# Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 26 and 27 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.
The medals were presented by Cliff Williams, Secretary General of The Antigua and Barbuda Olympic Association and the quaichs were presented by Steve Montgomery, Managing Director of First ScotRail.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Commonwealth Games records were as follows.
| World record | César Cielo (BRA) | 46.91 | Rome, Italy | 30 July 2009 |
| Commonwealth record | Eamon Sullivan (AUS) | 47.05 | Beijing, China | 13 August 2008 |
| Games record | Brent Hayden (CAN) | 47.98 | Delhi, India | 7 October 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 9 | 4 | James Magnussen | Australia | 48.47 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 49.46 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 4 | Adam Brown | England | 49.60 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 6 | Leith Shankland | South Africa | 49.64 | Q |
| 5 | 9 | 6 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 49.72 | Q |
| 6 | 9 | 5 | Tommaso D'Orsogna | Australia | 49.73 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 3 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 49.85 | Q |
| 8 | 9 | 3 | Calum Jarvis | Wales | 50.05 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 3 | James Disney-May | England | 50.25 | Q |
| 10 | 8 | 7 | Bradley Vincent | Mauritius | 50.59 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 7 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 50.60 | Q |
| 12 | 9 | 2 | Curtis Coulter | Northern Ireland | 50.63 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | 1 | Otto Putland | Wales | 50.66 | Q |
| =14 | 7 | 5 | Benjamin Proud | England | 50.69 | Q |
| =14 | 9 | 7 | Clayton Jimmie | South Africa | 50.69 | Q |
| 16 | 8 | 5 | Roy-Allan Burch | Bermuda | 50.84 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 1 | Clement Lim | Singapore | 50.93 | |
| 18 | 8 | 2 | David Thompson | Northern Ireland | 51.15 | |
| 19 | 7 | 6 | Caydon Muller | South Africa | 51.27 | |
| 20 | 7 | 8 | Welson Sim | Malaysia | 51.51 | |
| 21 | 3 | 2 | Lim Ching Hwang | Malaysia | 51.65 | |
| 22 | 7 | 2 | Danny Yeo | Singapore | 51.84 | |
| 23 | 6 | 4 | Tom Gallichan | Jersey | 52.00 | |
| 24 | 1 | 4 | Jevon Atkinson | Jamaica | 52.03 | |
| 25 | 9 | 8 | Miles Munro | Guernsey | 52.06 | |
| 26 | 6 | 2 | Ifalemi Sau Paea | Tonga | 52.76 | |
| 27 | 6 | 5 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 52.94 | |
| 28 | 6 | 3 | Mahfizur Rahman Sagor | Bangladesh | 52.97 | |
| 29 | 8 | 8 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | Cyprus | 52.99 | |
| 30 | 6 | 6 | Conor Munn | Northern Ireland | 53.30 | |
| 31 | 6 | 7 | Joshua Daniel | Saint Lucia | 53.55 | |
| 32 | 5 | 7 | Issa Mohamed | Kenya | 53.96 | |
| 33 | 5 | 4 | Alex Bregazzi | Isle of Man | 54.00 | |
| 34 | 6 | 1 | Tom Bielich | Isle of Man | 54.01 | |
| 35 | 5 | 6 | Meli Malani | Fiji | 54.05 | |
| 36 | 5 | 1 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 54.10 | |
| 37 | 5 | 5 | James Sanderson | Gibraltar | 54.61 | |
| =38 | 4 | 5 | Shakil Fakir | Mozambique | 55.08 | |
| =38 | 6 | 8 | Cherantha de Silva | Sri Lanka | 55.08 | |
| =40 | 4 | 4 | William Clark | Fiji | 55.09 | |
| =40 | 5 | 2 | Stanford Kawale | Papua New Guinea | 55.09 | |
| 42 | 3 | 1 | Adam Viktora | Seychelles | 55.10 | |
| 43 | 5 | 3 | Steven Maina | Kenya | 55.41 | |
| 44 | 3 | 6 | Abeiku Jackson | Ghana | 56.47 | |
| 45 | 4 | 6 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 56.59 | |
| 46 | 4 | 1 | Abbiw Jackson | Ghana | 56.87 | |
| 47 | 4 | 2 | J'air Smith | Antigua and Barbuda | 57.08 | |
| 48 | 3 | 4 | Ammaar Ghadiyali | Tanzania | 57.50 | |
| 49 | 1 | 5 | Chris Regis | Grenada | 57.74 | |
| 50 | 3 | 8 | Matthew Shone | Zambia | 57.97 | |
| 51 | 3 | 5 | Sikandar Khan | Pakistan | 57.99 | |
| 52 | 3 | 7 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 58.07 | |
| 53 | 4 | 3 | Israr Hussain | Pakistan | 58.36 | |
| 54 | 1 | 3 | Andrew Hopkin | Grenada | 58.50 | |
| 55 | 4 | 8 | Nishwan Ibrahim | Maldives | 58.74 | |
| 56 | 2 | 4 | Collin Akara | Papua New Guinea | 59.18 | |
| 57 | 3 | 3 | Nikolas Sylvester | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 59.43 | |
| 58 | 2 | 3 | Tong Li Panuve | Tonga | 1:00.34 | |
| 59 | 4 | 7 | Mohamed Adnan | Maldives | 1:01.24 | |
| 60 | 2 | 2 | Storm Halbich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1:01.90 | |
| 61 | 2 | 7 | Dillon Gooding | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1:01.93 | |
| 62 | 2 | 1 | Ben Dillon | Saint Helena | 1:01.94 | |
| 63 | 2 | 6 | Patrick Rukundo | Rwanda | 1:03.36 | |
| | 2 | 5 | Nana Antwi | Ghana | | DNS |
| | 5 | 8 | Emidio Cuna | Mozambique | | DNS |
| | 7 | 1 | Ieuan Lloyd | Wales | | DNS |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | James Magnussen | Australia | 48.21 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 48.60 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | Tommaso D'Orsogna | Australia | 49.05 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 5 | Leith Shankland | South Africa | 49.35 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 5 | Adam Brown | England | 49.47 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | 3 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 49.50 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 49.53 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | James Disney-May | England | 50.01 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | Benjamin Proud | England | 50.06 | |
| 10 | 1 | 6 | Calum Jarvis | Wales | 50.09 | |
| 11 | 1 | 8 | Roy-Allan Burch | Bermuda | 50.26 | |
| 12 | 1 | 7 | Curtis Coulter | Northern Ireland | 50.48 | |
| 13 | 2 | 8 | Clayton Jimmie | South Africa | 50.50 | |
| 14 | 1 | 2 | Bradley Vincent | Mauritius | 50.52 | |
| 15 | 2 | 1 | Otto Putland | Wales | 50.61 | |
| 16 | 2 | 7 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 50.78 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | James Magnussen | Australia | 48.11 |
| | 5 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 48.34 |
| | 3 | Tommaso D'Orsogna | Australia | 49.04 |
| 4 | 1 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 49.27 |
| 5 | 7 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 49.56 |
| 6 | 2 | Adam Brown | England | 49.63 |
| 7 | 6 | Leith Shankland | South Africa | 49.81 |
| 8 | 8 | James Disney-May | England | 49.96 |