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| 2 | Swimming at the 2003 Pan American Games – Men's 50 metre freestyle - Results |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | Place | Swimmer | Heats | Heats | Final |
| 4 | Place | Swimmer | Time | Rank | Time |
| 5 | 1 | Brazil Fernando Scherer (BRA) | 22.55 | 3 | 22.40 |
| 6 | 2 | Argentina José Meolans (ARG) | 22.68 | 4 | 22.42 |
| 7 | 3 | United States Gary Hall, Jr. (USA) | 22.51 | 2 | 22.43 |
| 8 | 4 | Puerto Rico Ricardo Busquets (PUR) | 22.49 | 1 | 22.52 |
| 9 | 5 | Cuba Marcos Hernández (CUB) | 22.90 | 7 | 22.64 |
| 10 | 6 | Brazil Jader Souza (BRA) | 22.79 | 5 | 22.80 |
| 11 | 7 | Canada Matt Rose (CAN) | 22.80 | 6 | 22.89 |
| 12 | 8 | Colombia Camilo Becerra (COL) | 22.97 | 8 | 23.16 |
| 13 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 14 | 9 | Ecuador Julio Santos (ECU) | 23.33 | 9 | 23.39 |
| 15 | 10 | United States Chris McCrary (USA) | 23.35 | 10 | 23.43 |
| 16 | 11 | Venezuela Raymond Rosal (VEN) | 23.41 | 11 | 23.47 |
| 17 | 12 | Ecuador Felipe Delgado (ECU) | 23.62 | 12 | 23.48 |
| 18 | 13 | United States Virgin Islands Josh Laban (ISV) | 23.72 | 16 | 23.51 |
| 19 | 14 | Venezuela Octavio Alesi (VEN) | 23.69 | 13 | 23.64 |
| 20 | 15 | Uruguay Francisco Picasso (URU) | 23.70 | 14 | 23.69 |
| 21 | 16 | Netherlands Antilles Howard Hinds (AHO) | 23.70 | 14 | 24.04 |
| 22 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 23 | 17 | Uruguay Paul Kutscher (URU) | 23.72 | 16 | - |
| 24 | 18 | Cuba Antonio Hernández (CUB) | 23.78 | 18 | - |
| 25 | 19 | Panama Ismael Ortiz (PAN) | 23.97 | 19 | - |
| 26 | 20 | Trinidad and Tobago Nicholas Bovell (TRI) | 24.05 | 20 | - |
| 27 | 21 | Mexico Alejandro Siqueiros (MEX) | 24.17 | 21 | - |
| 28 | 22 | Chile Max Schnettler (CHI) | 24.45 | 22 | - |
| 29 | 23 | The Bahamas Chris Vythoulkas (BAH) | 24.46 | 23 | - |
| 30 | 24 | Dominican Republic Erick Santos (DOM) | 24.56 | 24 | - |
| 31 | 25 | Saint Lucia Jamie Peterkin (LCA) | 24.59 | 25 | - |
| 32 | 26 | Honduras Gustavo Martínez (HON) | 24.71 | 26 | - |
| 33 | 27 | Puerto Rico Maran Cruz (PUR) | 24.75 | 27 | - |
| 34 | 28 | Guyana Onan Thom (GUY) | 24.83 | 28 | - |
| 35 | 29 | Aruba Davy Bisslik (ARU) | 24.90 | 29 | - |
| 36 | 30 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Stephenson Wallace (VIN) | 26.73 | 30 | - |

Question: Who were the three top finishers in the 2003 Pan American Games 50 m, and what were their times?
Answer: The Brazilian Fernando Scherer won his Pan Am 50 m freestyle title with the score of 22.40, with the Argentinian José Meolans second with a time of 22.42 and the American Gary Hall, Jr. third with a time of 22.43.