# 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The Men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 and 15 December 2022.

## Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
| World record | Kyle Chalmers (AUS) | 44.84 | Kazan, Russia | 29 October 2021 |
| Competition record | Vladimir Morozov (RUS) | 45.51 | Doha, Qatar | 3 December 2014 |
The following new records were set during this competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 15 December | Final | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 45.16 | CR |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were started on 14 December at 12:03.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | 6 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 45.61 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 9 | 4 | Maxime Grousset | France | 45.77 | Q |
| 3 | 11 | 4 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 45.84 | Q |
| 4 | 9 | 6 | David Popovici | Romania | 46.15 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 10 | 4 | Alessandro Miressi | Italy | 46.22 | Q |
| 6 | 9 | 5 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 46.36 | Q |
| 7 | 11 | 5 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 46.41 | Q |
| 8 | 11 | 1 | Youssef Ramadan | Egypt | 46.51 | Q, NR |
| 9 | 8 | 2 | Tom Dean | Great Britain | 46.54 | Q |
| 10 | 10 | 6 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 46.64 | Q, NR |
| 11 | 10 | 5 | Pan Zhanle | China | 46.79 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 1 | Sergio de Celis | Spain | 46.80 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | 6 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 46.92 | Q |
| 14 | 11 | 6 | Pedro Spajari | Brazil | 46.94 | Q |
| 15 | 10 | 2 | Matthew Temple | Australia | 46.98 | Q |
| 16 | 10 | 1 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 47.03 | Q |
| 17 | 9 | 2 | Drew Kibler | United States | 47.05 | |
| 18 | 10 | 8 | Szebasztián Szabó | Hungary | 47.09 | |
| 19 | 7 | 4 | Hunter Armstrong | United States | 47.11 | |
| 19 | 9 | 7 | Karol Ostrowski | Poland | 47.11 | |
| 19 | 10 | 7 | Josha Salchow | Germany | 47.11 | |
| 22 | 11 | 7 | Katsuhiro Matsumoto | Japan | 47.13 | |
| 23 | 10 | 3 | Gabriel Santos | Brazil | 47.14 | |
| 24 | 11 | 2 | Wang Haoyu | China | 47.17 | |
| 25 | 6 | 7 | Deniel Nankov | Bulgaria | 47.30 | NR |
| 25 | 7 | 7 | Ruslan Gaziev | Canada | 47.30 | |
| 27 | 9 | 8 | Carter Swift | New Zealand | 47.36 | |
| 28 | 11 | 8 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 47.40 | |
| 29 | 9 | 1 | Daniel Zaitsev | Estonia | 47.46 | |
| 30 | 8 | 5 | Nikola Miljenić | Croatia | 47.51 | |
| 31 | 8 | 7 | Nicholas Lia | Norway | 47.55 | NR |
| 32 | 11 | 3 | Stan Pijnenburg | Netherlands | 47.56 | |
| 33 | 8 | 1 | Ian Ho | Hong Kong | 47.61 | |
| 34 | 8 | 4 | Isak Eliasson | Sweden | 47.73 | |
| 35 | 6 | 3 | Matej Duša | Slovakia | 47.75 | NR |
| 36 | 5 | 4 | Lamar Taylor | Bahamas | 47.76 | NR |
| 37 | 9 | 3 | Katsumi Nakamura | Japan | 47.79 | |
| 38 | 7 | 8 | Aleksey Tarasenko | Uzbekistan | 47.82 | NR |
| 39 | 8 | 8 | Illia Linnyk | Ukraine | 47.99 | |
| 40 | 7 | 5 | Clayton Jimmie | South Africa | 48.09 | |
| 41 | 7 | 6 | Daniel Gracík | Czech Republic | 48.14 | |
| 42 | 6 | 4 | Meiron Cheruti | Israel | 48.20 | |
| 43 | 8 | 3 | Velimir Stjepanović | Serbia | 48.42 | |
| 44 | 7 | 2 | Xander Skinner | Namibia | 48.45 | |
| 45 | 7 | 3 | Ben Hockin | Paraguay | 48.48 | |
| 46 | 5 | 6 | Adi Mešetović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 48.97 | |
| 47 | 5 | 5 | Wesley Roberts | Cook Islands | 49.59 | NR |
| 47 | 6 | 8 | Denzel González | Dominican Republic | 49.59 | NR |
| 49 | 5 | 8 | Hansell McCaig | Fiji | 49.73 | NR |
| 50 | 4 | 1 | Miguel Vázquez | Guatemala | 49.77 | NR |
| 51 | 4 | 6 | Omar Abbass | Syria | 50.01 | NR |
