# Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The Men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games took place on 6 and 7 October 2010, at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex.
Seven heats were held, with most containing the maximum number of swimmers (eight). The heat in which a swimmer competed did not formally matter for advancement, as the swimmers with the top sixteen times advanced to the semifinals and the top eight times from there qualified for the finals.

## Heats

The Heats started on 8:52 local time.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Shakil Camal | Mozambique | 55.00 | |
| 2 | 5 | Boipelo Makhothi | Lesotho | 1:14.95 | NR |
| 3 | 3 | Khosi Mokhesi | Lesotho | 1:15.91 | |
| – | 6 | Christopher Symonds | Ghana | | DNS |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Shane Mangroo | Seychelles | 56.87 | |
| 2 | 3 | Peter Pokawin | Papua New Guinea | 56.97 | |
| 3 | 5 | Daniel Pryke | Papua New Guinea | 57.04 | |
| 4 | 2 | Adam Viktora | Seychelles | 58.31 | |
| 5 | 6 | Mark Thompson | Zambia | 1:00.02 | |
| 6 | 7 | Inayath Hassan | Maldives | 1:01.58 | |
| 7 | 8 | Daisuke Ssegwanyi | Uganda | 1:04.41 | |
| – | 1 | Eliasu Abrama | Ghana | | DNS |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | 4 | Dzulhaili Kamal | Singapore | 52.97 |
| 2 | 5 | Luke Hall | Swaziland | 53.35 |
| 3 | 3 | Ian Hubert | Guernsey | 53.83 |
| 4 | 8 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 54.40 |
| 5 | 7 | Suheil Harjani | Gibraltar | 55.88 |
| 6 | 6 | Nicholas Coard | Grenada | 56.32 |
| 7 | 1 | Esau Simpson | Grenada | 56.83 |
| 8 | 2 | Jean Hugues Gregoire | Mauritius | 56.94 |

### Heat 4

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | 3 | Joshua McLeod | Trinidad and Tobago | 52.07 |
| 2 | 2 | Jarryd Gregoire | Trinidad and Tobago | 52.08 |
| 3 | 4 | Caryle Blondell | Trinidad and Tobago | 52.60 |
| 4 | 6 | Arren Quek | Singapore | 52.70 |
| 5 | 8 | Zane Jordan | Zambia | 53.01 |
| 6 | 5 | Richard Chng | Singapore | 53.24 |
| 7 | 1 | Anshul Kothari | India | 53.48 |
| 8 | 7 | Nick Thompson | Bermuda | 54.36 |

### Heat 5

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Grant Turner | England | 49.87 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Kyle Richardson | Australia | 49.93 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 49.93 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Simon Burnett | England | 49.97 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | Roy-Allan Burch | Bermuda | 51.80 | |
| 6 | 1 | Aaron Dsouza | India | 52.46 | |
| – | 2 | Andrew Bree | Northern Ireland | | DNS |
| – | 7 | Ryan Harrison | Northern Ireland | | DNS |

### Heat 6

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Gideon Louw | South Africa | 49.24 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 49.79 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Tommaso D´orsogna | Australia | 49.89 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Brett Fraser | Cayman Islands | 50.21 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 50.67 | Q |
| 6 | 6 | Richard Hortness | Canada | 50.85 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | Cyprus | 51.64 | Q |
| 8 | 8 | Conor Leaney | Northern Ireland | 52.92 | |

### Heat 7

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 49.79 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Adam Brown | England | 49.88 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Graeme Moore | South Africa | 49.96 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | David Dunford | Kenya | 50.44 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 51.28 | |
| 6 | 8 | Ieuan Lloyd | Wales | 51.44 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | Blake Worsley | Canada | 51.70 | |
| 8 | 1 | Foo Jian Beng | Malaysia | 51.95 | |

## Semifinals
### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 48.66 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Simon Burnett | England | 49.40 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Tommaso D´orsogna | Australia | 49.52 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Grant Turner | England | 49.92 | |
| 5 | 7 | David Dunford | Kenya | 50.10 | |
| 6 | 6 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 50.15 | |
| 7 | 1 | Richard Hortness | Canada | 50.91 | |
| – | 8 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | Cyprus | | DNS |

### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 48.74 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Gideon Louw | South Africa | 49.28 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Graeme Moore | South Africa | 49.53 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Kyle Richardson | Australia | 49.60 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Adam Brown | England | 49.65 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 50.10 | |
| 7 | 7 | Brett Fraser | Cayman Islands | 50.34 | |
| 8 | 8 | Ieuan Lloyd | Wales | 51.05 | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 47.98 | CGR |
| | 6 | Simon Burnett | England | 48.54 | |
| | 4 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 48.69 | |
| 4 | 3 | Gideon Louw | South Africa | 49.21 | |
| 5 | 1 | Kyle Richardson | Australia | 49.26 | |
| 6 | 2 | Tommaso D´orsogna | Australia | 49.40 | |
| 7 | 7 | Graeme Moore | South Africa | 49.64 | |
| 8 | 8 | Adam Brown | England | 49.82 | |