# Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The Men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games took place on 8 and 9 October 2010, at the SPM Swimming Pool Complex.
Nine 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 qualified for the semifinals and the swimmers with the top eight times from there qualified for the finals.

## Heats summary

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 9 | 4 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 22.25 | Q |
| 2 | 9 | 5 | Gideon Louw | South Africa | 22.32 | Q |
| 3 | 9 | 3 | Cameron Prosser | Australia | 22.38 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 5 | Ashley Callus | Australia | 22.46 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 4 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.54 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | 4 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 22.65 | Q |
| 7 | 7 | 5 | Simon Burnett | England | 22.68 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 3 | Adam Brown | England | 22.79 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 6 | David Dunford | Kenya | 22.81 | Q |
| 10 | 8 | 3 | Graeme Moore | South Africa | 23.02 | Q WD |
| 11 | 7 | 6 | Grant Turner | England | 23.03 | Q |
| 12 | 9 | 1 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 23.05 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | 1 | Richard Hortness | Canada | 23.20 | Q |
| 14 | 8 | 7 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 23.23 | Q |
| 15 | 9 | 7 | Brett Fraser | Cayman Islands | 23.34 | Q |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Roy-Allan Burch | Bermuda | 23.35 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 8 | Jian Foo | Malaysia | 23.73 | Q |
| 18 | 8 | 8 | Joshua McLeod | Trinidad and Tobago | 23.86 | |
| 19 | 6 | 8 | Jak Scott | Scotland | 23.96 | |
| 20 | 9 | 2 | Lijie Richard Chng | Singapore | 23.99 | |
| 21 | 6 | 6 | Blake Worsley | Canada | 24.17 | |
| 22 | 6 | 5 | Caryle Blondell | Trinidad and Tobago | 24.18 | |
| 23 | 7 | 8 | Nick Thomson | Bermuda | 24.22 | |
| 24 | 6 | 2 | Arren Xin Hui Quek | Singapore | 24.23 | |
| 25 | 6 | 4 | Cadell Lyons | Trinidad and Tobago | 24.30 | |
| 26 | 6 | 3 | Conor Leaney | Northern Ireland | 24.49 | |
| 27 | 5 | 6 | Luke Hall | Swaziland | 24.46 | |
| 28 | 5 | 2 | Anshul Kothari | India | 24.56 | |
| 29 | 5 | 7 | Ramadhan Vyombo | Kenya | 24.63 | |
| 30 | 2 | 2 | Shakil Camal | Mozambique | 24.67 | |
| 31 | 5 | 1 | Arjun Jayaprakash | India | 24.75 | |
| 32 | 6 | 1 | Aaron Xian Ying Yeo | Singapore | 24.92 | |
| 33 | 5 | 8 | Mohammad Mahfizur Rahman | Bangladesh | 24.97 | |
| 34 | 4 | 3 | Ian Hubert | Guernsey | 25.07 | |
| 35 | 2 | 7 | Akmal Raea Gulab Khan | Samoa | 25.29 | |
| 36 | 1 | 3 | Kurtis Matthew Tulia | Samoa | 25.34 | |
| 37 | 4 | 8 | Peter Popahun Pokawin | Papua New Guinea | 25.36 | |
| 38 | 4 | 7 | Ben Lowndes | Guernsey | 25.37 | |
| 39 | 4 | 5 | Heshan Unamboowe | Sri Lanka | 25.55 | |
| 40 | 4 | 2 | Esau Simpson | Grenada | 25.56 | |
| 41 | 5 | 4 | Nicholas Charles Coard | Grenada | 25.67 | |
| 42 | 4 | 4 | Shane Mangroo | Seychelles | 25.68 | |
| 42 | 4 | 1 | Daniel Pryke | Papua New Guinea | 25.68 | |
| 44 | 6 | 7 | Amini Fonua | Tonga | 25.96 | |
| 45 | 4 | 6 | Jean Hugues Gregoire | Mauritius | 26.10 | |
| 46 | 3 | 5 | Mark Paul Thompson | Zambia | 26.20 | |
| 47 | 3 | 4 | Milimo Mweetwa | Zambia | 26.34 | |
| 48 | 3 | 3 | Ron Roucou | Seychelles | 26.74 | |
| 49 | 3 | 6 | Hilal Hemed Hilal | Tanzania | 27.28 | |
| 50 | 2 | 4 | Charlton Nyirenda | Malawi | 27.62 | |
| 51 | 3 | 8 | Ganzi Mugula | Uganda | 27.74 | |
| 52 | 3 | 2 | Inayath Hassan Hassan | Maldives | 27.78 | |
| 53 | 2 | 3 | Christopher Millar | Malawi | 28.21 | |
| 54 | 2 | 5 | Hassan Ashraf Hassan | Maldives | 28.25 | |
| 55 | 3 | 1 | Khalid Rushaka | Tanzania | 28.39 | |
| 56 | 3 | 7 | Daisuke Ssegwanyi | Uganda | 28.60 | |
| 57 | 2 | 1 | Boipelo Makhothi | Lesotho | 32.50 | |
| 58 | 1 | 4 | Khosi Mokhesi | Lesotho | 33.43 | |
| | 1 | 5 | Christopher Bennett Symonds | Ghana | DNS | |
| | 5 | 3 | Nikolas Aresti | Cyprus | DNS | |
| | 5 | 5 | Omiros Zagkas | Cyprus | DNS | |
| | 7 | 1 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | DNS | |
| | 7 | 7 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | Cyprus | DNS | |
| | 8 | 2 | Ryan Harrison | Northern Ireland | DNS | |
| | 9 | 6 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | DNS | |
| | 2 | 6 | Izudhaadh Ahmed | Maldives | DSQ | |

## Semifinals
### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Gideon Louw | South Africa | 22.07 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 22.36 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Adam Brown | England | 22.75 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Grant Turner | England | 22.78 | |
| 5 | 1 | Brett Fraser | Cayman Islands | 23.27 | |
| 6 | 7 | Richard Hortness | Canada | 23.33 | |
| 7 | 8 | Jian Foo | Malaysia | 23.72 | |
| – | 5 | Ashley Callus | Australia | | DSQ |

### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 22.18 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Cameron Prosser | Australia | 22.28 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.48 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | David Dunford | Kenya | 22.55 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Simon Burnett | England | 22.66 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 23.05 | |
| 7 | 8 | Roy-Allan Burch | Bermuda | 23.16 | |
| 7 | 1 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 23.16 | |

## Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 22.01 | CG |
| | 2 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.14 | |
| | 4 | Gideon Louw | South Africa | 22.22 | |
| 4 | 1 | Simon Burnett | England | 22.44 | |
| 5 | 3 | Cameron Prosser | Australia | 22.46 | |
| 6 | 6 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 22.51 | |
| 6 | 8 | Adam Brown | England | 22.51 | |
| 8 | 7 | David Dunford | Kenya | 22.64 | |