' 14  Matthew Abood    21.74  2  7   15  Roland Schoeman    21.78  2  2   16  David Dunford    21.89  1  1  '''NR'''====Swim-off==== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time   Lane  Notes 1  George Bovell    21.20  4  '''CR''', '''NR''' 2  Krisztián Takács    21.42  5   '''NR'''===Final=== Rank  Name  Nationality  Time  Lane  Notes   César Cielo Filho    21.08  6  '''CR''', '''AM'''   Frédérick Bousquet    21.21  4     Amaury Leveaux    21.25  3   4  Duje Draganja    21.38  5    5  Cullen Jones    21.47  2    6  Nathan Adrian    21.49  1   7  George Bovell    21.51  8   8  Stefan Nystrand    21.53  7
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