Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle

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The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2004 Summer Olympics was contested at the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex in Athens, Greece on August 19 and 20.<ref name="Swimming schedule">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

United States' Gary Hall Jr. defended his Olympic title in the event in 21.93, just two hundredths of a second off the record set by Alexander Popov in 1992.<ref name="Hall wins">Template:Cite news</ref> The silver medal was awarded to Croatia's Duje Draganja, who placed behind Hall in 21.94. South Africa's Roland Mark Schoeman completed his full set of medals by adding a bronze in 22.02.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Defending bronze medalist Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands (22.56), and dual Olympic champion Alexander Popov of Russia (22.58) missed the semifinals.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> By the following year, Popov announced his retirement from swimming, and became a full-time member of the International Olympic Committee.

Eleven first round heats were raced, comprising a total of 86 swimmers. The fastest 16 swimmers from this group qualified to move on to the semifinals stage.<ref name="Guide">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After the heats had been raced, the cut-off time was 22.53 seconds. The 16 swimmers who advanced then raced in two semifinals of eight swimmers each, the results being pooled and the fastest eight swimmers advancing to the final.<ref name="Guide" /> The cut-off time to proceed into the final was 22.19 seconds.

Records

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

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Competition format

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

Results

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

Heats

Rank Heat Lane Name Nation Time Notes
1 11 4 Gary Hall Jr. Template:FlagIOC 22.04 Template:Abbr
2 10 8 Frédérick Bousquet Template:FlagIOC 22.24 Template:Abbr
3 9 3 Bartosz Kizierowski Template:FlagIOC 22.26 Template:Abbr
11 8 Salim Iles Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr, NR
5 8 5 Duje Draganja Template:FlagIOC 22.28 Template:Abbr
6 9 6 Julien Sicot Template:FlagIOC 22.30 Template:Abbr
7 9 4 Jason Lezak Template:FlagIOC 22.33 Template:Abbr
8 11 5 Roland Mark Schoeman Template:FlagIOC 22.41 Template:Abbr
11 2 Oleksandr Volynets Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr
10 9 2 Brett Hawke Template:FlagIOC 22.42 Template:Abbr
11 1 Stefan Nystrand Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr
12 8 4 Ricardo Busquets Template:FlagIOC 22.45 Template:Abbr
13 8 2 Karel Novy Template:FlagIOC 22.51 Template:Abbr
14 9 5 Javier Noriega Template:FlagIOC 22.52 Template:Abbr
10 7 Fernando Scherer Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr
16 11 6 Lyndon Ferns Template:FlagIOC 22.53 Template:Abbr
17 11 3 Pieter van den Hoogenband Template:FlagIOC 22.56
18 10 3 Johan Kenkhuis Template:FlagIOC 22.58
10 4 Alexander Popov Template:FlagIOC
8 6 Rafed El-Masri Template:FlagIOC
21 7 1 Rolandas Gimbutis Template:FlagIOC 22.59
22 10 2 Lorenzo Vismara Template:FlagIOC 22.70
23 10 5 Eduardo Lorente Template:FlagIOC 22.71
24 7 3 Apostolos Tsagkarakis Template:FlagIOC 22.72
25 9 1 Michele Scarica Template:FlagIOC 22.80
26 11 7 Ashley Callus Template:FlagIOC 22.82
27 9 7 José Meolans Template:FlagIOC 22.90
28 10 6 Vyacheslav Shyrshov Template:FlagIOC 22.96
29 9 8 Andrey Kapralov Template:FlagIOC 22.97
30 10 1 Matthew Rose Template:FlagIOC 23.01
31 7 6 Milorad Čavić Template:FlagIOC 23.05
32 6 2 Krisztián Takács Template:FlagIOC 23.12
33 6 1 Stanislau Neviarouski Template:FlagIOC 23.13
34 8 7 Marcos Hernández Template:FlagIOC 23.19
35 7 2 Lee Chung-hee Template:FlagIOC 23.20
36 7 7 Camilo Becerra Template:FlagIOC 23.23
7 4 Pedro Silva Template:FlagIOC
5 7 Ravil Nachaev Template:FlagIOC
39 6 8 Kaan Tayla Template:FlagIOC 23.26
40 5 4 Carl Probert Template:FlagIOC 23.31
41 7 5 Jere Hård Template:FlagIOC 23.33
42 7 3 Chen Zuo Template:FlagIOC 23.41
43 6 3 Julio Santos Template:FlagIOC 23.43
5 6 Joshua Laban Template:FlagIOC
45 6 4 Chrysanthos Papachrysanthou Template:FlagIOC 23.51
46 5 1 Allen Ong Template:FlagIOC 23.52
6 6 Arwut Chinnapasaen Template:FlagIOC
48 6 7 Wang Shao-an Template:FlagIOC 23.54
49 6 5 Danil Haustov Template:FlagIOC 23.56
50 4 4 José Mafio Template:FlagIOC 23.58
51 4 5 Jevon Atkinson Template:FlagIOC 23.61
52 5 2 Raichin Antonov Template:FlagIOC 23.67
53 4 6 Rodrigo Díaz Template:FlagIOC 23.69
54 5 5 Örn Arnarson Template:FlagIOC 23.84
55 5 8 Oleg Shteynikov Template:FlagIOC 23.88
56 4 3 Terrence Haynes Template:FlagIOC 23.90
57 4 8 Abed Rahman Kaaki Template:FlagIOC 24.68
58 4 2 Gregory Arkhurst Template:FlagIOC 24.82
4 7 Mauricio Prudencio Template:FlagIOC
60 4 1 Alois Dansou Template:FlagIOC 24.86
61 1 4 Emile Rony Bakale Template:FlagIOC 25.07
62 3 5 Chris Hackel Template:FlagIOC 25.33
63 1 3 Ahmed Mohamed Jewel Template:FlagIOC 25.47
64 3 4 Cole Shade Sule Template:FlagIOC 26.16
65 3 3 Johnathan Steele Template:FlagIOC 26.40
66 3 6 Kreshnik Gjata Template:FlagIOC 26.61
5 3 Semen Danilov Template:FlagIOC
68 2 4 Anderson Bonabart Template:FlagIOC 26.75
69 1 2 Ibrahim Maliki Template:FlagIOC 26.81
70 3 8 Hem Kiri Template:FlagIOC 27.49
71 3 2 Khaled Ghezzawi Template:FlagIOC 27.55
72 2 3 Hojamamed Hojamamedov Template:FlagIOC 27.68
73 3 1 Hassan Mubah Template:FlagIOC 27.71
74 1 7 Donnie Defreitas Template:FlagIOC 27.72
75 3 7 Edgar Luberenga Template:FlagIOC 27.77
76 1 5 Abdourahamane Diawara Template:FlagIOC 28.10
77 2 5 Bounthanom Vongphachanh Template:FlagIOC 28.17
78 2 7 Leonce Sekama Template:FlagIOC 28.99
79 1 6 David Keita Template:FlagIOC 29.96
80 2 2 Mohamed Saad Template:FlagIOC 29.97
81 2 6 Mamadou Ouedraogo Template:FlagIOC 30.36
82 2 8 Malique Williams Template:FlagIOC 32.86
83 2 1 Yona Walesi Template:FlagIOC 34.11
Template:Sort 8 1 Luis Rojas Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr
Template:Sort 8 3 Peter Mankoč Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr
Template:Sort 8 8 George Bovell Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr

