Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships
Dates	22 July 2001 (heats, semifinals) 23 July 2001 (final)
Competitors	92 from 68 nations
Winning time	22.09 seconds
Medalists
Anthony Ervin    United States   Pieter v.d. Hoogenband    Netherlands   Tomohiro Yamanoi    Japan   Roland Schoeman    South Africa

2001 FINA World Championships Fukuoka, Japan
Diving
Individual
1 m	men	women
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Synchronised
3 m	men	women
10 m	men	women
Open water swimming
5 km	men	women
10 km	men	women
25 km	men	women
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
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
Synchronised swimming
Solo		women
Duet		women
Team		women
Water polo
men (rosters) women (rosters)

The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships was held on 22 (heats and semifinals) and 23 July 2001 at the Fukuoka, Japan.

Results

Heats

Rank	Swimmer	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Brett Hawke	Australia	22.18
2	José Meolans	Argentina	22.31
3	Julio Santos	Ecuador	22.34	NR
4	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	22.39
4	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.39
6	Ashley Callus	Australia	22.42
6	Anthony Ervin	United States	22.42
8	Jason Lezak	United States	22.45
9	Johan Kenkhuis	Netherlands	22.47
10	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	22.48
10	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	22.48
12	Mark Foster	Great Britain	22.51
12	Vyacheslav Shyrshov	Ukraine	22.51
14	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	22.7
15	Tomohiro Yamanoi	Japan	22.75
16	Attila Zubor	Hungary	22.76
17	Salim Iles	Algeria	22.78
17	Edvaldo Valério	Brazil	22.78
19	Olexandr Yolynets	Ukraine	22.84
20	Christoph Buehler	Switzerland	22.89
21	Lorenzo Vismara	Italy	22.91
22	Karel Novy	Switzerland	22.94
23	Riley Janes	Canada	22.95
23	Ravil Nachaev	Uzbekistan	22.95
25	Marijan Kanjer	Croatia	22.98
25	Michael Cavic	Serbia and Montenegro	22.98
27	Camilo Becerra	Colombia	22.99
27	Leonid Khokhlov	Russia	22.99
29	Jere Hård	Finland	23
30	Nicholas Santos	Brazil	23.04
31	Rolandas Gimbutis	Lithuania	23.08
32	Nicholas Folker	South Africa	23.09
33	Peter Mankoč	Slovenia	23.19
34	Duje Draganja	Croatia	23.25
35	Eric La Fleur	Sweden	23.38
36	Kim Min-Seok	South Korea	23.41
37	Oswaldo J Queveda	Venezuela	23.47
38	Syunsuke Ito	Japan	23.6
39	Arwut Chinnapasaen	Thailand	23.77
40	Brendan Ashby	Zimbabwe	23.87
41	Nien-Pin Wu	Chinese Taipei	23.96
42	Jesus Gonzalez	Mexico	24.03
43	Carl Probert	Fiji	24.12
44	Alejandro Siqueiros Quirroz	Mexico	24.14
45	Ismael Ortiz	Panama	24.16
46	Leslie Kwok	Singapore	24.18
47	Danil Haustov	Estonia	24.22
48	Wing Fu	Hong Kong	24.32
49	Gustavo Barrios	Panama	24.33
50	Khuwaiter Saeed Hadi Al Shaleri	United Arab Emirates	24.34
51	Christophe Lim Wen Ying	Mauritius	24.36
52	Gregory Arkhurst	Ivory Coast	24.4
53	Cliff Ansel Matthew Gittens	Barbados	24.58
54	Ernest Que Lim Teo	Singapore	24.59
55	Yu Lung Lubrey Lim	Malaysia	24.97
56	Chon Kitaliasjoao Tang	Macau	25
57	Nicholas Diaper	Kenya	25.06
58	Kenny Roberts	Seychelles	25.09
59	Malick Fall	Senegal	25.16
60	Graham Smith	Bermuda	25.27
60	Khaly Ciss	Senegal	25.27
62	Keng Ip Lou	Macau	25.29
63	Gael Souci	Mauritius	25.33
64	Davy Bisslik	Aruba	25.39
65	Joao Aguiar	Angola	25.72
66	Barnsley Albert	Seychelles	25.75
67	Hamid Nassir	Kenya	25.79
67	Naji Fesguson	Grenada	25.79
69	Zieahmed Ouattara	Ivory Coast	26.02
70	Omar Nunez	Nicaragua	26.08
71	Kenneth Maronie	Dominica	26.18
72	Shang-Hsua Yang	Chinese Taipei	26.29
73	Trongle Le Minh	Vietnam	26.3
74	Loren Lindborg	Marshall Islands	26.32
75	Onan Orlando Thom	Guyana	26.37
76	William Kang	Guam	26.42
77	Shade Sule Cole	Cameroon	26.51
78	Ranul Teriipaia	Tahiti	26.6
79	Ganaa Galbadrakh	Mongolia	26.7
80	Nuno Miguel Cardosorola	Angola	26.87
81	Hesham Shehab	Brunei	27.05
82	Mark Unpingco	Guam	27.16
83	Joe Atuhaire	Uganda	27.81
84	Rony Bakele	Republic of the Congo	28.55
85	Mahamad Ahmad	Sudan	28.86
86	Abbas Alneel	Sudan	29.45
87	Fabrice Ndikumana	Burundi	30.64
88	Eric Moussambani	Equatorial Guinea	31.88
89	Carlos Notarianni	Marshall Islands	32.41
90	Joshua Marfleet	Samoa	34.91
91	Glyn Tonge	Netherlands Antilles	37.75
–	Richard Sam Bera	Indonesia	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anthony Ervin	United States	22.05
2	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	22.14
3	Mark Foster	Great Britain	22.19
4	Vyacheslav Shyrshov	Ukraine	22.3
5	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	22.31
6	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.34
6	Brett Hawke	Australia	22.34
8	Tomohiro Yamanoi	Japan	22.37
9	Bartosz Kizierowski	Poland	22.42
10	Jason Lezak	United States	22.43
11	José Meolans	Argentina	22.45
12	Ashley Callus	Australia	22.46
13	Johan Kenkhuis	Netherlands	22.51
14	Attila Zubor	Hungary	22.54
15	Julio Santos	Ecuador	22.64
16	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	22.83

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Anthony Ervin	United States	22.09
	Pieter van den Hoogenband	Netherlands	22.16
	Tomohiro Yamanoi	Japan	22.18
	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.18
5	Brett Hawke	Australia	22.39
6	Vyacheslav Shyrshov	Ukraine	22.42
7	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	22.44
7	Mark Foster	Great Britain	22.44

References

• "FINA: 9th World Championships: Men, 50m Freestyle". Swim Rankings. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
• "9th FINA World Swimming Championships:Heats Results Sunday July 22 - Swimming Day 1". FINA. 2001-07-22. Archived from the original on 2004-10-24. Retrieved 2010-01-25.