# Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The Men's 100 metres Freestyle event was the 19th event contested on the 2007 World Aquatics Championship for Swimming.
The 22 heats began at 10:21, on 28 March 2007, at the Rod Laver Arena, in Melbourne Park.
The semifinals started on the evening of the same day at 19:00.
The final started at 19:42 on the following day, 29 March.

## Records

| World record | 47.84 | Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED) | Sydney, Australia | 19 September 2000 |
| Championship record | 48.12 | Filippo Magnini (ITA) | Montreal, Canada | 28 July 2005 |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | 50m | Time | Q |
| 1 | 21 | 5 | Jason Lezak | USA | 23.22 | 00:49.02 | Q |
| 2 | 22 | 3 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 24.07 | 00:49.05 | Q |
| 3 | 21 | 3 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 23.74 | 00:49.06 | Q |
| 4 | 22 | 7 | Alain Bernard | France | 23.12 | 00:49.08 | Q |
| 5 | 20 | 4 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 23.78 | 00:49.13 | Q |
| 5 | 21 | 4 | Simon Burnett | Great Britain | 23.57 | 00:49.13 | Q |
| 7 | 22 | 6 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 23.30 | 00:49.20 | Q |
| 8 | 20 | 1 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 23.52 | 00:49.24 | Q |
| 9 | 22 | 5 | César Cielo | Brazil | 23.73 | 00:49.28 | Q |
| 10 | 20 | 5 | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | 24.09 | 00:49.31 | Q |
| 11 | 22 | 8 | Albert Subirats Altes | Venezuela | 23.56 | 00:49.34 | Q |
| 12 | 18 | 4 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 23.49 | 00:49.43 | Q |
| 12 | 21 | 7 | Ashley Callus | Australia | 23.57 | 00:49.43 | Q |
| 14 | 19 | 4 | Mitja Zastrow | Netherlands | 23.99 | 00:49.45 | Q |
| 15 | 22 | 4 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 23.32 | 00:49.46 | Q |
| 16 | 21 | 2 | Christian Galenda | Italy | 23.94 | 00:49.48 | Q |
| 17 | 22 | 2 | Yevgeny Lagunov | Russia | 24.14 | 00:49.65 | |
| 18 | 17 | 2 | Ross Davenport | Great Britain | 24.23 | 00:49.69 | |
| 19 | 17 | 1 | Tiago Venâncio | Portugal | 23.73 | 00:49.71 | |
| 20 | 21 | 8 | Yuriy Yegoshin | Ukraine | 23.71 | 00:49.72 | |
| 21 | 20 | 7 | Andrey Kapralov | Russia | 24.05 | 00:49.76 | |
| 22 | 20 | 2 | Neil Walker | USA | 23.38 | 00:49.83 | |
| 23 | 18 | 1 | Daisuke Hosokawa | Japan | 24.11 | 00:49.86 | |
| 24 | 19 | 3 | Jakob Andkjær | Denmark | 24.28 | 00:49.87 | |
| 25 | 16 | 3 | Cameron Gibson | New Zealand | 24.05 | 00:49.88 | |
| 26 | 19 | 6 | Nicolas Oliveira | Brazil | 24.18 | 00:49.91 | |
| 27 | 20 | 3 | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 23.25 | 00:49.94 | |
| 28 | 15 | 4 | Jason Dunford | Kenya | 23.61 | 00:49.98 | |
| 28 | 16 | 6 | Paulius Viktoravičius | Lithuania | 24.02 | 00:49.98 | |
| 28 | 20 | 6 | CHEN Zuo | China | 24.38 | 00:49.98 | |
