2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre individual medley explained

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The men's 100 metre individual medley event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 15  - 16 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome. The final was won by American Ryan Lochte in a time of 51.21. In the semifinals, Lochte broke Peter Mankoč's world record of 50.76 set in 2009 with a time of 50.71.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Peter Mankoč		align=left	50.76		12 December 2009
Championship record			align=left	50.81		18 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	2	5		51.75	Q
2	8	4		52.58	Q
3	7	3		53.08	Q, NR
4	9	7		53.49	Q
5	9	4		53.51	Q
6	8	3		53.57	Q
7	7	2		53.61	Q
8	7	6		53.64	Q
9	3	1		53.68	Q
10	8	5		53.82	Q
11	9	5		53.92	Q
12	8	8		54.06	Q
13	8	6		54.13	Q
14	6	5		54.21	Q
15	8	1		54.32	Q
16	2	0		54.43	Q
17	9	3		54.44
18	9	8		54.50	NR
19	9	1		54.55
20	7	7		54.59
21	8	2		54.64
22	8	0		54.72
23	9	2		54.92
24	6	6		55.07
25	7	8		55.26
26	7	5		55.40
27	3	8		55.53	NR
28	7	1		55.55	NR
29	2	4		55.57
30	9	0		55.93
31	6	4		56.04
32	7	0		56.47
33	3	0		57.15
34	8	9		57.23
35	6	2		57.28
36	6	3		57.63
37	5	2		57.89
38	7	9		57.91
39	2	3		58.35
40	3	2		58.59
41	2	7		59.00
42	6	8		59.82
43	5	4		59.84
44	2	2		59.88
45	5	3		59.95
46	6	7		1:00.06
47	3	6		1:00.22	NR
48	3	9		1:00.53
49	3	7		1:00.65
50	6	9		1:01.05
51	5	7		1:01.53
52	6	0		1:01.60
53	6	1		1:01.68
54	4	4		1:02.37
55	5	0		1:02.46
56	5	1		1:02.56
57	1	3		1:03.49
58	5	8		1:03.57
59	5	9		1:04.64
60	4	5		1:05.28
61	4	6		1:06.82
62	2	6		1:07.16
63	4	3		1:07.44
64	4	2		1:09.11
65	4	8		1:09.66
66	5	5		1:09.69
67	4	0		1:10.04
68	1	5		1:11.51
69	3	4		1:12.72
70	4	1		1:13.39
71	4	9		1:14.99
72	3	5		1:15.21
73	3	3		1:17.56
	2	1
	4	7
	1	4
	2	8
	5	6
	7	4
	8	7
	9	6
	9	9

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Ryan Lochte		50.71
2	1	4	Kenneth To		51.47
3	2	3	George Bovell		51.66
4	2	5	Simon Sjödin		52.51	NR
5	2	2	Conor Dwyer		52.74
6	2	7	Peter Mankoč		52.80
7	1	5	Daiya Seto		53.10
8	1	3	Takuro Fujii		53.14
9	2	6	Gal Nevo		53.25
10	1	2	Martti Aljand		53.31
11	1	7	Jake Tapp		53.67
12	1	6	Diogo Carvalho		53.69
13	2	1	Daniel Skaaning		54.05
14	2	8	Jan Świtkowski		54.21
15	1	1	Robert Žbogar		54.28
16	1	8	Mindaugas Sadauskas		54.85

Final

The final was held at 19:37.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4			51.21
	5			51.38	OC
	3			51.66
4	7			52.51
5	6			52.63
6	2			52.83
7	8			53.11
8	1			53.15

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre medley (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121219022606/http://www.omegatiming.com/file/download/?id=00010C010D00040F00FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-19. dead.
2. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre medley (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100754/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00040F01FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
3. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre medley (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218233607/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00040F02FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.