The Men's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was held on 14 and 15 December 2022.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results Heats The heats were started on 14 December at 12:50.Heats results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 7 4 Nicolò Martinenghi 56.60 Q 2 6 4 Yuya Hinomoto 56.62 Q 3 7 5 Qin Haiyang 56.66 Q 4 7 2 Adam Peaty 56.81 Q 5 8 4 Nic Fink 57.02 Q 6 6 3 Ippei Watanabe 57.11 Q 7 7 7 Antoine Viquerat 57.18 Q 8 7 1 Lucas Matzerath 57.22 Q 9 8 3 Simone Cerasuolo 57.24 Q 10 8 2 Caspar Corbeau 57.53 Q 11 7 3 Bernhard Reitshammer 57.66 Q 12 6 1 Carl Aitkaci 57.68 Q 13 8 5 Emre Sakçı 57.70 Q 14 7 8 Joshua Yong 57.77 Q 15 7 6 Caio Pumputis 57.78 Q 16 8 8 Matěj Zábojník 57.87 Q 17 6 5 Sun Jiajun 57.92 18 5 4 Chao Man Hou 58.01 NR 18 6 7 Anton McKee 58.01 20 6 2 Erik Persson 58.05 21 4 7 Josh Gilbert 58.06 22 5 1 Maximillian Ang 58.10 NR 23 8 6 Sam Williamson 58.13 24 5 2 Denis Petrashov 58.21 NR 25 8 1 Michael Andrew 58.22 26 6 6 Berkay Ömer Öğretir 58.27 27 6 8 Peter John Stevens 58.31 28 4 3 James Dergousoff 58.50 29 3 1 Tonislav Sabev 58.58 30 8 7 Andrius Šidlauskas 58.60 31 4 1 Jorge Murillo 58.83 NR 32 4 5 Ádám Halás 59.12 33 5 3 Christoffer Haarsaker 59.13 34 4 4 Julio Horrego 59.22 35 4 2 Volodymyr Lisovets 59.55 36 4 6 Youssef El-Kamash 59.61 36 4 8 Adam Chillingworth 59.61 38 5 6 Josué Domínguez 59.73 39 5 8 Jadon Wuilliez 40 2 3 Cai Bing-rong 41 2 6 Rashed Al-Tarmoom NR 42 3 7 Ronan Wantenaar NR 43 3 6 Kian Keylock 44 3 5 Jonathan Cook 45 3 8 Adrian Robinson NR 46 3 4 Daniils Bobrovs 47 3 2 Alexandre Grand'Pierre NR 48 2 4 Liam O'Hara NR 49 3 3 Kiran Jasinghe 50 2 5 Jonathan Raharvel 51 2 1 Brandon Schuster 52 2 2 Tasi Limtiaco 53 1 1 Sébastien Kouma 54 2 8 Omar Al-Hammadi 55 2 7 Muhammad Isa Ahmad 56 1 3 Ahmed Al-Hasani NR 57 1 4 Bikash Kumal NR 58 1 2 Mohammed Al-Maher 59 1 5 Carel Van Melvin Irakoze 5 5 Olli Kokko 5 7 Carles Coll
Semifinals The semifinals were started on 14 December at 20:57.Semifinal results
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 4 Nicolò Martinenghi 56.01 Q 2 2 3 Nic Fink 56.25 Q 3 2 5 Qin Haiyang 56.38 Q 4 1 5 Adam Peaty 56.42 Q 5 2 2 Simone Cerasuolo 56.71 Q 6 1 4 Yuya Hinomoto 56.77 Q 7 1 6 Lucas Matzerath 57.04 Q 8 2 6 Antoine Viquerat 57.07 Q 9 1 3 Ippei Watanabe 57.27 10 1 1 Joshua Yong 57.34 11 2 8 Caio Pumputis 57.59 12 2 1 Emre Sakçı 57.65 13 1 2 Caspar Corbeau 57.73 14 1 8 Matěj Zábojník 57.94 15 2 7 Bernhard Reitshammer 57.98 16 1 7 Carl Aitkaci 58.12
Final The final was held on 15 December at 20:44.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Nic Fink 55.88 4 Nicolò Martinenghi 56.07 6 Adam Peaty 56.25 4 3 Qin Haiyang 56.33 5 8 Antoine Viquerat 56.98 6 2 Simone Cerasuolo 56.99 7 1 Lucas Matzerath 57.12 8 7 Yuya Hinomoto 57.29
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