| 31 | 18 | 5 | Karel Novy | Switzerland | 24.02 | 00:50.02 | |
| 32 | 19 | 8 | Nabil Kebbab | Algeria | 24.09 | 00:50.04 | |
| 33 | 19 | 1 | Stanislau Neviarouski | Belarus | 24.27 | 00:50.10 | |
| 34 | 20 | 8 | Jens Schreiber | Germany | 23.75 | 00:50.11 | |
| 35 | 22 | 1 | Rolandas Gimbutis | Lithuania | 24.00 | 00:50.15 | |
| 36 | 17 | 4 | Yoris Grandjean | Belgium | 24.22 | 00:50.18 | |
| 37 | 17 | 5 | Peter Mankoč | Slovenia | 24.02 | 00:50.22 | |
| 38 | 21 | 6 | Salim Iles | Algeria | 23.51 | 00:50.24 | |
| 39 | 21 | 1 | Rick Say | Canada | 24.27 | 00:50.25 | |
| 40 | 18 | 3 | Huang Shaohua | China | 24.37 | 00:50.31 | |
| 41 | 17 | 8 | Dominik Koll | Austria | 23.93 | 00:50.38 | |
| 41 | 19 | 2 | Matti Rajakylä | Finland | 24.15 | 00:50.38 | |
| 43 | 18 | 6 | Takamitsu Kojima | Japan | 24.40 | 00:50.39 | |
| 44 | 19 | 7 | Martin Verner | Czech Republic | 23.76 | 00:50.47 | |
| 45 | 14 | 5 | Apostolos Tsagkarakis | Greece | 24.13 | 00:50.53 | |
| 46 | 18 | 7 | Oleksandr Tsepukh | Ukraine | 24.08 | 00:50.54 | |
| 47 | 18 | 2 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 23.81 | 00:50.55 | |
| 48 | 19 | 5 | Michael Schubert | Germany | 24.64 | 00:50.56 | |
| 49 | 16 | 7 | Örn Arnarson | Iceland | 24.21 | 00:50.60 | |
| 50 | 17 | 6 | Octavian Guțu | Romania | 23.95 | 00:50.64 | |
| 51 | 17 | 7 | Marcus Piehl | Sweden | 23.69 | 00:50.66 | |
| 52 | 16 | 4 | Ryan Pini | Papua New Guinea | 24.20 | 00:50.72 | |
| 53 | 15 | 1 | Mario Delač | Croatia | 24.21 | 00:50.75 | |
| 54 | 16 | 1 | Norbert Trandafir | Romania | 24.50 | 00:50.76 | |
| 55 | 16 | 2 | Shai Livnat | Israel | 24.75 | 00:50.79 | |
| 56 | 16 | 8 | Romāns Miloslavskis | Latvia | 24.63 | 00:50.86 | |
| 57 | 16 | 5 | Octavio Alesi | Venezuela | 24.36 | 00:50.88 | |
| 58 | 15 | 6 | Mark Herring | New Zealand | 24.04 | 00:50.92 | |
| 59 | 15 | 3 | Martin Kutscher Belgeri | Uruguay | 24.54 | 00:51.03 | |
| 60 | 15 | 2 | Vitaliy Khan | Kazakhstan | 24.66 | 00:51.17 | |
| 61 | 13 | 6 | Virdhawal Khade | India | 24.98 | 00:51.46 | |
| 62 | 12 | 4 | Igor Čerenšek | Croatia | 24.25 | 00:51.47 | |
| 62 | 15 | 5 | Gabriel Melconian | Uruguay | 24.41 | 00:51.47 | |
| 64 | 14 | 6 | Namgyun Lim | South Korea | 24.94 | 00:51.64 | |
| 65 | 14 | 1 | Jacinto Ayala | Dominican Republic | 24.45 | 00:51.73 | |
| 66 | 15 | 8 | Zhirong Bryan Tay | Singapore | 25.38 | 00:51.75 | |
| 67 | 13 | 4 | Maximiliano Schnettler | Chile | 25.02 | 00:51.84 | |
| 68 | 13 | 2 | David Dunford | Kenya | 24.67 | 00:51.85 | |
| 69 | 14 | 4 | Glenn Surgeloose | Belgium | 24.79 | 00:51.95 | |
| 70 | 15 | 7 | Alexandr Sklyar | Kazakhstan | 24.89 | 00:51.97 | |
| 71 | 12 | 3 | Terrence Haynes | Barbados | 24.74 | 00:52.07 | |
| 72 | 14 | 3 | Alexandre Bakhtiarov | Cyprus | 24.69 | 00:52.09 | |
| 73 | 13 | 8 | Mohammad Bidarian | Iran | 24.96 | 00:52.11 | |
| 74 | 13 | 1 | Josh Laban | Virgin Islands | 24.79 | 00:52.34 | |
