Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre freestyle

The Men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was held on 3 and 4 August at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Men's 50 metre freestyle at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Manchester Aquatics Centre
Dates	1 August
Competitors	21 from 26 nations
Winning time	22.33
Medalists
Roland Schoeman    South Africa   Brett Hawke    Australia   Mark Foster    England
← 1998 2006 →

Records

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

World record	Alexander Popov (RUS)	21.64	Moscow, Russia	1 June 2000
Commonwealth record
Games record

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
3 August	Semifinal	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.52	GR
3 August	Semifinal	Brett Hawke	Australia	22.29	GR

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Brett Hawke	Australia	22.67	Q
2	7	4	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.88	Q
3	6	4	Ashley Callus	Australia	22.93	Q
4	5	5	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	23.10	Q
5	7	3	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	23.26	Q
6	5	6	Craig Hutchison	Canada	23.27	Q
7	7	5	Mark Foster	England	23.33	Q
	6	5	Matt Kidd	England		Q
9	6	6	Chris Cozens	England	23.37	Q
10	7	6	Matthew Rose	Canada	23.43	Q
11	7	2	Todd Pearson	Australia	23.59	Q
12	6	2	Brent Hayden	Canada	23.61	Q
	6	8	Chrysanthos Papachrysanthou	Cyprus		Q,
14	7	7	Stavros Michaelides	Cyprus	23.66	Q
15	5	2	Steven Evans	Wales	23.80	Q
16	4	5	Jonathan Winter	New Zealand	23.89	Q
17	4	7	Alexis Militis	Jersey	23.91
18	6	3	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	23.93
19	5	3	Carl Probert	Fiji	24.04
20	5	1	Demetris Demetriou	Cyprus	24.08
21	6	1	Musa Bakare	Nigeria	24.21
22	5	7	Nicholas Sheeran	New Zealand	24.29
23	4	3	Terrence Elton Haynes	Barbados	24.37
24	4	6	Afolabi Adeleke-Adedoyin	Nigeria	24.42
25	7	1	Christophe Lin Wen Ying	Mauritius	24.43
	5	8	Christopher Vythoulkas	Bahamas
27	7	8	Cameron Gibson	New Zealand	24.55
	4	4	Roy-Allan Burch	Bermuda
29	4	8	Mark Chay	Singapore	24.63
30	2	4	Ramon James	Jamaica	24.67
31	6	8	Cliff Gittens	Barbados	24.70
32	4	1	Jamie Peterkin	Saint Lucia	24.79
33	3	4	Nicholas Peterkin	Saint Lucia	24.87
34	4	2	Ron Cowen	Bermuda	24.96
35	2	5	Alan Jones	Isle of Man	25.14
36	3	5	Kristoph Carey	Bahamas	25.27
37	3	7	Hamid Nassir	Kenya	25.46
38	3	2	Graham Alexander Campbell Smith	Bermuda	25.48
39	3	3	Folahan Oluwole	Nigeria	25.52
40	3	1	Rama Vyombo	Kenya	25.58
41	3	6	Nicholas Diaper	Kenya	25.59
42	3	8	Ben Lowndes	Guernsey	25.82
43	2	6	Dave Batty	Isle of Man	26.00
44	2	3	Angel Gonzalez	Gibraltar	26.35
45	2	7	Craig Massey-Hicks	Malawi	26.50
46	2	1	Jonathon Le Noury	Guernsey	26.61
47	2	8	Andre Kuenzli	Zambia	27.24
48	1	5	David Asser Korpela	Malawi	27.36
49	2	2	Gerusio Matonse	Mozambique	27.44
50	1	3	Yona Walesi	Malawi	32.08
-	1	-	Joel Kisuule	Uganda	DSQ

Semifinals

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

Semifinal 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.52	Q, GR
2	5	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	22.62	Q
3	3	Craig Hutchison	Canada	22.96	Q
4	6	Matt Kidd	England	23.06	Q
5	2	Matthew Rose	Canada	23.32
6	7	Stavros Michaelides	Cyprus	23.66
7	8	Ryan Pini	Papua New Guinea	24.10
8	1	Jonathon Winter	New Zealand	24.13

Semifinal 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
1	4	Brett Hawke	Australia	22.29	Q, GR
2	6	Mark Foster	England	22.45	Q
3	5	Ashley Callus	Australia	22.67	Q
4	3	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	23.23	Q
5	2	Chris Cozens	England	23.30
6	7	Chrysanthos Papachrysanthou	Cyprus	23.38
7	1	Steven Evans	Wales	23.77
8	8	Alexis Militis	Jersey	23.92

Final

The final was held on 4 August at 17:30.^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nation	Result	Notes
	3	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.33
	4	Brett Hawke	Australia	22.34
	5	Mark Foster	England	22.47
4	6	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	22.49
5	2	Ashley Callus	Australia	22.67
6	1	Matt Kidd	England	22.93
7	7	Craig Hutchison	Canada	23.03
8	8	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	23.40

References

1. "Results".
2. "Results".
3. "Results".