# Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held on 5 August with the heats and the semifinals and 6 August with the final.
Asian Record holder Ning Zetao became the first Chinese male ever to win the 100 meter freestyle at the World Championships. Coming from second at the halfway turn, Ning beat Australian favorite Cameron McEvoy to win his first ever World Championship medal in 47.84. McEvoy finished second in a time of 47.95, while Argentina's Federico Grabich emerged as a serious sprint freestyle threat, winning the bronze and his nation's first ever World Championship medal in 48.12.
After leading at the 50 meter mark, Canada's Santo Condorelli faded to fourth in 48.19, while Brazil's Marcelo Chierighini finished fifth in 48.28, beating out hometown favorite Alexander Sukhorukov by a hundredth of a second. Plagued by a shoulder injury, defending Olympic Champion Nathan Adrian (48.31) tied for seventh with Belgium's Pieter Timmers.
After sustaining a shoulder injury, Australia's James Magnussen was forced to withdraw from the event, leaving him unable to defend his world title. Russia's Vladimir Morozov, who had the top time in the world coming into the event, left the blocks early in the semifinals, therefore ending his hope of being the first Russian since Alexander Popov to win the coveted 100 meter freestyle at the World Championships.

## 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 held at 09:43.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 11 | 4 | Ning Zetao | China | 48.11 | Q |
| 2 | 12 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 48.33 | Q |
| 3 | 10 | 4 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | 48.46 | Q |
| 4 | 12 | 9 | Federico Grabich | Argentina | 48.48 | Q |
| 5 | 12 | 2 | Jérémy Stravius | France | 48.52 | Q |
| 6 | 10 | 2 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 48.58 | Q |
| 7 | 10 | 5 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 48.61 | Q |
| 7 | 12 | 5 | Nathan Adrian | United States | 48.61 | Q |
| 9 | 11 | 3 | Alexandr Sukhorukov | Russia | 48.64 | Q |
| 10 | 10 | 3 | Fabien Gilot | France | 48.73 | Q |
| 11 | 11 | 1 | Santo Condorelli | Canada | 48.77 | Q |
| 12 | 10 | 7 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 48.81 | Q |
| 13 | 11 | 5 | Marco Orsi | Italy | 48.82 | Q |
| 14 | 12 | 7 | Shinri Shioura | Japan | 48.84 | Q |
| 15 | 11 | 0 | Marcelo Chierighini | Brazil | 48.92 | Q |
| 16 | 12 | 0 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 48.93 | Q |
| 17 | 12 | 6 | Luca Dotto | Italy | 49.01 | |
| 18 | 11 | 2 | Tommaso D'Orsogna | Australia | 49.04 | |
| 19 | 11 | 6 | Katsumi Nakamura | Japan | 49.07 | |
| 20 | 10 | 1 | Kristian Golomeev | Greece | 49.12 | |
| 20 | 10 | 8 | Jimmy Feigen | United States | 49.12 | |
| 22 | 9 | 5 | Jasper Aerents | Belgium | 49.24 | |
| 23 | 11 | 7 | Ben Proud | Great Britain | 49.35 | |
| 24 | 10 | 9 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 49.40 | |
| 25 | 10 | 0 | Cristian Quintero | Venezuela | 49.46 | |
| 26 | 11 | 9 | Odysseus Meladinis | Greece | 49.47 | |
| 27 | 8 | 3 | Mindaugas Sadauskas | Lithuania | 49.49 | |
| 28 | 9 | 4 | Yu Hexin | China | 49.50 | |
| 29 | 9 | 6 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 49.56 | |
