# Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The Men's 100 metre freestyle competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships was held on 21 and 22 June 2022.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | César Cielo (BRA) | 46.91 | Rome, Italy | 30 July 2009 |
| Competition record | César Cielo (BRA) | 46.91 | Rome, Italy | 30 July 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 21 June at 09:09.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 10 | 4 | David Popovici | Romania | 47.60 | Q |
| 2 | 11 | 4 | Caeleb Dressel | United States | 47.95 | Q, WD |
| 3 | 10 | 3 | Andrej Barna | Serbia | 48.15 | Q |
| 4 | 10 | 6 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 48.16 | Q |
| 5 | 11 | 5 | Maxime Grousset | France | 48.17 | Q |
| 6 | 11 | 0 | Pan Zhanle | China | 48.19 | Q |
| 7 | 11 | 6 | Jacob Whittle | Great Britain | 48.23 | Q |
| 8 | 10 | 7 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 48.29 | Q |
| 9 | 10 | 5 | Nándor Németh | Hungary | 48.33 | Q |
| 10 | 9 | 3 | Brooks Curry | United States | 48.38 | Q |
| 11 | 8 | 3 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 48.40 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 10 | 0 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 48.40 | Q, NR |
| 13 | 11 | 1 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 48.47 | Q |
| 14 | 9 | 5 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 48.49 | Q |
| 14 | 10 | 2 | Ruslan Gaziev | Canada | 48.49 | Q |
| 16 | 9 | 4 | Alessandro Miressi | Italy | 48.51 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 2 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 48.61 | Q |
| 17 | 10 | 1 | Zac Incerti | Australia | 48.61 | |
| 19 | 11 | 3 | Rafael Miroslaw | Germany | 48.65 | |
| 20 | 9 | 6 | Roman Mityukov | Switzerland | 48.77 | |
| 21 | 6 | 5 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 48.79 | |
| 21 | 8 | 9 | Carter Swift | New Zealand | 48.79 | NR |
| 23 | 11 | 2 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 48.83 | |
| 24 | 9 | 8 | William Yang | Australia | 48.87 | |
| 25 | 9 | 7 | Gabriel Santos | Brazil | 48.89 | |
| 26 | 9 | 0 | Marcelo Chierighini | Brazil | 48.97 | |
| 27 | 9 | 1 | Hadrien Salvan | France | 49.01 | |
| 28 | 11 | 8 | Stan Pijnenburg | Netherlands | 49.11 | |
| 29 | 11 | 9 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 49.29 | |
| 30 | 8 | 2 | Tomer Frankel | Israel | 49.34 | |
| 31 | 7 | 4 | Aleksey Tarasenko | Uzbekistan | 49.35 | NR |
| 32 | 8 | 4 | Sergio de Celis | Spain | 49.46 | |
| 33 | 8 | 6 | Odysseus Meladinis | Greece | 49.50 | |
| 34 | 8 | 0 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 49.56 | |
| 35 | 8 | 1 | Alberto Mestre | Venezuela | 49.59 | |
| 36 | 8 | 5 | Jorge Iga | Mexico | 49.70 | |
| 37 | 7 | 6 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 49.83 | |
| 38 | 10 | 8 | Yang Jintong | China | 49.92 | |
| 39 | 7 | 7 | Tomas Navikonis | Lithuania | 49.93 | |
| 40 | 7 | 8 | Nikolas Antoniou | Cyprus | 49.97 | NR |
| 41 | 7 | 5 | Ralph Daleiden | Luxembourg | 50.01 | |
| 41 | 9 | 9 | Jonathan Tan | Singapore | 50.01 | |
| 43 | 10 | 9 | Robin Hanson | Sweden | 50.06 | |
| 44 | 7 | 2 | Guido Buscaglia | Argentina | 50.19 | |
| 45 | 11 | 7 | Sergii Shevtsov | Ukraine | 50.28 | |
| 46 | 6 | 6 | Deniel Nankov | Bulgaria | 50.30 | |
| 47 | 6 | 2 | Lamar Taylor | Bahamas | 50.36 | NR |
| 47 | 7 | 1 | Matej Duša | Slovakia | 50.36 | |
| 49 | 7 | 9 | Samy Boutouil | Morocco | 50.38 | |
| 50 | 6 | 3 | Hoàng Quý Phước | Vietnam | 50.43 | |
| 50 | 6 | 4 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 50.43 | |
| 50 | 7 | 3 | Artur Barseghyan | Armenia | 50.43 | |
| 53 | 7 | 0 | Ben Hockin | Paraguay | 50.48 | |
| 54 | 6 | 9 | Waleed Abdulrazzaq | Kuwait | 50.67 | |
| 55 | 6 | 1 | Clayton Jimmie | South Africa | 50.68 | |
| 56 | 6 | 8 | Dulyawat Kaewsriyong | Thailand | 51.29 | |
| 57 | 5 | 6 | Luka Kukhalashvili | Georgia | 51.49 | |
| 58 | 4 | 5 | Colins Ebingha | Nigeria | 51.53 | |
| 59 | 5 | 3 | Yousuf Al-Matrooshi | United Arab Emirates | 51.58 | |
| 60 | 5 | 8 | Pedro Chiancone | Uruguay | 51.61 | |
| 61 | 5 | 1 | Jayhan Odlum-Smith | Saint Lucia | 51.87 | |
| 62 | 4 | 4 | Jesse Washington | Bermuda | 51.94 | |
| 63 | 5 | 9 | Omar Abbass | Syria | 51.99 | |
| 64 | 6 | 0 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 52.02 | |
