Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle



























Men's 50 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad

Venue Olympic Aquatics Stadium
Dates 11 August 2016 (heats &
semifinals)
12 August 2016 (final)
Competitors 85 from 72 nations
Winning time 21.40
Medalists



















1st, gold medalist(s)

Anthony Ervin

 United States
2nd, silver medalist(s)

Florent Manaudou

 France
3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Nathan Adrian

 United States

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The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 11–12 August at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium.[1]


Sixteen years after he tied for the gold with Gary Hall, Jr., U.S. swimmer Anthony Ervin, aged 35, reclaimed his title in the program's shortest race to become the oldest male champion in Olympic swimming history. He threw down a gold-medal time of 21.40 to touch out the defending titleholder Florent Manaudou of France by a hundredth of a second.[2][3] Manaudou was quick off the blocks, but could not catch Ervin near the wall to finish with a silver in 21.41.[4] Meanwhile, Ervin's teammate Nathan Adrian swam to another bronze-medal feat at the Games with a 21.49.[5][6]


Separated the top three by almost two tenths of a second, Great Britain's Benjamin Proud finished off the podium with a fourth-place time in 21.68, while Ukraine's Andriy Hovorov, who led a vast field of swimmers earlier in the heats, slipped shortly to fifth in 21.74.[7] Brazil's hometown favorite Bruno Fratus, fourth-place finalist from London 2012, and South Africa's Brad Tandy shared the sixth spot in a matching 21.79, with Lithuanian swimmer Simonas Bilis (22.08) closing out the field.[6]


Other notable swimmers featured Australia's Cameron McEvoy, Russia's Vladimir Morozov, Manaudou's brother-in-law and countryman Frédérick Bousquet, and Trinidad and Tobago's George Bovell, who scored a twenty-seventh place finish in his fifth Olympic appearance.[8][9]




Contents






  • 1 Records


  • 2 Results


    • 2.1 Heats


    • 2.2 Semifinals


      • 2.2.1 Semifinal 1


      • 2.2.2 Semifinal 2




    • 2.3 Final




  • 3 References





Records


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

















World record
 César Cielo (BRA)
20.91
São Paulo, Brazil
18 December 2009
Olympic record
 César Cielo (BRA)
21.30
Beijing, China
16 August 2008


Results



Heats





















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 11 3 Andriy Hovorov
 Ukraine
21.49 Q, NR
2 10 4 Nathan Adrian
 United States
21.61 Q
3 10 5 Anthony Ervin
 United States
21.63 Q
4 11 4 Florent Manaudou
 France
21.72 Q
5 9 4 Cameron McEvoy
 Australia
21.80 Q
6 9 5 Vladimir Morozov
 Russia
21.81 Q
7 10 3 Benjamin Proud
 Great Britain
21.83 Q
10 7 Santo Condorelli
 Canada
Q
9 9 2 Luca Dotto
 Italy
21.87 Q
10 10 6 Kristian Gkolomeev
 Greece
21.93 Q
11 5 Bruno Fratus
 Brazil
Q
12 9 6 Brad Tandy
 South Africa
21.94 Q
13 11 6 Ítalo Duarte
 Brazil
21.96 Q
14 9 7 Shinri Shioura
 Japan
22.01 Q
11 8 Simonas Bilis
 Lithuania
Q, NR
16 10 8 Norbert Trandafir
 Romania
22.10 Q
17 11 2 Krisztián Takács
 Hungary
22.12
18 10 2 Katsumi Nakamura
 Japan
22.13
19 9 3 Damian Wierling
 Germany
22.18
20 8 2 Yu Hexin
 China
22.20
21 7 8 Renzo Tjon-A-Joe
 Suriname
22.23
NR
8 4 Filip Wypych
 Poland

23 7 2 Ali Khalafalla
 Egypt
22.25
=NR
11 7 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen
 Finland

25 7 1 Oussama Sahnoune
 Algeria
22.27
9 1 Frédérick Bousquet
 France

27 8 7 George Bovell
 Trinidad and Tobago
22.30
28 8 3 Aleksei Brianskiy
 Russia
22.33
29 7 7 Douglas Erasmus
 South Africa
22.37
30 8 8 Ning Zetao
 China
22.38
31 7 6 Federico Grabich
 Argentina
22.44
32 6 4 Geoffrey Cheah
 Hong Kong
22.46
33 8 5 Odysseus Meladinis
 Greece
22.47
10 1 Matthew Abood
 Australia

