The men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events

Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships

The Swimming portion of the 2011 FINA World Championships was held July 24–31 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. Swimming is one of five aquatic disciplines at the championships.-Qualifying criteria:...

 at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships took place July 24 and 25. The heats and semifinals took place July 24 and the final was held July 25.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Brenton Rickard Brenton Rickard Brenton Scott Rickard is a breaststroke swimmer from Australia. He emerged at the international level in 2006, swimming at the Commonwealth games...		58.58	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...	July 27, 2009

No new world or competition records were set during this competition.

Heats

83 swimmers participated in 11 heats, qualified swimmers are listed:

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	10	4	Alexander Dale Oen Alexander Dale Oen Alexander Dale Oen is a Norwegian swimmer. He represents the club Vestkantsvømmerne. Dale Oen's gold at the 2008 European Championships made him the first Norwegian male to win a medal at a major international long course championship.Oen got his international breakthrough in 2005, placing seventh...		59.71	Q
2	9	2	Glenn Snyders		59.94	Q, NR
3	11	4	Kosuke Kitajima Kosuke Kitajima is a Japanese multiple Olympic gold medalist breaststroke swimmer. He won gold medals for the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at both the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympics.-Major achievements:...		59.96	Q
4	10	3	Felipe França Silva Felipe França Silva Felipe Alves França da Silva is a breaststroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed for his country at the 2008 Olympics....		1:00.01	Q
5	9	6	Fabio Scozzoli Fabio Scozzoli -External links:* *...		1:00.14	Q
6	9	3	Mark Gangloff Mark Gangloff Mark Gangloff is an American swimmer who earned a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics by swimming in the 4x100m medley relay preliminaries. He came in fourth place for the 100m breaststroke...		1:00.29	Q
7	11	3	Christian Sprenger Christian Sprenger Christian David Sprenger is an Australian breaststroke swimmer. He trains at the Commercial Swimming Club under Stephan Widmar.-Swimming career:...		1:00.35	Q
8	9	4	Ryo Tateishi		1:00.37	Q
9	9	5	Hugues Duboscq Hugues Duboscq Hugues Duboscq is an Olympic breaststroke swimmer from France. He swam for France at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. He has won three Olympic bronze medals....		1:00.38	Q
10	11	5	Cameron van der Burgh Cameron van der Burgh Cameron van der Burgh is a South African swimmer.He is Africa's first home-trained world record holder and the youngest at the age of 20. He trains with Dirk Lange and is based in Pretoria. He has represented South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has won numerous World Championship medals...		1:00.39	Q
11	11	7	Daniel Gyurta Dániel Gyurta Dániel Gyurta is a Hungarian swimmer and former Olympic record holder in the 200m breaststroke set on August 12, 2008...		1:00.40	Q
12	10	8	Giedrius Titenis Giedrius Titenis Giedrius Titenis is a swimmer from Lithuania. He participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics and won bronze in the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, tying Australia's Christian Sprenger.-External links:*...		1:00.41	Q
13	10	5	Brenton Rickard Brenton Rickard Brenton Scott Rickard is a breaststroke swimmer from Australia. He emerged at the international level in 2006, swimming at the Commonwealth games...		1:00.48	Q
14	11	1	Hendrik Feldwehr Hendrik Feldwehr Hendrik Feldwehr is a German swimmer from Bremerhaven.-References:...		1:00.70	Q
15	10	7	Michael Jamieson		1:00.79	Q
16	10	1	Lennart Stekelenburg Lennart Stekelenburg Lennart Stekelenburg is a Dutch swimmer who is specialized in breaststroke. He is the current national recordholder in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke at the long course.-Swimming career:...		1:00.86	Q
17	9	7	Roman Sludnov		1:00.91
18	11	8	Andrew Dickens		1:01.18
19	8	8	Dragos Arache		1:01.19
20	8	4	Igor Borysik Igor Borysik Ihor Borysyk is a Ukrainian swimmer. He was born in Simferopol.-External links:*...		1:01.25
20	8	2	Mattia Pesce		1:01.25
22	10	2	Christian vom Lehn Christian vom Lehn -References:*...		1:01.26
23	8	6	Xie Zhi		1:01.30
