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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Swimming at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Qualification
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

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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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