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

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The Men's 100 Breaststroke at the 10th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) was swum 15–16 December 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On 15 December, 85 individuals swam in the Preliminary heats in the morning,^[1] with the top-16 finishers advancing to swim again in the Semifinals that night.^[2] The top-8 finishers from the Semifinals then advanced to swim in 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	Cameron van der Burgh		align=left	55.61	Berlin	15 November 2009
CR			align=left	57.74		10 April 2008

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Round	Name	Nation	Time	WR	CR
15 December 2010	Heats			57.60		CR
15 December 2010	Semifinals			57.18		CR
16 December 2010	Final			56.80		CR

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	11	5		57.60	Q, CR
2	11	6		57.80	Q
3	9	2		58.06	Q
4	10	2		58.21	Q
5	10	4		58.31	Q
6	9	8		58.42	Q
7	11	7		58.43	Q
8	10	3		58.56	Q
9	9	4		58.67	Q
10	10	8		58.68	Q
11	10	6		58.69	Q
12	9	7		58.79	Q
12	9	1		58.79	Q
14	7	4		58.90	Q
15	7	3		58.95	Q
15	8	3		58.95	Q
17	11	2		58.97
18	11	1		59.02
19	10	7		59.04
20	11	3		59.05
21	10	5		59.19
22	11	8		59.24
23	7	5		59.42
24	9	5		59.47
25	7	2		59.80
26	8	6		59.86
27	8	1		59.92
27	8	8		59.92
29	6	6		1:00.02
30	8	2		1:00.08
31	7	7		1:00.23
32	7	6		1:00.28
33	6	7		1:00.32
33	10	1		1:00.32
35	8	5		1:00.51
36	7	8		1:00.70
37	4	3		1:00.82
38	4	5		1:00.91
38	5	5		1:00.91
40	6	3		1:00.93
41	8	4		1:00.94
42	8	7		1:01.02
43	6	4		1:01.17
44	1	2		1:01.38
45	1	5		1:01.66
46	5	3		1:01.96
47	6	5		1:02.00
48	5	6		1:02.03
49	6	1		1:02.19
50	7	1		1:02.30
51	5	4		1:02.51
52	6	2		1:03.09
53	6	8		1:03.18
54	4	6		1:03.23
55	5	8		1:03.33
56	4	8		1:03.38
57	4	7		1:03.53
58	3	6		1:03.57
59	5	2		1:03.93
60	5	7		1:04.28
61	3	8		1:05.12
62	3	5		1:05.14
63	3	3		1:05.50
64	5	1		1:05.66
65	4	1		1:06.20
66	4	4		1:06.33
67	3	4		1:06.38
68	3	2		1:06.71
69	2	4		1:06.93
70	3	1		1:07.19
71	3	7		1:07.81
72	1	4		1:08.71
73	2	3		1:10.02
74	2	5		1:10.23
75	2	2		1:13.35
76	2	6		1:14.09
77	1	6		1:14.39
78	1	3		1:15.04
79	2	7		1:17.30
80	2	1		1:19.25
81	2	8		1:21.88
-	4	2		DNS
-	11	4		DNS
-	9	3		DSQ
-	9	6		DSQ

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4		58.34	Q
2	2		58.37	Swim-off
3	3		58.46
4	5		58.48
5	1		58.58
6	6		58.61
7	8		58.72
8	7		59.21

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	5		57.18	Q, CR
2	2		57.19	Q
2	7		57.19	Q
4	4		57.35	Q
5	3		57.84	Q
6	6		57.97	Q
7	8		58.37	Swim-off
8	1		58.85

Semifinals Swim-off

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	4		58.45	Q
2	5		58.71

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
	3		56.80	CR
	6		57.13
	5		57.39
4	4		57.42
5	8		57.79
6	2		58.16
7	1		58.66
-	7		DQ

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) – Men's 100 metre breaststroke (heats) . Omega Timing . 2010-12-15 .
2. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre breaststroke (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2010-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20110124235914/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C74A_ResSummary_205_Semifinals_Men_100_Breast.pdf. 24 January 2011. dead.
3. Web site: 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre breaststroke (final). Omega Timing. 2010-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20110124192411/http://omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2010/WSC_DUBAI/C73A1_Res1Heat_105_Finals_1_Men_100_Breast.pdf. 24 January 2011. dead.