Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle


The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 30 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following records were established during the competition:
DateRoundNameNationalityTimeRecord
30 JulyFinal AAlexander Popov21.91

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds: heats and finals. The swimmers with the best 8 times in the heats advanced to final A, where they competed for the top 8 places. The swimmers with the next 8 times in the heats swam in final B, for ninth through the sixteenth place. Swim-offs were used as necessary to determine advancement.

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A, while the next eight to final B.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
184Alexander Popov22.21Q
2104Matt Biondi22.32Q
394Tom Jager22.45Q
4101Gennadiy Prigoda22.57Q
593Peter Williams22.65Q
696Christophe Kalfayan22.70Q
695Nils Rudolph22.70Q
8105Mark Foster22.72Q
985Raimundas Mažuolis22.77q
1092Mark Pinger22.88q
11103Pär Lindström22.92q
11107René Gusperti22.92q
1383Darren Lange23.01q
1386Stéphan Caron23.01q,
1582Gustavo Borges23.10q
15102Angus Waddell23.10q
1787Dano Halsall23.15q
1888Krzysztof Cwalina23.20
19106Mike Fibbens23.27
2065Stavros Michaelides23.34
2191Allan Murray23.35
2298Darryl Cronjé23.39
2316Mladen Kapor23.42
2472Ricardo Busquets23.44
2574Stéfan Voléry23.47
2675Nikos Paleokrassas23.51
2778Rodrigo González23.52
2873Nikos Steliou23.55
29108Franz Mortensen23.61
3055Janne Blomqvist23.63
3181Indrek Sei23.68
3277Yoav Bruck23.72
3362Enrico Linscheer23.74
3447Todd Torres23.79
3471Nicholas Sanders23.79
3676Paulo Trindade23.81
3761Mark Weldon23.87
3764Mohamed El-Azoul23.87
3963Michael Wright23.90
4053Stephen Clarke23.95
4157Teófilo Ferreira24.13
4168Musa Bakare24.13
4354Pedro Lima24.14
4451Geribryan Mewett24.20
4552Ian Steed Raynor24.23
4635Ivor Le Roux24.32
4741Toshiaki Kurasawa24.61
4843Laurent Alfred24.66
4917Mouhamed Diop24.69
5066Frank Leskaj24.72
5148Rhoderick McGown24.75
5246Patrick Sagisi24.78
5358Marc Verbeeck24.85
5424Adrian Romero25.12
5534Plutarco Castellanos25.27
5642Kenneth Yeo25.29
5712Bruno N'Diaye25.35
5823Ivan Roberts25.44
5933Wu Tat Cheung25.45
6032Andrés Sedano25.53
6136Émile Lahoud25.76
6225Mohamed Bin Abid25.79
6331Gustavo Bucaro25.84
6437Ahmad Faraj25.91
6527Carl Probert26.31
6622Filippo Piva26.41
6726Roberto Pellandra26.51
6821Kenny Roberts26.78
6911Gilles Coudray28.11
7014Foy Gordon Chung28.75
7115Ahmed Imthiyaz29.27
7213Mohamed Rasheed30.37
56Yves Clausse
45José Mossiane
44Tsutomu Nakano
97Joakim Holmqvist

Finals

Final B

Final A