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Host City: Beijing, China
Venue(s): Beijing National Aquatics Centre, Beijing Olympic Green, Beijing
Date Started: August 12, 2008
Date Finished: August 12, 2008
Format: Fastest 16 swimmers advanced to semi-finals
| Gold: | Alain Bernard |
| Silver: | Eamon Sullivan |
| Bronze: | Jason Lezak César Cielo Filho |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rony Bakale | 20 | Congo (Brazzaville) | CGO | 55.08 | 0.90 | 3 | |
| 2 | Miguel Navarro | 26 | Bolivia | BOL | 56.96 | 0.73 | 4 | |
| 3 | Sofyan El-Gadi | 16 | Libya | LBA | 57.89 | 0.72 | 5 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan Roodzant | 24 | Aruba | ARU | 51.69 | 0.72 | 6 | |
| 2 | Mikayel Koloyan | 25 | Armenia | ARM | 51.89 | 0.83 | 3 | |
| 3 | Gaël Adam | 22 | Mauritius | MRI | 52.35 | 0.78 | 2 | |
| 4 | Carl Probert | 32 | Fiji | FIJ | 52.37 | 0.79 | 5 | |
| 5 | Roy-Allan Burch | 22 | Bermuda | BER | 52.65 | 0.60 | 4 | |
| 6 | Obaid Al-Jasmi | 26 | United Arab Emirates | UAE | 53.29 | 0.80 | 7 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virdhawal Khade | 16 | India | IND | 50.07 | 0.71 | 4 | |
| 2 | Romāns Miloslavskis | 24 | Latvia | LAT | 50.40 | 0.85 | 2 | |
| 3 | Terrence Haynes | 23 | Barbados | BAR | 50.50 | 0.78 | 3 | |
| 4 | Aleksandr Sklyar | 20 | Kazakhstan | KAZ | 51.24 | 0.85 | 7 | |
| 5 | Im Nam-Gyun | 21 | South Korea | KOR | 51.80 | 0.72 | 6 | |
| 6 | Pyotr Romashkin | 19 | Uzbekistan | UZB | 51.83 | 0.83 | 1 | |
| 7 | Christopher Duenas | 16 | Guam | GUM | 52.64 | 0.74 | 8 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Dunford | 21 | Kenya | KEN | 49.06 | 0.72 | 4 | |
| 2 | Nimrod Shapira | 19 | Israel | ISR | 49.10 | 0.75 | 5 | |
| 3 | Peter Mankoč | 30 | Slovenia | SLO | 49.33 | 0.71 | 6 | |
| 4 | Ryan Pini | 26 | Papua New Guinea | PNG | 49.72 | 0.78 | 1 | |
| 5 | Matti Rajakylä | 23 | Finland | FIN | 49.91 | 0.78 | 3 | |
| 6 | Aristidis Grigoriadis | 22 | Greece | GRE | 50.62 | 0.77 | 8 | |
| 7 | Norbert Trandafir | 20 | Romania | ROU | 50.74 | 0.77 | 2 | |
| 8 | Danil Haustov | 27 | Estonia | EST | 50.92 | 0.70 | 7 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Verner | 28 | Czech Republic | CZE | 48.95 | 0.74 | 6 | |
| 2T | Balázs Makány | 21 | Hungary | HUN | 49.27 | 0.80 | 5 | |
| 2T | Paulius Viktoravičius | 23 | Lithuania | LTU | 49.27 | 0.78 | 7 | |
| 4 | Shaune Fraser | 20 | Cayman Islands | CAY | 49.56 | 0.71 | 1 | |
| 5 | Martín Kutscher | 23 | Uruguay | URU | 50.08 | 0.74 | 2 | |
| 6 | Stanislav Neverovsky | 27 | Belarus | BLR | 50.14 | 0.75 | 3 | |
| 7 | Tiago Venâncio | 21 | Portugal | POR | 50.30 | 0.77 | 4 | |
| 8 | Örn Arnarson | 26 | Iceland | ISL | 50.68 | 0.77 | 8 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George Bovell | 25 | Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 48.83 | 0.71 | 8 | |
| 2 | Albert Subirats | 21 | Venezuela | VEN | 48.97 | 0.74 | 5 | |
| 3 | Chen Zuo | 26 | China | CHN | 49.08 | 0.77 | 1 | |
| 4 | Nabil Kebbab | 24 | Algeria | ALG | 49.38 | 0.84 | 3 | |
| 5 | José Martín Meolans | 30 | Argentina | ARG | 49.50 | 0.82 | 2 | |
| 6 | Yuriy Yehoshyn | 23 | Ukraine | UKR | 49.56 | 0.89 | 7 | |
| 7 | Mitja Zastrow | 31 | Netherlands | NED | 49.61 | 0.76 | 4 | |
| 8 | Hisayoshi Sato | 21 | Japan | JPN | 49.85 | 0.74 | 6 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brent Hayden | 24 | Canada | CAN | 47.84 | 0.76 | 6 | QU |
| 2 | Milorad Čavić | 24 | Serbia | SRB | 48.15 | 0.76 | 8 | QU |
| 3 | Filippo Magnini | 26 | Italy | ITA | 48.30 | 0.76 | 3 | QU |
| 4 | Jason Lezak | 32 | United States | USA | 48.33 | 0.73 | 4 | QU |
| 5 | Fabien Gilot | 24 | France | FRA | 48.42 | 0.80 | 5 | QU |
| 6 | Dominik Meichtry | 23 | Switzerland | SUI | 48.55 | 0.66 | 7 | QU |
| 7 | Yoris Grandjean | 19 | Belgium | BEL | 48.82 | 0.71 | 1 | |
| 8 | Duje Draganja | 25 | Croatia | CRO | 49.49 | 0.72 | 2 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eamon Sullivan | 22 | Australia | AUS | 47.80 | 0.66 | 4 | QU |
| 2 | Stefan Nystrand | 26 | Sweden | SWE | 47.83 | 0.73 | 5 | QU |
| 3 | Pieter van den Hoogenband | 30 | Netherlands | NED | 47.97 | 0.76 | 6 | QU |
| 4 | César Cielo Filho | 21 | Brazil | BRA | 48.16 | 0.71 | 3 | QU |
| 5 | Andrey Grechin | 20 | Russia | RUS | 48.50 | 0.74 | 2 | QU |
| 6 | Christian Galenda | 26 | Italy | ITA | 48.55 | 0.72 | 8 | QC |
| 7 | Joel Greenshields | 20 | Canada | CAN | 49.04 | 0.75 | 1 | |
| 8 | Ryk Neethling | 30 | South Africa | RSA | 49.28 | 0.70 | 7 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | RT | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alain Bernard | 25 | France | FRA | 47.85 | 0.74 | 4 | QU |
| 2 | Garrett Weber-Gale | 23 | United States | USA | 48.19 | 0.69 | 5 | QU |
| 3 | Lyndon Ferns | 24 | South Africa | RSA | 48.26 | 0.67 | 7 | QU |
| 4 | Matt Targett | 22 | Australia | AUS | 48.40 | 0.76 | 6 | QU |
| 5 | Jonas Persson | 24 | Sweden | SWE | 48.51 | 0.74 | 8 | QU |
| 6 | Yevgeny Lagunov | 22 | Russia | RUS | 48.59 | 0.80 | 3 | |
| 7 | Jakob Andkjær | 23 | Denmark | DEN | 49.25 | 0.68 | 1 | |
| 8 | Steffen Deibler | 21 | Germany | GER | 49.39 | 0.76 | 2 |