The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming

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will take place on the 16 of October at the Scotiabank Aquatics Center

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 champion is César Cielo Filho of the Brazil

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This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle

Freestyle swimming

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Records

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

World record		46.91	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	July 30, 2009
Pan American Games record		48.79	Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th... , Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	July 18, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee

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 (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the A standard (50.4) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 4, 2011). NOCs were also permitted to enter one athlete providing they had met the B standard (51.9) in the same qualifying period.

Results

All times shown are in seconds/minutes.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round will be held on October 16.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Cesar Cielo César Cielo César Augusto Cielo Filho is a Brazilian professional swimmer who specializes in sprint events...		48.89	QA
2	3	3	Shaune Fraser Shaune Fraser Shaune David Fraser is a college and international swimmer from the Cayman Islands. Fraser represented the Cayman Islands at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics....		49.00	QA
3	3	5	Hanser Garcia		49.08	QA
4	2	5	Douglas Robison		49.09	QA
5	1	4	Brett Fraser Brett Fraser Brett Michael Fraser is a college and international swimmer from the Cayman Islands. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Fraser and his older brother, Shaune Fraser, were two of the three flag-bearers from the country....		49.16	QA
6	1	5	Robert Savulich		49.58	QA
7	1	6	Cristian Quintero		49.87	QA
8	2	3	Benjamin Hockin		49.91	QA
9	1	3	Federico Grabich		50.20	QB
10	3	6	Crox Acuña Crox Acuña Crox Acuña is an Olympic and national record-holding swimmer from Venezuela.He swam for Venezuela at the:*2006 South American Games*2006 Central American & Caribbean Games*2007 World Championships...		50.35	QB
11	2	4	Bruno Fratus		50.51	QB
12	2	6	José Melconían		51.02	QB
13	3	2	Rory Biskupski		51.12	QB
14	3	7	Shawn Clarke		51.18	QB
15	2	1	Alejandro Escudero		51.38	QB
16	1	7	Mario Montoya		51.86	QB
17	2	7	Raul Martinez Raúl Martínez Publio Amable Raúl Martínez González, known as Raúl Martínez, was a Cuban painter, designer and graphic artist...		52.06
18	3	1	Antonio Cisneros Antonio Cisneros -Awards:*Premio Nacional de Poesía *Premio Casa de las Américas *Premio Rubén Darío *Condecoración al Mérito Cultural de la República de Hungría*Gabriela Mistral Inter-American Prize for Culture...		52.42
19	2	2	Branden Whitehurst		52.45
20	1	2	Roy-Allan Burch		52.87
21	3	8	Perry Lindo	Netherlands Antilles	53.32
22	1	1	Esau Simpson		54.73
23	1	8	Niall Roberts		55.45
24	2	8	Orel Jeffrey		1:03.84

Final A

The final was held on October 16.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Cesar Cielo César Cielo César Augusto Cielo Filho is a Brazilian professional swimmer who specializes in sprint events...		47.84	GR
	3	Hanser Garcia		48.34
	5	Shaune Fraser Shaune Fraser Shaune David Fraser is a college and international swimmer from the Cayman Islands. Fraser represented the Cayman Islands at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics....		48.63
4	6	Douglas Robison		48.98
5	2	Brett Fraser Brett Fraser Brett Michael Fraser is a college and international swimmer from the Cayman Islands. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Fraser and his older brother, Shaune Fraser, were two of the three flag-bearers from the country....		49.07
6	7	Robert Savulich		49.62
7	1	Cristian Quintero		49.75
8	8	Benjamin Hockin		50.03