24	11	2	Felipe Lima		1:01.37
25	11	6	Mihail Alexandrov		1:01.41
26	8	5	Kristopher Gilchrist Kristopher Gilchrist Kristopher Jon "Kris" Gilchrist is a British breaststroke swimmer.Gilchrist represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke swimming events....		1:01.46
27	7	1	Jakob Sveinsson		1:01.51
28	8	1	Valerii Dymo		1:01.52
29	7	6	Matjaž Markič Matjaž Markič Matjaž Markič is a male breaststroke swimmer from Slovenia, who won the gold medal in the men's 50 m breaststroke event at the 2008 European SC Championships in Rijeka. He represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China, finishing in 24th place in the men's 100 m...		1:01.56
30	7	5	Laurent Carnol		1:01.57
31	6	5	Csaba Szilágyi Csaba Szilágyi Csaba Szilágyi is a Serbian swimmer of Hungarian origin. Siladji mainly competes in the breaststroke.- Career :Szilágyi finished elementary school and gymnasium in Bečej. He began to practice swimming since 1997, and until 2004 he also trained water polo alongside...		1:01.59
32	9	8	Anton Lobanov		1:01.64
33	7	3	Damir Dugonjic Damir Dugonjic Damir Dugonjič is a swimmer from Slovenia, who competed for his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He competed in 100 metre breaststroke, where he finished 16th....		1:01.69
34	10	6	Neil Versfeld		1:01.72
35	5	8	Petr Bartunek		1:01.75
36	7	4	Chen Cheng		1:01.81
37	6	3	Choi Kyu-Woong		1:01.83
38	8	3	Vladislav Polyakov Vladislav Polyakov Vlad Polyakov is an Olympic breaststroke swimmer from Kazakhstan. He swam for his native country at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics....		1:01.85
39	7	7	Hunor Mate		1:01.88
40	6	6	Edgar Crespo		1:01.94
41	7	2	Akos Molnar		1:02.11
42	5	4	Carlos Almeida		1:02.13	NR
43	8	7	Dawid Szulich		1:02.24
44	5	1	Miguel Ferreira		1:02.29	NR
45	4	3	Gal Nevo Gal Nevo Gal Nevo is an Israeli swimmer who holds three Israeli records in the 200m IM, 400m IM and 200m butterfly. He represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Biography:Nevo is Jewish....		1:02.32
46	6	7	Lovro Bilonic		1:02.44
47	9	1	Barry Murphy Barry Murphy (swimmer) Barry Murphy Barry Murphy Barry Murphy (born October 5, 1982 is an Irish swimmer from Dublin, Ireland. Despite his setting of the 50 m and 100 m freestyle national records in 2008, Murphy just missed qualifying for Ireland's team at the 2008 Summer Olympics....		1:02.50
48	5	5	Malick Fall Malick Fall Malick Fall is a former Senegal international football forward.-Career:Born in Matam, Fall moved to France as a youth and played for several clubs in Ligue 2, including Amiens SC, SC Abbeville and Angers SCO....		1:02.55
49	5	6	Sandeep Sejwal Sandeep Sejwal Sandeep Sejwal , is an Indian swimmer. He contested in the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but failed to reach the finals in both events.-Career:...		1:02.62
50	5	7	Tomas Klobucnik		1:02.69
51	6	1	Omer Aslanoglu		1:02.71
51	6	8	Jakob Dorch		1:02.71
53	4	4	Jorge Murillo		1:02.73
54	6	2	Martti Aljand		1:02.78
55	7	8	Panagiotis Samilidis		1:02.80
56	5	2	Genaro Britez		1:03.44
57	5	3	David Oliver Mercado		1:03.57
58	6	4	Indra Gunawan		1:03.80
59	4	6	Amini Fonua		1:04.02
60	4	7	Azad Al-Barazi		1:04.23
61	4	2	Nabil Kebbab Nabil Kebbab Nabil Kebbab is an Algerian swimmer who competes in the freestyle events. He won the bronze medal in the men's 100 m freestyle event at the 2005 Mediterranean Games, and represented his native African country at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-References:* *...		1:04.50
61	4	1	Rodion Davelaar		1:04.50
63	3	5	Timothy Ferris		1:04.76	NR
64	4	8	Julian Fletcher		1:05.00
65	3	4	Diego Santander		1:05.72
66	3	3	Juan Guerra		1:05.88
67	3	1	Diguan Pigot		1:06.00
68	3	8	Andrea Agius		1:06.13	NR
69	3	6	Mubarak Al Besher		1:06.70
70	2	4	Jordy Groters		1:06.88
71	3	7	Oluseyi Fatayi-Williams		1:07.57
72	2	5	Benjamin Schulte		1:07.62
73	2	6	Wael Koubrousli		1:09.11
74	2	3	Tarco Liobet		1:09.80
75	3	2	Shajahan Ali		1:10.22
76	2	1	Mamitina Ramanantsoa		1:11.96
77	2	2	Indra Rakotondrazanaka		1:13.38
78	2	8	Mamadou Fofana		1:16.86
79	1	4	Fdingue Ekane		1:19.30
80	2	7	Ruslan Oliftaev		1:25.82
81	1	3	Thierry Videgni		1:34.34
	4	5	Mohammad Alirezaei Mohammad Alirezaei Mohammad Alirezaei Dizicheh is an Iranian breaststroke swimmer.By qualifying for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Alirezaei became the first Iranian ever to qualify for an Olympic swimming event without using wildcard. However, according to team officials, Alirezaei fell ill before his event, and was...		DNS
	1	5	Mohamed Camara		DSQ

