2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre butterfly explained

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The men's 50 metre butterfly event at the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) took place 14  - 15 December 2012 at the Sinan Erdem Dome.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Steffen Deibler		align=left	21.80		14 November 2009
Championship record			align=left	22.40		18 December 2010

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
14 December	Heats			22.40	=CR
14 December	Semifinals	Nicholas Santos		22.23	CR
15 December	Final	Nicholas Santos		22.22	CR

Results

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Time	Notes
1	14	4		22.40	Q, =CR
2	14	3		22.78	Q
3	12	5		22.93	Q
4	1	3		22.96	Q
5	14	5		22.98	Q
6	14	9		23.05	Q
7	13	5		23.07	Q
7	13	6		23.07	Q
9	12	3		23.11	Q
10	12	4		23.18	Q
11	13	3		23.21	Q
12	14	6		23.22	Q, =NR
13	13	8		23.27	Q, NR
14	14	8		23.52	Q, NR
15	13	2		23.53	Q
16	12	2		23.57	Q
17	14	0		23.58	NR
18	14	2		23.61
19	14	7		23.63
20	13	1		23.74
21	11	6		23.77
22	11	1		23.82
23	2	8		23.86
23	11	8		23.86
23	12	9		23.86
26	14	1		23.92
27	10	1		23.93
28	11	3		23.97
28	12	0		23.97
30	11	2		23.98
31	12	8		24.01
32	13	9		24.04
33	11	9		24.08
34	10	5		24.10
35	2	4		24.12
36	12	7		24.21
37	11	7		24.23
38	11	5		24.29
39	12	6		24.30
40	13	0		24.31
41	10	3		24.44
42	10	4		24.45
43	12	1		24.53
44	10	9		24.56	NR
45	8	3		24.64
46	9	8		24.65
47	10	0		24.79
48	9	2		24.84
49	11	4		24.88
50	9	1		25.03
51	8	4		25.06
52	10	6		25.08
53	9	4		25.22
54	9	9		25.23
55	9	6		25.25
55	10	7		25.25
57	9	0		25.26
58	2	6		25.30
59	2	1		25.45
60	8	2		25.52
61	8	6		25.57
62	7	9		25.63	NR
63	8	5		25.72
64	10	8		25.74
65	7	0		25.79
66	1	5		25.84
67	7	2		25.91
68	9	7		25.94
69	8	9		26.18
70	6	7		26.23
71	7	4		26.26
71	8	8		26.26
73	7	3		26.31
74	6	6		26.34
75	7	1		26.36
76	7	8		26.43
77	8	1		26.44
78	7	6		26.45
79	9	5		26.53
80	7	5		26.56
81	5	4		26.81
82	11	0		26.82
83	8	0		26.86
84	6	5		26.96
85	6	8		27.02
86	6	0		27.04
87	5	1		27.24
88	6	2		27.25
88	8	7		27.25
90	6	1		27.32
91	6	4		27.50
92	5	0		27.61
93	3	8		27.67
94	6	9		27.88
95	5	5		27.92
96	4	4		28.02
97	5	8		28.06
98	4	5		28.11
99	5	6		28.30
100	5	7		28.38
101	5	2		28.50
102	4	6		28.56
103	1	4		28.61
104	6	3		28.69
105	4	7		28.91
106	4	2		28.94
107	2	0		29.13
108	5	3		29.22
109	5	9		29.39
110	4	1		29.45
111	4	0		29.48
112	4	8		30.49
113	3	4		30.91
114	3	6		31.61
115	2	3		32.32
116	1	7		32.92
117	3	7		34.73
	1	2
	1	6
	2	7
	3	0
	9	3
	1	1
	2	2
	2	5
	3	1
	3	2
	3	3
	3	5
	3	9
	4	3
	4	9
	7	7
	10	2
	13	4
	13	7

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4			22.23	Q, CR
2	1	6			22.58	Q
3	1	2			22.61	Q
4	1	4			22.70	Q
5	1	3	Peter Mankoč		22.82	Q
6	2	3	Andriy Hovorov		22.93	Q
7	2	2	Joeri Verlinden		22.98	Q
8	1	5	Wu Peng		23.05	Q
9	1	7	François Heersbrandt		23.10	NR
10	2	5	Yauhen Tsurkin		23.16
11	2	7	Kaio de Almeida		23.20
12	2	1	Ben Hockin		23.36
13	1	1	Barry Murphy		23.39	NR
14	2	6	Jason Dunford		23.42
15	2	8	Romain Sassot		23.57
16	1	8	Evgeny Koptelov		23.62

Final

The final was held at 19:52.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Nicholas Santos		22.22	CR
	6	Chad le Clos		22.26
	5	Tom Shields		22.46	NR
4	3	Frédérick Bousquet		22.61
5	8	Wu Peng		22.78
6	7	Andriy Hovorov		22.85
7	1	Joeri Verlinden		22.90
8	2	Peter Mankoč		22.94

External links

• 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m): Men's 50 metre butterfly entry list, from OmegaTiming.com.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre butterfly (heats). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218135949/http://www.omegatiming.com/file/download/?id=00010C010D00030C00FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
2. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre butterfly (semifinals). Omega Timing. 2012-12-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218135459/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00030C01FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.
3. Web site: 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 50 metre butterfly (final). Omega Timing. 2012-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20121218100750/http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C010D00030C02FFFFFFFFFFFF02. 2012-12-18. dead.