By Stephen J. Thomas
ATHENS, August 19. WORLD record-holder Ian Crocker looks to have shaken off a throat infection that has affected his performances thus far at these Games when he clocked a swift 52.03 in the 100m butterfly to edge World Champs bronze medalist Ukranian Andriy Serdinov (52.05) for the fastest prelims time this morning.
Michael Phelps cruised to 52.35 with Milo Cavic (52.44) and a back-to-form Aussie Geoff Huegill, the Olympic record-holder and bronze medalist from Sydney, next in 52.54. Croatian Duje Draganja (52.56) and German Thomas Rupprath (52.57) were also in the top half.
Veteran Franck Esposito (52.61) will swim tonight as will Russian Igor
Marchenko (52.62), Japan’s Takashi Yamamoto (52.71), Brazil’s Gabe Mangabeira (52.76), Brit James Hickman (52.91) and Sydney finalist Canadian Mike Mintenko (53.07).
It took 53.11 or better to make the cut.
Men 100m Butterfly Heats
Record Split Name NOC Location Date
WR 50.76 23.62
CROCKER Ian USA Long Beach (USA) 13 JUL 2004
OR 51.96 24.12
HUEGILL Geoffrey AUS Sydney (AUS) 21 SEP 2000
Event No: 27
Rank Heat Lane Name NOC R.T. 50m Time Time
Behind
1 8 4 CROCKER Ian USA 0.74 24.13 52.03
27.90
2 6 4 SERDINOV Andriy UKR 0.79 24.59 52.05
27.46 0.02
3 7 4 PHELPS Michael USA 0.73 24.99 52.35
27.36 0.32
4 5 4 CAVIC Milorad SCG 0.75 24.24 52.44
28.20 0.41
5 7 7 HUEGILL Geoffrey AUS 0.69 24.25 52.54
28.29 0.51
6 7 1 DRAGANJA Duje CRO 0.78 24.27 52.56
28.29 0.53
7 7 5 RUPPRATH Thomas GER 0.77 24.67 52.57
27.90 0.54
8 8 3 ESPOSITO Franck FRA 0.70 24.76 52.61
27.85 0.58
9 8 5 MARCHENKO Igor RUS 0.84 24.64 52.62
27.98 0.59
10 7 6 YAMAMOTO Takashi JPN 0.67 24.86 52.71
27.85 0.68
11 8 2 MANGABEIRA Gabriel BRA 0.63 24.63 52.76
28.13 0.73
12 7 2 HICKMAN James GBR 0.84 24.94 52.91
27.97 0.88
13 6 3 KOROTYSHKIN Evgeny RUS 0.79 25.00 52.93
27.93 0.90
14 8 6 MINTENKO Michael CAN 0.71 24.64 52.96
28.32 0.93
15 7 3 SWANEPOEL Corney NZL 0.77 24.56 53.07
28.51 1.04
16 8 7 MEEUW Helge Folkert GER 0.80 24.98 53.11
28.13 1.08
17 8 8 ALMEIDA Kaio BRA 0.66 24.83 53.22
28.39 1.19
18 5 1 PINI Ryan PNG 0.80 24.92 53.26
28.34 1.23
19 6 6 KEIZER Joris NED 0.77 24.86 53.41
28.55 1.38
20 8 1 PINE Adam AUS 0.78 25.08 53.45
28.37 1.42
21 6 2 SYLANTYEV Denys UKR 0.82 25.10 53.46
28.36 1.43
22 6 5 COOPER Todd GBR 0.67 24.82 53.48
28.66 1.45
23 6 1 NALESSO Mattia ITA 0.75 24.82 53.49
28.67 1.46
24 5 7 MORGADO Simao POR 0.75 24.74 53.53
28.79 1.50
25 5 5 BOUSQUET Frederick FRA 0.74 24.62 53.63
29.01 1.60
26 5 6 LAGOUN Pavel BLR 0.76 25.09 53.87
28.78 1.84
27 7 8 GHERGHEL Ioan ROM 0.85 25.14 53.89
28.75 1.86
28 4 4 HARD Jere FIN 0.79 24.87 54.02
29.15 1.99
29 4 6 MANKOC Peter SLO 0.81 24.76 54.14
29.38 2.11
30 6 8 BOTES Eugene RSA 0.67 24.92 54.15
29.23 2.12
31 4 5 PASTRAS Sotirios GRE 0.71 25.15 54.20
29.05 2.17
32 5 2 ANDERSSON Erik SWE 0.84 24.80 54.26
29.46 2.23
33 6 7 ILIKA BRENNER Josh MEX 0.74 24.93 54.29
29.36 2.26
34 5 3 GASPAR Zsolt HUN 0.72 24.89 54.43
29.54 2.40
35 4 1 SALCIUS Rimvydas LTU 0.87 25.20 54.46
29.26 2.43
36 5 8 ROJAS Luis VEN 0.65 25.14 54.58
29.44 2.55
37 4 2 BECERRA Camilo COL 0.74 25.25 54.71
29.46 2.68
38 3 5 JEONG Doo-Hee KOR 0.74 25.70 54.76
29.06 2.73
39 2 3 RUBACEK Michal CZE 0.77 25.38 54.87
29.49 2.84
40 4 7 PALAZOV Georgi BUL 0.85 25.32 54.91
29.59 2.88
41 3 7 KHUDIYEV Rustam KAZ 0.72 25.52 55.03
29.51 3.00
42 3 2 REYNISSON Hjortur Mar ISL 0.75 25.42 55.12
29.70 3.09
43 4 3 WU Peng CHN 0.80 25.87 55.17
29.30 3.14
44 3 4 OTERO Eduardo German ARG 0.79 25.74 55.24
29.50 3.21
45 3 3 MILADINOVSKI Aleksandar MKD 0.80 25.59 55.71
30.12 3.68
46 2 6 LYASHKO Oleg UZB 0.80 25.88 55.90
30.02 3.87
47 3 1 VALDIVIESO Juan Pablo PER 0.78 26.04 55.98
29.94 3.95
48 3 6 SLIMANI Aghiles ALG 0.84 26.19 56.22
30.03 4.19
49 3 8 URAS Onur TUR 0.78 25.92 56.37
30.45 4.34
50 2 5 REES Nicholas BAH 0.67 25.73 56.39
30.66 4.36
51 2 8 TOUW NGIE TJOUW Gordon SUR 0.86 26.03 56.68
30.65 4.65
52 2 2 FRANCIS Conrad SRI 0.81 26.21 56.80
30.59 4.77
53 4 8 DUDA Andrejs LAT 0.75 25.95 56.81
30.86 4.78
54 2 4 WIBOWO Andy INA 0.79 25.81 56.86
31.05 4.83
55 2 7 O KEEFFE Daniel GUM 0.74 25.96 57.39
31.43 5.36
56 2 1 BISSLIK Davy ARU 0.74 26.92 57.85
30.93 5.82
57 1 5 MATIAS Luis ANG 0.76 27.03 58.92
31.89 6.89
58 1 4 MEDRANO-MEDINA Fernando NCA 0.75 28.45 1:00.91
32.46 8.88
59 1 3 AWEISAT Rad PLE 0.79 28.19 1:01.60
33.41 9.57