Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	1 August (Heats, Semifinals), 2 August (Final)
Competitors	37 from 22 nations
Winning time	48.73
Medalists
Ian Thorpe    Australia   Ashley Callus    Australia   Ryk Neethling    South Africa
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Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
50 m EAD	men	women
100 m	men	women
100 m EAD	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The Men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was held on 1 and 2 August at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Prior to this competition, the existing world record was as follows;

World record	Pieter Van Den Hoogenband  (NED)	47.84	Sydney, Australia	19 September 2000
Commonwealth record
Games record

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
1 August	Semifinal	Ian Thorpe	Australia	49.31	GR
2 August	Final	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.73	GR

The 16 fastest swimmers in the heats qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	49.76	Q
2	3	5	Matt Kidd	England	50.00	Q
3	3	4	Todd Pearson	Australia	50.07	Q
4	4	4	Ashley Callus	Australia	50.16	Q
5	4	3	Brent Hayden	Canada	50.17	Q
6	3	6	Craig Hutchison	Canada	50.54	Q
7	5	3	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	50.59	Q
8	4	6	Anthony Howard	England	50.89	Q
9	3	3	Chris Cozens	England	51.17	Q
10	4	5	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	51.19	Q
11	3	2	Alexandros Aresti	Cyprus	51.96	Q
12	5	2	Carl Probert	Fiji	52.41	Q
13	4	7	Demetris Demetriou	Cyprus	52.45	Q,
14	5	1	Steven Evans	Wales	52.74	Q
15	3	1	Ron Cowen	Bermuda	52.77	Q
16	5	7	Damian Alleyne	Barbados	52.80	Q
17	4	2	Mark Chay	Singapore	52.89
18	3	7	Moss Burmester	New Zealand	53.21
19	4	1	Christopher Vythoulkas	Bahamas	53.32
20	5	8	Christophe Lin Wen Ying	Mauritius	53.90
21	2	2	Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin	Nigeria	54.22
22	2	4	Alan Jones	Isle of Man	54.72
23	3	8	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda	54.86
24	4	8	Jamie Peterkin	Saint Lucia	54.90
25	1	4	Musa Bakare	Nigeria	55.38
26	2	5	Nicholas Diaper	Kenya	55.50
27	1	5	Kristoph Carey	Bahamas	55.56
28	1	6	Ben Lowndes	Guernsey	55.67
29	1	2	Folahan Oluwole	Nigeria	56.23
30	2	7	Jean Francois Wai Choon	Mauritius	56.52
31	2	6	Rama Vyombo	Kenya	56.56
32	2	1	Eric Williams	Nigeria	56.74
33	2	3	Hamid Nassir	Kenya	56.75
34	1	3	Angel Gonzalez	Gibraltar	57.29
35	1	7	Andre Kuenzli	Zambia	58.77
36	2	8	Craig Massey-Hicks	Malawi	1:00.07
37	1	1	Joel Kisuule	Uganda	1:04.17

The eight fastest swimmers from the semifinals progressed to the final.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Matt Kidd	England	49.72	Q
2	5	Ashley Callus	Australia	50.05	Q
3	3	Craig Hutchison	Canada	50.28	Q
4	2	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	50.60	Q
5	6	Anthony Howard	England	51.00
6	8	Damian Alleyne	Barbados	52.49
7	7	Carl Probert	Fiji	52.82
8	1	Steven Evans	Wales	52.89

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	49.31	Q, GR
2	6	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	49.91	Q
3	5	Todd Pearson	Australia	50.13	Q
4	3	Brent Hayden	Canada	50.45	Q
5	2	Chris Cozens	England	51.44
6	7	Alexandros Aresti	Cyprus	52.35
7	8	Ron Cowen	Bermuda	52.49
8	1	Demetris Demetriou	Cyprus	52.63

The final was held on 2 August at 19:25.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	4	Ian Thorpe	Australia	48.73	GR
	6	Ashley Callus	Australia	49.45
	3	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	49.71
4	5	Matt Kidd	England	49.99
5	2	Todd Pearson	Australia	50.12
6	1	Brent Hayden	Canada	50.17
7	7	Craig Hutchison	Canada	50.40
8	8	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	51.00