| 75 | 14 | 2 | Camilo Becerra | Colombia | 24.54 | 00:52.38 | |
| 76 | 1 | 3 | Roy-Allan Saul Burch Burch | Bermuda | 24.62 | 00:52.40 | |
| 77 | 14 | 8 | Daniel Bego | Malaysia | 25.29 | 00:52.45 | |
| 78 | 12 | 8 | Ankur Poseria | India | 25.10 | 00:52.59 | |
| 79 | 14 | 7 | Carl Probert | Fiji | 24.81 | 00:52.69 | |
| 80 | 12 | 7 | Mario Montoya | Costa Rica | 25.31 | 00:52.85 | |
| 81 | 12 | 2 | Martyn Forde | Barbados | 25.27 | 00:52.90 | |
| 82 | 12 | 5 | Russell Ong | Singapore | 25.20 | 00:53.00 | |
| 83 | 11 | 8 | Mikael Koloyan | Armenia | 25.18 | 00:53.01 | |
| 84 | 11 | 3 | Jan Roodzant | Aruba | 25.16 | 00:53.13 | |
| 85 | 11 | 4 | Petr Romashkin | Uzbekistan | 25.46 | 00:53.48 | |
| 86 | 13 | 5 | Basil Kaaki | Lebanon | 25.39 | 00:53.50 | |
| 87 | 11 | 7 | Nikola Ustadvich | Peru | 26.07 | 00:53.51 | |
| 88 | 11 | 6 | Wing Cheung Victor Wong | Macau | 25.84 | 00:53.64 | |
| 89 | 12 | 6 | Sergey Tsoy | Uzbekistan | 25.72 | 00:53.70 | |
| 90 | 18 | 8 | Suriya Suksuphak | Thailand | 25.60 | 00:53.85 | |
| 91 | 12 | 1 | Giancarlo Zolezzi Seoane | Chile | 25.94 | 00:53.86 | |
| 92 | 13 | 7 | Rony Bakale | Congo | 25.66 | 00:53.87 | |
| 93 | 10 | 4 | Andy Wibowo | Indonesia | 26.30 | 00:53.91 | |
| 94 | 9 | 4 | Christopher Duenas | Guam | 26.37 | 00:54.10 | |
| 95 | 11 | 5 | Jose Enmanuel Lobo Martinez | Paraguay | 25.83 | 00:54.20 | |
| 96 | 1 | 6 | Itai Chammah | Israel | 25.50 | 00:54.30 | |
| 97 | 9 | 3 | Srdjan Vujasin | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 25.83 | 00:54.34 | |
| 98 | 10 | 6 | Brian Howard Ho | Indonesia | 26.53 | 00:54.36 | |
| 99 | 10 | 3 | Kieran Locke | Virgin Islands | 25.72 | 00:54.37 | |
| 100 | 10 | 7 | Anas Hamadeh | Jordan | 25.76 | 00:54.42 | |
| 101 | 8 | 7 | Kristian Olsen | Faroe Islands | 26.32 | 00:54.43 | |
| 102 | 9 | 2 | Rodion Davelaar | Netherlands Antilles | 26.05 | 00:54.48 | |
| 103 | 9 | 6 | Marcelo Alba | Bolivia | 26.00 | 00:54.56 | |
| 104 | 10 | 8 | Carles Ridaura Carbonell | Andorra | 26.10 | 00:54.65 | |
| 105 | 9 | 5 | Marc Pascal Pierre Dansou | Benin | 26.51 | 00:54.68 | |
| 106 | 8 | 8 | Daniel Lee | Sri Lanka | 26.25 | 00:54.78 | |
| 107 | 11 | 1 | Obaid Al Jasmi | United Arab Emirates | 26.29 | 00:54.82 | |
| 108 | 8 | 6 | Khaly Ciss | Senegal | 26.56 | 00:54.84 | |
| 109 | 9 | 1 | Harutyun Harutyunyan | Armenia | 25.07 | 00:54.93 | |
| 110 | 8 | 5 | Gael Adam | Mauritius | 26.52 | 00:54.97 | |
| 111 | 11 | 2 | Goksu Bicer | Turkey | 26.18 | 00:55.04 | |
| 112 | 6 | 5 | Pál Joensen | Faroe Islands | 26.16 | 00:55.07 | |
| 113 | 10 | 5 | Oscar Jahnsen | Peru | 26.57 | 00:55.15 | |
| 114 | 10 | 2 | Goran Stamenov | Macedonia | 25.49 | 00:55.31 | |
| 115 | 9 | 7 | Heshan Unamboowe | Sri Lanka | 26.61 | 00:55.32 | |
| 116 | 7 | 4 | Yellow Yeiyah | Nigeria | 25.67 | 00:55.38 | |
