Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics took place on 2–3 August at the London Aquatics Centre in London, United Kingdom.[1]

Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueLondon Aquatics Centre
DatesAugust 2, 2012 (heats &
semifinals)
August 3, 2012 (final)
Competitors58 from 51 nations
Winning time21.34
Medalists
Florent Manaudou  France
Cullen Jones  United States
César Cielo  Brazil
Swimming at the
2012 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mmenwomen
4×200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4×100 mmenwomen
Marathon
10 kmmenwomen

France's Florent Manaudou stunned the entire field to join his sister Laure Manaudou on top of the podium for the Olympic sprint freestyle title. Swimming in lane seven, the dark horse threw down a scorching time and a textile best of 21.34 to hold off U.S. swimmer Cullen Jones and the event's Brazilian world record holder and defending Olympic champion César Cielo by two-tenths of a second, a sizable chunk in the Olympic swimming's shortest race.[2][3] Jones took home the silver in 21.54 to match his semifinal time in the process, while Cielo missed his chance to defend the title with a bronze medal in 21.59.[4][5][6]

Cielo's teammate Bruno Fratus finished outside the podium by almost a fingertip with a fourth-place time in 21.61. After twelve years of absence as a 31-year-old, U.S. swimmer Anthony Ervin, who previously tied with Gary Hall, Jr. for the gold in 2000, managed to pull off a fifth-place finish in 21.78.[7] Ervin was followed in sixth and seventh by four-time Olympians Roland Mark Schoeman of South Africa (21.80) and George Bovell of Trinidad and Tobago (21.82).[8][9] Plagued by injury, Australia's Eamon Sullivan struggled to mount a sprint challenge in a high-calibre race as he finished eighth in 21.98.[6][10]

Earlier in the semifinals, Australia's top sprinter James Magnussen missed the star-studded roster with an eleventh-place time in 22.00.[11][12] Other notable swimmers featured Swedish veteran Stefan Nystrand (22.32) and France's Amaury Leveaux (22.35), the defending silver medalist, both of whom fell short of the semifinal field by a small fraction of a second on the morning prelims.[13]

Records

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

World record César Cielo (BRA)20.91São Paulo, Brazil18 December 2009[14][15]
Olympic record César Cielo (BRA)21.30Beijing, China16 August 2008[16]

Qualification
Main article: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

The Olympic Qualifying Time for the event was 22.11 seconds. Up to two swimmers per National Olympic Committee (NOC) could automatically qualify by swimming that time at an approved qualification event. The Olympic Selection Time was 22.88 seconds. Up to one swimmer per NOC meeting that time was eligible for selection, allocated by world ranking until the maximum quota for all swimming events was reached. NOCs without a male swimmer qualified in any event could also use their universality place.[17]

Competition format

The competition consists of three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The swimmers with the best 16 times in the heats advance to the semifinals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the semifinals advance to the final. Swim-offs are used as necessary to break ties for advancement to the next round.

Results

Heats

The swimmers with the top 16 times, regardless of heat, advanced to the semifinals.[18]

RankHeatLaneNameNationTimeNotes
163George Bovell Trinidad and Tobago21.77Q
284César Cielo Brazil21.80Q
385Bruno Fratus Brazil21.82Q
464Anthony Ervin United States21.83Q
571Roland Schoeman South Africa21.92Q
674Cullen Jones United States21.95Q
765Andrey Grechin Russia22.09Q
77Andriy Govorov UkraineQ
83Florent Manaudou FranceQ
1075James Magnussen Australia22.11Q
1186Luca Dotto Italy22.12Q
87Gideon Louw South AfricaQ
1388Brent Hayden Canada22.15Q
1466Krisztián Takács Hungary22.19Q
1568Norbert Trandafir Romania22.22Q, NR
1673Eamon Sullivan Australia22.27Q
1762Stefan Nystrand Sweden22.32
1876Amaury Leveaux France22.35
1972Marco Orsi Italy22.36
2067Adam Brown Great Britain22.39
2182Sergey Fesikov Russia22.42
2253Jasper Aerents Belgium22.43
2361Hanser García Cuba22.45
2444Roy-Allan Burch Bermuda22.47NR
2578Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Finland22.57
2651Shi Yang China22.64
2754David Dunford Kenya22.72
2857Mario Todorović Croatia22.75
2945Barry Murphy Ireland22.76
3081Ioannis Kalargaris Greece22.80
3158Árni Már Árnason Iceland22.81NR
3255Brett Fraser Cayman Islands22.91
3356Kacper Majchrzak Poland23.00
3443Shehab Younis Egypt23.16
3552Federico Grabich Argentina23.30
3646Luke Hall Swaziland23.48
3742Kareem Ennab Jordan24.09
3847Chakyl Camal Mozambique24.43
3941Mahfizur Rahman Sagor Bangladesh24.64
4036Kerson Hadley Federated States of Micronesia24.82
4134Adama Ouedraogo Burkina Faso25.26
4248Zachary Payne Cook Islands25.26
4335Emile Bakale Republic of the Congo25.64
4432Kouassi Brou Ivory Coast25.82
4533Tolga Akcayli Saint Vincent and the Grenadines26.27
4631Giordan Harris Marshall Islands26.88
4738Prasiddha Jung Shah Nepal26.93
4837Hemthon Ponloeu Cambodia27.03
4922Abdourahman Osman Djibouti27.25
5026Mohamed Elkhedr Sudan27.26
5123Ching Maou Wei American Samoa27.30
5227Jackson Niyomugabo Rwanda27.38
5325Ganzi Mugula Uganda27.58
5424Paul Edingue Ekane Cameroon27.87
5515Christian Nassif Central African Republic28.04
5614Phathana Inthavong Laos28.17
5721Mulualem Girma Teshale Ethiopia28.99
5813Wilfried Tevoedjre Benin29.77

Semifinals

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

RankHeatLaneNameNationTimeNotes
113Cullen Jones United States21.54Q
14César Cielo BrazilQ
315Anthony Ervin United States21.62Q
425Bruno Fratus Brazil21.63Q
524George Bovell Trinidad and Tobago21.77Q
622Florent Manaudou France21.80Q
718Eamon Sullivan Australia21.88Q
823Roland Schoeman South Africa21.88Q
917Gideon Louw South Africa21.92
1026Andrey Grechin Russia21.98
1112James Magnussen Australia22.00
1211Krisztián Takács Hungary22.01
1327Luca Dotto Italy22.09
1416Andriy Govorov Ukraine22.12
1521Brent Hayden Canada22.12
1628Norbert Trandafir Romania22.30

Final
RankLaneNameNationTimeNotes
7Florent Manaudou France21.34
5Cullen Jones United States21.54
4César Cielo Brazil21.59
46Bruno Fratus Brazil21.61
53Anthony Ervin United States21.78
68Roland Mark Schoeman South Africa21.80
72George Bovell Trinidad and Tobago21.82
81Eamon Sullivan Australia21.98

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