The men's 50 metre butterfly at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships took place on 25 March (heats, a swim-off, and semifinals) and on the evening of 26 March (final) at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. 160 swimmers were entered in the event, of which 152 swam.
| Men's 50 metre butterfly at the 2007 FINA World Championships | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Rod Laver Arena | |||||||||
| Dates | 25 March 2007 (heats, semifinals) 26 March 2007 (final) | |||||||||
| Competitors | 160 | |||||||||
| Winning time | 23.18 seconds | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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Existing records at the start of the event were:
- World record (WR): 22.96, Roland Schoeman (South Africa), 25 July 2005 in Montreal, Canada.
- Championship record (CR): 22.96, Roland Schoeman (South Africa), Montreal 2005 (25 July 2005)
Results
editFinal
edit| Place | Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Roland Schoeman |  South Africa |
23.18 | |
| 2 | 5 | Ian Crocker |  USA |
23.47 | |
| 3 | 8 | Jakob Andkjær |  Denmark |
23.56 | |
| 4 | 6 | Albert Subirats Altes |  Venezuela |
23.57 | |
| 5 | 3 | Sergiy Breus |  Ukraine |
23.61 | |
| 6 | 1 | Milorad Čavić |  Serbia |
23.70 | |
| 7 | 2 | Lars Frölander |  Sweden |
23.86 | |
| 8 | 7 | Peter Mankoč |  Slovenia |
24.14 |
Semifinals
edit| Rank | Heat/Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | S1-L4 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa |
23.18 | Q |
| 2 | H2-L4 | Ian Crocker | USA |
23.42 | Q |
| 3 | H2-L5 | Sergiy Breus | Ukraine |
23.53 | Q |
| 4 | S1-L3 | Albert Subirats Altes | Venezuela |
23.59 | Q |
| 5 | S1-L5 | Lars Frölander | Sweden |
23.82 | Q |
| 6 | H2-L8 | Peter Mankoč | Slovenia |
23.91 | Q |
| 7 | H2-L3 | Milorad Čavić | Serbia |
23.94 | Q |
| 8 | S1-L6 | Jakob Andkjær | Denmark |
23.99 | Q (swim-off) |
| 8 | S1-L1 | Lyndon Ferns | South Africa |
23.99 | (swim-off) |
| 10 | H2-L1 | Ryo Takayasu |  Japan |
24.03 | |
| 11 | S1-L2 | Matti Rajakylä |  Finland |
24.10 | |
| 11 | S1-L7 | Ryan Pini |  Papua New Guinea |
24.10 | |
| 13 | H2-L6 | Andriy Serdinov | Ukraine |
24.12 | |
| 14 | S1-L8 | Jernej Godec | Slovenia |
24.26 | |
| 15 | H2-L7 | Örn Arnarson |  Iceland |
24.34 | |
| 16 | H2-L2 | Matt Welsh |  Australia |
24.41 |
A swim-off for 8th place should have occurred between Jakob Andkjær and Lyndon Ferns who tied for 8th at 23.99; however, results from a semifinal swim-off in the event are not on the OmegaTiming site, nor in the "complete" result page. Andkjær did advance to the finals, as he swam there, and Ferns did not.
Heats
edit- Heat 1
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Milorad Čavić | Serbia |
23.71 | 5 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Alois Patrice Kouadjo Dansou |  Benin |
27.79 | 112 | |
| 3 | 4 | Eric Chang |  Malaysia |
27.90 | 114 | |
| 4 | 1 | Raukura Waiti |  Cook Islands |
28.81 | 129 | |
| 5 | 7 | Jamaal Sobers |  Guyana |
28.99 | 133 | |
| 6 | 6 | Muwanguzi Myzafuru |  Uganda |
31.44 | 138 | |
| 7 | 5 | Aimable Habimana |  Rwanda |
37.82 | 149 | |
| -- | 2 | Abdul-Fatawu Moro |  Ghana |
DNS | -- |
- Heat 2
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | Itai Chammah |  Israel |
26.07 | 78 | |
| 2 | 6 | Rahim Karmali | Uganda |
32.09 | 140 | |
| 3 | 3 | Ibrahim Areesh |  Maldives |
33.52 | 143 | |
| 4 | 5 | Mohammed Al Qerbi |  Yemen |
33.97 | 144 | |
| 5 | 2 | Mohamed Karsani |  Sudan |
34.14 | 145 | |
