title: Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 50 metre freestyle
text: # Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Men's 50 metre freestyle
  
  The men's 50m Freestyle event at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games occurred on Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at the S.U. Pedro de Heredia Aquatic Complex in Cartagena, Colombia.
  
  ## Records
  
  | World Record | Alexander Popov (RUS) | 21.64 | 2000-07-16 | Moscow, Russia |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | CAC Record | Ricardo Busquets (PUR) | 22.55 | 2002-11-28 | San Salvador |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Final
  
  | Place | Swimmer | Country | Time |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 22.67 |
  | 2 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 22.92 |
  | 3 | Ricardo Busquets | Puerto Rico | 23.01 |
  | 4 | Octavio Alesi | Venezuela | 23.21 |
  | 5 | Jacinto Ayala | Dominican Republic | 23.21 |
  | 6 | Rodrigo Díaz | Guatemala | 23.52 |
  | 7 | José Sotomayor | Mexico | 23.70 |
  | 7 | Terrence Haynes | Barbados | 23.70 |
  
  ### Preliminaries
  
  | Rank | Swimmer | Country | Time | Note |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | George Bovell | Trinidad and Tobago | 23.07 | Q |
  | 2 | Ricardo Busquets | Puerto Rico | 23.14 | Q |
  | 3 | Albert Subirats | Venezuela | 23.41 | Q |
  | 4 | José Sotomayor | Mexico | 23.50 | Q |
  | 5 | Jacinto Ayala | Dominican Republic | 23.55 | Q |
  | 6 | Terrence Haynes | Barbados | 23.56 | Q |
  | 7 | Octavio Alesi | Venezuela | 23.59 | Q |
  | 8 | Rodrigo Díaz | Guatemala | 23.77 | Q |
  | 9 | Antonio Hernández | Cuba | 23.80 | |
  | 10 | Josh Laban | Virgin Islands | 23.88 | |
  | 11 | Martyn Forde | Barbados | 24.00 | |
  | 12 | Gustavo Guadalupe | Puerto Rico | 24.06 | |
  | 13 | Jan Roodzant | Aruba | 24.13 | |
  | 14 | Onan Orlando | Guyana | 24.17 | |
  | 15 | Ismael Ortiz | Panama | 24.39 | |
  | 16 | Daniel Cuellár | Colombia | 24.45 | |
  | 17 | Elvis Burrows | Bahamas | 24.49 | |
  | 18 | Alejandro Siqueiros | Mexico | 24.53 | |
  | 19 | Carlos Vivero | Colombia | 24.58 | |
  | 20 | Kieran Locke | Virgin Islands | 24.59 | |
  | 21 | Naji Ferguson | Grenada | 25.02 | |
  | 22 | Horacio Carcamo | Honduras | 25.05 | |
  | 23 | Kian Ashby | Grenada | 25.24 | |
  | 24 | Travis Forte | Jamaica | 25.27 | |
  | 25 | Brad Hamilton | Jamaica | 25.61 | |
  | 26 | Jonathan Calderon | Saint Lucia | 25.98 | |
  | 27 | Joel Refos | Suriname | 26.04 | |
  | 28 | Brett Fraser | Cayman Islands | 26.08 | |
  | 29 | Stephenson Wallace | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 27.00 | |
  | -- | Rodion Davelaar | Netherlands Antilles | DNS | |
  