Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Medalists
Alexander Popov   Russia   Gary Hall Jr.   United States   Fernando Scherer   Brazil

Swimming events at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 m		men		women
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m				women
1500 m		men
Backstroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Breaststroke
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
Butterfly
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

The finals of the Men's 50 metres Freestyle event for the 1996 Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, United States, on July 25, 1996.

Results

Final A

RANK	FINAL A	TIME
	Alexander Popov (RUS)	22.13
	Gary Hall Jr. (USA)	22.26
	Fernando Scherer (BRA)	22.29
4.	Jiang Chengji (CHN)	22.33
5.	Brendon Dedekind (RSA)	22.59
6.	David Fox (USA)	22.68
7.	Francisco Sánchez (VEN)	22.72
8.	Ricardo Busquets (PUR)	22.73

Final B

RANK	FINAL B	TIME
9.	Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED)	22.67
10.	Bengt Zikarsky (GER)	22.73
11.	Yuriy Vlasov (UKR)	22.82
12.	Allan Murray (BAH)	22.92
	Gustavo Borges (BRA)	22.92
14.	René Gusperti (ITA)	22.96
	Christophe Kalfayan (FRA)	22.96
16.	Mark Foster (GBR)	23.01

Swim-off

RANK	SWIM-OFF	TIME
1.	Fernando Scherer (BRA)	22.71
2.	Francisco Sánchez (VEN)	22.74
—	Bengt Zikarsky (GER)	DSQ

Non-Qualifiers

RANK	HEATS	TIME
17.	Pavlo Khnykin (UKR)	22.91
18.	Raimundas Mažuolis (LTU)	22.98
19.	Chris Fydler (AUS)	22.98
20.	Vladimir Predkin (RUS)	23.03
21.	Alexander Lüderitz (GER)	23.06
22.	Oleg Rukhlevich (BLR)	23.12
23.	José Meolans (ARG)	23.21
24.	Yoav Bruck (ISR)	23.22
25.	Felipe Delgado (ECU)	23.26
26.	Sergey Borisenko (KAZ)	23.29
27.	Indrek Sei (EST)	23.29
28.	Bartosz Kizierowski (POL)	23.34
29.	Sion Brinn (JAM)	23.35
30.	Juan Benavides (ESP)	23.36
31.	Stavros Michaelides (CYP)	23.37
32.	Enrico Linscheer (SUR)	23.45
33.	Pär Lindström (SWE)	23.47
34.	George Giziotis (GRE)	23.56
35.	Yukihiro Matsushita (JPN)	23.60
36.	Salim Iles (ALG)	23.61
37.	Janne Blomqvist (FIN)	23.61
38.	Dimitri Kalinovski (BLR)	23.61
39.	Hugues Legault (CAN)	23.63
40.	Nicholas Tongue (NZL)	23.73
41.	Paulo Trindade (POR)	23.73
42.	Arthur Li (HKG)	23.77
43.	Maxim Kazmirchuk (MDA)	23.78
44.	Richard Sam Bera (INA)	23.80
45.	Ravil Nachaev (UZB)	23.93
46.	Darrick Bollinger (GUM)	23.97
47.	Tamer Hamed (EGY)	24.02
48.	Nicholas O'Hare (IRL)	24.03
49.	Sebastian Xavier (IND)	24.15
50.	Alen Lončar (CRO)	24.17
51.	Kaan Berberoğlu (TUR)	24.37
52.	Vitaly Vasilyev (KGZ)	24.54
53.	Khemo Rivera (ISV)	24.62
54.	Howard Hinds (AHO)	24.63
55.	Tamás Kerékjártó (HUN)	24.67
56.	Huang Chih-Yung (TPE)	24.89
57.	Alfredo Carrillo (PAR)	24.91
58.	Sng Ju Wei (SIN)	25.04
59.	Emin Guliyev (AZE)	25.23
60.	Woody Lawrence (DMA)	27.88
61.	Moosa Nazim (MDV)	28.37
62.	René Makosso (CGO)	30.00
63.	Michael Collier (SLE)	34.21
-.	Alexandru Ioanovici (ROM)	DSQ

References

• USA Swimming