| 6 | 4 | Aymard Lumuamu-Dimbu |  Congo |
34.32 | 147 | |
| 7 | 7 | Giordan Harris |  Marshall Islands |
35.63 | 148 |
- Heat 3
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Hazem Tashkandi |  Saudi Arabia |
28.58 | 127 | |
| 2 | 3 | Madudzi Fanuwakme Xaba |  Eswatini |
28.93 | T131 | |
| 2 | Nareth Sovan |  Cambodia |
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| 4 | 5 | Chakyl Camal |  Mozambique |
29.51 | 137 | |
| 5 | 6 | Mohamed Sharif | Maldives |
32.48 | 141 | |
| 6 | 1 | Ashraf Ahmed | Sudan |
34.30 | 146 | |
| -- | 7 | Stephenson Wallace |  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
DNS | -- | |
| -- | 8 | Aiglay Dangassat-Sissoulou | Congo |
DNS | -- |
- Heat 4
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Hisham Fadhul |  Bahrain |
27.94 | 115 | |
| 2 | 6 | Fadi Awesat |  Palestine |
28.16 | 120 | |
| 3 | 4 | Hernan Bonsembiante |  Guam |
28.27 | 122 | |
| 4 | 5 | Walid Nasib Hilal Alkaabi |  United Arab Emirates |
28.83 | 130 | |
| 5 | 7 | Kerson Hadley |  Federated States of Micronesia |
29.03 | 134 | |
| 6 | 1 | Carlos Shimizu | Guam |
29.32 | 135 | |
| 7 | 2 | Tony Augustine | Federated States of Micronesia |
29.45 | 136 | |
| 8 | 8 | Jamal Talib |  Tanzania |
32.87 | 142 |
- Heat 5
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Morgan Locke |  Virgin Islands |
26.59 | 91 | |
| 2 | 3 | Hamza Abdo | Palestine |
27.77 | 111 | |
| 3 | 6 | Heimanu Sichan |  Tahiti |
28.15 | 119 | |
| 4 | 1 | Jean-Luc Augier |  Saint Lucia |
28.36 | 124 | |
| 5 | 8 | Zane Jordan |  Zambia |
28.54 | 126 | |
| 6 | 7 | Daryl Harford |  Grenada |
28.70 | 128 | |
| 7 | 4 | Samson Makere | Tanzania |
31.94 | 139 | |
| -- | 5 | Ibrahim Maliki Amadou |  Niger |
DNS | -- |
- Heat 6
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Khaly Ciss |  Senegal |
27.06 | 97 | |
| 2 | 5 | Niall Roberts | Guyana |
27.70 | T109 | |
| 3 | 7 | Battushig Enkhtaivan |  Mongolia |
27.89 | 113 | |
| 4 | 8 | Bertrand Bristol |  Seychelles |
28.08 | 116 | |
| 5 | 1 | Monder Al-Jabali |  Libya |
28.10 | 117 | |
| 6 | 4 | Aleksey Klimenko |  Kyrgyzstan |
28.14 | 118 | |
| 7 | 3 | Tural Abbasov |  Azerbaijan |
28.32 | 123 | |
| 8 | 2 | Nasir Ali |  Pakistan |
28.39 | 125 |
- Heat 7
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | Erik Rajohnson |  Madagascar |
26.68 | 92 | |
| 2 | 4 | Yassir Abalalla |  Bolivia |
27.09 | 98 | |
| 3 | 3 | Jonathan Calderon | Saint Lucia |
27.16 | 101 | |
| 4 | 7 | Leonel dos Santos Matonse | Mozambique |
27.41 | 104 | |
| 5 | 5 | Luke Hall | Eswatini |
27.47 | 105 | |
| 6 | 6 | Naji Askia Ferguson | Grenada |
27.55 | 107 | |
| 7 | 2 | Marco Camargo Gonzalez |  Ecuador |
27.66 | 108 | |
| 8 | 1 | Jamie Zammitt |  Gibraltar |
28.17 | 121 |
- Heat 8
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Xue-Wei Nicholas Tan |  Singapore |
26.39 | 89 | |
| 2 | 4 | Javier Hernandez Maradiaga |  Honduras |
26.75 | 93 | |
| 3 | 2 | Jared Heine | Marshall Islands |
27.02 | 96 | |
| 4 | 6 | Manuel Alonso Yabar-Davila |  Peru |
27.12 | 99 | |
| 5 | 3 | Fernando Medrano Medina |  Nicaragua |
27.34 | 102 | |
| 6 | 7 | Hong Nam Lei |  Macau |
27.39 | 103 | |
| 7 | 1 | Richard Randrianandraina | Madagascar |
27.70 | T109 | |
| -- | 8 | Essossimana Awizoba |  Togo |
DNS | -- |
- Heat 9
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | Jose Emmanuel Crescimbeni | Peru |
25.99 | 74 | |
| 2 | 7 | Zhirong Bryan Tay | Singapore |
26.00 | 75 | |
| 3 | 4 | Jose Enmanual Lobo Martinez |  Paraguay |
26.19 | T81 | |
| 4 | 6 | Taki Mrabet |  Tunisia |
