# Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre breaststroke event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28–29 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were:
| World record | Cameron van der Burgh (RSA) | 58.46 | London, Great Britain | 29 July 2012 |
| Competition record | Brenton Rickard (AUS) | 58.58 | Rome, Italy | 27 July 2009 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held at 11:47.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 7 | 4 | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 59.53 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | 2 | Kirill Strelnikov | Russia | 59.80 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | 4 | Fabio Scozzoli | Italy | 59.88 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | 5 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 59.88 | Q |
| 5 | 8 | 3 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 59.92 | Q |
| 6 | 8 | 6 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 1:00.01 | Q |
| 7 | 8 | 4 | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 1:00.02 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | Felipe Lima | Brazil | 1:00.06 | Q |
| 9 | 7 | 3 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 1:00.08 | Q |
| 9 | 8 | 7 | Hendrik Feldwehr | Germany | 1:00.08 | Q |
| 11 | 7 | 6 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 1:00.20 | Q |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Nicolas Fink | United States | 1:00.24 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | João Luiz Gomes Júnior | Brazil | 1:00.24 | Q |
| 14 | 7 | 7 | Mattia Pesce | Italy | 1:00.32 | Q |
| 15 | 6 | 1 | Damir Dugonjič | Slovenia | 1:00.36 | Q |
| 16 | 6 | 5 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 1:00.44 | Q |
| 17 | 8 | 5 | Brenton Rickard | Australia | 1:00.52 | |
| 18 | 6 | 0 | Dawid Szulich | Poland | 1:00.54 | NR |
| 19 | 6 | 7 | Giacomo Perez d'Ortona | France | 1:00.55 | |
| 20 | 6 | 3 | Akihiro Yamaguchi | Japan | 1:00.69 | |
| 21 | 6 | 9 | Laurent Carnol | Luxembourg | 1:00.76 | |
| 22 | 7 | 8 | Richard Funk | Canada | 1:00.89 | |
| 23 | 8 | 8 | Johannes Skagius | Sweden | 1:00.94 | NR |
| 24 | 7 | 9 | Carlos Almeida | Portugal | 1:01.01 | NR |
| 25 | 8 | 9 | Gu Biaorong | China | 1:01.08 | |
| 26 | 5 | 3 | Jorge Murillo | Colombia | 1:01.28 | |
| 27 | 6 | 8 | Tomáš Klobučník | Slovakia | 1:01.37 | |
| 28 | 7 | 1 | Vyacheslav Sinkevich | Russia | 1:01.38 | |
| 28 | 8 | 1 | Christian vom Lehn | Germany | 1:01.38 | |
| 30 | 7 | 0 | Panagiotis Samilidis | Greece | 1:01.48 | |
| 31 | 4 | 7 | Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 1:01.58 | |
| 32 | 4 | 6 | Martin Schweizer | Switzerland | 1:01.64 | |
| 33 | 5 | 4 | Ihor Borysyk | Ukraine | 1:01.71 | |
| 34 | 5 | 0 | Imri Ganiel | Israel | 1:01.77 | |
| 34 | 5 | 7 | Eetu Karvonen | Finland | 1:01.77 | |
| 36 | 5 | 2 | Čaba Silađi | Serbia | 1:01.78 | |
| 37 | 8 | 0 | Édgar Crespo | Panama | 1:01.95 | |
| 38 | 5 | 8 | Demir Atasoy | Turkey | 1:02.01 | NR |
| 39 | 5 | 6 | Viktar Vabishchevich | Belarus | 1:02.08 | NR |
| 40 | 5 | 5 | Martin Liivamägi | Estonia | 1:02.41 | |
| 41 | 4 | 1 | Miguel Ferreira | Venezuela | 1:02.45 | |
| 42 | 4 | 3 | David Oliver Mercado | Mexico | 1:02.57 | |
| 43 | 5 | 1 | Choi Kyu-Woong | South Korea | 1:02.58 | |
| 44 | 4 | 2 | Sandeep Sejwal | India | 1:02.69 | |
| 45 | 5 | 9 | Joshua Hall | Philippines | 1:02.87 | NR |