| 29 | 11 | 8 | Marius Radu | Romania | 49.56 | |
| 31 | 12 | 8 | Yauhen Tsurkin | Belarus | 49.67 | |
| 32 | 12 | 1 | Calum Jarvis | Great Britain | 49.68 | |
| 33 | 9 | 2 | Krisztián Takács | Hungary | 49.76 | |
| 34 | 8 | 5 | Christoffer Carlsen | Sweden | 49.78 | |
| 35 | 8 | 2 | Kemal Arda Gürdal | Turkey | 49.80 | |
| 36 | 9 | 7 | Andriy Hovorov | Ukraine | 49.81 | |
| 37 | 8 | 4 | Geoffrey Cheah | Hong Kong | 49.96 | |
| 38 | 8 | 0 | David Gamburg | Israel | 49.98 | |
| 39 | 8 | 1 | Quah Zheng Wen | Singapore | 49.99 | |
| 40 | 8 | 8 | Martin Verner | Czech Republic | 50.01 | |
| 41 | 9 | 3 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 50.07 | |
| 42 | 9 | 9 | Renzo Tjon A Joe | Suriname | 50.12 | |
| 43 | 8 | 7 | Ben Hockin | Paraguay | 50.19 | |
| 44 | 9 | 1 | Arseni Kukharau | Belarus | 50.21 | |
| 45 | 7 | 5 | Alexandre Haldemann | Switzerland | 50.28 | |
| 46 | 7 | 7 | Sidni Hoxha | Albania | 50.45 | |
| 47 | 6 | 6 | Park Seon-kwan | South Korea | 50.53 | |
| 48 | 8 | 9 | Ari-Pekka Liukkonen | Finland | 50.64 | |
| 49 | 7 | 1 | Mario Todorović | Croatia | 50.66 | |
| 50 | 9 | 8 | Daniel Ramírez | Mexico | 50.70 | |
| 51 | 7 | 8 | Daniil Tulupov | Uzbekistan | 50.71 | |
| 52 | 7 | 3 | Julien Henx | Luxembourg | 50.77 | |
| 53 | 7 | 4 | Ali Khalafalla | Egypt | 50.84 | |
| 54 | 7 | 9 | Matthew Abeysinghe | FINA Independent Athletes | 50.93 | |
| 55 | 7 | 2 | Nicholas Magana | Peru | 50.99 | |
| 56 | 6 | 2 | Aleksandar Nikolov | Bulgaria | 51.01 | |
| 57 | 7 | 6 | Christian Scherübl | Austria | 51.02 | |
| 58 | 9 | 0 | Lorenzo Loria | Mexico | 51.18 | |
| 59 | 6 | 4 | Luis Flores | Puerto Rico | 51.21 | |
| 59 | 6 | 5 | Hoàng Quý Phước | Vietnam | 51.21 | |
| 61 | 6 | 8 | Sean Gunn | Zimbabwe | 51.30 | |
| 62 | 6 | 7 | Lim Ching Hwang | Malaysia | 51.31 | |
| 63 | 5 | 5 | Andrew Chetcuti | Malta | 51.35 | |
| 64 | 6 | 9 | Sam Seghers | Papua New Guinea | 51.35 | |
| 65 | 5 | 7 | Jordan Augier | Saint Lucia | 51.39 | |
| 66 | 6 | 3 | Aaron D'Souza | India | 51.41 | |
| 67 | 5 | 6 | Jagger Stephens | Guam | 51.50 | |
| 68 | 6 | 1 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 51.77 | |
| 69 | 5 | 2 | Allan Gutiérrez | Honduras | 51.83 | |
| 70 | 6 | 0 | Stanislav Karnaukhov | Kyrgyzstan | 51.96 | |
| 71 | 5 | 1 | Mario Montoya | Costa Rica | 52.06 | |
| 72 | 7 | 0 | Janis Saltans | Latvia | 52.07 | |
| 73 | 4 | 1 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 52.09 | |
| 74 | 4 | 5 | Ifa Paea | Tonga | 52.21 | |
| 75 | 5 | 3 | Oliver Elliot | Chile | 52.50 | |
| 76 | 4 | 6 | Winter Heaven | Samoa | 52.77 | |
| 77 | 5 | 0 | Miguel Mena | Nicaragua | 52.78 | |
| 78 | 5 | 4 | Sidrell Williams | Jamaica | 52.81 | |
| 79 | 3 | 3 | Mohammad Rahman | Bangladesh | 52.89 | |
| 80 | 5 | 8 | Jhonny Pérez | Dominican Republic | 53.16 | |
| 81 | 5 | 9 | Abdoul Niane | Senegal | 53.33 | |
| 82 | 4 | 4 | Christian Selby | Barbados | 53.48 | |
| 83 | 3 | 5 | Mohammed Bedour | Jordan | 53.53 | |
| 84 | 3 | 4 | Meli Malani | Fiji | 53.68 | |
| 85 | 4 | 3 | Issa Mohamed | Kenya | 54.02 | |
| 86 | 4 | 9 | Alexander Skinner | Namibia | 54.05 | |
| 87 | 4 | 2 | Adel El-Fakir | Libya | 54.18 | |
| 88 | 3 | 6 | Valentin Gorshkov | Turkmenistan | 54.28 | |
| 89 | 4 | 7 | Boško Radulović | Montenegro | 54.53 | |