26.34 | 86 | |
| 5 | 2 | Roy Felipe Barahona Fuente | Honduras |
26.36 | T87 | |
| 6 | 5 | Ahmed Salamoun |  Qatar |
27.50 | 106 | |
| -- | 1 | Jules Yao Bessan | Benin |
DNS | -- | |
| -- | 3 | João Aguiar |  Angola |
DNS | -- |
- Heat 10
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Dinko Jukić |  Austria |
25.11 | 54 | |
| 2 | 4 | Ankur Poseria |  India |
25.13 | 56 | |
| 3 | 8 | Basil Kaaki |  Lebanon |
25.62 | 66 | |
| 4 | 6 | Miguel Navarro | Bolivia |
26.10 | 79 | |
| 5 | 5 | Evgenii Petrashov | Kyrgyzstan |
26.19 | T81 | |
| 6 | 7 | Rama Vyombo |  Kenya |
26.32 | 85 | |
| 7 | 2 | João Matias | Angola |
26.86 | 94 | |
| 8 | 1 | Anas Hamadeh |  Jordan |
27.14 | 100 |
- Heat 11
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Virdhawal Khade | India |
25.28 | 59 | |
| 2 | 6 | Romāns Miloslavskis |  Latvia |
25.47 | T63 | |
| 3 | 3 | Norbert Trandafir |  Romania |
25.66 | 68 | |
| 4 | 8 | Bader Almuhana | Saudi Arabia |
26.04 | 76 | |
| 5 | 5 | Donny Budiarto Utomo |  Indonesia |
26.30 | 84 | |
| 6 | 1 | Nisic Nedim |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
26.36 | T87 | |
| 7 | 7 | Marc Pascal Pierre Dansou | Benin |
26.89 | 95 | |
| -- | 2 | Sunday Ayejo |  Nigeria |
DNS | -- |
- Heat 12
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw |  Suriname |
24.90 | 49 | NR |
| 2 | 6 | Wing Cheung Victor Wong | Macau |
25.22 | 58 | |
| 3 | 3 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov |  Cyprus |
25.47 | T63 | |
| 4 | 4 | Hamidreza Mobarrez |  Iran |
25.71 | 69 | |
| 5 | 5 | Yellow Yeiyah | Nigeria |
26.05 | 77 | |
| 6 | 8 | Julio Galofre |  Colombia |
26.16 | 80 | |
| 7 | 7 | Maximiliano Schnettler |  Chile |
26.24 | 83 | |
| 8 | 1 | Wei Wen Wang |  Chinese Taipei |
26.51 | 90 |
- Heat 13
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Jacinto Ayala |  Dominican Republic |
24.81 | 45 | |
| 2 | 7 | Gabriel Melconian |  Uruguay |
25.43 | 61 | |
| 3 | 5 | Georgi Palazov |  Bulgaria |
25.44 | 62 | |
| 4 | 2 | Martin Liivamägi |  Estonia |
25.47 | 63 | |
| 5 | 3 | Daniel Bego | Malaysia |
25.82 | 70 | |
| 6 | 6 | Martin Kutscher Belgeri | Uruguay |
25.83 | 71 | |
| 7 | 4 | Jorge Arturo Arce Aita |  Costa Rica |
25.98 | 72 | |
| 8 | Goksu Bicer |  Turkey |
- Heat 14
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Jason Dunford | Kenya |
24.41 | T26 | |
| 2 | 5 | Mathias Stenderup Gydesen | Denmark |
24.72 | 38 | |
| 3 | 3 | Emilis Vaitkaitis |  Lithuania |
24.74 | T39 | |
| 4 | 6 | Guy Marcus Barnea | Israel |
24.77 | 41 | |
| 5 | 7 | Davis Tarwater | USA |
24.83 | 48 | |
| 6 | 2 | Adrien Perez |  Switzerland |
25.20 | 57 | |
| 7 | 8 | Oleg Lyashko |  Uzbekistan |
25.31 | 60 | |
| -- | 1 | Stanislav Kuzmin |  Kazakhstan |
DNS | -- |
- Heat 15
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Damien Courtois | Switzerland |
24.39 | 25 | |
| 2 | 6 | Apostolos Tsagkarakis |  Greece |
24.58 | T34 | |
| 3 | 1 | Camilo Becerra | Colombia |
24.74 | T39 | |
| 4 | 5 | Martin Verner |  Czech Republic |
24.78 | 42 | |
| 5 | 8 | Jeremy Knowles |  Bahamas |
24.98 | 51 | |
| 6 | 7 | Andy Wibowo | Indonesia |
25.00 | 52 | |
| 7 | 3 | Pavels Kondrahins | Latvia |
25.12 | 55 | |
| 8 | 2 | Ravil Nachaev | Uzbekistan |
25.65 | 67 |
- Heat 16
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Peter Mankoč | Slovenia |
24.06 | T16 | swim-off |
| 2 | 1 | Moss Burmester |  New Zealand |
24.55 | 33 | |
| 3 | 3 | Adam Pine | Australia |
24.60 | 36 | |
| 4 | 6 | Dominik Straga |  Croatia |
24.80 | 43 | |
| 7 | Paweł Korzeniowski |  Poland |
