Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The 16 fastest swimmers in the heats qualified for the semifinals.[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	49.76	Q
2	3	5	Matt Kidd	England	50.00	Q
3	3	4	Todd Pearson	Australia	50.07	Q
4	4	4	Ashley Callus	Australia	50.16	Q
5	4	3	Brent Hayden	Canada	50.17	Q
6	3	6	Craig Hutchison	Canada	50.54	Q
7	5	3	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	50.59	Q
8	4	6	Anthony Howard	England	50.89	Q
9	3	3	Chris Cozens	England	51.17	Q
10	4	5	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	51.19	Q
11	3	2	Alexandros Aresti	Cyprus	51.96	Q
12	5	2	Carl Probert	Fiji	52.41	Q
13	4	7	Demetris Demetriou	Cyprus	52.45	Q,
14	5	1	Steven Evans	Wales	52.74	Q
15	3	1	Ron Cowen	Bermuda	52.77	Q
16	5	7	Damian Alleyne	Barbados	52.80	Q
17	4	2	Mark Chay	Singapore	52.89
18	3	7	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	53.21
19	4	1	Christopher Vythoulkas	Bahamas	53.32
20	5	8	Christophe Lin Wen Ying	Mauritius	53.90
21	2	2	Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin	Nigeria	54.22
22	2	4	Alan Jones	Isle of Man	54.72
23	3	8	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda	54.86
24	4	8	Jamie Peterkin	Saint Lucia	54.90
25	1	4	Musa Bakare	Nigeria	55.38
26	2	5	Nicholas Diaper	Kenya	55.50
27	1	5	Kristoph Carey	Bahamas	55.56
28	1	6	Ben Lowndes	Guernsey	55.67
29	1	2	Folahan Oluwole	Nigeria	56.23
30	2	7	Jean Francois Wai Choon	Mauritius	56.52
31	2	6	Rama Vyombo	Kenya	56.56
32	2	1	Eric Williams	Nigeria	56.74
33	2	3	Hamid Nassir	Kenya	56.75
34	1	3	Angel Gonzalez	Gibraltar	57.29
35	1	7	Andre Kuenzli	Zambia	58.77
36	2	8	Craig Massey-Hicks	Malawi	1:00.07
37	1	1	Joel Kisuule	Uganda	1:04.17

The eight fastest swimmers from the semifinals progressed to the final.[2]

The final was held on 2 August at 19:25.[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.73	GR
	6	Ashley Callus	Australia	49.45
	3	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	49.71
4	5	Matt Kidd	England	49.99
5	2	Todd Pearson	Australia	50.12
6	1	Brent Hayden	Canada	50.17
7	7	Craig Hutchison	Canada	50.40
8	8	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	51.00