title: Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle
text: # Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle
  
  The Men's 100m Freestyle event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Friday, July 21, 2006 at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.
  
  ## Records
  
  | World Record | Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED) | 47.84 | 2000-09-19 | Sydney |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | CAC Record | Ricardo Busquets (PUR) | 50.00 | 1998-08-11 | Maracaibo |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Final
  
  | Rank | Swimmer | Country | Time | Note |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 49.55 | GR |
  | 2 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 50.02 | |
  | 3 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 50.19 | |
  | 4 | Octavio Alesi | Venezuela | 50.74 | |
  | 5 | Juan Yeh | Mexico | 51.29 | |
  | 6 | Ricardo Busquets | Puerto Rico | 51.43 | |
  | 7 | Antonio Hernández | Cuba | 51.86 | |
  | 8 | Ismael Ortiz | Panama | 52.65 | |
  
  ### Preliminaries
  
  | Rank | Swimmer | Country | Time | Note |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 51.30 | Q |
  | 2 | Shaune Fraser | Cayman Islands | 51.41 | Q |
  | 3 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 51.49 | Q |
  | 4 | Ricardo Busquets | Puerto Rico | 51.66 | Q |
  | 5 | Antonio Hernández | Cuba | 51.72 | Q |
  | 6 | Juan Yeh | Mexico | 51.75 | Q |
  | 7 | Ismael Ortiz | Panama | 51.97 | Q |
  | 8 | Octavio Alesi | Venezuela | 52.64 | Q |
  | 9 | Terrence Haynes | Barbados | 52.82 | |
  | 10 | Josh Laban | Virgin Islands | 52.86 | |
  | 11 | Rodrigo Díaz | Guatemala | 53.12 | |
  | 12 | Martyn Forde | Barbados | 53.18 | |
  | 13 | Mario Montoya | Costa Rica | 53.20 | |
  | 14 | Brad Hamilton | Jamaica | 53.38 | |
  | 15 | Jan Roodzant | Aruba | 53.48 | |
  | 16 | Carolos Vivero | Colombia | 53.51 | |
  | 17 | Daniel Cuellar | Colombia | 53.53 | |
  | 18 | Jonathon Wong | Jamaica | 54.98 | |
  | 19 | Horacio Carcamo | Honduras | 55.90 | |
  | 20 | Elvis Burrows | Bahamas | 55.92 | |
  | 21 | Brett Fraser | Cayman Islands | 56.67 | |
  | 22 | Jacinto Ayala | Dominican Republic | 57.60 | |
  | 23 | Morgan Locke | Virgin Islands | 58.33 | |
  | 24 | Kian Ashby | Grenada | 1:00.14 | |
  | -- | Rodion Davelaar | Netherlands Antilles | DNS | |
  | -- | Jose Sotomayor | Mexico | DNS | |
  | -- | Nicholas Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | DNS | |
  