| 116 | 7 | 1 | Alois Patrice Kouadjo Dansou | Benin | 26.34 | 00:55.38 | |
| 118 | 8 | 1 | Luke Hall | Eswatini | 26.54 | 00:55.63 | |
| 119 | 8 | 3 | Leonel ds Santos Matonse | Mozambique | 26.60 | 00:55.67 | |
| 120 | 7 | 7 | Loai Tashkandi | Saudi Arabia | 27.40 | 00:55.68 | |
| 121 | 8 | 2 | Miguel Navarro | Bolivia | 27.01 | 00:55.70 | |
| 122 | 6 | 1 | Julio Cesar Rivera Coello | Honduras | 27.12 | 00:55.90 | |
| 123 | 7 | 5 | Juan Francisco Lagos Diaz | Honduras | 27.20 | 00:56.05 | |
| 124 | 7 | 3 | Heimanu Sichan | Tahiti | 26.87 | 00:56.08 | |
| 125 | 5 | 7 | Andrey Molchanov | Turkmenistan | 26.62 | 00:56.13 | |
| 126 | 6 | 7 | Chakyl Camal | Mozambique | 27.53 | 00:56.19 | |
| 127 | 4 | 4 | Rainui Terupaia | Tahiti | 27.53 | 00:56.21 | |
| 128 | 9 | 8 | Nuno Rola | Angola | 27.20 | 00:56.31 | |
| 129 | 7 | 6 | Otiko Kpliboh | Nigeria | 26.79 | 00:56.35 | |
| 130 | 1 | 2 | Eric Chang | Malaysia | 26.66 | 00:56.43 | |
| 131 | 5 | 1 | Yannick Roberts | Guyana | 26.74 | 00:56.47 | |
| 131 | 6 | 6 | Adil Baig | Pakistan | 27.35 | 00:56.47 | |
| 133 | 5 | 3 | Zane Jordan | Zambia | 26.89 | 00:56.57 | |
| 134 | 6 | 4 | Tamir Andrei | Mongolia | 27.09 | 00:56.76 | |
| 135 | 4 | 5 | Carlos Shimizu | Guam | 27.16 | 00:57.01 | |
| 136 | 6 | 3 | Omar Núñez | Nicaragua | 27.36 | 00:57.02 | |
| 137 | 3 | 3 | Joshua Marfleet | Samoa | 27.11 | 00:57.11 | |
| 138 | 10 | 1 | Rashid Iunusov | Kyrgyzstan | 27.22 | 00:57.35 | |
| 139 | 6 | 2 | Richard Randrianandraina | Madagascar | 26.98 | 00:57.45 | |
| 140 | 5 | 6 | Wui Chon Cheong | Macau | 27.53 | 00:57.50 | |
| 141 | 4 | 2 | Oliver Quick | Gibraltar | 27.85 | 00:57.75 | |
| 142 | 4 | 6 | Jean−Luc Augier | Saint Lucia | 28.48 | 00:57.79 | |
| 143 | 7 | 8 | Genaro Mathias Prono Britez | Paraguay | 27.07 | 00:57.85 | |
| 144 | 5 | 8 | Kyaw Zin | Myanmar | 27.87 | 00:57.99 | |
| 145 | 4 | 3 | Eli Ebenezerq Wong | Northern Mariana Islands | 28.25 | 00:58.13 | |
| 145 | 6 | 8 | Eros Qama | Albania | 27.61 | 00:58.13 | |
| 147 | 5 | 2 | Malbor Oshafi | Albania | 27.79 | 00:58.22 | |
| 148 | 3 | 6 | Hamza Abdo | Palestine | 27.34 | 00:58.65 | |
| 149 | 4 | 7 | Fadi Awesat | Palestine | 27.62 | 00:58.82 | |
| 150 | 7 | 2 | Aleksey Klimenko | Kyrgyzstan | 27.99 | 00:59.36 | |
| 151 | 3 | 4 | Sergey Krovyakov | Turkmenistan | 28.26 | 00:59.78 | |
| 152 | 3 | 5 | Batchuluun Mendbayar | Mongolia | 27.56 | 00:59.80 | |
| 153 | 4 | 8 | Niall Roberts | Guyana | 28.61 | 1:00.05 | |
| 154 | 3 | 2 | Michael Taylor | Marshall Islands | 29.12 | 1:01.08 | |
| 155 | 2 | 4 | Justin Decoster | Marshall Islands | 30.38 | 1:03.84 | |
| 156 | 3 | 8 | Isao Misech | Palau | 29.77 | 1:05.08 | |
| 157 | 2 | 5 | Rahim Karmali | Uganda | 31.11 | 1:05.11 | |
| 158 | 3 | 1 | Mohamed Sharif | Maldives | 30.72 | 1:05.15 | |
| 159 | 2 | 6 | Cooper Theodore Graf | Northern Mariana Islands | 31.72 | 1:05.75 | |