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| 6 | 2 | Yauheni Lazuka |  Belarus |
24.82 | T46 | |
| 7 | 8 | Rustam Khudiyev | Kazakhstan |
24.92 | 50 | |
| 8 | 5 | Fernando Silva |  Brazil |
25.01 | 53 |
- Heat 17
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Örn Arnarson | Iceland |
24.02 | T12 | Q NR |
| 2 | 6 | Jere Hård | Finland |
24.18 | 19 | |
| 3 | 2 | Mario Todorović | Croatia |
24.41 | T26 | |
| 4 | 8 | Octavio Alesi | Venezuela |
24.48 | 30 | |
| 5 | 4 | WANG Dong |  China |
24.50 | 31 | |
| 6 | 1 | Rudy Goldin |  Italy |
24.50 | 32 | |
| 7 | 5 | Takashi Yamamoto | Japan |
24.58 | T34 | |
| 8 | 7 | Sotirios Pastras | Greece |
24.82 | T46 |
- Heat 18
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | Ian Crocker | USA |
23.30 | 1 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Andriy Serdinov | Ukraine |
23.92 | 7 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Matt Welsh | Australia |
23.95 | 9 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Thomas Rupprath |  Germany |
24.06 | T16 | swim-off |
| 5 | 8 | Nikolay Skvortsov |  Russia |
24.23 | 22 | |
| 6 | 7 | Simão Morgado |  Portugal |
24.44 | 29 | |
| 7 | 2 | Todd Cooper |  Great Britain |
24.61 | 37 | |
| -- | 3 | César Cielo | Brazil |
DNS | -- |
- Heat 19
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Sergiy Breus | Ukraine |
23.61 | 3 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Albert Subirats Altes | Venezuela |
23.73 | 6 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Matti Rajakylä | Finland |
23.98 | 10 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea |
24.02 | T12 | Q |
| 6 | Ryo Takayasu | Japan |
Q | |||
| 6 | 8 | Rafael Muñoz Pérez |  Spain |
24.21 | 21 | |
| 7 | 7 | Evgeny Korotyshkin | Russia |
24.36 | 24 | |
| 8 | 3 | ZHOU Jiawei | China |
24.41 | T26 |
- Heat 20
| Heat Rank |
Lane | Swimmer | Country | Time | Overall Rank |
Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa |
23.49 | 2 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Lars Frölander | Sweden |
23.66 | 4 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Jakob Andkjær | Denmark |
23.92 | 7 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Frédérick Bousquet |  France |
24.00 | 11 | Q (scratched semis) |
| 5 | 6 | Lyndon Ferns | South Africa |
24.05 | 15 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Jernej Godec | Slovenia |
24.06 | T16 | swim-off |
| 7 | 2 | Corney Swanepoel | New Zealand |
24.20 | 20 | |
| 8 | 8 | Benjamin Starke | Germany |
24.25 | 23 |
Swim-off for 16th place
editFollowing the conclusion of the preliminary heats there was a three-way tie in for 16th at 24.06 between Germany's Thomas Rupprath, and Slovenia's two entries in the event: Peter Mankoč and Jernej Godec.
- 1 Jernej Godec, Slovenia – 23.74 (Q)
- 1 Peter Mankoč, Slovenia – 23.74 (Q)
- 3 Thomas Rupprath, Germany – 23.90
As France's Frédérick Bousquet scratched the final, a swim-off to the swim-off tie was not need, and both Godec and Mankoč advanced to the semifinals.
See also
editReferences
edit- Men's 50m Fly Heats results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
- Men's 50m Fly Heats swim-off results (for 16th place in semis) from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
- Men's 50m Fly Semifinals results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.
- Men's 50m Fly Final results from the 2007 World Championships. Published by OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the '07 Worlds); retrieved 2009-07-11.