| 52 | 6 | 2 | Pedro Chiancone | Uruguay | 50.28 | |
| 53 | 5 | 3 | Tomàs Lomero | Andorra | 50.32 | NR |
| 54 | 4 | 3 | Jeancarlo Calderon | Panama | 50.54 | |
| 55 | 4 | 8 | Salem Sabt | United Arab Emirates | 50.58 | |
| 56 | 6 | 1 | Luka Kukhalashvili | Georgia | 50.59 | NR |
| 57 | 5 | 2 | Esteban Núñez | Bolivia | 50.76 | |
| 58 | 4 | 2 | Batbayaryn Enkhtamir | Mongolia | 50.87 | NR |
| 59 | 4 | 5 | Issa Al-Adawi | Oman | 51.05 | |
| 60 | 5 | 1 | James Freeman | Botswana | 51.08 | |
| 61 | 4 | 4 | Leon Seaton | Guyana | 51.24 | NR |
| 62 | 3 | 4 | Collins Saliboko | Tanzania | 51.50 | |
| 63 | 3 | 2 | Ahmed Al-Hasani | Iraq | 51.96 | |
| 64 | 4 | 7 | Paolo Priska | Albania | 52.18 | |
| 65 | 3 | 8 | Martin Muja | Kosovo | 52.28 | |
| 66 | 1 | 1 | Mahmoud Abu Gharbieh | Palestine | 52.33 | |
| 67 | 3 | 1 | Md Asif Reza | Bangladesh | 52.91 | |
| 67 | 3 | 5 | Finau Ohuafi | Tonga | 52.91 | |
| 69 | 2 | 5 | Matt Savitz | Gibraltar | 53.37 | |
| 70 | 3 | 3 | Marc Dansou | Benin | 53.46 | |
| 71 | 3 | 7 | Abdalla El-Ghamry | Qatar | 53.57 | |
| 72 | 2 | 4 | Jake Chee-A-Tow | Barbados | 53.62 | |
| 73 | 1 | 4 | Clinton Opute | Nigeria | 53.66 | |
| 74 | 2 | 6 | Josh Tarere | Papua New Guinea | 54.13 | |
| 75 | 3 | 6 | Jinnosuke Suzuki | Northern Mariana Islands | 54.48 | |
| 76 | 2 | 7 | Mohamad Zubaid | Kuwait | 54.95 | |
| 77 | 1 | 8 | Sangay Tenzin | Bhutan | 55.46 | |
| 78 | 2 | 3 | Cedrick Niyibizi | Rwanda | 55.87 | |
| 79 | 1 | 2 | Ervin Shrestha | Nepal | 56.87 | |
| 80 | 2 | 2 | Edgar Iro | Solomon Islands | 58.43 | |
| 81 | 2 | 1 | Shawn Dingilius-Wallace | Palau | 58.57 | |
| 82 | 2 | 8 | Kyler Kihleng | Federated States of Micronesia | 58.58 | |
| 83 | 1 | 5 | Phillip Kinono | Marshall Islands | 1:01.29 | |
| 84 | 1 | 6 | Jolanio Guterres | Timor-Leste | 1:10.23 | |
| | 1 | 3 | Hugo Nguichie | Cameroon | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 1 | 7 | Fodé Camara | Guinea | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 5 | 7 | Bradley Vincent | Mauritius | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 6 | 5 | Sina Gholampour | Iran | Did not start | Did not start |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were started on 14 December at 20:08.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 45.55 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Maxime Grousset | France | 45.58 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 45.66 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Alessandro Miressi | Italy | 45.74 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | David Popovici | Romania | 45.91 | Q, WJ, NR |
| 6 | 2 | 6 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 46.13 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 7 | Pan Zhanle | China | 46.19 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | Tom Dean | Great Britain | 46.20 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | Hwang Sun-woo | South Korea | 46.41 | |
| 10 | 1 | 6 | Youssef Ramadan | Egypt | 46.57 | |
| 11 | 1 | 7 | Sergio de Celis | Spain | 46.60 | |
| 12 | 2 | 1 | Lewis Burras | Great Britain | 46.61 | |
| 13 | 2 | 8 | Matthew Temple | Australia | 46.63 | |
| 14 | 1 | 2 | Heiko Gigler | Austria | 46.92 | |
| 15 | 1 | 8 | Mikel Schreuders | Aruba | 47.12 | |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Pedro Spajari | Brazil | 47.32 | |

### Final

The final was held on 15 December at 19:42.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 45.16 | CR |
| | 5 | Maxime Grousset | France | 45.41 | |
| | 6 | Alessandro Miressi | Italy | 45.57 | =NR |
| 4 | 2 | David Popovici | Romania | 45.64 | WJ, NR |
| 5 | 7 | Thomas Ceccon | Italy | 45.72 | |
| 6 | 1 | Pan Zhanle | China | 45.77 | AS |
| 6 | 4 | Jordan Crooks | Cayman Islands | 45.77 | |
| 8 | 8 | Tom Dean | Great Britain | 46.11 | |