# Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 7 and 8 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:
| World record | César Cielo (BRA) | 46.91 | Rome, Italy | 30 July 2009 |
| Commonwealth record | Cameron McEvoy (AUS) | 47.04 | Adelaide, Australia | 11 April 2016 |
| Games record | Brent Hayden (CAN) | 47.98 | Delhi, India | 7 October 2010 |

## Results
### Heats

The heats were held on 7 April at 11:37.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 8 | 5 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 48.81 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | 4 | Jack Cartwright | Australia | 48.85 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | 3 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 48.96 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | 4 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 48.99 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | 5 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 49.06 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | 3 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 49.11 | Q, NR |
| 7 | 6 | 5 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 49.17 | Q |
| 8 | 7 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 49.20 | Q |
| 9 | 6 | 3 | Markus Thormeyer | Canada | 49.41 | Q |
| 10 | 7 | 6 | Calum Jarvis | Wales | 49.65 | Q |
| 10 | 8 | 7 | Daniel Hunter | New Zealand | 49.65 | Q |
| 12 | 7 | 2 | Jordan Sloan | Northern Ireland | 49.72 | Q |
| 13 | 6 | 7 | David Cumberlidge | England | 49.77 | Q |
| 14 | 6 | 2 | Matthew Stanley | New Zealand | 49.79 | Q |
| 15 | 8 | 6 | Jack Thorpe | Scotland | 49.82 | Q |
| 16 | 6 | 6 | Sam Perry | New Zealand | 49.90 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | 4 | Bradley Vincent | Mauritius | 49.93 | |
| 18 | 7 | 7 | Kieran McGuckin | Scotland | 50.02 | |
| 19 | 7 | 1 | Ruslan Gaziev | Canada | 50.04 | |
| 20 | 6 | 8 | Calvyn Justus | South Africa | 50.06 | |
| 21 | 7 | 8 | David Thompson | Northern Ireland | 50.22 | |
| 22 | 5 | 2 | Calum Bain | Northern Ireland | 50.47 | |
| 23 | 6 | 1 | Elliot Clogg | England | 50.56 | |
| 24 | 5 | 3 | Igor Mogne | Mozambique | 50.74 | |
| 25 | 8 | 2 | Darren Lim | Singapore | 50.79 | |
| 26 | 8 | 1 | Miles Munro | Guernsey | 50.80 | |
| 27 | 5 | 5 | Welson Sim | Malaysia | 50.91 | |
| 28 | 5 | 6 | Keith Kit Sern Lim | Malaysia | 51.04 | |
| 29 | 4 | 4 | Alex Sobers | Barbados | 51.12 | |
| 30 | 5 | 8 | Jean-Luc Zephir | Saint Lucia | 51.66 | |
| 31 | 4 | 3 | Mathieu Marquet | Mauritius | 51.71 | |
| 32 | 5 | 1 | Samuel Seghers | Papua New Guinea | 51.94 | |
| 33 | 3 | 7 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 51.95 | |
| 34 | 8 | 8 | Cherantha de Silva | Sri Lanka | 52.08 | |
| 35 | 5 | 7 | Kyle Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 52.20 | |
| 36 | 4 | 6 | Gregory Anodin | Mauritius | 52.97 | |
| 37 | 4 | 7 | Denilson da Costa | Mozambique | 53.30 | |
| 38 | 2 | 6 | Steven Maina | Kenya | 53.53 | |
| 39 | 2 | 3 | Paul Elaisa | Fiji | 53.96 | |
| 40 | 3 | 4 | Epeli Rabua Herbert | Fiji | 54.02 | |
| 41 | 4 | 8 | Syed Muhammad Haseeb Tariq | Pakistan | 54.21 | |
| 42 | 3 | 6 | Dean Hoffman | Seychelles | 54.35 | |
| 43 | 3 | 3 | Iain McCallum | Cayman Islands | 54.56 | |
| 44 | 3 | 5 | James Sanderson | Gibraltar | 54.57 | |
| 45 | 2 | 1 | Leonard Kalate | Papua New Guinea | 54.91 | |
| 46 | 4 | 2 | Stefano Mitchell | Antigua and Barbuda | 54.95 | |
| 47 | 2 | 5 | Jadon Wuilliez | Antigua and Barbuda | 55.21 | |
| 48 | 2 | 4 | Adam Moncherry | Seychelles | 55.90 | |
| 49 | 3 | 8 | Josh Tarere | Papua New Guinea | 56.12 | |
| 50 | 3 | 1 | Andrew Fowler | Guyana | 56.33 | |
| 51 | 3 | 2 | Temaruata Strickland | Cook Islands | 57.33 | |
| 52 | 2 | 7 | Alexander Cyrus | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 57.56 | |
| 53 | 2 | 2 | Nikolas Sylvester | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 58.67 | |
| 54 | 1 | 3 | Ben Dillon | Saint Helena | 58.95 | |
| 55 | 1 | 4 | Duwaine Yon | Saint Helena | 1:00.47 | |
| 56 | 1 | 5 | Colby Thomas | Saint Helena | 1:03.36 | |
| | 4 | 1 | Issa Mohamed | Kenya | DNS | |
| | 4 | 5 | N'Nhyn Fernander | Bahamas | DNS | |

### Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 7 April at 20:59.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 48.50 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 48.72 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Jack Cartwright | Australia | 48.73 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Matthew Abeysinghe | Sri Lanka | 49.43 | |
| 5 | 1 | Matthew Stanley | New Zealand | 49.61 | |
| 6 | 2 | Calum Jarvis | Wales | 49.77 | |
| 7 | 8 | Sam Perry | New Zealand | 49.83 | |
| 8 | 7 | Jordan Sloan | Northern Ireland | 49.88 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 48.61 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 48.70 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 48.79 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 49.06 | Q |
| 5 | 7 | Daniel Hunter | New Zealand | 49.11 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Markus Thormeyer | Canada | 49.22 | |
| 7 | 8 | Jack Thorpe | Scotland | 49.75 | |
| 8 | 1 | David Cumberlidge | England | 49.90 | |

### Final

The final was held on 8 April at 19:43.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 6 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 48.02 |
| | 5 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 48.15 |
| | 3 | Kyle Chalmers | Australia | 48.15 |
| 4 | 4 | Cameron McEvoy | Australia | 48.44 |
| 5 | 1 | Dylan Carter | Trinidad and Tobago | 48.60 |
| 6 | 2 | Jack Cartwright | Australia | 48.62 |
| 7 | 7 | Yuri Kisil | Canada | 48.80 |
| 8 | 8 | Daniel Hunter | New Zealand | 49.30 |