35 7 3 Yuri Kisil
 Canada
22.50
9 8 Paweł Juraszek
 Poland

37 11 1 Federico Bocchia
 Italy
22.54
38 8 1 François Heersbrandt
 Belgium
22.58
39 7 4 Jasper Aerents
 Belgium
22.61
40 6 5 Mario Todorović
 Croatia
22.65
41 1 3 Sidni Hoxha
 Albania
22.80
NR
8 6 Ziv Kalontarov
 Israel

43 6 6 Shane Ryan
 Ireland
22.88
44 6 3 Cristian Quintero
 Venezuela
22.92
45 6 2 Jordan Augier
 Saint Lucia
23.28
46 6 7 José Alberto Quintanilla
 Bolivia
23.35
47 6 1 Vahan Mkhitaryan
 Armenia
23.50
48 5 6 Abdoul Niane
 Senegal
23.66
49 4 4 Hilal Hemed Hilal
 Tanzania
23.70
NR[13]
50 6 8 Anthony Barbar
 Lebanon
23.77
51 5 4 Meli Malani
 Fiji
23.88
5 5 Maksim Inić
 Montenegro

53 5 3 Ahmad Attellesey
 Libya
23.89
54 5 7 Mahfizur Rahman Sagor
 Bangladesh
23.92
55 5 8 Abeiku Jackson
 Ghana
24.30
56 1 7 Adam Viktora
 Seychelles
24.32
57 5 1 Lum Zhaveli
 Kosovo
24.53
58 4 5 Farhan Farhan
 Bahrain
24.61
59 4 3 Samson Opuakpo
 Nigeria
24.85
60 5 2 Batsaikhany Dulguun
 Mongolia
24.90
61 2 1 Nikolas Sylvester
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
25.64
NR
62 4 8 Olim Qurbonov
 Tajikistan
25.77
63 4 7 Giordan Harris
 Marshall Islands
25.81
64 4 6 Joshua Tibatemwa
 Uganda
25.98
65 3 5 Dionisio Augustine
 Federated States of Micronesia
26.17
66 4 1 Billy-Scott Irakose
 Burundi
26.36
67 2 7 Tindwende Sawadogo
 Burkina Faso
26.38
68 4 2 Eloi Imaniraguha
 Rwanda
26.43
69 3 8 Santisouk Inthavong
 Laos
26.54
NR
70 2 4 Albachir Mouctar
 Niger
26.56
NR
71 3 4 Ibrahim Nishwan
 Maldives
26.72
72 3 6 Shawn Dingilius-Wallace
 Palau
26.78
73 2 5 Osman Kamara
 Sierra Leone
26.90
74 2 2 Bourhan Abro
 Djibouti
27.13
75 1 5 Maël Ambonguilat
 Gabon
27.21
76 3 1 Athoumane Solihi
 Comoros
27.31
77 3 2 Jules Bessan
 Benin
27.32
78 3 3 Amadou Camara
 Guinea
27.35
79 3 7 Pap Jonga
 The Gambia
27.48
80 2 6 Eméric Kpegba
 Togo
27.67
81 2 3 Abdelaziz Mohamed Ahmed
 Sudan
27.71
82 2 8 Dienov Andres Koka
 Republic of the Congo
28.00
83 1 4 Brave Lifa
 Malawi
28.54
84 1 2 Christian Nassif
 Central African Republic
30.00
85 1 6 Frantz Dorsainvil
 Haiti
30.86


Semifinals



Semifinal 1











































































Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Florent Manaudou
 France
21.32 Q
2 4 Nathan Adrian
 United States
21.47 Q
3 7 Brad Tandy
 South Africa
21.80 Q
4 3 Vladimir Morozov
 Russia
21.88
5 6 Santo Condorelli
 Canada
21.97
6 2 Kristian Gkolomeev
 Greece
21.98
7 8 Norbert Trandafir
 Romania
21.99
8 1 Shinri Shioura
 Japan
22.18


Semifinal 2







































































Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Andriy Hovorov
 Ukraine
21.46 Q, NR
5 Anthony Ervin
 United States
Q
3 6 Benjamin Proud
 Great Britain
21.54 Q, NR
4 7 Bruno Fratus
 Brazil
21.71 Q
8 Simonas Bilis
 Lithuania
Q, NR
6 2 Luca Dotto
 Italy
21.84
7 3 Cameron McEvoy
 Australia
21.89
8 1 Ítalo Duarte
 Brazil
22.05


Final









































































Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 3 Anthony Ervin
 United States
21.40
2nd, silver medalist(s) 4 Florent Manaudou
 France
21.41
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 6 Nathan Adrian
 United States
21.49
4 2 Benjamin Proud
 Great Britain
21.68
5 5 Andriy Hovorov
 Ukraine
21.74
6 7 Bruno Fratus
 Brazil
21.79
8 Brad Tandy
 South Africa

8 1 Simonas Bilis
 Lithuania
22.08


References





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