Mohammad Alirezaei pulled out of his heat because Israeli Gal Nevo was also scheduled to swim in the heat. Iran does not regonize Israel as a country.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Cameron van der Burgh Cameron van der Burgh Cameron van der Burgh is a South African swimmer.He is Africa's first home-trained world record holder and the youngest at the age of 20. He trains with Dirk Lange and is based in Pretoria. He has represented South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has won numerous World Championship medals...		1:00.07	Q
2	3	Mark Gangloff Mark Gangloff Mark Gangloff is an American swimmer who earned a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics by swimming in the 4x100m medley relay preliminaries. He came in fourth place for the 100m breaststroke...		1:00.19	Q
3	7	Giedrius Titenis Giedrius Titenis Giedrius Titenis is a swimmer from Lithuania. He participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics and won bronze in the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, tying Australia's Christian Sprenger.-External links:*...		1:00.26	Q
4	6	Ryo Tateishi		1:00.36
5	8	Lennart Stekelenburg Lennart Stekelenburg Lennart Stekelenburg is a Dutch swimmer who is specialized in breaststroke. He is the current national recordholder in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke at the long course.-Swimming career:...		1:00.50
6	4	Glenn Snyders		1:00.59
7	5	Felipe França Silva Felipe França Silva Felipe Alves França da Silva is a breaststroke swimmer from Brazil, who competed for his country at the 2008 Olympics....		1:00.73
8	1	Hendrik Feldwehr Hendrik Feldwehr Hendrik Feldwehr is a German swimmer from Bremerhaven.-References:...		1:00.91

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Alexander Dale Oen Alexander Dale Oen Alexander Dale Oen is a Norwegian swimmer. He represents the club Vestkantsvømmerne. Dale Oen's gold at the 2008 European Championships made him the first Norwegian male to win a medal at a major international long course championship.Oen got his international breakthrough in 2005, placing seventh...		59.37	Q
2	5	Kosuke Kitajima Kosuke Kitajima is a Japanese multiple Olympic gold medalist breaststroke swimmer. He won gold medals for the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at both the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympics.-Major achievements:...		59.77	Q
3	3	Fabio Scozzoli Fabio Scozzoli -External links:* *...		59.83	Q, NR
4	1	Brenton Rickard Brenton Rickard Brenton Scott Rickard is a breaststroke swimmer from Australia. He emerged at the international level in 2006, swimming at the Commonwealth games...		1:00.04	Q
5	7	Daniel Gyurta Dániel Gyurta Dániel Gyurta is a Hungarian swimmer and former Olympic record holder in the 200m breaststroke set on August 12, 2008...		1:00.23	Q, NR
6	6	Christian Sprenger Christian Sprenger Christian David Sprenger is an Australian breaststroke swimmer. He trains at the Commercial Swimming Club under Stephan Widmar.-Swimming career:...		1:00.44
7	2	Hugues Duboscq Hugues Duboscq Hugues Duboscq is an Olympic breaststroke swimmer from France. He swam for France at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. He has won three Olympic bronze medals....		1:00.56
8	8	Michael Jamieson		1:00.93

Final

The final was held 19:27.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Alexander Dale Oen Alexander Dale Oen Alexander Dale Oen is a Norwegian swimmer. He represents the club Vestkantsvømmerne. Dale Oen's gold at the 2008 European Championships made him the first Norwegian male to win a medal at a major international long course championship.Oen got his international breakthrough in 2005, placing seventh...		58.71	NR
	3	Fabio Scozzoli Fabio Scozzoli -External links:* *...		59.42	NR
	2	Cameron van der Burgh Cameron van der Burgh Cameron van der Burgh is a South African swimmer.He is Africa's first home-trained world record holder and the youngest at the age of 20. He trains with Dirk Lange and is based in Pretoria. He has represented South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has won numerous World Championship medals...		59.49
4	5	Kosuke Kitajima Kosuke Kitajima is a Japanese multiple Olympic gold medalist breaststroke swimmer. He won gold medals for the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke at both the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympics.-Major achievements:...		1:00.03
5	6	Brenton Rickard Brenton Rickard Brenton Scott Rickard is a breaststroke swimmer from Australia. He emerged at the international level in 2006, swimming at the Commonwealth games...		1:00.11
6	1	Daniel Gyurta Dániel Gyurta Dániel Gyurta is a Hungarian swimmer and former Olympic record holder in the 200m breaststroke set on August 12, 2008...		1:00.25
6	8	Giedrius Titenis Giedrius Titenis Giedrius Titenis is a swimmer from Lithuania. He participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics and won bronze in the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, tying Australia's Christian Sprenger.-External links:*...		1:00.25
8	7	Mark Gangloff Mark Gangloff Mark Gangloff is an American swimmer who earned a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics by swimming in the 4x100m medley relay preliminaries. He came in fourth place for the 100m breaststroke...		1:00.52

External links

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 100 metre breaststroke entry list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.