| 160 | 2 | 3 | Ibrahim Areesh | Maldives | 31.79 | 1:06.61 | |
| 161 | 5 | 4 | Khalid Rushaka | Tanzania | 30.74 | 1:06.92 | |
| 162 | 2 | 2 | Ching Maou Wei | American Samoa | 30.47 | 1:07.36 | |
| 163 | 5 | 5 | Jamal Talib | Tanzania | 31.02 | 1:07.68 | |
| 164 | 3 | 7 | Abdulsalam Al Gadabi | Yemen | 31.63 | 1:08.78 | |
| 165 | 1 | 8 | Herve Nkurrnziza | Burundi | 31.92 | 1:08.91 | |
| 166 | 1 | 1 | Attoumani Mohamed | Comoros | 29.57 | 1:12.49 | |
| 167 | 2 | 1 | Vincent Leatualevao | American Samoa | 34.39 | 1:16.87 | |
| 168 | 1 | 4 | Boipelo Makhothi | Lesotho | 34.57 | 1:17.17 | NR |
| 169 | 1 | 7 | Thabiso Baholo | Lesotho | 36.76 | 1:22.04 | |
| 999 | 1 | 5 | Bernard Blewudzi | Ghana | DNS | | |
| 999 | 2 | 7 | Alisher Chingizov | Tajikistan | DNS | | |
| 999 | 2 | 8 | Ibraihm Assah | Ghana | DNS | | |
| 999 | 4 | 1 | Essossimana Awizoba | Togo | DNS | | |
| 999 | 8 | 4 | Joao Aguiar | Angola | DNS | | |
| 999 | 13 | 3 | Rafed-Zyad Almasri | Syria | DNS | | |
| 999 | 17 | 3 | Aristeidis Grigoriadis | Greece | DNS | | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | 50m | Time |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Jason Lezak | United States | 23.09 | 48.51 |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 23.50 | 48.60 |
| 3 | 2 | 5 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 23.55 | 48.72 |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 23.31 | 48.79 |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 23.02 | 48.86 |
| 6 | 1 | 6 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 23.14 | 48.87 |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | César Cielo Filho | Brazil | 23.42 | 48.87 |
| 6 | 2 | 8 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.90 | 48.87 |
| 9 | 1 | 5 | Alain Bernard | France | 23.27 | 48.89 |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | 23.68 | 48.92 |
| 11 | 2 | 7 | Albert Subirats Altes | Venezuela | 23.54 | 49.17 |
| 12 | 1 | 3 | Simon Burnett | Great Britain | 23.55 | 49.22 |
| 13 | 1 | 7 | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 23.52 | 49.27 |
| 14 | 1 | 8 | Christian Galenda | Italy | 23.64 | 49.31 |
| 15 | 1 | 1 | Mitja Zastrow | Netherlands | 23.98 | 49.41 |
| 16 | 2 | 1 | Ashley Callus | Australia | 23.36 | 49.45 |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | 50m | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Filippo Magnini | Italy | 23.24 | 48.43 | |
| | 6 | Brent Hayden | Canada | 23.07 | 48.43 | |
| | 2 | Eamon Sullivan | Australia | 22.92 | 48.47 | |
| 4 | 1 | César Cielo Filho | Brazil | 22.83 | 48.51 | SA |
| 5 | 4 | Jason Lezak | United States | 23.03 | 48.52 | |
| 6 | 3 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | Netherlands | 23.51 | 48.63 | |
| 7 | 8 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.87 | 48.72 | |
| 8 | 7 | Ryk Neethling | South Africa | 23.02 | 48.81 | |