2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre individual medley explained

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The Men's 100 Individual Medley (or "I.M.") at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 18–19 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On 18 December, 83 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning,^[1] with the top-16 finishers advancing to the Semifinals that evening.^[2] The top-8 finishers from Semifinals then advanced to the Final the next evening.^[3]

At the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship records (CR) were:

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
WR	Peter Mankoč		align=left	50.76		12 December 2009
CR			align=left	51.15	Manchester	13 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	3		52.06	Q
2	11	3		52.53	Q
3	11	7		52.60	Q
4	11	5		52.75	Q
5	11	4		52.78	Q
6	9	4		52.83	Q
7	10	4		53.03	Q
8	7	5		53.05	Q
9	10	5		53.12	Q
10	10	3		53.16	Q
11	1	4		53.43	Q, NR
12	11	6		53.62	Q
13	2	8		53.70	Q
14	11	8		53.74	Q
15	3	2		53.94	Q
16	9	5		54.02	Q
17	10	6		54.03
18	2	6		54.20
19	9	3		54.24
19	10	2		54.24
21	9	8		54.27
22	9	7		54.33
23	9	6		54.41
24	10	7		54.42
25	10	8		54.60
26	8	5		54.86
27	11	2		54.89
28	8	3		55.02
29	8	2		55.09
30	7	6		55.32
31	8	4		55.45
32	10	1		55.89
33	3	7		56.08
34	3	6		56.85
35	7	4		57.27
35	8	7		57.27
37	7	2		57.44
38	6	6		57.47
39	2	4		57.52
40	7	3		57.59
41	3	5		57.69
42	8	6		57.70
43	8	1		57.80
44	6	4		58.24
45	7	1		58.43
46	2	7		58.46
47	6	2		58.61
48	7	7		58.79
49	2	5		58.80
50	7	8		58.94
51	6	8		59.18
52	6	5		59.21
53	5	7		59.22
54	6	7		59.38
55	5	1		59.50
56	5	3		59.61
57	5	5		1:00.06
58	5	6		1:00.20
59	6	1		1:00.29
60	4	1		1:01.11
61	5	2		1:01.18
62	5	8		1:03.13
63	4	5		1:03.57
64	4	6		1:04.61
65	4	7		1:04.65
66	4	3		1:05.32
67	4	4		1:05.61
68	4	8		1:06.06
69	3	3		1:07.16
70	2	1		1:07.76
71	2	2		1:08.10
72	3	4		1:09.20
73	5	4		1:10.22
74	3	8		1:10.90
75	3	1		1:13.77
76	4	2		1:13.84
–	1	3		DNS
–	6	3		DNS
–	9	1		DNS
–	1	5		DSQ
–	8	8		DSQ
–	9	2		DSQ
–	11	1		DSQ

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	3		52.08	Q
2	5		52.16	Q
3	4		52.70	Q
4	2		52.85
5	6		52.94
6	7		53.12
7	1		53.44
8	8		53.65

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4		50.81	Q, CR
2	5		52.23	Q
3	2		52.43	Q
4	6		52.51	Q
5	7		52.62	Q, NR
6	3		52.80
7	1		53.12
8	8		53.99

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	4		50.86
	5		51.69
	7		51.81
4	6		51.97
5	3		52.20
6	2		52.36
7	1		52.97
8	8		53.69

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Men's 100 metre individual medley (heats) . Omega Timing . 2010-12-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110124235043/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_30_Heats_Men_100_Medley.pdf . 24 January 2011 .
2. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Men's 100 metre individual medley (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2010-12-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20110124172846/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_230_Semifinals_Men_100_Medley.pdf. 24 January 2011. dead.
3. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Men's 100 metre individual medley (final). Omega Timing. 2010-12-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20110125000449/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_130_Finals_1_Men_100_Medley.pdf. 25 January 2011. dead.