Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle
Heats

Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Section Title: Heats
Table Section Text: None

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes

1	6	3	George Bovell	Trinidad and Tobago	21.77	Q

2	8	4	César Cielo	Brazil	21.80	Q

3	8	5	Bruno Fratus	Brazil	21.82	Q

4	6	4	Anthony Ervin	United States	21.83	Q

5	7	1	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	21.92	Q

6	7	4	Cullen Jones	United States	21.95	Q

7	6	5	Andrey Grechin	Russia	22.09	Q

Andriy Govorov	Ukraine	Q

8	3	Florent Manaudou	France	Q

10	7	5	James Magnussen	Australia	22.11	Q

11	8	6	Luca Dotto	Italy	22.12	Q

8	7	Gideon Louw	South Africa	Q

13	8	8	Brent Hayden	Canada	22.15	Q

14	6	6	Krisztián Takács	Hungary	22.19	Q

15	6	8	Norbert Trandafir	Romania	22.22	Q, NR

16	7	3	Eamon Sullivan	Australia	22.27	Q

17	6	2	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	22.32

18	7	6	Amaury Leveaux	France	22.35

19	7	2	Marco Orsi	Italy	22.36

20	6	7	Adam Brown	Great Britain	22.39

21	8	2	Sergey Fesikov	Russia	22.42

22	5	3	Jasper Aerents	Belgium	22.43

23	6	1	Hanser García	Cuba	22.45

24	4	4	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda	22.47	NR

25	7	8	Ari-Pekka Liukkonen	Finland	22.57

26	5	1	Shi Yang	China	22.64

27	5	4	David Dunford	Kenya	22.72

28	5	7	Mario Todorović	Croatia	22.75

29	4	5	Barry Murphy	Ireland	22.76

30	8	1	Ioannis Kalargaris	Greece	22.80

31	5	8	Árni Már Árnason	Iceland	22.81	NR

32	5	5	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	22.91

33	5	6	Kacper Majchrzak	Poland	23.00

34	4	3	Shehab Younis	Egypt	23.16

35	5	2	Federico Grabich	Argentina	23.30

36	4	6	Luke Hall	Swaziland	23.48

37	4	2	Kareem Ennab	Jordan	24.09

38	4	7	Chakyl Camal	Mozambique	24.43

39	4	1	Mahfizur Rahman Sagor	Bangladesh	24.64

40	3	6	Kerson Hadley	Federated States of Micronesia	24.82

41	3	4	Adama Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	25.26

42	4	8	Zachary Payne	Cook Islands	25.26

43	3	5	Emile Bakale	Congo	25.64

44	3	2	Kouassi Brou	Ivory Coast	25.82

45	3	3	Tolga Akcayli	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	26.27

46	3	1	Giordan Harris	Marshall Islands	26.88

47	3	8	Prasiddha Jung Shah	Nepal	26.93

48	3	7	Hemthon Ponloeu	Cambodia	27.03

49	2	2	Abdourahman Osman	Djibouti	27.25

50	2	6	Mohamed Elkhedr	Sudan	27.26

51	2	3	Ching Maou Wei	American Samoa	27.30

52	2	7	Jackson Niyomugabo	Rwanda	27.38

53	2	5	Ganzi Mugula	Uganda	27.58

54	2	4	Paul Edingue Ekane	Cameroon	27.87

55	1	5	Christian Nassif	Central African Republic	28.04

56	1	4	Phathana Inthavong	Laos	28.17

57	2	1	Mulualem Girma Teshale	Ethiopia	28.99

58	1	3	Wilfried Tevoedjre	Benin	29.77

Sentence(s)

Ervin was followed by Roland Schoeman of South Africa.

final_sentence: Ervin was followed by Roland Schoeman of South Africa.