Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 2015 Pan American Games took place on July 14 at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House in Toronto, Canada. The defending Pan American Games champion was César Cielo Filho of Brazil.

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2015 Pan American Games
Venue	CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Aquatics Centre and Field House
Dates	July 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	24 from 21 nations
Winning time	48.26
Medalists
Federico Grabich   Argentina   Santo Condorelli   Canada   Marcelo Chierighini   Brazil
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This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths in freestyle. The top eight swimmers from the heats would qualify for the A final (where the medals would be awarded), while the next best eight swimmers would qualify for the B final.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	César Cielo Filho (BRA)	46.91	Rome, Italy	July 30, 2009
Pan American Games record	César Cielo Filho (BRA)	47.84	Guadalajara, Mexico	October 16, 2011

Qualification

Main article: Swimming at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (50.05) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2014 to May 1, 2015). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (53.05) in the same qualifying period. All other competing athletes were entered as universality spots.

Schedule

All times are Eastern Time Zone (UTC-4).

Date	Time	Round
July 14, 2015	10:18	Heats
July 14, 2015	19:15	Final B
July 14, 2015	19:20	Final A

Results

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on July 14.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	5	Federico Grabich	Argentina	48.60	QA, NR
2	1	4	Santo Condorelli	Canada	48.88	QA
3	2	4	Marcelo Chierighini	Brazil	48.92	QA
4	3	6	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	49.07	QA
	1	5	Yuri Kisil	Canada		QA
6	1	3	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	49.29	QA
7	2	6	Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Suriname	49.47	QA, NR
8	3	4	Matheus Santana	Brazil	49.52	QA
9	3	5	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	49.58	QB
10	3	3	Darian Townsend	United States	49.88	QB
11	2	3	Cullen Jones	United States	50.09	QB
12	1	6	Benjamin Hockin	Paraguay	50.14	QB
13	2	1	Jordan Augier	Saint Lucia	50.82	QB
14	3	2	Luis Campos	Mexico	51.29	QB
15	3	7	Jordy Groters	Aruba	51.71	QB
16	2	2	Allan Gutiérrez Castro	Honduras	52.16	QB
17	1	7	Miguel Mena	Nicaragua	52.55
18	1	2	Timothy Wynter	Jamaica	52.59
19	1	1	Noah Mascoll-Gomes	Antigua and Barbuda	52.90
20	3	1	Alex Sobers	Barbados	52.92
21	2	7	Marcelo Acosta	El Salvador	53.40
22	3	8	Gustavo Gutierrez	Peru	55.66
23	1	8	Omar Adams	Guyana	58.01
24	2	8	Nikolas Sylvester	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	58.29

B Final

The B final was also held on July 14.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	4	Brett Fraser	Cayman Islands	49.56
10	3	Benjamin Hockin	Paraguay	49.88
11	5	Darian Townsend	United States	49.97
12	6	Jordan Augier	Saint Lucia	50.83
13	2	Luis Campos	Mexico	51.70
14	8	Timothy Wynter	Jamaica	52.23
15	7	Allan Gutiérrez Castro	Honduras	52.59
	1	Miguel Mena	Nicaragua

A Final

The A final was also held on July 14.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Federico Grabich	Argentina	48.26
	5	Santo Condorelli	Canada	48.57
	3	Marcelo Chierighini	Brazil	48.80
4	6	Cristian Quintero	Venezuela	49.06
5	7	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago	49.10
6	2	Yuri Kisil	Canada	49.26
7	8	Matheus Santana	Brazil	49.58
8	1	Renzo Tjon-A-Joe	Suriname	49.60