Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle


The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 25 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.

Records

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

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds: heats and finals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advanced to final A, where they competed for the top 8 places. The swimmers with the next 8 times in the heats swam in final B, for ninth through the sixteenth place. Swim-offs were used as necessary to determine advancement.

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
194Alexander Popov22.22Q
284Gary Hall, Jr.22.36Q
371Jiang Chengji22.55Q, AS
482Brendon Dedekind22.60Q
561Ricardo Busquets22.61Q, NR
695David Fox22.64Q
773Bengt Zikarsky22.68
778Francisco Sánchez22.68, NR
785Fernando Scherer22.68
1086Mark Foster22.73q
1198Allan Murray22.75q, NR
1281Yuriy Vlasov22.77q
1392Pieter van den Hoogenband22.82q
1483Christophe Kalfayan22.83q
1576René Gusperti22.85q
1693Gustavo Borges22.86q
1772Pavlo Khnykin22.91
1877Raimundas Mažuolis22.98
1896Chris Fydler22.98
2087Vladimir Predkin23.03
2175Alexander Lüderitz23.06
2291Aleh Rukhlevich23.12
2374José Meolans23.21
2497Yoav Bruck23.22
2564Felipe Delgado23.26
2662Sergey Borisenko23.29
2668Indrek Sei23.29NR
2867Bartosz Kizierowski23.34
2955Sion Brinn23.35NR
3066Juan Benavides23.36
3158Stavros Michaelides23.37
3256Enrico Linscheer23.45
3363Pär Lindström23.47
3465Georgios Giziotis23.56
3548Yukihiro Matsushita23.60
3644Salim Iles23.61NR
3645Janne Blomqvist23.61
3688Dzmitry Kalinouski23.61
3954Hugues Legault23.63
4033Nicholas Tongue23.73
4051Paulo Trindade23.73
4234Arthur Li Kai Yien23.77
4335Maxim Cazmirciuc23.78
4457Richard Sam Bera23.80
4543Ravil Nachaev23.93
4636Darrick Bollinger23.97
4746Tamer Hamed24.02
4853Nicholas O'Hare24.03
4947Sebastian Xavier24.15
5042Alen Lončar24.17
5132Kaan Berberoğlu24.37
5241Vitaly Vasilyev24.54
5326Khemo Rivera24.62NR
5423Howard Hinds24.63
5531Tamás Kerékjártó24.67
5625Huang Chih-yung24.89
5722Alfredo Carrillo24.91
5838Sng Ju Wei25.04
5937Emin Guliyev25.23
6014Woodrow Lawrence27.88
6115Moosa Nazim28.37
6213René Makosso30.00
6321Michael Collier34.21
52Alexandru Ioanovici
24Musa Bakare

Swim-off

Finals

Final B

Final A