Semifinals

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

Rank Heat Lane Name Nation Time Notes
1 1 6 Roland Mark Schoeman Template:FlagIOC 21.99 Template:Abbr, AF
2 1 2 Brett Hawke Template:FlagIOC 22.07 Template:Abbr, OC
3 2 6 Jason Lezak Template:FlagIOC 22.12 Template:Abbr
4 1 5 Salim Iles Template:FlagIOC 22.16 Template:Abbr, NR
5 2 2 Gary Hall Jr. Template:FlagIOC 22.18 Template:Abbr
2 4 Stefan Nystrand Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr
2 7 Oleksandr Volynets Template:FlagIOC Template:Abbr
8 2 3 Duje Draganja Template:FlagIOC 22.19 Template:Abbr
9 2 5 Bartosz Kizierowski Template:FlagIOC 22.22
10 1 3 Julien Sicot Template:FlagIOC 22.26
11 2 8 Fernando Scherer Template:FlagIOC 22.27
12 1 4 Frédérick Bousquet Template:FlagIOC 22.29
13 1 1 Javier Noriega Template:FlagIOC 22.36
14 1 8 Lyndon Ferns Template:FlagIOC 22.46
15 1 7 Ricardo Busquets Template:FlagIOC 22.52
16 2 1 Karel Novy Template:FlagIOC 22.63

Final

Rank Lane Name Nation Time Notes
Template:Gold01 2 Gary Hall Jr. Template:FlagIOC 21.93
Template:Silver02 8 Duje Draganja Template:FlagIOC 21.94
Template:Bronze03 4 Roland Mark Schoeman Template:FlagIOC 22.02
4 1 Stefan Nystrand Template:FlagIOC 22.08
5 3 Jason Lezak Template:FlagIOC 22.11
6 5 Brett Hawke Template:FlagIOC 22.18
7 7 Oleksandr Volynets Template:FlagIOC 22.26
8 6 Salim Iles Template:FlagIOC 22.37

References

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