| 65 | 4 | 3 | Tomás Lomero | Andorra | 52.16 | |
| 66 | 5 | 4 | Alaa Masoo | FINA Refugee Team | 52.45 | |
| 67 | 5 | 5 | Matin Sohran | Iran | 52.52 | |
| 68 | 4 | 6 | Bartal Eidesgaard | Faroe Islands | 52.58 | |
| 69 | 5 | 0 | Steven Aimable | Senegal | 52.80 | |
| 70 | 1 | 2 | Batbayaryn Enkhtamir | Mongolia | 52.95 | |
| 71 | 4 | 0 | Henrique Mascarenhas | Angola | 53.28 | |
| 72 | 3 | 5 | Yazan Al-Bawwab | Palestine | 53.46 | |
| 73 | 5 | 2 | Gregory Anodin | Mauritius | 53.68 | |
| 74 | 4 | 2 | Ado Gargović | Montenegro | 53.82 | |
| 75 | 4 | 1 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | 53.85 | |
| 76 | 4 | 8 | Collins Saliboko | Tanzania | 53.90 | |
| 77 | 2 | 9 | Irvin Hoost | Suriname | 53.95 | |
| 78 | 4 | 9 | Swaleh Talib | Suspended Member Federation | 54.02 | |
| 79 | 1 | 3 | Mathieu Bachmann | Seychelles | 54.08 | |
| 80 | 6 | 7 | Alexander Varakin | Kazakhstan | 54.19 | |
| 81 | 1 | 6 | Christian Nikles | Brunei | 54.71 | |
| 82 | 4 | 7 | Alassane Seydou | Niger | 54.73 | NR |
| 83 | 3 | 2 | Marc Dansou | Benin | 54.87 | |
| 84 | 3 | 6 | Finau Ohuafi | Tonga | 54.95 | |
| 85 | 3 | 4 | Leon Seaton | Guyana | 55.09 | |
| 86 | 3 | 3 | Shane Cadogan | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 55.10 | |
| 87 | 2 | 3 | Eminguly Ballykov | Turkmenistan | 55.99 | |
| 88 | 3 | 7 | Martin Muja | Kosovo | 56.57 | |
| 89 | 1 | 5 | Jenebi Benoit | Grenada | 57.03 | |
| 90 | 3 | 8 | Eloi Maniraguha | Rwanda | 57.17 | |
| 91 | 3 | 0 | Sangay Tenzin | Bhutan | 57.69 | |
| 92 | 2 | 1 | Benjamin Ko | Guam | 57.70 | |
| 93 | 2 | 8 | Travis Sakurai | Palau | 59.63 | |
| 94 | 2 | 0 | Kyler Kihleng | Micronesia | 1:00.72 | |
| 95 | 3 | 9 | Edgar Iro | Solomon Islands | 1:00.73 | |
| 96 | 2 | 4 | Asher Banda | Malawi | 1:03.72 | |
| 96 | 2 | 6 | Phillip Kinono | Marshall Islands | 1:03.72 | |
| 98 | 2 | 7 | Diosdado Miko Eyanga | Equatorial Guinea | 1:10.26 | |
| 99 | 2 | 5 | Asdad Fenelus | Haiti | 1:17.87 | |
| | 1 | 4 | Freddy Mayala | Republic of the Congo | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 2 | 2 | Ahmed Al-Hasani | Iraq | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 3 | 1 | Adnan Kabuye | Uganda | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 5 | 7 | Kledi Kadiu | Albania | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 8 | 7 | Mohamed El-Sayed | Egypt | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 8 | 8 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 21 June at 18:26.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | David Popovici | Romania | 47.13 | Q, WJ, NR |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | Maxime Grousset | France | 47.54 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 47.55 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 47.63 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Pan Zhanle | China | 47.65 | Q, =NR |
| 6 | 2 | 8 | Alessandro Miressi | Italy | 47.89 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Brooks Curry | United States | 47.90 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | Nándor Németh | Hungary | 47.96 | QSO |
| 8 | 2 | 6 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 47.96 | QSO |
| 10 | 1 | 4 | Andrej Barna | Serbia | 47.97 | |
| 11 | 1 | 8 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 48.08 | |
| 12 | 1 | 7 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 48.19 | |
| 12 | 1 | 3 | Jacob Whittle | Great Britain | 48.19 | |
| 14 | 2 | 7 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 48.30 | NR |
| 15 | 1 | 2 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 48.73 | |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Ruslan Gaziev | Canada | 49.00 | |

#### Swim-off

The swim-off was held on 21 June at 20:20.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Nándor Németh | Hungary | 47.69 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Lorenzo Zazzeri | Italy | 48.04 | |

### Final

The final was held on 22 June at 18:22.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | David Popovici | Romania | 47.58 |
| | 5 | Maxime Grousset | France | 47.64 |
| | 3 | Joshua Liendo | Canada | 47.71 |
| 4 | 2 | Pan Zhanle | China | 47.79 |
| 5 | 1 | Brooks Curry | United States | 48.00 |
| 6 | 8 | Nándor Németh | Hungary | 48.13 |
| 7 | 6 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 48.23 |
| 8 | 7 | Alessandro Miressi | Italy | 48.31 |