| 46 | 4 | 8 | Radomyos Matjiur | Thailand | 1:03.27 | |
| 47 | 3 | 6 | Nikolajs Maskalenko | Latvia | 1:03.28 | |
| 48 | 3 | 4 | Malick Fall | Senegal | 1:03.38 | |
| 49 | 3 | 3 | Abraham McLeod | Trinidad and Tobago | 1:03.47 | |
| 50 | 4 | 9 | Abdulrahman Al-Bader | Kuwait | 1:03.72 | NR |
| 51 | 4 | 0 | Vladislav Mustafin | Uzbekistan | 1:03.76 | |
| 52 | 3 | 7 | Eladio Carrión | Puerto Rico | 1:04.40 | |
| 53 | 3 | 2 | Wong Chun Yan | Hong Kong | 1:04.96 | |
| 54 | 3 | 1 | James Lawson | Zimbabwe | 1:05.12 | |
| 55 | 3 | 9 | Jesús Flores | Honduras | 1:05.32 | |
| 56 | 2 | 1 | Benjamin Schulte | Guam | 1:05.67 | |
| 57 | 2 | 4 | José Montoya | Costa Rica | 1:05.89 | |
| 58 | 4 | 4 | Martin Melconian | Uruguay | 1:05.90 | |
| 58 | 4 | 5 | Petr Bartůněk | Czech Republic | 1:05.90 | |
| 60 | 3 | 5 | Mubarak Al-Besher | United Arab Emirates | 1:06.17 | |
| 61 | 3 | 0 | Rafael van Leeuwaarde | Suriname | 1:06.22 | |
| 62 | 3 | 8 | Vasilii Danilov | Kyrgyzstan | 1:06.51 | |
| 63 | 2 | 5 | Wael Koubrousli | Lebanon | 1:06.54 | |
| 64 | 2 | 6 | Bradford Worrell | Saint Lucia | 1:07.47 | NR |
| 65 | 2 | 3 | Serginni Marten | Netherlands Antilles | 1:08.23 | |
| 66 | 2 | 0 | Douglas Miller | Fiji | 1:09.19 | NR |
| 67 | 1 | 4 | Pierre-Andre Adam | Seychelles | 1:09.77 | |
| 68 | 2 | 2 | Muhammad Isa Ahmad | Brunei | 1:09.96 | |
| 69 | 1 | 5 | Troy Kojenlang | Marshall Islands | 1:10.42 | |
| 70 | 2 | 9 | Alexandros Axiotis | Zambia | 1:10.73 | |
| 71 | 2 | 8 | Gunsennorov Zandanbal | Mongolia | 1:11.27 | |
| 72 | 2 | 7 | J'Air Smith | Antigua and Barbuda | 1:14.70 | |
| 73 | 1 | 6 | Mohamed Cheic Camara | Guinea | 1:15.54 | |
| 74 | 1 | 3 | Lin Tin Kyaw | Myanmar | 1:18.24 | |
| 75 | 1 | 2 | Storm Hablich | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 1:24.08 | |
| 76 | 1 | 7 | Yokubdzhon Umarov | Tajikistan | 1:25.50 | |
| 77 | 1 | 1 | Awoussou Ablam Hodadje | Benin | 1:32.77 | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held at 19:06.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 59.78 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Felipe Lima | Brazil | 59.84 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 59.92 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Kirill Strelnikov | Russia | 59.94 | |
| 5 | 2 | Hendrik Feldwehr | Germany | 1:00.05 | |
| 6 | 8 | Giedrius Titenis | Lithuania | 1:00.14 | |
| 7 | 7 | Michael Jamieson | Great Britain | 1:00.59 | |
| 8 | 1 | Mattia Pesce | Italy | 1:01.06 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 59.23 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 59.78 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Damir Dugonjič | Slovenia | 59.80 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Nicolas Fink | United States | 59.84 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | Fabio Scozzoli | Italy | 59.90 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 1:00.07 | |
| 7 | 3 | Glenn Snyders | New Zealand | 1:00.22 | |
| 8 | 1 | João Luiz Gomes Júnior | Brazil | 1:00.40 | |

### Final

The final was held at 18:02.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 58.79 |
| | 3 | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 58.97 |
| | 2 | Felipe Lima | Brazil | 59.65 |
| 4 | 6 | Damir Dugonjič | Slovenia | 59.68 |
| 5 | 1 | Fabio Scozzoli | Italy | 59.70 |
| 6 | 8 | Kosuke Kitajima | Japan | 59.98 |
| 7 | 5 | Kevin Cordes | United States | 1:00.02 |
| 8 | 7 | Nicolas Fink | United States | 1:00.10 |