| 90 | 3 | 2 | Andre van der Merwe | Botswana | 54.69 | |
| 91 | 3 | 1 | Christian Nikles | Brunei | 54.75 | NR |
| 92 | 4 | 0 | Vladimir Mamikonyan | Armenia | 55.12 | |
| 93 | 4 | 8 | Farhan Saleh | Bahrain | 55.18 | |
| 94 | 3 | 7 | Bakr Al-Dulaimi | Iraq | 55.22 | |
| 95 | 3 | 8 | Delgerkhuu Myagmar | Mongolia | 55.67 | |
| 96 | 3 | 0 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 56.34 | |
| 97 | 2 | 4 | Hannibal Gaskin | Guyana | 56.85 | |
| 98 | 3 | 9 | Abeiku Jackson | Ghana | 56.94 | |
| 99 | 2 | 5 | Giordan Harris | Marshall Islands | 57.75 | |
| 100 | 2 | 3 | Sirish Gurung | Nepal | 58.22 | |
| 100 | 2 | 6 | Ammaar Ghadiyali | Tanzania | 58.22 | |
| 102 | 1 | 9 | Rony Bakale | Congo | 58.64 | |
| 103 | 2 | 1 | Mamadou Soumaré | Mali | 59.33 | |
| 104 | 2 | 0 | Shawn Dingilius-Wallace | Palau | 59.46 | |
| 105 | 2 | 7 | Alois Dansou | Benin | 59.58 | |
| 106 | 1 | 3 | Mark Hoare | Eswatini | 59.62 | |
| 107 | 2 | 2 | Belly-Cresus Ganira | Burundi | 59.74 | |
| 108 | 2 | 9 | Takumi Sugie | Northern Mariana Islands | 1:00.23 | |
| 109 | 1 | 1 | Meriton Veliu | Kosovo | 1:00.41 | |
| 110 | 1 | 5 | Mohamed Adnan | Maldives | 1:00.71 | |
| 111 | 1 | 6 | Kaleo Kihleng | Federated States of Micronesia | 1:01.71 | |
| 112 | 1 | 2 | Soulasen Phommasen | Laos | 1:02.18 | |
| 113 | 2 | 8 | Athoumane Solihi | Comoros | 1:03.09 | |
| 114 | 1 | 7 | Amadou Camara | Guinea | 1:04.00 | |
| 115 | 1 | 4 | Robel Habte | Ethiopia | 1:04.41 | |
| | 1 | 8 | Fenel Lamour | Haiti | DNS | |
| | 8 | 6 | Pjotr Degtjarjov | Estonia | DNS | |
| | 10 | 6 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | DNS | |
| | 12 | 3 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 17:32.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 47.94 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Federico Grabich | Argentina | 48.20 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 48.22 | Q, NR |
| 4 | 6 | Nathan Adrian | United States | 48.36 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Matheus Santana | Brazil | 48.52 | |
| 6 | 8 | Paweł Korzeniowski | Poland | 48.55 | |
| 7 | 2 | Fabien Gilot | France | 48.56 | |
| 8 | 1 | Shinri Shioura | Japan | 48.96 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Ning Zetao | China | 48.13 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Marcelo Chierighini | Brazil | 48.37 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Alexandr Sukhorukov | Russia | 48.40 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Santo Condorelli | Canada | 48.49 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Sebastiaan Verschuren | Netherlands | 48.59 | |
| 6 | 3 | Jérémy Stravius | France | 48.65 | |
| 7 | 1 | Marco Orsi | Italy | 48.69 | |
| | 5 | Vladimir Morozov | Russia | DSQ | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:05.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 5 | Ning Zetao | China | 47.84 |
| | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 47.95 |
| | 3 | Federico Grabich | Argentina | 48.12 |
| 4 | 8 | Santo Condorelli | Canada | 48.19 |
| 5 | 7 | Marcelo Chierighini | Brazil | 48.27 |
| 6 | 1 | Alexandr Sukhorukov | Russia | 48.28 |
| 7 | 2 | Nathan Adrian | United States | 48.31 |
| 7 | 6 | Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 48.31 |